Gippsland School of Information Technology

History

The history of GSIT is entwined with the history of the Gippsland Campus and the establishment of the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.

GSIT, the Gippsland School of Information Technology, changed it's name in mid 2005 from GSCIT (Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology) as part of a new focus by the Faculty of Information Technology. GSCIT was established on January 1st 1995 as a fully fledged school. Before this date the school operated as a Division of Computing within the School of Applied Science. The first award in computing at the Gippsland campus was awarded in 1984 at the associate diploma level. The Faculty itself was created in 1994 and the many computing divisions spread across the faculties were grouped together to create its' own faculty. 

Short campus history

The campus itself has a long tradition of teaching in the Latrobe Valley. The campus itself had its origins in Yallourn, a model company town (owned by the then State Electricity Commission of Victoria - or SEC as it was known), that eventually made way for the Yallourn open cut coal fields. The Yallourn Technical School became the Yallourn Technical College in 1958 and new buildings in Newborough were built.

In 1968 the newly created Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (GIAE) took over responsibility of the technical college as the shift to tertiary education began. In 1972 GIAE moved to new facilities in Churchill.  On July 1st 1990 GIAE merged with Monash University to become Monash University College Gippsland.  Two and half years later, on January 1st 1993, the full integration of GIAE was complete and the campus then became the Monash University Gippsland Campus. 

For more historical information on the campus history please visit the History section of the campus website.