She was then Director of DEAL Communication Centre (since renamed the Anne McDonald Centre), then Australia's only federally funded centre for augmentative communication.

The loss of the federally funded center would be a blow to local law enforcement, which gets free access via the center to a vast network of information and human resources.

Until 2010 he was director of the Centre for Active Learning, a nationally funded centre for excellence in teaching and learning.

In 2009, there were 27 Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited schools of public health with established and funded centers:

The center is part of a national network of funded centers located in major cities throughout the United States.

There are eight national funded centres of excellence in performing arts education, these are the: