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== Governance and structure ==
=== Faculties and departments ===
The university comprises eight faculties and schools:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sydney.edu.au/about-us/faculties-and-schools.html |title=Faculties and schools - The University of Sydney |publisher=University of Sydney |date=20 April 2017 |access-date=17 May 2017 |archive-date=20 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170520003939/http://sydney.edu.au/about-us/faculties-and-schools.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences|Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]]
* [[University of Sydney Business School]]
* [[University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering|Faculty of Engineering]]
* [[University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health|Faculty of Medicine and Health]]
* [[University of Sydney Faculty of Science|Faculty of Science]]
* [[Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning]]
* [[Sydney Conservatorium of Music]]
* [[Sydney Law School]]

The five largest faculties and schools by 2020 student enrolments were (in descending order): [[University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences|Arts and Social Sciences]]; [[University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health|Medicine and Health]]; [[University of Sydney Business School|Business]]; [[University of Sydney Faculty of Science|Science]]; [[University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering|Engineering]]. Together they constituted nearly 88% of the university's students and each had a student enrolment over 8,000 (at least 13% of total students).<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Sydney 2020 Annual Report |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/about-us/values-and-visions/annual-report/annual-report-final.pdf |publisher=University of Sydney |access-date=4 June 2021 |archive-date=16 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216050115/https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/about-us/values-and-visions/annual-report/annual-report-final.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>

====Centre for Continuing education====
The [[Centre for Continuing Education]] is an [[adult education]] provider within the university. Extension lectures at the university were inaugurated in 1886,<ref>University of Sydney, Senate Minutes, 5 July 1886, p.291.</ref> 36 years after the university's founding, making it Australia's longest running university [[continuing education]] program.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Dymock |first=Darryl |title=A reservoir of learning: the beginnings of continuing education at the University of Sydney |journal=Australian Journal of Adult Learning |date=July 2009 |volume=49 |issue=2 |page=247 |url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ864439.pdf |access-date=9 August 2015 |archive-date=12 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412013554/http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ864439.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Finances and endowment===
[[File:University of Sydney Madsen Building.png|thumb|The Madsen Building (former headquarters of [[Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation|CSIRO]])]]

The university has received a number of significant bequests and legacies over its history. The following are current professorships (chairs), funds, fellowships and scholarships which are funded by bequests and legacies and named after benefactors:
* [[Douglas Burrows]] Chair of Paediatrics and Child Health<ref>[http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/foundation/research/paeds.php Douglas Burrows Chair of Paediatrics and Child Health] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810132818/http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/foundation/research/paeds.php |date=10 August 2014 }} Retrieved 9 August 2014.</ref>
* [[John Henry Challis|John Challis]] Bequest for chairs in Law, International Law, Jurisprudence, Anatomy, Biology, Civil Engineering, English Literature, History and philosophy (see [[Challis Professorship]])<ref>[http://sydney.edu.au/senate/documents/Other/Challis_Chairs.pdf The Challis Bequest] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912171236/http://www.sydney.edu.au/senate/documents/Other/Challis_Chairs.pdf |date=12 September 2007 }} Retrieved 9 August 2014.</ref>
* [[Carlyle Greenwell]] Research Fund in Anthropology and Archaeology<ref>[http://sydney.edu.au/arts/archaeology/docs/scholarships/GreenwellApplicationFormApril_2013.doc Carlyle Greenwell Research Fund (Archaeology)]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Retrieved 9 August 2014.</ref>
* [[Edwin Cuthbert Hall]] Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51073684 |title=Gift to Varsity. |newspaper=[[The Courier-Mail]] |location=Brisbane |date=6 August 1953 |access-date=9 August 2014 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=9 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209234244/http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51073684 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Mitchell Notaras]] Fellowship in Colorectal Surgery<ref>[http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/scholawards/postgrad/Notaras_terms_and_conditions.pdf Mitchell J Notaras Fellowship in Colorectal Surgery] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064848/http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/scholawards/postgrad/Notaras_terms_and_conditions.pdf |date=4 March 2016 }} Retrieved 9 August 2014.</ref>
* [[Robert Storr (banker)|Robert W Storr]] Chair for Hepatic Medicine<ref>[http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/foundation/research/storrprof.php The Robert W Storr Chair of Hepatic Medicine] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810133031/http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/foundation/research/storrprof.php |date=10 August 2014 }} Retrieved 9 August 2014.</ref>
* The [[Peter Nicol Russell]] Undergraduate Scholarship<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Peter Nicol Russell Undergraduate Scholarship |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships/b/peter-nicol-russell-undergraduate-scholarship.html |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=University of Sydney |archive-date=20 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320024749/https://www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships/b/peter-nicol-russell-undergraduate-scholarship.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Heraldry and insignia===

==== Coat of arms ====
[[File:University of Sydney.svg|thumb|right|Arms used in the University of Sydney logo, pre-2010]]

The Grant of Arms was made by the [[College of Arms]] in 1857. The grant reads:
:''Argent on a Cross Azure an open book proper, clasps Gold, between four Stars of eight points Or, on a chief Gules a Lion passant Guardant also Or, together with this motto "Sidere mens eadem mutato" to be borne and used forever hereafter by the said University of Sydney on their Common Seal, Shields or otherwise according to the Law of Arms.''

The use of eight-pointed stars was unusual for arms at the time, although they had been used unofficially as emblems for New South Wales since the 1820s and on the arms of the Church of England Diocese of Australia in 1836.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/10_subnav_08_01_06.htm |title=The Badge of New South Wales as adopted in 1876 |publisher=Heritage Council of New South Wales |access-date=2 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312033950/http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/10_subnav_08_01_06.htm |archive-date=12 March 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to the university, the Latin motto {{Lang|la|Sidere mens eadem mutato}} can be translated to "the stars change, the mind remains the same."<ref name="logo">{{cite web |url=http://sydney.edu.au/about/publications/logo.shtml |title=Our logo – About the University – The University of Sydney |website=University of Sydney |date=19 March 2010 |access-date=20 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122082540/http://sydney.edu.au/about/publications/logo.shtml |archive-date=22 January 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> [[Francis Merewether (Australian politician)|Francis Merewether]], Vice-Chancellor and later Chancellor, in 1857 proposed "Coelum non animum mutant" from Horace (Ep.1.11.27) but after objections changed it to a metrical version including "Sidus" (Star), a neat reference to the [[Southern Cross]] and perhaps the Sydney family link with Sir [[Philip Sidney]]'s "Astrophel (Star-Lover) & Stella (Star)".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sydney.edu.au/heraldry/origins_of_the_arms/quest_for_a_coat.shtml |title=Quest for a coat of arms – Heraldry – The University of Sydney |last=Services |first=Archives and Records Management |website=University of Sydney |access-date=6 May 2016 |archive-date=21 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521094905/http://sydney.edu.au/heraldry/origins_of_the_arms/quest_for_a_coat.shtml |url-status=live}}</ref> Author and university alumnus [[Clive James]] quipped in his 1981 autobiography that the motto loosely implies "Sydney University is really Oxford or Cambridge laterally displaced approximately 12,000 miles."<ref>{{cite book |last=James |first=Clive |title=Unreliable memoirs |year=1981 |publisher=Pan Books |isbn=978-0-330-26463-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/unreliablememoir00cliv/page/127 127] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/unreliablememoir00cliv/page/127}}</ref>