Faculty of Arts

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Faculty of Arts

• Ready for AUQA2?

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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_at_50
• MQ Research LT Strategic Plans TILT
  International
• Partnership and Performance
• Research, LT, 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
• LT Professional development is aligned with
  staff induction and open to all staff
• LT, 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, LT)
• 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 LT 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-
• Establish and support a pervasive and inclusive
  research culture
• Achieve national and international prominence in
  key areas of research strength
• Increase the number of commencing and completing
  high quality HDRs candidates
• Develop international research collaborations
• Use our research-strength to benefit Australia
  and the community

• University Research Priorities-
• Develop a pervasive research culture across the
  University
• Achieve prominence in selected concentrations of
  research excellence
• Increase the number of commencing and completing
  high quality HDR candidates
• Develop international research collaborations
• Be a significant contributor to the nations
  social, environmental, cultural, economic and
  commercial well-being

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Concentrations of Research Excellence
University Research Centres

• COREs
• Ancient Cultures Team
• Legal Governance Team
• Social Inclusion Team
• Social, Cultural Political Change Team

• University Research Centres
• MQ Ancient Cultures Research Centre
• Centre for Comparative Law, History Governance
• 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 LT)
• 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