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At ACU, community engagement is important. We operate and support a number of community engagement programs in Australia and overseas.
Each one provides our staff and our students the opportunity to live the University’s Mission, and contribute to the common good of the global community.
View our current list of domestic community engagement programs in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
Location: NSW
Special Tutoring Assistance Program (STAP) is an after-school program aimed at helping students from various cultural and migrant backgrounds with their homework. STAP is a partnership between ACU, Metro Assist and Homebush Public School.
Location: QLD
Founded in 2016, Kicking Goals Together (KGT) is a sport for development program that operates on the Brisbane Campus. KGT involves a soccer tournament running for 16 weeks in Semesters 1 and 2, and includes teams from refugee and migrant backgrounds, and international student cohorts.
Location: QLD
Kedron State High School is located in Brisbane’s northside and has a large population of youth from refugee and migrant backgrounds. ACU Engagement partners with the school in supporting an afternoon homework club where students from these backgrounds can receive support for their homework tasks and assignments. Many of these students have been in Australia for less than five years.
Location: VIC
The Atherton Gardens Homework Support program is a partnership between ACU and The Smith Family, and offers weekly after school homework support to local primary school students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and refugee backgrounds.
Location: VIC
The Read To Learn Program (RTL) supports primary school children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and refugee backgrounds, who have also been identified as requiring additional support to develop their reading and literacy skills.
We're available 9am–5pm AEDT,
Monday to Friday