Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences news
Celebrating Teaching Innovation
FASS last week hosted its annual Teaching Symposium—a vibrant event designed to celebrate and share innovative teaching practices across the faculty. Held as a half-day program for the first time, the symposium provided a space for more than 120 educators to reflect, connect, and exchange ideas. Read more.
School of Languages and Cultures Celebrates 25 years
25 years from its establishment, the school of Languages and Cultures continues to foster pathways to understanding and encourage deep engagement with the diverse world we live in.
The School of Languages and Cultures celebrated 25 years with a lively gathering of past and present staff, alumni, donors and friends at the University of Sydney last Monday. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 264 20 November 2025
Latest news from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
2025 FASS Newsletter submission and publishing deadlines
Content requests and updates
Who to contact for website and intranet sites maintenance requests and AEM access.
This is a list of University site administrators/webmasters and the websites they administer.
New Partnership Hub
The Central External Engagement Portfolio has recently launched a new Partnership Hub to help university staff access support for promoting themselves and the University as a partner of choice.
News and events
Building wellbeing in 2025
Explore the What’s on Wellbeing 2025 calendar and discover a wealth of events and learning and development opportunities for you to participate in across the year.
Popular FASS Systems
- Arts Explorer (needs VPN off campus)
- Sydney Curriculum
- How to guides for Sydney Curriculum Outlines
- Search for previous FASS outlines (2016-2019) - (log in required)
- Results Processing System (needs VPN off campus) (RPS)
- SharePoint 365
- Swift Digital
-FASS Exam QA
Events
SCA New Contemporaries
Visit us at the Old Teachers' College to celebrate the culmination of collective research and practice-based outcomes. The works of more than 100 graduates will be on display from our studio areas including screen arts, photography, painting, print media, sculpture, ceramics, glass, jewellery and object.
Sydney Ideas - An examined life
How, and for what, should life be optimised? Is optimisation homogenising culture? Hear from Infinite Scroll 荧屏沉溺 curator and creative technologist Thea-Mai Baumann, philosopher Emily Hulme, comedian and writer Alex Lee and computer scientist Elliot Varoy. Hosted by Steph Harmon, Culture Editor of Guardian Australia.
A look back at Trump 2.0
The United States Studies Centre reviews a pivotal year in US politics and the 2025 Allies and Partners Poll. What does this mean for Australia? How has Trump’s second term met expectations, and which actions will shape the future?
Updates and services
Set yourself up for success with our 2026 wall calendar
Set yourself up for success for next year with our 2026 wall calendar for staff. Designed especially for University of Sydney staff, this printable 2026 wall calendar (pdf, 682KB) shows our semester dates, teaching weeks, exams, NSW school holidays, University pay days and more.
Fast Track Contracts has expanded again
Fast Track Contracts has expanded again with fast-track available for confidentiality agreements, consents to record for photography and videography, research collaboration agreements, incoming material transfer agreements, and staff and affiliate deed polls.
Feedback deadline on the Academic Excellence Program Review of Change report has been extended
The deadline to send feedback has been extended to 8 December. Read the Review of Change report and find out how to submit feedback.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- Citrix
- Concur
- Contractor Safety Management System (CSMS)
- Copilot
- Disability Academic Plan Portal
- Dimensions
- Docusign
- Email Office 365
- EmmaHQ
- eNotebooks
- Event calendar
- Exams portal
- External Engagement CRM
- File Sender (large file transfer)
- Finance EPM
- Finance Salary Planning EPM
- IRMA
- Lecture recording
- LinkedIn Learning
- Macquarie Dictionary
- Maps (Campus Maps)
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress)
- myHRonline
- MyLab
- My Library account
- myResearch Ethics
- Office 365 Portal
- Online Teaching Allocations (OTA)
- Password management (Okta)
- Payments to the University
- PeopleSoft financials
- Policy Register
- Power BI
- Publish Partner
- Qualtrics
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Research Profiles Management (RPM)
- Research Supervisor Connect
- Riskware
- Room bookings (resource booker)
- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
- Service Portal
- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
- Sydney Insights (formerly Insights Hub)
- Sydney Profile Manager
- Sydney Student
- SydneyFMS (Facility Management System)
- Timesheets
- Timetabling
- UniBuy
- Viva Engage (Yammer)
- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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