Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing
- The new strategic plan Making the Future is published
- Plans are developed to introduce 12 new schools from August 2009
- Lord Attenborough steps down after 10 years as Chancellor and 40 years' service to the University
- Proposals are announced to redevelop the Gardner centre
- National Student Survey shows Sussex has 86 per cent student overall satisfaction and 88 per cent for teaching; both up on previous years
- In the RAE 18 subjects rank in the top 20 for research in the UK: American Studies first, Politics second and Art History third
- Sussex is ranked as 'the place to be' by international students for the third year running
- Junior Research Scheme is set up to encourage UG students to take up an academic career
- Sussex Research themes are set up: Environment and Health; Digital and Social Media; Culture and Heritage; Mind and Brain; Citizenship and Democratisation; and Global transformations
- BSMS has its first 94 graduates
- First 37 Business Studies students graduate from SPRU
- The Library trials 24-hour opening
- A new social networking site set up: SPLASH
- Sussex forms a partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- The University is voted the healthiest workplace in Brighton
- A new teaching block is planned for 2009-10
- A new Arts academic building is planned, with building to commence in 2010
- A new heating system is implemented that will reduce the University's carbon footprint
- The International Summer School celebrates its 10th anniversary