SELF-EVALUATION REPORT
sCHOOL NAME
Contents
Executive Summary
1. Building on a Culture of Academic Excellence
Excellence in education and student experience
2. Delivering on Unique National Responsibilities
Our responsibility to national policymakers and national institutions
Our responsibility to indigenous Australia
Our responsibility regarding Asia and the Pacific
3. Achieving Equity & Diversity
4. Building a Culture of Collegiality and Engagement
5. Sound Leadership, Governance, Organisational and Financial Sustainability
Attachments
a.School performance report
b.Financial report
c.School organisational structure
d.ANU Strategic Plan 2017-2021
e.College Strategic Priorities Plan
f.School Business Plan
(Maximum 20 pages plus relevant attachments)
The grey text is drawn from the Key Initiatives within the ANU Strategic Plan. The School should demonstrate within the Self-Evaluation Report its contribution and alignment with the key initiatives. Where the School is explicitly not directly responsible they should liaise with the College Dean to state how collectively the College is addressing this initiative. The School Director/ Head of School should discuss pertinent issues to be addressed with the relevant Dean and Deputy Vice-Chancellor sponsor before proceeding to complete this report.
Executive Summary
Set the context for the review, briefly address the school’s history and its present circumstances with a focus on factors that have contributed to the current operating environment and potential future outlook of the school – a 5-year horizon.
1. Building on a Culture of Academic Excellence
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Identification and implementation of performance expectations within research, education and service aligned to ANU’s strategic goals, that continues to strengthen ANU’s position internationally and nationally;
- Shared strategic direction to support coherent choice of strategic themes that guide future recruitment in delivering excellence.
Excellence in Research and Innovation
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Investmentin research that delivers solutions to national priorities, and disciplines and research strengths are ranked alongside the best in the world.
- Attracting external funding from a range of sources.
- Contribution towards translation research.
- Demonstrating a return on investment from the National Institutes Grant.
- Initiatives to support the development of ECRs, including PhD students to ensure set up for success;
Excellence in education and student experience
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Improving teaching, mentoring, and quality and range of student experiences.
- Awareness of, and implementation of innovative modes of teaching with support to assist staff with changes in approaches to teaching, and consistent standards of feedback to students across staff;
- Interest in the delivery of more graduate coursework teaching, offering flexible modes of delivery, with greater awareness of how to develop and deliver qualifications that meet social and economic needs with forms of delivery that will attract and retain students inside and outside of Canberra;
- Teaching workload inequalities.
2. Delivering on Unique National Responsibilities
Our responsibility to national policymakers and national institutions
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Working within government, emphasising co-creation of policy and broadening policy-related research.
- Research offering solutions to complex policy issues confronting the nation and our region.
Our responsibility to indigenous Australia
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Increasing the recruitment and success of Indigenous undergraduate and postgraduate students, and Indigenous academic staff.
- Community-engaged research relevant to the big questions facing Indigenous Australia.
Our responsibility regarding Asia and the Pacific
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Contributing to the agenda in national and international discourse about our region.
- New research and teaching methods, approaches and agendas, serving as a partner and essential resource for all who focus on Asia and the Pacific.
3. Achieving Equity & Diversity
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Approach to promoting gender equity and diversity and support to the University achieving the Australian SAGE Athena SWAN Gold award.
- Ensuring the retention, and success for students and staff whatever their backgrounds or identities.
4. Building a Culture of Collegiality and Engagement
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Collegiality and collaboration across disciplines, and in partnership with industry, government and civil society.
- Building engaging roles for alumni.
- Creating opportunities for the wider community to make philanthropic contributions.
- Making collections and the cultural life and amenity of our campus more accessible to the national capital community and beyond.
5. Sound Leadership, Governance, Organisational Financial Sustainability
Insert narrative to demonstrate how the school is responding and achieving the following:
- Governance and management structures;
- Organisational and administrative support structures;
- Composition and function of school’s committees;
- Consultative and collaborative decision-making;
- Staff development/ workforce succession planning;
- Academic workload allocation;
- Financial sustainability.
Attachments
a.School performance report
b.Financial report
c.Schoolorganisational structure
d.ANU Strategic Plan 2017-2021
e.College Strategic Priorities Plan
f.School Business Plan
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