Welcome to the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts

Professor Mike Ewing Executive Dean, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts

We're small, we're a community and we care, and it shows. Having a low student/staff ratio and a small class size, students are more prepared to speak up, they feel safer, they're more engaged. It's definitely a superior learning environment. Our academics are committed to the institution.

They're committed to students and they're committed to their profession. Within the business discipline at Southern Cross we believe that there's more to life than shareholders and returning a profit, that organisations need to strike a balance between shareholders, employees, customers, stakeholders, society at large and the environment. It's an empirical fact that students that have had workplace learning or industry-based learning are more employable.

Our students will have had more placement, more industry-based learning. Thanks to the Southern Cross Model you can complete the Law degree in three years. Our second big differentiator is our local focus, so we're very much embedded in the communities on the Gold Coast and in the Northern Rivers.

The majority of our Law graduates end up contributing to the local community. Right now, we're in love with artificial intelligence, we're in love with big data and technology. Reason is good but you need emotion. Technology is good but you need people. I see a very important role for the Humanities disciplines going forward. [Music]