ANU's Vice-Chancellor's Contract Extended to 2009. (June 19, 2004)

    The Chancellor of the Australian National University, Professor Peter Baume has made public the decision made by the University Council that Ian Chubb's contract has been extended an additional two years to run through 2009. In the university's media release the ANU Chancellor said categorically, "Professor Ian Chubb is the finest leader in Australian higher education today," and seeing as ANU is putting its money where its media release is, it would seem that they mean it.

Professor Chubb previously served as Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University for six years (1995 to 2000). He was the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Monash University from 1993 to 1995, for part of that time simultaneously holding the position of Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics. From 1986 to 1990, Professor Chubb was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong.

He is currently the Chair of the Group of Eight universities, a serving member of the Foreign Affairs Council and a Director of the Australia-New Zealand School of Government.

His instituting of a comprehensive review of ANU in such a way as to allow it to be judged against the world's best is a pretty clear indication of his intentions for furthering the quality of the university.