2022 Looking Ahead
Implementation Plan
The University of Newcastle’s Looking Ahead Strategic Plan 2020-2025 was launched in March 2020. Throughout the remainder of 2020 and 2021, we have spent much of our time and attention focusing on managing the impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic, ensuring we continue to provide a quality experience to our students, maintain excellence in our research activities, and remain sustainable during this period of instability and into the future. With the greatest disruptions of the pandemic seemingly behind us, in 2022 we have the opportunity to re-focus and sharpen our efforts toward the delivery of Looking Ahead.
This 2022 Implementation Plan is a clear and unambiguous statement of priorities. It does not reflect everything we will do in 2022, but it will serve to guide us when decisions need to be made throughout the year about what we can and can’t feasibly do. The initiatives and activities captured in this document are the ones we will prioritise above others, whilst remaining flexible in our approach to any unanticipated opportunities that may emerge.
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| Activity | Who | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |||
| Our teaching terms | Schools, Colleges, AD | Sem 1 | Sem 2 | |||||||||||
| Summer 1&2 | Winter | |||||||||||||
| Tri 1 (Sing) | Tri 2 (Sing) | Tri 3 (Sing) | ||||||||||||
| Tri 1 | Tri 2 | Tri 3 | ||||||||||||
| Sem 1 | Sem 2 | |||||||||||||
| Performance Review and Development (PRD) cycle | Colleges, Divisions | Goal-setting | Ongoing Conversations | Year End Review | ||||||||||
| Academic promotions cycle | Applications | Committees | Outcome | |||||||||||
| Our Indigenous Commitment | Reconciliation - Cultural knowledge program | VCD, All | Implement Reconciliation Action Plan | |||||||||||
| VCD, AD, Schools | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student retention activities | |||||||||||||
| Meaningful Engagement in our Regions | VCD | Operationalise Indigenous Procurement Strategy | ||||||||||||
| VCD, RD | Deliver Maligagu Employment Strategy and Action Plan | |||||||||||||
| Engagement Priorities | Institutional Alignment - Research funding | R&I, Colleges, VCD, | Review funding/priorities | Implement review recommendations | ||||||||||
| Living Lab Model | R&I, Colleges | Establish governance | Implement Health Innovation and Lake Macquarie Living Labs | |||||||||||
| Engagement Pathways | R&I, Colleges | Framework for Cross-College interactions with partners | ||||||||||||
| RD, R&I, GEP | Enterprise Customer Relationship Management | |||||||||||||
| Pursue growth in world university rankings | VCD, Schools | Subject level analysis | Discipline target-setting | |||||||||||
| Life Ready Graduates | Graduate Attributes | AD, VCD, Colleges | Gap analysis of student cohorts / programs | |||||||||||
| Develop cross-cutting course(s) | ||||||||||||||
| Work Integrated Learning for All | AD, Schools, VCD | Program Assessment and revised/new courses | Prepare for implementation | |||||||||||
| Celebrating Excellence - Student leadership | AD | Commence first cohort of student leadership program | ||||||||||||
| Student-Centred Wellbeing | AD, Schools | Healthy and Well Program - Engage Partners | ||||||||||||
| Program and Calendar Flexibility | AD, Schools | Implement Course Site Transformation Plans | ||||||||||||
| AD, Schools | LMS - Staff training and roll out | |||||||||||||
| RD, AD | Develop and implement new Curriculum Management System | |||||||||||||
| AD, Schools | Prelim. calendar analysis | Consultation | Refine and prepare for implementation | |||||||||||
| Asia Pacific Focus | Globally Engaged Education - International Student Return and Recruitment | GEP, Colleges | Onshore student return plans | |||||||||||
| GEP | International student marketing and recruitment | |||||||||||||
| Outbound Student Mobility Program | GEP, Colleges | Strategy development | Implement Outbound Student Mobility Program | |||||||||||
| Asia Pacific Partnerships - Strengthening Frameworks and TNE Programs | GEP, Colleges, VCD | Transnational Education (TNE) programs | ||||||||||||
| GEP | Partnership Frameworks and business development | |||||||||||||
| Reimagining Our Campuses | New Partners New Uses, and Reposition Existing Estate | RD, AD, CHSF, VCD | Honeysuckle Business Case | Honeysuckle transaction | ||||||||||
| RD, VCD | Gosford Campus Planning and Procurement | Gosford Campus Development | ||||||||||||
| RD, VCD | Diversification of campus users and utilisation | |||||||||||||
| Digital Excellence - Uplift business system and digital capability | RD, VCD | Finance Enterprise Solution | ||||||||||||
| RD | HR Enterprise Solution | |||||||||||||
| Sustainable Campuses | RD | Implement sustainability program across campuses | ||||||||||||
| Inspiring People | A High Performing Institution - Foundations for Inspiring People | RD, VCD, Schools | Embed Academic FIP | |||||||||||
| RD, Colleges, Divs | Live. Learn. Lead. Capability Program design | Consultation | Implementation | |||||||||||
| Building Leadership and Capability | RD, Colleges, Divs | Pilot onboarding programs | Embed programs University-wide | |||||||||||
| RD, AD | Expand UON cadetship programs and internal work opportunities for students | |||||||||||||
| A Values-Based Culture - Fostering Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | AD | Implement EDI Committee | Establish EDI sub-committees | |||||||||||
| AD | Embed EDI objectives | |||||||||||||
| Foundation Activities | Embedding Change outcomes | All | Recruit and onboard | Business Process improvement, capability and culture programs | ||||||||||
| R&ID | Determine R&I model and structure | Implement structure | ||||||||||||
| Best Practice EA - Work Allocation Models | VCD, AD, R&ID, Schools | Develop | Consult | Finalise | Implement | |||||||||
| Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) 2023 | VCD, R&ID | Develop strategy | Collection and analysis | |||||||||||
| Information Governance Framework | VCD, RD | Consultation | Draft and release | |||||||||||
| University budget methodology refresh | VCD | Consultation, draft and implementation | ||||||||||||
Download printable version of the plan (PDF, 260kb) Download 2020-2021 Implementation Report (PDF, 7.6MB)
Traditional Custodians
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal Nation, Darkinjung Nation, Biripai Nation, Worimi Nation, Wonnarua Nation and Eora Nation. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.