Strategic overview Professor Heather Nel October 2018 Overview - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Strategic overview Professor Heather Nel October 2018

Overview Vision 2020 strategic plan Listening campaign VC’s inaugural address

Our iconic namesake

Our institutional profile: 2018 One of 6 comprehensive universities in South Africa 28 404 students 74% of our students come from the Eastern Cape 1516 international students from 56 countries 4870 staff 7 faculties 7 wi-fi enabled campuses (including the 1 st dedicated ocean sciences campus in South Africa)

Our vision

Our mission To offer a diverse range of life- changing educational experiences for a better world.

Listening campaign themes • Re-imagining institutional identity & strategic positioning • Inclusive, transformative institutional culture • Teaching, learning & curriculum • Research & postgrad studies • Financial sustainability • Human resources • Agile, responsive institutional systems & processes • Student-centric support

Vice-Chancellor’s inaugural address • Institutional culture, posture and identity - legacy and values of Nelson Mandela • Transformation - transformative leadership; equity and redress; institutional culture; social cohesion & inclusion; curriculum & research; T&L; & community engagement • Academic heartland - Decolonisation of the curriculum o Relevance to local and global contexts o Transdisciplinarity o Re-imagining and revitalising the humanities o Humanising pedagogies o Develop emerging and socially-diverse academics o Hubs of convergence o • Agile, people-friendly, responsive and efficient systems and processes • Financial sustainability • Student-centric support

Vice-Chancellor’s inaugural address Integrative student life, social solidarity, multi-culturalism and diversity Vibrant intellectual, social, cultural, sport, recreational campus life. Active student engagement in communities to solve societal challenges – hubs of convergence Enhance the quality of student life through implementing student centric programmes. Student leadership development programme produces 21st century leaders in line with graduate attributes.

Our transformation priorities Student M&E and support reporting Institutional Governance culture Scholarship and engagement T&L and Language curriculum Diversifying Disability staff profile Complaints mechanisms

Our sustainability plan Re-engineered Fit-for-purpose, business Strategic strategy-aligned processes & positioning organisational innovative design operating models Programme Revenue viability & mobilisation & curriculum cost transformation management

STRATEGIC POSITIONING TEACHING & LEARNING AS NELSON MANDELA EXCELLENCE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ACCESS • Widening access for success • An innovative, African University • Academic development and support embracing the values and legacy of • Humanising pedagogies AND SUCCESS Nelson Mandela • Curriculum renewal & transformation • Comprehensive programme mix with • Technology-enabled T&L THROUGH diverse range of quality educational • Language policy and practices opportunities and articulation • Diversify academic staff profile pathways • Internationalisation EXCELLENCE IN: • New strategic academic directions • Graduate attributes – employability • University of choice for talented staff and entrepreneurship and students with the potential to succeed Holistic Recognition Teaching & development of Learning and reward staff & students systems Vibrant campus life ORGANISATIONAL Internationalisation INNOVATIVE & ENGAGED SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLARSHIP Research Engagement • Transformative institutional culture • Research outputs – Improve quantity Co-curricular activities • Engaged, high-performing staff and quality • Financial sustainability and revenue • Staff workload and career path - mobilisation Balance between T&L, research & • Responsible environmental & resource Inclusive institutional engagement stewardship • Staff qualifications profile culture • Integrated sustainability planning, • Develop next generation of academics budgeting & reporting • Strategic partnerships – local, national, • Modernised infrastructure continental and global • Re-engineered, streamlined & • Public good and societal impact digitised systems & processes

Our planning milestones 2017 2018 2019 • Vision 2020 review • VC’s inaugural address • Finalise implementation of org redesign • Institutional • VC's listening campaign Transformation Plan • Craft Vision 2030 in • Revised Vision 2020 approved by Council consultation with key strategic plan approved internal and external by Council stakeholders • Organisational redesign

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