University of Melbourne, Dookie campus

Melbourne University, Dookie campus (formerly known as Dookie Agricultural College) is an agricultural campus of Melbourne University near the town of Dookie, Victoria.^[1] It is the oldest agricultural college in Victoria.^[2]

Entrance of Dookie Campus

The campus has a broadacre farm, dairy farm, orchard and winery, alongside teaching facilities, supporting both research and the university's Bachelor of Agriculture and other courses delivered there.^[1]

It was established as the Dookie Agricultural College on 4 October 1886, operated by the Council of Agricultural Education.^[1] The establishment followed a decade of discussion about the possibility of establishing an agricultural college, with the pre-existing Dookie Experimental Farm site reserved in 1875.^[3] It was the first of a planned series of agricultural colleges in Victoria and at its opening, had forty students undertaking a three-year course.^[4]

The college became a College of Advanced Education with the introduction of CAEs in 1967.^[5] It was amalgamated into the multi-campus Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture in 1983.^[6][7] It was then amalgamated with the University of Melbourne in 1997, becoming the university's Dookie campus.^[2]

References

1. "Dookie". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
2. "Forgotten fields of dreams". The Age. 11 September 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
3. "Establishment of an Agricultural College". The Bacchus Marsh Express. No. 504. Victoria, Australia. 26 February 1876. p. 4. Retrieved 5 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "Ariculture". Illustrated Australian News. No. 376. Victoria, Australia. 16 October 1886. p. 167. Retrieved 5 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1967 (NO. 33, 1967)". AustLII. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
6. "Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture Act 1982". AustLII. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
7. "Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture Act 1982 - Endnotes". AustLII. Retrieved 5 August 2021.

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