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In 1971 he was appointed Principal of the new Riverina College of Advanced Education, which he developed into one of the leading providers of distance education courses in Australia, introducing courses in business, liberal studies, and science. After amalgamating with the Wagga Agricultural College,
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he was able to introduce courses in agriculture and relocated the College to a new greenfield site north of the city. In 1981, he oversaw the amalgamation of the College with the Goulburn College of Advanced Education to become the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education.
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After completing a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship in the United States, where he visited centres of biological teaching and research, Blake became a lecturer in plant pathology at The University of Sydney and the Wilson Fellow and Senior Tutor at St Andrew's College.
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He was also a member of the Board of Adult Education in New South Wales, a member of the Advanced Education Council of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission and the Chairman of the NSW Advanced Education Conference. In 1988 he was made a member of the
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He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and awarded the
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and later appointed the first Vice-Chancellor of Charles Sturt University.
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Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia)
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in 1996 for his contributions to agricultural science.
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AO
Australian
agriculturalist
Vice-Chancellor
Charles Sturt University
University of Adelaide
Muswellbrook
New South Wales
University of Sydney
Rothamsted Experimental Station
PhD
University of London
Order of Australia
Farrer Memorial Medal
"BLAKE, Clifford Douglas - Officer of the Order of Australia"
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia)
Archived
"Adelaide University Appoints Vice-Chancellor"
University of Adelaide
"Citation for the conferral of a Doctor of the University (honoris causa)"
Charles Sturt University
Mary O'Kane
Vice-Chancellor
University of Adelaide
James McWha
Vice-Chancellor
Charles Sturt University
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