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Community consultation on five key policies

16 January 2025

Dear students,

I hope you had a restful summer break and return reenergised for the year ahead.

It is important that we uphold our cherished values around free speech and academic freedom while also welcoming and supporting every member of our community on our campuses and online. The ways in which we communicate with each other are central to this objective and we continue to review and update our policies accordingly.

Last year we sought your feedback on the Campus Access Policy and received a range of views, mostly critical and some supportive. We are now considering this feedback as we redraft this policy.

We are also now inviting feedback on revisions to five other key policies:

Acceptable Use of ICT Resources Policy (pdf, 913 KB)
Email and Electronic Messaging Policy (pdf, 825 KB) (currently University Staff and Students Broadcast Email Policy) 
Flag Policy (pdf, 732 KB) (currently Flag Guidelines) 
Promotional and Display Materials Policy (pdf, 765 KB) (currently Advertising on Campus Policy) 
Social Media and Public Comment Policy (pdf, 857 KB) (currently Public Comment Policy)

Some of the recommendations from the Hodgkinson External Review report (specifically recommendations 3, and parts of 4 and 15) have been included in these draft revisions to policies. The recommendation to introduce a new ‘civility rule’ is still under consideration, however, and will be open to consultation later.

Submit your feedback

If you want to make a submission on the proposed policy revisions, please do so by 13 February 2025 through the relevant feedback forms on the University Policies page.

All submissions will be carefully considered as part of the consultation process. You have the option to submit your feedback anonymously.

If you have any further questions or need more information, please contact policy.feedback@sydney.edu.au. 

Best,
Annamarie.

Professor Annamarie Jagose
Acting Vice-Chancellor and President

We recognise and pay respect to the Elders and communities – past, present, and emerging – of the lands that the University of Sydney's campuses stand on. For thousands of years they have shared and exchanged knowledges across innumerable generations for the benefit of all.

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