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The Karmel Endowment Fund

Flinders University is proud to remember Peter Karmel in perpetuity.

The Karmel Endowment Fund has been established to ensure that the support the University receives from friends, alumni and corporate partners enhances and develops the distinctiveness of Flinders.

Funds will be directed at projects that inspire academics and students alike; make a difference in our community and contribute to the tertiary sector as a whole.

Supporting the Karmel Endowment Fund will ensure that worthy students become the recipients of scholarships, that the Library receives funds for new books, that inspiring research is supported, that the campus can continue to grow, and that the Art Museum is able to maintain and add to its collection.

The Karmel Endowment Fund will keep Peter Karmel's legacy alive by serving the Flinders community and by being ‘brave and inspiring' in everything we do.

Donate to the fund using the Karmel Pledge card (PDF 30KB) . All donations to the Karmel Endowment Fund are fully tax deductible.

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Message from the Vice-Chancellor

Education and the creation of knowledge are important ways of establishing a better future for all. In the 2009 budget, the Federal Government focused on access to higher education for all Australians, the quality of education and research, and improved infrastructure. These are objectives which Flinders has held important since its foundation.

Late in 2008, our founder and first Vice-Chancellor, Emeritus Professor Peter Karmel AC, CBE, passed away. Peter is remembered with great respect, and his vision for a modern and inclusive university still underpins the thinking that drives Flinders in the 21st Century. It is in light of this we have established the Karmel Endowment Fund to help keep Peter Karmel's dream of an innovative university alive.

Building on our strong foundations, the University has developed a new Strategic Plan for 2010 and beyond, Inspiring Flinders Future. This new strategy seeks to reinvigorate that unique mixture of innovative spirit and a commitment to absolute excellence that has served Flinders so well in the past. We seek your valuable support as we move forward.

There are many instances which demonstrate how valuable your past contribution has been. The two new state of the art buildings you helped to create, Education and Health Sciences, are now in use and brimming with students and new ideas. Individual students have also noticed and commented on the difference that even a small contribution can make.

To inspire achievement at Flinders and to help us meet the challenges ahead, I warmly invite you to support the Karmel Endowment Fund.

Michael Barber
Vice-Chancellor

‘Flinders University's indebtedness to Peter Karmel is immense. He had a capacity, unique in my experience, to combine leadership with the nurturing and encouragement of the contributions of others. Peter's talents were just what were needed in the early formative years of the university. His successors, including me, inherited a going concern.’
Professor Keith Hancock, Flinders' third Vice-Chancellor

CRICOS Provider: 00114A | Updated: 01 Dec 2009