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Faculty of Arts
Ready for AUQA#2?
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Context
Themes:• International activities • Research & Research Education
BUT• Overlap with quality approach in all
areas
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Arts Faculty Governance• Faculty Board• Faculty Management Group• Faculty Quality & Standards Committee• Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee• Faculty Research Committee• Faculty Higher Degree Research Committee• Faculty Committee• Faculty Marketing and Outreach Committee• Faculty Space Committee• Faculty IT & Web Committee• Student Experience Sub-Committee• Internationalisation Sub-Committee• Postgraduate Coursework Committee• Occupational Health and Safety Committee
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Arts Planning and Review• Arts Faculty Strategic Plan built on:
– MQ@50– MQ Research & L&T Strategic Plans & TILT &
International– Partnership and Performance
• Research, L&T, Social Inclusion, Business & Community Engagement, Organisational Sustainability
• VC/DVC KPIs• Approved by Faculty Board (on Tuesday)• Dept Plans localise the Faculty Plan• Review cycle commencing in 2009
– Considers student satisfaction, retention, success, publications etc– Measure progress and devise actions to achieve goals
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Workload and PDR
• All Departments use workload models - no Faculty wide model (yet) until institutional direction.
• PDR is progressing • Casual staff are offered (paid) induction• L&T Professional development is aligned with
staff induction and open to all staff• L&T, HDR, Research: partly integrated
professional development program
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Quality Enhancement• FSQC in place and undertaken successful massive curriculum renewal task
– People and Planet units developed – Capstone units developed– Programs/Majors/Deletions/Proposals
• Department Review cycle in place• Benchmarking and moderation of units, programs, assessment standards• External reviews (ICOM, Law) • OUS Staff Induction
How do we know?• Student feedback (internal and external), employer feedback,
benchmarking, Annual Review, HDR success/completions, publication outcomes, grant success, audit trail of documents to APC
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International Students in Arts
• From 2004 to 2008– Commencements increased 131 - 167– Continuing load increased 285 - 369– Total student enrolment increased 416 – 536– 2008: HDR 90; PG: 198; U/G 248
– Commencing HDR students spiked in S1 2008, otherwise steady increase over 3 years
– U/G intake slightly declining since 2006– P/G – intake increasing, continuing students declining -
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International enrolments by programTop 8: 2009
• Master of Arts in International Communication (22)• Master of International Relations• Bachelor of Arts in Media and Cultural Studies• Bachelor of International Communication• Master of Policing, Intelligence & Counter Terrorism• Master of International Secutiry Studies• Bachelor of International Studies• Bachelor of media
Key Source Countries:• China (19.5%), USA, Germany, Canada, Thailand, India
(3.3%)
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International Activity• Integrated approach• Internationalisation Committee (reps from Research,
HDR, L&T)• Link Assessment/Grad Capability 6: Global & Local
Citizenship• Student Fieldwork/Student Exchange/Internships• Staff Mobility and Collaboration• Travel Calendar• Visiting Fellows/Scholars• MJS (Japanese Studies) Centre scholarships and activities• Language & Culture curriculum (International Studies;
ICOM etc)
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International Activity
• Intercultural tele-collaboration projects (Australia/Europe)• Co-tutelles• Erasmus Mundus Consortium – MA Global Studies• Innovative Universities European Union Centre (IUEU)• "Cross-Culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-Culturally“,
July 2009• Global Futures Program• Curriculum: International Communications, International
Studies, Languages, Global History, International Relations
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Higher Degree Researchin the Faculty of Arts
• Associate Dean (HDR) – Marea Mitchell
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Minimum Resources
• Minimum resources • HDR Guide for Candidates and
Supervisors p. 44• 4 sq m space, desk/work station, chair• Shelving, lock-up drawers• Access to power point, network port,
phone etc• Access to shared common room
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Minimum Resources
• 419 HDR students, split 162 part-time and 257 full.
• Audit of existing rooms (17/3/09)• AFTRS 2009/2010• Library 2010• Any ideas?
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Recruitment
• 2009 targets: 400 University
• 34 new Arts HDR candidates. 47% total S1 2008. • 51 applications still being processed or offers
• Why numbers are down? • How else we can make Arts at Macquarie a preferred option
for HDR candidates?
• Making our research environment place where HDRS want to be: inclusive research environment.
• Targeted recruitment material with the Faculty Marketing Coordinator Ross McGhee
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Completions
• 2009 target approx 70
• 45 identified by mid year
• Manager Arts HDR data for HDR director and HoDs
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QUALITY
• Examination process/quality of examiners
• VC commendations
• Co-tutelle:– FOA 16 [FOHS 8, FOS 21]
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Code of Supervisory Practice
• The Higher Degree Research Guide for
Candidates and Supervisors 2009 pp. 22 ff.
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Pervasive and Inclusive Research Culture
Student surveys Departmental research activities
Websites, links, invitations
Faculty initiatives (AD R and AD HDR)March 16th 4.30 Courtyard
What is an inclusive research culture?
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Learning and Teachingin the Faculty of Arts
• Associate Dean (Learning &Teaching)– Marnie Hughes-Warrington
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What has changed since the last audit?• Review and identification of delegations (‘who is authorised
to decide x in learning and teaching?’)• A reorganisation of L&T committees, taking in terms of
reference, membership and relationship with Senate committees and LTC working groups
• Both of these are explained in more detail in the Faculty manual
• Evidence: minutes, audit trail of forms
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Internationalisation• Arrangements for international students in
Australia– Student experience considered in the student experience
sub-committee (SES)– Entry requirements, including language requirements, to
be a departmental and faculty decision (international committee) as well as a decision of Macquarie International
– How can induction be better tailored to meet the needs of international students?
– Do you know about ESOS? HoDs can arrange for a departmental briefing
• Evidence:– Student feedback, minutes from the International
Committee
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Internationalisation: Curriculum• Student mobility:
– Every department sends out and receives students on study abroad programs
– Inbound: Has your department discussed whether those students need extra support? Can you bring that to the attention of the SES?
– Some have dedicated units, eg International Studies, Politics and IR Outbound: how do you prepare students for the experience?
• UGO captures reports of alignment between assessment tasks and graduate capability 6: local and global knowledge
• What activities did your department report last year in the self-audit? HoDs can contact me for a copy of their report
• New curriculum– Global futures (participation in global service)– People and Planet encourage the movement and mixing of students across
campus• Evidence: enrolments figures, exchange figures, student
feedback, UGO reports
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Internationalisation: Academic Standards• Reflected in the development and application of academic
standards for– programs majors and units
• FSQC activities are guided by frameworks such as the National Code of Practice for Registration Authorities and Providers of Education for Overseas Students (2007) as the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF)
– teaching and peer review• Faculty Foundations in Learning and Teaching Program Learning Outcomes
are benchmarked against– The UK Professional Standards for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education– The Dublin Descriptors for a second cycle award– The Tuning Structures– As well as local frameworks, such as those developed in the Teaching Quality Indicators Project
• We are participants in a University-wide proposal to benchmark peer review of teaching with international partners
• Evidence: minutes, audit trail of documents to APC, assessment tasks completed in FIeLT, peer review records
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Internationalisation: Academic Standards• Our assessment mentors are working in
departments to outline standards students need to reach to achieve grades in units– Over 2009, those standards are to be benchmarked against
the Tuning Structures, and other international benchmarks (eg American Political Science Association, or in conjunction with Victoria University, Wellington), as well as the Australian qualifications framework and MQ grading policy
– Working now to suggest structures and processes for moderation, including external moderators
• Evidence: minutes, assessment standards, examination meeting reports, moderation reports
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Mentors? Tuning? Dublin?
• Our assessment mentors:
– Cynthia Townley (Philosophy)– Diane Hughes (MMCS)– Ian Tregenza (MHPIRS)– Michelle Arrow (second semester MHPIRS)– Mio Bryce (International Studies)– Martina Mollering (International Studies)– Pauline Manley (MMCS)– Sherman Young (MMCS)– Nicole Matthews (MMCS)– Sarah Keith (MMCS)– Susan Page (Warawara)– Usha Harris (MMCS)– Justine Lloyd (Sociology)– Lisa Wynn (Anthropology)– Victoria Flanagan (English)– Vijana Nagarajan (Law)– Penelope Watson (Law)– Ian Plant (Ancient History)
• Tuning Structures:– This project, supported by the
European Commission and the Association of European Universities has proposed generic and discipline specific outcomes for Bachelor degrees (eg history)
– Why these? The number of universities involved
• Dublin Descriptors:– Descriptions of outcomes for ‘first
cycle’ (bachelor) and ‘second cycle’ degrees with a greater degree of detail than the AQF
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Research in the Faculty of Arts
• Associate Dean (Research) – Andrew Buck
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Faculty of Arts Research Strategy 2009 – 2011
Faculty of Arts Research Goals:-
1. Establish and support a pervasive and inclusive research culture
2. Achieve national and international prominence in key areas of research strength
3. Increase the number of commencing and completing high quality HDRs candidates
4. Develop international research collaborations
5. Use our research-strength to benefit Australia and the community
University Research Priorities:-
1. Develop a pervasive research culture across the University
2. Achieve prominence in selected concentrations of research excellence
3. Increase the number of commencing and completing high quality HDR candidates
4. Develop international research collaborations
5. Be a significant contributor to the nation’s social, environmental, cultural, economic and commercial well-being
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Concentrations of Research Excellence & University Research
CentresCOREs1. Ancient Cultures
Team2. Legal Governance
Team3. Social Inclusion
Team4. Social, Cultural &
Political Change Team
University Research Centres
1. MQ Ancient Cultures Research Centre
2. Centre for Comparative Law, History & Governance
3. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
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Goal 1: Establish and support a pervasive and inclusive research culture
• Research Fair, including HDRs• Multidisciplinary project grants• Cross-disciplinary research seminar
series, encouraging HDR participation• Early-career researcher workshops• Research-Teaching nexus grants (with
L&T)• Encourage co-tutelle arrangements
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Faculty of Arts Research Centres• Agency Norms and Values Research Centre• Australian Centre for Numismatic Studies• Centre for Cultural History• Centre for Media History• Centre for middle East and North African Studies• Centre for the History of Christian Thought and
Experience• Centre for the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian
Literature• Croatian Studies Centre• Innovative Universities European Union Centre• Macquarie Japanese Studies Centre• Rotary International Russian Resources Centre• Somatechnics Research Centre