The Logan community came together as one to mark Griffith University’s 20-year celebration at its newest campus.
A who’s who of one of Australia’s fastest growing urban centres mixed and mingled with the evening highlighted by the cutting of a specially-designed cake representing the campus’ former home as a dairy grazing pasture.
1998 marked the beginning
As Griffith University expanded its reach from its southern Brisbane base of Nathan in the early 1990s, the Logan region seemed an ideal fit for the growing learning institution.
A greenfield site at Meadowbrook, where cattle were more prominent than cars, was gazetted to be home for Griffith’s fifth campus.
Read Griffith’s Archives on how the Logan Campus came to fruition
And 20 years since its opening, Griffith’s Logan campus is now a vital part of Queensland’s fastest-growing population corridor.
From a maiden intake of 500 students in 1998, Logan now has a cohort of more than 2000, and in that