Re-imagining the Engaged University

Date:          Tuesday 27^th February 2018
Time:          3 – 5pm
Location:   National Convention Centre, Canberra
Price:          $75

In a world of turbulence and uncertainty there is always a need to know exactly where the leading edge of change, driving university’s engagement with society, lies. The 2018 Universities Australia Engagement session, titled Re-imagining the Engaged University, takes us up to this leading edge of change, providing a platform for dialogue and debate about how progressive and leading universities are revisiting the strategic imperative for them to be relevant and add value to the communities they serve.

Join with us for an expert panel discussion event that includes Vice Chancellors and senior leaders focused on shaping a strategic engagement agenda for their respective universities in the current climate. The session will also draw on leading thinkers in Australia who have contributed to the journal Transform: the Journal of Engaged Scholarship,.  Contributors to the new Issue of this journal, also titled Re-imagining the Engaged University, include Professor Margaret Gardner AO, Chair of Universities Australia and President and Vice Chancellor,  Monash University; Professor Tim Brailsford, Vice Chancellor and President, Bond University, and Professor Barbara Holland, University of Nebraska - attendees will receive an advanced copy of the new journal at this event.  

Re-imagining the Engaged University will identify, solidify and ‘put flesh on the bones’ for the key issues facing the next generation of engaged scholars and leaders of institutions.  This session will seek to re-imagine and re-think in some important ways the core public purpose for higher education institutions.

Confirmed panelists are:

1. Professor Sharon Bell, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Strategy and Planning), Western Sydney University
2. Professor Tim Brailsford, Vice-Chancellor and President Chancellery, Bond University
3. Mr. Adrian Collette, Vice Principal (Engagement) University of Melbourne
4. The Hon. Verity Firth, Executive Director of Social Justice, UTS, Sydney
5. Tania Rhodes-Taylor, Vice-Principal, External Relations, The University of Sydney. 
6. Professor Adam Shoemaker, Vice-Chancellor and President, Southern Cross University 

Session Chair:

Professor Jim Nyland, Associate Vice Chancellor (Brisbane), Australian Catholic University & Editor, Transform: the Journal of Engaged Scholarship 

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-imagining-the-engaged-university-tickets-40893629948

Further information: Contact Engagement Australia  admin@engagementaustralia.org.au

Please note the session is scheduled to finish prior to the Welcome Reception for the Universities Australia conference and will be held in the same venue at the National Convention Centre, Canberra.

This session offers an opportunity to engage with and influence ATEM’s best practice model in institutional policy management and policy development. Institutional policy frameworks are essential to meeting the HE Threshold Standards, but they must also enable efficiency, innovation and an excellent student and staff experience. Can we agree on a national best practice model of institutional policy?

The model developed over the past decade by the ATEM Institutional Policy Network is a candidate for this role, but may need modification in light of the current challenges facing universities and other tertiary institutions. This presentation will outline the model and offer opportunities for further engagement and collaboration. The Institutional Policy Network is preparing a third edition of its best practice manual, which has been highly influential on policy practice in Australasian tertiary institutions, with more than 500 copies sold. This is an opportunity to feed ideas into this project.

Trove, the National Library of Australia’s free digital library service, has grown rapidly to become an indispensable component of the nation’s cultural and research infrastructure. Containing over 540 million resources and receiving on average over sixty thousand visits per day, Trove is the Australian government’s fourth most visited website. Trove hosts the National Library’s digital collections—digitised newspapers, journals, books, pictures, manuscripts, maps and music as well as a rapidly growing born digital collection. Over one thousand Australian organisations, including all Australian universities, participate in Trove by making their research, cultural heritage and community organisations’ collections discoverable. Trove allows researchers to engage with the digital resources on Trove—researching, building and creating as well as enriching them. Learn more about this work, and the plans for Trove, during this session.

The foundations of Trove have been carefully laid over the past years. In 2017 the National Library of Australia completed a five-year program which transformed the Library’s digital capability.  The Library now has modular and scalable systems for acquiring, managing and delivering our nation’s memory in both born-digital and digitised formats.  With this capability in place, the Library stands ready to embark on mass digitisation of its collections, driving exponential gains in research and knowledge. The program relied on effective collaboration by Library staff resulting in significant business benefits: clever workflow solutions; scalable digital storage, management and preservation; and, most importantly, dramatic improvements in how researchers can discover and use the nation’s documentary heritage – the nation’s memory – in digital form. The new systems have transformed digitisation processes enabling content to be digitized faster and at a greater scale. 

Trove actively works with its international counterparts, Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America and Digital NZ to encourage free and open access to global cultural and research data via the internet.

UAEW's Network Lunch and Launch of Gender Equality Recruitment Best Practice Guidelines

Date: Thursday 1 March 2018

Time: 12.30pm - 1.20pm

Location: Ballroom

Chaired by: Professor Marcia Devlin and Professor Kerri-Lee Krause

Synopsis: 

UAEW are pleased to launch the Gender Equality Recruitment Best Practice Guidelines, which have been developed under the expert stewardship of Jo Fisher and Mira Bacelj from Fisher Leadership. In developing this resource, the sector was invited to attend a National Roundtable discussion in September 2017, and we were fortunate to have 39 attendees from 23 Universities at the event, to provide input to the Guidelines. 

Please RSVP directly to Kim Findlay - Project Officer, UAEW by email: k.findlay@latrobe.edu.au

Synopsis of session

Gen Y (Millennials) aspirations: It’s no longer white collar or blue collar, it’s no collar.

Date: Wednesday 28 February 2018

Time: 11.30am - 12.15pm

Where: Sutherland Theatrette

Ben Pilkington, Managing Director – Consumer & Commercial, will deliver insight into the minds of Gen Y (Millennials), to help identify some the unique characteristics of those going through our education system and entering the work force.

Modern youth don’t aspire to keep up with the Joneses— they want to be more unique than the Joneses and this session will shine the light on how Millennials have grown up with technology and social media, and the impact this has on their expectations of products, services, education and work environments.

Council of International Students Australia, National Union of Students, Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations

National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Association

When: Thursday 1 March 2018

Time: 11.30am - 12.15pm

Where: Royal Theatre

Title: Are Universities Meeting Students’ Employability Needs and Expectations?

Speakers:

1. Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Australian National University
2. Mr Mark Pace, President, NUS
3. Ms Natasha Abrahams, President, CAPA
4. Mr Bijay Sapkota, President, CISA
5. Ms Sharlene Leroy-Dyer, Vice-President, NATSIPA

When: Thursday 1 March 2018

Time: 11.30am - 12.15pm

Where: Nicholls Theatrette

Speakers:

1. Mr Gerald Ewing, Chief Executive Officer, Regis Mutual Management
2. Mr Ian Mundy, Member Services Director, UniMutual Limited