We have seen another great week of engagement on our Operating Plan 2020 – 2024. In the last week we have seen another 250 staff join the digital engagement platform, with more than 40 new ideas, 120+ new comments, almost 1000 new votes and over 3500 page views.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor S Bruce Dowton has hosted three staff workshops in the last week hearing from a range of academic and professional staff across the University to explore in greater depth some of the emerging themes and ideas that have been raised on our digital platform.
There was a high demand and sign up rate for the workshops, so we have sought to add more capacity.
The Vice-Chancellor said the face-to-face sessions with various departments and offices, along with the staff workshops have provided practical feedback that will help cement key actions in five priority areas. He will also be hosting student workshops.
Post your own idea now or comment and vote on nearly 100 ideas posted by colleagues, including these ones:
Students first
· App/Chatbot/Voice Assistant to provide basic student support
· Alumni engagement across Macquarie University is key to the confidence of its students and future students
· Connected student services
· Higher Degree Research: more University-funded scholarships needed
· Make MQ Mobile Enabled
Coursework suite and delivery
· What is Macquarie’s Expertise? What will we say no to?
· Massive rethink of teaching to match 21st century
· CMS more visibly connecting course LOs and unit LOs
· Re-think our Academic Year
· What has changed in assessment from the pre-internet age? Are essays still a form of assessment that dominates the lives of students in the 21st century?
Focused investment in research
· Centralised research facilities
· More flexible HDR candidate assessment guidelines
· Supporting a diversity of complementary approaches
· Supporting a diversity of complementary approaches
· A university-level international corporate engagement coordinator
Our people
· Streamline the bureaucracy
· Professional development of academic staff
· Future Leaders Program For Professional staff
· Collaboration across professional staff
· Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Ways of working
· Finance ERP System Tender
· Staff have the answers – Continuous Improvement
· Save $millions by buying IT instead of renting it
· Change email culture
· System solutions to our current manual tasks
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