Presented by Professor Ed ByrneVice-Chancellor and President

Monash in the 21st Century

Presentation to Academic Heads Conference

30 November 2009

Monash Futures Agenda: The Context

- Distinctive profile based on:- Excellence in research and education- Six distinctive Victorian campuses- A unique international footprint across Europe, Asia

and Africa- External factors

- Elite competitors pursuing excellence by going ‘small’

- Government 20/40 agenda and removal of caps on student numbers

Monash Futures Agenda: The Choice

- Of the many models under consideration, the University Council has endorsed a strategy of:

- One Monash

- Judicious Growth

- Accessible Excellence

- As academic heads you will be central figures in this evolution

Monash Futures Agenda: Work in Progress

Grand Challenges

Passport Mark II

Campus Enhancement

Improved Services

Academic Strengthenin

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Academic Strengthening

- Steering Group to define academic standards (starting with Levels D and E)

- Cluster Taskforces to identify academic strengths

- Definition of research- and teaching-intensive positions

Academic Strengthening

- Leadership of academic heads: - To recognise excellence in academic performance- To identify and manage academic strengthening

opportunities- To select the right performance supervisors who will

properly manage performance and development of academic careers

- To use the the new on-line performance development system to support performance management

- To identify and manage underperformance- To ensure that the efforts of professional staff are

also supporting these goals

Grand Challenges

- Themes: - overarching agenda and funding - across faculties

- Grand Challenges- Focused plans of action- Potentially funded from themes- feasibility

- significance - Faculties remain primary home of

research staff and primary budgetary units

Sustainability

Health & Wellbeing

Productivity & Innovation

Social Inclusion

Faculties

Monash Advanced Studies Institute

- Merit-based- All-campuses- Researchers and

educators- Defining the

Monash PhD- Building inter-

disciplinary linkages

NB: Proportions in the pie graphs above are for illustration purposes only

Campus Enhancement

Campus Enhancement

- System of Central and President-led campuses- Distinctive offerings at Berwick and Gippsland- Unique capacity to nurture transitions and

participation:- Only Go8 with secondary education on 3

campuses- Only Go8 on Open Universities Australia Board- Low-SES now >25% at Berwick and Gippsland

Passport - Mark II

- Refinement of course offerings

- 2008: approx. 12,000 unique timetables

- Less duplication: 10% initial reduction

- Lighter administrative burden

- School and community engagement to grow bigger, better pool of incoming students

Watch this space!

Quality Services

- Revitalising services- Improved delivery to staff and students- Removing red tape

Why are we doing this?

- “Adopt as your fundamental creed that you will equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit but for the benefit of the whole community” – John Monash