Are you ready for the best experience available to you as a housing professional in 2012?Booking Deadline for Interntional Study Tour - Monday 19th March 2012Then join Housing colleagues from around the world for the 2012 AACUHO International Study Tour. The tour will start in Sydney on Thursday the 19th April and will end on Tuesday the 24th April in Wollongong.Spend five days on the road visiting some premier University student housing with like minded professionals. Join your colleagues from Australia and overseas and visit student housing in Universities such as: The University of Sydney, The University of Canberra, University of Technology Sydney, Australian National University, University of Wollongong and Charles Sturt University. We'll also take in some of the great attractions of NSW such as a Sydney Harbour Cruise, NRL Game, The Big Merino, Scenic World at Katoomba, Mt Panorama and the Coast Road from Canberra to Wollongong, including some sites along the way. This is a great way to see some new student housing developments, recently implemented programs and visit some traditional colleges. You'll also have a chance to network with colleagues and make new contacts.Hosted by a team of professionals just like yourselves and visiting accommodation facilities ranging from traditional to ultra modern there will be something for everyone on this study tour.Accommodation, transport, attractions and most meals are covered in your upfront fee and, of course, the Study Tour concludes in Wollongong the night before the Annual AACUHO Conference begins.The total price for this outstanding professional development opportunity is $750.If you wish to book a place on the study tour, please do so as soon as possible via the conference registrationform.Places are strictly limited.Half Day Study Tour of University Wollongong ResidencesTuesday 24th April 2012 - $25 per person(The International Study Tour includes the half day tour of the University of Wollongong and a visit to Mission Australia - Big Heart. Only those who are just attending the Half Day Study Tour have to book and pay $25 to attend)This tour will give delegates an ideal chance to visit two very different styles of University Residences. Delegates will also see a recycling initiative that is making a big impact in the Wollongong community and find out how student housing employees can get involved. First stop: International HouseInternational House is a 220 room fully catered residence located in North Wollongong, about 5 minutes from the UOW Campus. International House has very strong affiliations with International Houses Worldwide and has benefited from a unique style of student programming that has done much to enhance the culture. Global Wellbeing Starts Here is the mission and informs all activities, programs and the culture at International House. Both students and staff have won a slew of awards including: a Vice-Chancellors General Staff Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning for the iLIVE Program at International House, Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Community Engagement, and the 2011 National Multicultural Marketing Award for Global Highway. Students at I House have also won the $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace grant, issued from New, York for four consecutive years. Students and staff will talk to delegates about the iLive Program and future plans for student development. A light lunch will be served.Second stop: MarketviewLocated in the middle of Wollongong CBD, Marketview, the newest of the UOW residences was purchased in 2011 (previously operating as the hotel IBIS Wollongong) and will operate as student residence from February 2012. Over December 2011 and January 2012, Accommodation Services kept Marketview open as a hotel and will plan to operate this way each year. Students living at Marketview will enjoy the high level of student support offered by UOW Living. Delegates on the tour will hear from student leaders, staff and have a chance to look around this 144 room, self catered student residence. If you wish to book a place on the day study tour, please do so as soon as possible via the conference registration form.Final Stop - Mission Australia - Big HeartFinish the day on a high by observing and participating in some innovative recycling programs at Mission Australia's Big Heart enterprise at Bellambi.Established in the Illawarra 20 years ago, Big Heart now includes eight 'op' shops that provide high-quality, low-cost clothing and furnishings. It also runs accredited training programs in forklift driving to the long-term unemployed.Big Heart's base at Bellambi is now home to a range of enterprises that provide local jobs and training and reduce landfill. Among them is the Soft Landing mattress recycling operation and Featherweight, which produces padded sports equipment from old mattress filling.All money raised from the sale of clothing and other items is directed towards Mission Australia's non-funded community programs. Excess clothing is distributed, through Mission Australia services, to homeless, disadvantaged and people in need.All Big Heart stores are committed to environmental sustainability and responsibly recycle 100% of the clothing and goods donated to us. Some of the outcomes from Big Heart include:- Over 200 tonnes of clothing exported to overseas markets- Saving over 400 tonnes of product reaching the tip face- Working in community partnerships to help re-skill and retrain those in need - Helping up skill volunteers- Recycling point 16 Bellambi Lane, Bellambi, and 30 clothing recycling units located throughout the Illawarra - Six Big Heart Op Shops and one Factory Seconds Warehouse offering good affordable clothing, furniture, computers and a range of general merchandise.With the amount of left over clothes, furniture and other items left in student residences at the end of each session, including old furniture and mattresses, this visit will be particularly relevant to student residence staff looking for potential recycling programs.At this visit, delegates will tour the warehouse at Bellambi, find out more about the recycling programs that are taking place and have a chance to give back to the community by contributing their time and input into one or two of the programs. AACUHO International Study Tour19 - 24 April 2012Silver SponsorExhibitors
Are you ready for the best experience available to you as a housing professional in 2012?
Booking Deadline for Interntional Study Tour - Monday 19th March 2012
Then join Housing colleagues from around the world for the 2012 AACUHO International Study Tour. The tour
will start in Sydney on Thursday the 19th April and will end on Tuesday the 24th April in Wollongong.
Spend five days on the road visiting some premier University student housing with like minded professionals.
Join your colleagues from Australia and overseas and visit student housing in Universities such as: The
University of Sydney, The University of Canberra, University of Technology Sydney, Australian National
University, University of Wollongong and Charles Sturt University. We'll also take in some of the great attractions
of NSW such as a Sydney Harbour Cruise, NRL Game, The Big Merino, Scenic World at Katoomba, Mt
Panorama and the Coast Road from Canberra to Wollongong, including some sites along the way. This is a great
way to see some new student housing developments, recently implemented programs and visit some traditional
colleges. You'll also have a chance to network with colleagues and make new contacts.
Hosted by a team of professionals just like yourselves and visiting accommodation facilities ranging from
traditional to ultra modern there will be something for everyone on this study tour.
Accommodation, transport, attractions and most meals are covered in your upfront fee and, of course, the Study
Tour concludes in Wollongong the night before the Annual AACUHO Conference begins.
The total price for this outstanding professional development opportunity is $750.
If you wish to book a place on the study tour, please do so as soon as possible via the conference registration
form.
Places are strictly limited.
Half Day Study Tour of University Wollongong Residences
Tuesday 24th April 2012 - $25 per person
(The International Study Tour includes the half day tour of the University of Wollongong and a visit to
Mission Australia - Big Heart. Only those who are just attending the Half Day Study Tour have to book and
pay $25 to attend)
This tour will give delegates an ideal chance to visit two very different styles of University Residences. Delegates
will also see a recycling initiative that is making a big impact in the Wollongong community and find out how
student housing employees can get involved.
First stop: International House
International House is a 220 room fully catered residence
located in North Wollongong, about 5 minutes from the
UOW Campus. International House has very strong
affiliations with International Houses Worldwide and has
benefited from a unique style of student programming that
has done much to enhance the culture. Global Wellbeing
Starts Here is the mission and informs all activities,
programs and the culture at International House. Both
students and staff have won a slew of awards including: a
Vice-Chancellors General Staff Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Teaching and Learning for the iLIVE
Program at International House, Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Community Engagement, and the
2011 National Multicultural Marketing Award for Global Highway. Students at I House have also won the $10,000
Davis Projects for Peace grant, issued from New, York for four consecutive years. Students and staff will talk to
delegates about the iLive Program and future plans for student development. A light lunch will be served.
Second stop: Marketview
Located in the middle of Wollongong CBD, Marketview,
the newest of the UOW residences was purchased in
2011 (previously operating as the hotel IBIS Wollongong)
and will operate as student residence from February
2012. Over December 2011 and January 2012,
Accommodation Services kept Marketview open as a
hotel and will plan to operate this way each year.
Students living at Marketview will enjoy the high level of
student support offered by UOW Living. Delegates on the
tour will hear from student leaders, staff and have a
chance to look around this 144 room, self catered student
residence.
If you wish to book a place on the day study tour, please do so as soon as possible via the conference
registration form.
Final Stop - Mission Australia - Big Heart
Finish the day on a high by observing and participating
in some innovative recycling programs at Mission
Australia's Big Heart enterprise at Bellambi.
Established in the Illawarra 20 years ago, Big Heart now
includes eight 'op' shops that provide high-quality, low-
cost clothing and furnishings. It also runs accredited
training programs in forklift driving to the long-term
unemployed.
Big Heart's base at Bellambi is now home to a range of
enterprises that provide local jobs and training and
reduce landfill. Among them is the Soft Landing mattress
recycling operation and Featherweight, which produces padded sports equipment from old mattress filling.
All money raised from the sale of clothing and other items is directed towards Mission Australia's non-funded
community programs. Excess clothing is distributed, through Mission Australia services, to homeless,
disadvantaged and people in need.
All Big Heart stores are committed to environmental sustainability and responsibly recycle 100% of the clothing
and goods donated to us.
Some of the outcomes from Big Heart include:
- Over 200 tonnes of clothing exported to overseas markets
- Saving over 400 tonnes of product reaching the tip face
- Working in community partnerships to help re-skill and retrain those in need
- Helping up skill volunteers
- Recycling point 16 Bellambi Lane, Bellambi, and 30 clothing recycling units located throughout the Illawarra
- Six Big Heart Op Shops and one Factory Seconds Warehouse offering good affordable clothing, furniture,
computers and a range of general merchandise.
With the amount of left over clothes, furniture and other items left in student residences at the end of each
session, including old furniture and mattresses, this visit will be particularly relevant to student residence staff
looking for potential recycling programs.
At this visit, delegates will tour the warehouse at Bellambi, find out more about the recycling programs that are
taking place and have a chance to give back to the community by contributing their time and input into one or two
of the programs.
AACUHO International Study Tour
19 - 24 April 2012
Silver Sponsor
Exhibitors
