In 2010, Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis presented the Boyer Lectures on ABC radio. For the first time in the lectures’ 51-year history, higher education was the subject under discussion.
What started out as a task to interview student ‘leaders’ advancing social change in-between churning out assignments, became an education for Katherine Loftus into a new form of philanthropic leadership gaining momentum among Melbourne’s students.
>It’s hard to maintain your lofty position as a leader when the 24-hour media cycle broadcasts your every word to a surly and disrespectful audience. What’s worse, they tweet their insubordination back at you. Tony Wilson (BA/LLB 2005) cogitates on the problem.
