Editing Monash University (section)

===Early history: 1950s===
Established  by  an [[Act of Parliament]] in 1958, the original campus was in the suburb of Clayton where the university was granted an expansive site of 100 hectares of open land.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.monash.edu.au/campuses/clayton/history.html |title=History of the Clayton campus |publisher=Monash University |date=10 February 2010 |access-date=1 April 2010 |archive-date=26 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926155820/http://monash.edu.au/campuses/clayton/history.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The 100 hectares of land consisted of farmland and included the  former Talbot Epileptic Colony.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Niall |first1=B. |title=The Boyds: A Family Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ35hPZ6g7YC&q=talbot+colony+monash+university&pg=PA171 |publisher=Melbourne Univ. Publishing |access-date=12 November 2019 |page=171 |date=2007 |isbn=9780522853841 |quote=...Talbot Colony was established on the farmland... |archive-date=21 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821063824/https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ35hPZ6g7YC&q=talbot+colony+monash+university&pg=PA171 |url-status=live}}</ref>  The   [[Tudor architecture|Tudor-style]] [[Homestead (buildings)|farmhouse]] built  by  the  O'Shea family  became  the   original  [[Vice-chancellor|Vice-Chancellor's House]] -  now  University  House.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Living History - The First Family |url=https://www.monash.edu/timeline/the-first-family |publisher=Monash University |access-date=12 November 2019 |quote=The farmhouse built by the O’Shea family on the rise above Wellington Road was chosen for the vice-chancellor’s residence. " |archive-date=12 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112033258/https://www.monash.edu/timeline/the-first-family |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Vice Chancellor's house from the North 1971 |url=https://files.monash.edu/records-archives/archives/cgi-alias/monpix?Disp_PHOTOGRAPHER=&PHOTOGRAPHER=David%20Taft&Disp_DIME=&Disp_NOTES=&Disp_SUBJECT_DESCRIPTOR=&IMAGE_NUMBER=7061&Disp_IMAGE_TITLE=CHECKED&Submit=1 |publisher=Monash University |access-date=12 November 2019 |archive-date=24 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024143940/https://files.monash.edu/records-archives/archives/cgi-alias/monpix?Disp_PHOTOGRAPHER=&PHOTOGRAPHER=David%20Taft&Disp_DIME=&Disp_NOTES=&Disp_SUBJECT_DESCRIPTOR=&IMAGE_NUMBER=7061&Disp_IMAGE_TITLE=CHECKED&Submit=1 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~whsvic/schools.htm |title=Waverley – Mulgrave – Monash City Schools |publisher=Waverley Historical Society |access-date=5 July 2012 |archive-date=12 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012070905/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~whsvic/schools.htm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Monash University - 50 years, School of Engineering 2011 |url=http://50years.eng.monash.edu.au/monash/campus/ |publisher=Monash University |access-date=12 November 2019 |archive-date=18 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318215003/http://50years.eng.monash.edu.au/monash/campus/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

From its first intake of 357 students at Clayton on 13 March 1961, the university grew rapidly in size and student numbers so that by 1967 its all-times enrollment reached 21,000 students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/mua2009237/preamble.html |title=Monash University Act 2009 |publisher=AUSTLII |access-date=8 June 2014 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190420/http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/mua2009237/preamble.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In its early years, it offered undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering, medicine, science, arts, economics, politics, education, and law. It was a major provider for international student places under the [[Colombo Plan]], which saw the first Asian students enter the Australian education system.

The university was named after the prominent Australian general Sir [[John Monash]].<ref name="Who">{{cite web |title=Sir John Monash |url=https://www.monash.edu/about/who/history/sir-john-monash |website=Monash University |access-date=3 November 2018 |language=en |archive-date=22 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722084825/https://www.monash.edu/about/who/history/sir-john-monash |url-status=live}}</ref> This was the first time in Australia that a university had been named after a person, rather than a city or state.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.griffith.edu.au/vc/ate/pdf/univfacts.pdf |title=List of Australian Universities with date of foundation |publisher=Griffith University |access-date=7 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007091334/http://www.griffith.edu.au/vc/ate/pdf/univfacts.pdf |archive-date=7 October 2009 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>