Monash University

Monash was established by an Act of the State Parliament of Victoria in 1958 as a result of the Murray Report, which was commissioned in 1957 by then Prime Minister Robert Menzies to establish the second university in the state of Victoria. The university was named after the prominent Australian general Sir John Monash. This was the first university in Australia to be named after a person, rather than a city, region or state.

The first grounds was in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Clayton (in what is presently the City of Monash). The principal University Council, drove by Monash's first Chancellor Sir Robert Blackwood, chose Sir Louis Matheson, to be the first Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, a position he held until 1976. The University was conceded a far reaching site of 100 hectares of open area in Clayton. The 100 hectares of area comprises of the previous Talbot Epileptic Colony. 

From its first admission of 357 understudies at Clayton on 13 March 1961, the college became quickly in size and understudy numbers so that by 1967, it had selected more than 21,000 understudies since its foundation. In its initial years, it offered undergrad and postgraduate degrees in designing, medication, science, expressions, financial aspects, legislative issues, instruction, and law. It was a noteworthy supplier for universal understudy places under the Colombo Plan, which saw the first Asian understudies enter the Australian training framework. 

In its initial years of educating, exploration and organization, Monash was not distraught by dug in conventional practices. Monash had the capacity embrace current methodologies without resistance from the individuals who favored business as usual. A current regulatory structure was set up; Australia's first research focuses and grants dedicated to Indigenous Australians were set up.

From the mid-1960s to the mid 1970s, Monash turned into the focal point of understudy radicalism in Australia. It was the site of numerous mass understudy shows, especially concerning Australia's part in Vietnam War andconscription. By the late 1960s, a few understudy associations, some of which were affected by or supporters of socialism, turned their center to Vietnam, with various bars and sit-ins. In one exceptional occasion that came to be known as the Monash Siege, understudies constrained then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to cover up in a storm cellar at the Alexander Theater, in a noteworthy challenge over the Whitlam rejection. 

In the late 1970s and 1980s, some of Monash's most advanced examination got through its spearheading of in-vitro treatment (IVF). Driven by Professors Carl Wood and Alan Trounson, the Monash IVF Program accomplished the world's first clinical IVF pregnancy in 1973.In 1980, they conveyed the first IVF child in Australia. This in the long run turned into a monstrous wellspring of income for the University during an era when college subsidizing in Australia was starting to back off. 

In the late 1980s, the Dawkins Reforms changed the scene of advanced education in Australia. Under the initiative of Vice-Chancellor Mal Logan, Monash changed drastically. In 1988, Monash University had one and only grounds in Clayton, with around 15,000 understudies. A little more than 10 years after the fact, it had 8 grounds (counting 2 abroad), an European research and showing focus, and more than 50,000 understudies, making it the biggest and most internationalized Australian college.

Development of the University started in 1990 with a progression of mergers between Monash, the Chisholm Institute of Technology, and the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. In 1991 a merger with the Victorian College of Pharmacy made another workforce of the University. This proceeded in 1994, with the foundation of the Berwick grounds. 

In 1998, the University opened the Malaysia grounds, its first abroad grounds and the first outside college in Malaysia. In 2001, Monash South Africa opened its entryways in Johannesburg, making Monash the first outside college in South Africa. That year, the University secured an eighteenth Century Tuscan Palace to open an examination and showing focus in Prato, Italy. 

In the meantime, Australian colleges confronted remarkable interest for global understudy places, which Monash met on a bigger scale than most. Today, around 30% of its understudies are from outside Australia. Monash understudies originate from more than 100 distinct nations, and talk more than 90 unique dialects. The increment in worldwide understudies, joined with the University's development, implied that Monash's salary enormously expanded all through the 1990s, and it is presently one of Australia's main 200 exporters.

As of late, the University has been noticeable in therapeutic examination. A highlight of this came in 2000, when Professor Alan Trounson drove the group of researchers which declared to the world that nerve undeveloped cells could be gotten from embryonic immature microorganisms, a revelation which prompted an emotional increment in enthusiasm for the capability of undifferentiated organisms. It has likewise prompted Monash being positioned in the main 20 colleges on the planet for biomedicine. 

On 21 October 2002 Huan Yun "Allen" Xiang, shot two individuals dead and harmed five others on the Clayton grounds. 

The present Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University is Professor Edward Byrne AO (since 6 July 2009). In December 2013, Professor Margaret Gardner was named as the following Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University. Teacher Gardner will be the first lady to hold the position and will initiate in September 2014.