[14] In 2015, the Paul Ramsay Foundation made a $14.7 million donation to the Black Dog Institute for suicide prevention programs.
[16] Former University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis AC was appointed CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation in January 2019.
[18][19] The bequest was the "biggest philanthropic gift in the history of education in Australia" and the centre, headed by Simon Haines, formerly professor of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was launched by the former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
In June 2018, the Australian National University (ANU) pulled out of the proposed multimillion-dollar Western Civilisation degree citing concerns about integrity.
The ANU's Vice-chancellor stated that the university had "approached the opportunity offered by the Ramsay Centre in a positive and open spirit".
The president of the ANU branch of the National Tertiary Education Union, Matthew King, stated that he was concerned that the degree would "pursue a narrow, radically conservative program to demonstrate and promulgate the alleged superiority of western culture and civilisation".
[22] In June 2019, the Council of Wollongong University approved a new course, Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation and associated double degree programs, due to commence in 2020.