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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
Migrating Modernism: An exhibition walk through with Penelope Seidler AO
This free walk through the exhibition Migrating Modernism with Penelope Seidler AO will provide insights and stories from her partnership with the late Harry Seidler. Penelope has played a pivotal role in architecture, and has championed modernist art and culture in Australia.
Carillon recital and free tour
Carillon recitals are open for everyone to attend. You may wish to sit in the Quadrangle or the front lawn benches, bring a blanket or chairs, or simply wander around the beautiful surroundings. A free tour of the instrument and tower follows at approximately 1:45 pm.
Unlocking adventure – Creating risk-ready playgrounds
Recent Periscope Commercialisation Award recipient Nadia Odlum will join Professor Alice Motion to discuss her journey from research to market-ready solutions, including lessons learned, pivots made and the role of accelerator programs.
Secret Life of Books in the Museum: The Odyssey
This lunchtime lecture about Homer's Odyssey will explore its ancient origins, the legendary characters, its lasting influence on literature, and how it continues to shape English literature from Shakespeare to Keats; Toni Morrison to Margaret Atwood.
Updates and services
Does your Career Development Plan support your growth?
With the PP&D Mid Year Reviews due on 31 August, learn how to make sure your plan and is supporting you to progress your career aspirations.
Nominations are now open for the Study NSW International Education Awards 2026
Staff can nominate an outstanding international student or support a student self-nomination by providing a Letter of Endorsement.
The JD Stewart Carpark will permanently close from Monday 3 August 2026
This area will be used to support the construction of the A01 Teaching and Learning Hub which will commence soon. Find alternative options, including discounted parking at the Broadway Shopping Centre, on the Parking information page.
The annual network resiliency test is scheduled for Saturday 25 July
There will be outages of up to five minutes across the University network, between 7 am and 4 pm, that will impact both wireless and wired services.
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
- Remote Support
- 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
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