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It operated a separate residential campus at [[Scheyville, New South Wales|Scheyville]], using the former [[Officer Training Unit, Scheyville]] buildings, from 1977 to 1983. It was solely residential, with all teaching remaining at the Richmond campus, and the college opted to consolidate all operations there at the conclusion of its five-year lease.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Parks-reserves-and-protected-areas/Conservation-management-plans/scheyville-national-park-conservation-management-plan-090232.pdf | title=Scheyville National Park Conservation Management Plan | publisher=NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service | access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref>
Notable faculty included [[George Lowe Sutton]] and [[E. A. Southee]] (principal 1921–1954), while notable students included the broadcaster Lorna Byrne and [[Walter Lawry Waterhouse]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sutton-george-lowe-8720 | title=Sutton, George Lowe (1872–1964) | publisher=National Centre for Biography | work=Australian Dictionary of Biography | access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/walter-lawry-waterhouse-1887-1969 | title=Walter Lawry Waterhouse 1887-1969 | publisher=Australian Academy of Science | access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref>
In 1985, Premier [[Neville Wran]] initiated a Higher Education Board inquiry into higher education in [[Western Sydney]], headed by Ron Parry. The report recommended the amalgamation of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College and the [[Nepean College of Advanced Education]] to form a new university. The state government gave effect to the report's recommendations in the ''University of Western Sydney Act 1988'', and the college formally amalgamated into the new [[Western Sydney University|University of Western Sydney]] from 1 January 1989. It thereafter became the university's Hawkesbury campus.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/rams/archives/uws_history | title=University History | publisher=Western Sydney University | accessdate=5 October 2018}}</ref><ref name=hacaerda /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/uws25/25_year_history/people/ronald_e._parry,_on_her_majestys_public_service | title=Ronald E. Parry, On Her Majesty's Public Service | publisher=Western Sydney University | access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref>
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