When you open a door to university, and it never opens for just one person.
We believe enabling access to university study changes not only students’ lives, but those of everyone around them.
By stepping out and taking up tertiary study, students become role models in their schools and wider communities, opening new pathways and possibilities for the people who come after them.
Support that meets students where they are.
Working closely with our donors and Macquarie University, the College provides scholarships, awarded on academic merit, and bursaries, awarded on financial need.
These are for students from rural and regional areas, students who are first in their family to attend university, and students of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
The point isn’t only to reach university — it’s to do it inside the safety and support of the Dunmore Lang community and programmes.
A place to find your feet, build lifelong friendships, and finish your degree well.
Today, 1 in 5 of our students receives financial support.
Our aim is 1 in 2.
Structural change takes time. We’re building, year by year, toward supporting half the students who live here.
Recognised for the way we welcome, and the way we belong.
Macquarie University Reconciliation Award
The College congratulated Dr Alasdair Murrie-West on receiving the inaugural Macquarie University Reconciliation Award, recognising the work of Dr Murrie-West and College staff in developing a cohesive bicultural support programme for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students living at Dunmore Lang while studying at Macquarie.
From modest beginnings, the team worked closely with Walanga Muru — Macquarie’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student engagement office — particularly Ms Emily Sutton, and with Mr Brian Hurd, Macquarie University Scholarships Manager, to build an integrated set of resources and support: a culturally safe home away from home where students gain leadership and cultural experience alongside their degrees. Beginning with five students in 2013, this year the College welcomed forty-six students of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage from all over Australia.
APSAA Excellence in Student Experience Award
The College was the recipient of the 2019 APSAA Excellence in Student Experience Award (Institutions Under 500 Beds) for its Inclusive Indigenous Cultural Programme — a programme built on the simple idea that culture should be visibly valued and respected, not merely accepted.
Students do better here than off campus
Better academic performance
Students living in College consistently perform better academically than students living at home or in purpose-built student accommodation. Dunmore Lang students perform above the Macquarie University average.
A high level of support
Thanks to our generous scholarship programme, a high proportion of students are supported by a scholarship or bursary during their studies — and the type of accommodation a student lives in has a measurable effect on the support they receive.
The research below explores why on-campus living makes the difference.
