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Three FASS disciplines in global top 50 in the THE subject rankings
The University of Sydney continues to excel in the latest Times Higher Education subject rankings with six disciplines in the global top 50. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 265 -5 December 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
YALLA TO LEBANON
Blending Lebanese heritage, humour, and village superstition, this updated production delivers a heartfelt, family-friendly theatre experience. Showing for one night only at the Seymour Centre, with tickets from $49.
NAIDOC Week cultural tours with Uncle Jimmy Smith
Join Aboriginal Knowledge Holder Uncle Jimmy Smith on a cultural tour of the Aboriginal cultural heritage at the University of Sydney Camperdown campus. Uncle Jimmy is a proud Wiradjuri man who comes from the Erambie mission near Cowra New South Wales.
University Library's NAIDOC morning tea
Head to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander space in Level 3 of Fisher Library for a cuppa and check out the Library's 2026 exhibition curated by Pippa Herden (Gomeroi) and Tanisha Naylor-Moran (Anaiwan), First Nations staff in Cultural Collections.
NAIDOC Week flag raising ceremony
Mark the beginning of NAIDOC Week on campus with a flag raising ceremony on the lawns in front of the Clock Tower and join the morning tea at the Fisher Library rooftop afterwards.
Updates and services
Workday scheduled maintenance from 5 pm 26 June
To allow for scheduled maintenance, Workday will be unavailable from 5 pm to 11 pm on Friday 26 June. For updates during the outage period, visit the Service Status page on the Service Portal.
Support for our community impacted by the conflict in the Middle East
The conflict in the Middle East is distressing on many fronts. We’d like to remind you that 24/7 counselling and wellbeing support is available to staff through our counselling and coaching partner, Converge International.
4 percent salary increase for staff under Enterprise Agreement
Don't forget, if you are employed under the Enterprise Agreement 2023–2026, you will receive a 4 percent salary increase from the first full pay period after 1 June 2026, which will be paid on the 25 June payday (and each payday thereafter).
Additional parking available at Broadway shopping centre
We've partnered with Broadway shopping centre to provide temporary discounted parking for staff, accessible until Monday 31 August.
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
- emma (formerly 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)
- 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
- 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
We acknowledge the tradition of custodianship and law of the Country on which the University of Sydney campuses stand. We pay our respects to those who have cared and continue to care for Country.
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