Editing Monash University (section)

===1970s onwards===
From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, Monash became the centre of [[student activism|student radicalism]] in Australia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/communism/xcommunismcat.html |title="Communism" – An exhibition of highlights from the Monash University Library Rare Books Collection |publisher=Monash University Library |date=21 October 2010 |access-date=1 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006113301/http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/communism/xcommunismcat.html |archive-date=6 October 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usyd.edu.au/about/publication/gazette/april03/features/pub/rebels.shtml |title=Where have all the rebels gone? |publisher=The University of Sydney |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210221622/http://www.usyd.edu.au/about/publication/gazette/april03/features/pub/rebels.shtml |archive-date=10 December 2007 |access-date=1 April 2010 |date=20 June 2007}}</ref> It was the site of many mass student demonstrations, particularly concerning Australia's role in the [[Vietnam War]] and [[conscription]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://menzieslecture.org/trust.html |title=About the Trust |first=Alan |last=Gregory |publisher=Sir Robert Menzies Lecture Trust |access-date=1 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911074335/http://menzieslecture.org/trust.html |archive-date=11 September 2009 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> By the late 1960s, several student organisations, some of which were influenced by or supporters of [[Communism|communism]], turned their focus to Vietnam, with numerous blockades and sit-ins.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/monmag/issue16-2005/around-monash/around-activism.html |title=Those were the days |first=Robyn |last=Anns |work=Monash Magazine |publisher=Monash University |date=20 October 2005 |access-date=1 April 2010 |archive-date=16 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316084028/http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/monmag/issue16-2005/around-monash/around-activism.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In one extraordinary event that came to be known as the Monash Siege, students forced then Prime Minister [[Malcolm Fraser]] to hide in a basement at the Alexander Theatre, in a major protest over the [[Whitlam dismissal]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/once-were-campus-warriors-20120903-25a4f.html |location=Melbourne |work=The Age |title=Once were campus warriors |access-date=4 September 2012 |archive-date=5 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905002239/http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/once-were-campus-warriors-20120903-25a4f.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

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In the late 1970s and 1980s, some of Monash's most publicised research came through its pioneering of [[in-vitro fertilisation]] (IVF). Led by [[Carl Wood]] and [[Alan Trounson]], the Monash IVF Program achieved the world's first clinical IVF pregnancy in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.monash.edu.au/timeline/1973-IVF.html |title=1973 – World's first IVF pregnancy |publisher=Monash University |date=3 July 2009 |access-date=1 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607002239/http://www.monash.edu.au/timeline/1973-IVF.html |archive-date=7 June 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1980, they delivered the first IVF baby in Australia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.monashivf.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=21660 |title=History of IVF – Our Contribution |publisher=Monash IVF Australia |access-date=1 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915053811/http://www.monashivf.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=21660 |archive-date=15 September 2009}}</ref> This eventually became a massive source of revenue for the university at a time when university funding in Australia was beginning to slow down.

In the late 1980s, the [[Dawkins Reforms]] changed the landscape of higher education in Australia. Under the leadership of Vice-Chancellor [[Mal Logan]], Monash transformed dramatically. In 1988, Monash University had only one campus in [[Monash University, Clayton campus|Clayton]], with around 15,000 students.<ref>{{cite book |title=Monash: Remaking the University |first=Simon |last=Marginson |author-link=Simon Marginson |year=2000 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=St Leonards, NSW, Australia |isbn=978-1-86508-268-4 |page=97}}</ref> Just over a decade later, it had 8 campuses (including 2 overseas), a European research and teaching centre, and more than 50,000 students, making it the largest and most internationalised Australian university.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.monash.edu.au/about/overview/brief-history.html |title=Brief history of Monash |publisher=Monash University |date=10 November 2009 |access-date=1 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414201941/http://www.monash.edu.au/about/overview/brief-history.html |archive-date=14 April 2009 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>