Staff AssemblyPersoneelbyeenkomsStellenbosch, 2017/03/03

12:15 – 12:25Arrival at venue (Room 1005, Mathematical

Sciences and Industrial Psychology Building)

12:30 – 12:40 Welcoming and introduction Prof Hester Klopper

12:40 – 13:00Towards SU 2040: Progress report

and glimpse on the futureProf Wim de Villiers

13:00 – 13:25 Questions & AnswersFacilitator:

Prof Hester Klopper

13:25 – 13:30 Closing remarks Prof Hester Klopper

13:30 – 13:40 Light lunch (paper bag)

13:45 Venue handover

Programme

Progress report and

a glimpse on the future of SU

Prof Wim de Villiers,

Rector and Vice-Chancellor

A progress report and a glimpse on

the future of SU:

1. SU Admissions Policy

2. Strategic Engagement Themes and Calendar

3. Culture and Climate Survey

4. Towards SU 2040

Effective from 1 March 2017, for admissions 2018

Admissions Policy revision

Against the backdrop of SU’s commitment to:

• Being inclusive, innovative and future focused

• Broadening access and transformation

Rectorate requested during 2013:

• Investigation of alternatives to racial classification as admission and selection mechanisms

• Reasonably and holistically address socio-economic disadvantage in South Africa

Task team

• Led by Prof Arnold Schoonwinkel and Ms Christelle Feyt

• Broad consultation and public input

Admission process

By maintaining and promoting academic excellence

through diversity, in conjunction with the University’s

commitment to redress and social responsibility,

the aim of the SU Admissions policy is to admit

a diverse student body with the potential to succeed.

Academic excellence through diversity

Strategic Engagement Themes

and Calendar

• Lessons from 2015 and 2016

• 2017: “Year of Engagement”

• 9 stakeholder groupings

• 11 themes spread across the year as organising

principle for SU activities & engagement

STAKEHOLDER GROUPINGS

Students (all categories) Staff (all categories) Management & governance

structures

Alumni/Donors/Funders Business/Industry Government

Civil society & media International partners HE sectoral bodies

DATES BROAD ENGAGEMENT THEMES

JANUARY – FEBRUARY Welcome“Setting the scene for a year of engagement”

MARCH (Human Rights Day,21 March)

Social justice“Co-creating a socially just Stellenbosch University”

APRIL (Freedom Day,27 April)

Democracy“Promoting democracy and a listening culture at SU”

MAY (Worker’s Day,1 May)

Work and workers“SU as the employer of choice”

MAY (Africa Day,25 May) *

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DATES BROAD ENGAGEMENT THEMES

JUNE (Youth Day,16 June)

Youth innovation and excellence

JULY(Mandela Day,18 July) *

Social impact and active citizenship“Deliberating on the greater good”

AUGUST(Women’s Day,9 August)

Gender inclusivity“Celebrating diversity, nurturing inclusivity”

SEPTEMBER(Casual Day,4 September) *

Access for successDisability, universal design, human dignity, student and staff success & wellness

SEPTEMBER(Heritage Day,24 September)

Heritage and diversityHeritage, arts and culture, visual redress, identity, language, systemic sustainability

OCTOBER – DECEMBER Year-closing “Reflecting on new learnings and appreciations of the year”

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Staff Engagement:

Culture & Climate Survey 2017

• 6–20 Feb 2017, HR & Spearhead Group

• Opportunity to express views on issues affecting staff

• Will enable management to ID & address key challenges

• Data analysis, then report to RMT

• Results to be communicated in feedback sessions

Report from SU’s annual

Institutional Planning Forum 2017

(22–23 Feb)

Towards SU 2040

Institutional Planning Forum (IPF) 2017

• Central focus: to imagine the university

SU wants to be in 2040

• This will form the basis of a new

SU Strategy 2018–2024 to replace the existing

SU Institutional Intent and Strategy 2013–2018

• In addition, the IPF …

– reviewed the SU business model

– developed a framework for decision-making to ensure

the optimal execution of the strategy

Themes for discussion at IPF

1. SU within the context of HE

2. On the way to a new vision

& SU Strategy 2018–2024

3. Way forward

Theme 1: SU within the context of HE

Worldwide trends in HE (impacts on SA)

• Complexity and contingency

• Knowledge economy

• Collaborative learning & technology

• Innovation

• Pressure on public funds for higher education

• Massification

• Diversity

• Internationalisation

• Sustainability

Theme 1: SU within the context of HE

My view of SU in 2040:

• Impeccable institutional reputation

• Focused offering & collaborative teaching model

• Systemically transformed institution

• High social impact

• Systemically sustainable institution

Theme 2:

On the way to new vision & strategy

‘A leading, internationally recognised research-

intensive university, rooted in Africa’ implies:

• Sense of place in Africa

• Rejection of Afro-pessimism and neo-colonialism

• Honouring African academic & intellectual heritage

• Africa at the centre of knowledge production

• Relevant to challenges of human development in Africa

• SU institutional culture to reflect Africa

Theme 2:

On the way to new vision & strategy

Values:

• Values as “action guides”

• “The university” as a value

• Western and African and Eastern values

• Strong argument for academic values, not ideology

• Deliberation, compromise about values necessary

• Accountable to our values

Theme 2:

On the way to new vision & strategy

Survey of IPF participants beforehand

Main domains of future strategy identified:

1. Excellence

2. Teaching innovation

3. Research

4. Social Impact

5. Internationalisation

6. Student focused

7. Innovation

Theme 2:

On the way to new vision & strategy

Work done at IPF (highlights):

• For each of the 7 domains,

3 priorities identified

• Cross-cutting themes,

including systemic transformation

• The best in the world

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the best for the world

Theme 3:

Way forward to new vision & strategy

• Task Teams

1. Values

2. Size and shape

3. Research focuses / themes

4. Bursaries and loans

5. Performance indicators from institutional

strategy

• Consultation process towards adopting new

strategy (more detail by Prof Hester Klopper)

Prof Hester C. Klopper

More detail on

the way forward

How do we go forward towards

new strategy?

1. 1st draft to be based on work at IPF in Feb 2017

2. Feed in work from task teams

3. Extensive consultation with all stakeholders

4. Approval by last Council meeting of 2017

Spirit of engagement:

• Collective & communal ownership

• Alignment (Strategy, Institutional Plan, Environmental plans,

Faculty plans, work agreements)

• Participation, consultation, inclusivity, collegiality

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