Overview

DASSH leads and promotes the arts, social sciences and humanities nationally and internationally. The long established DASSH has recently been incorporated as an association. DASSH represents the deans of faculties of arts, social sciences and humanities in universities and higher education institutions across Australia and New Zealand.

The Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH)

DASSH advocates for the role of teaching, research and scholarship in the arts, social sciences and humanities by:

• sharing information and disseminating best practice between member institutions
• fostering research
• providing a forum for discussion of higher education management
• contributing to the development of education policy and administration issues with a view to establishing national position statements
• taking a lead role in fostering the arts, social sciences and humanities in Australasia
• creating alliances with related organisations and institutions nationally and internationally, and identifying and responding where appropriate to issues relevant to the arts, social sciences and humanities