Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

• Strategic Planning
• 18 July 2006

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Caveats

• This is a response to a template
• Extremely limited timeframe
• Assumes that resources will follow persuasive
  arguments
• Assumes that students will be attracted to
  promising opportunities
• In the absence of empirical data we do not know
  this
• We will have to determine best practice in each
  of these suggestions

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VCC

• This is a search for good ideas. It will enable
  ideas from everyone and anywhere in the
  University to surface, be tested and implemented
  where and when appropriate
• This is medium-long term planning 2006 2009,
  informed by thorough environmental analysis and
  future scoping.

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Discussion Points

• Strategic planning exercise presents us with an
  opportunity to position FASS as a Faculty that
  offers attractive existing and new
  interdisciplinary academic programmes/subjects.
• Potential to Develop, for example (as suggested)
• Management Psychology
• Environmental Studies
• Health Analysis
• Media and Communication
• Linking with ScreenMark
• Languages
• Linguistics
• Practice based research
• Common ground with Music, Theatre Studies, SMPD
• Greater involvement with Philosophy, Politics and
  History
• Music/Performing arts built around the Performing
  Arts Academy

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Discussion Points Continued - 2

• Development in all areas of our Maori identity,
  Maori staff, recruitment of Maori students at all
  levels
• Setting recruitment targets
• Build relationship with SMPD
• Internationalisation of Facultys core
  disciplines, emphasis on global vision
• Strengthening collaboration across Departments
  Subjects (e.g. GAL)
• Area Studies and/or Culture Studies New
  Zealand, Pacific, Postcolonial, European Studies,
  Asian Cultures, American Studies, Languages
• Strengthening core discipline participation e.g.
  History, Geography, English
• Strengthening the languages through Area Studies
• Pathways for Teachers
• Scrutiny of area studies at other Universities

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Discussion Points Continued - 3

• Academic literacy across disciplines
• Organisation
• University wide curricular changes
• Increased emphasis on international pastoral care
• Strengthening creative writing
• Increasing the number of STAR programmes
• Greater emphasis on ethics and value theory
  major or sub major
• Developing Computer Arts pathways

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Discussion Points Continued - 4

• Greater emphasis on celebrating and rewarding
  academic accomplishments
• Regular reporting process
• FASS policy to require TLDU teaching evaluations
• External moderation at grad/post grad
• Extending community outreach
• Identifying appropriate departments for high
  profile outreach projects (e.g. History with
  community histories)

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Further Develop Links with other Schools/TEOs
Academic and Research

• Screen Media/Computer Science/Management
  Communication/other possible collaborations
• Music/Computer Science
• Labour Studies/Psychology/Strategic
  Management/Education
• Geography/Earth Sciences/Science Technology
• Philosophy Religious Studies/Computer
  Science/SSE
• Strengthening co operation in FASS academic
  subjects that are not administered in FASS e.g.
  Economics, Education, Maths
• Political Science/Philosophy/Societies and
  Cultures/Law
• Languages/Management/Education
• Societies and Cultures/Psychology/GAL/History and
  SMPD

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Research Profile

• Strategies for increasing Research Funding in
  FASS
• Incentives for application for Marsdens, etc.
• Faculty infrastructure to support grant writing
• Incentives for more contract and industry-based
  grants
• Strategies for strengthening and developing
  research centres, institutes, units (given that
  FASS will be expected to provide supporting
  infrastructure)
• Existing Centres, self-funding and letterhead
• APA/Sonic Arts/Institute for Interactive Music
  Performance
• Institute of Applied Social Sciences
• E.g., Psychology, Health Research
• Centre for Social and Economic Policy Research
• Centre for Cartography, GIS and Spatial Analysis
• Centre for Critical Social Theory
• Centre for Textual Studies
• Foreign Languages Institute
• Additional promising possibilities
• Narrowness of Goal 2 Needs more emphasis on
  Contestable contract research
• Should include quality assured commissioned
  research, ability to move rapidly

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Graduate/Postgraduate

• Strategy for increasing the number and quality of
  Graduate/post graduate opportunities
• Expansion of available space for research
  students
• Publicity in the packaging and handling of Ph.D.s
  and research connection
• E.g., improve web site information
• Strengthening links to PBRF through fostering
  research culture and degree completion
• Encourage interdisciplinary research
• Support for international grad/post grad students
• Expansion of necessary staffing and succession
  planning for existing staff
• Expanding sessional support
• Graduate student space in FASS
• Extension of enrolments in existing
  post-Graduate Diplomas

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Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Students

• Enhancing media relations, school liaising
• Stressing the B.Soc.Sc. as a distinctive degree
• Crosslink with TES
• Clarifying relevance to student career paths
• Emphasis on distinctiveness
• Study related work experiences opportunities,
  internships, externships
• Reviewing curriculum to ensure a menu of subjects
  packaged in relevant form

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Issues Planning/Resources

• Need to adequately fund the cost of international
  Students
• Simplify our degree requirements
• Better funneling of students into existing
  support structure (e.g., GAL)
• Reduce First Year offerings where applicable
• Offer first year papers in both semesters
• Provide adequate vision, planning, development
  and resources for e-learning
• Encourage Maori Development e.g. psychology
• Encourage more entrepreneurial internationalisatio
  n degree programmes, e.g. SEAMEO RETRAC