Professor Alec Cameron, Vice-Chancellor and President
I always enjoy meeting with members of our donor community, and I want to begin by thanking you for your generosity and for your vision.
While it was a year of progress and achievement, it was also indelibly marked by the untimely loss of a dear colleague and friend of RMIT, Saskia Loer Hansen. Known to many of you, Saskia was a visionary leader and, at the point of her passing, our Deputy Vice-Chancellor, International and Engagement, and Interim General Director, RMIT Vietnam. Saskia embodied the true purpose of university work and championed the transformative power of education, so I know she would have been pleased with the global scholarship set up in her memory.
Many of you share Saskia’s passion for access to education and my appreciation to everyone who gave generously to help students experiencing financial hardship and other barriers to learning, through equity scholarships and student hardship grants. Our ability to offer support through difficult times can be the difference between a future filled with opportunity and one without.
We are also fortunate to have your support for a wide range of other projects, from research and discovery across many disciplines, to initiatives that enhance our cultural lives. Your generosity increases our collective impact.
The end of 2025 marked the close of the first horizon (2023-25) of RMIT’s Knowledge with Action strategy, purposefully designed to adapt and respond with the times. Thanks to the collective efforts of our community, we pioneered innovative earn and learn education models; scaled transdisciplinary education programs; delivered research in response to complex global issues; partnered on urgent workforce solutions; expanded our presence in Europe, India, Indonesia, Singapore and beyond; and celebrated an extraordinary 25 years of contribution in Vietnam.
In this next horizon (2026-28), our vision, mission, ambition and overarching directions will remain consistent, while the way we achieve our strategy will flex with the times. Signature initiatives will hone our focus and, if you are not already familiar with it, I encourage you to find out more about RMIT’s Regenerative Futures Institute, a bold response to complex challenges, that moves beyond sustaining and preserving the status quo, towards actively regenerating our social, economic and ecological systems.
Thank you for sharing our mission and I look forward to your continued engagement with our community in 2026 and beyond.
Professor Alec Cameron
Vice-Chancellor and President
RMIT University
Your generosity allows us to support students and researchers, and progress initiatives that benefit our communities.
Gifts that help students thrive at university, through scholarships and prizes, and hardship allowances for when times are tough.
Support for research programs and academic positions that drive discovery and creativity.
Donations that enhance our cultural and social life, including the RMIT Archives.
Total value of the RMIT Philanthropic Investment Portfolio.
Funding comes from donations and investment earnings.
Thanks to the generosity of donors, Australia’s architecture and design history is being brought to new audiences.
The demand for clinical psychology services has never been greater – yet it’s never been harder to get help.
A scholarship established in memory of an outstanding leader is allowing students to develop their own leadership skills overseas.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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