University of Queensland students will stage a general student meeting - the first since the 1971 apartheid-era Springbok rugby tour - on the proposed demolition of the Schonell Theatre and the Ramsay Centre’s push to start its own humanities degree at UQ.

The meeting will be at the theatre on the university grounds on Wednesday at 5pm.

Moves by the private Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation to begin courses at UQ prompt a protest.

It has been organised by the University of Queensland student union, which wants a clear view of students’ positions on the two biggest issues impacting the campus in decades.

At the same time, librarian Dr Jeff Rickertt has lodged an application to list UQ’s student union building and the Schonell Theatre with the Queensland Heritage Council.