Faculty of Arts

1. Faculty of Arts Ready for AUQA#2?

2. Context Themes: International activities Research & Research Education BUT Overlap with quality approach in all areas

3. 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

4. Arts Planning and Review Arts Faculty Strategic Plan built on: MQ@50 MQ Research & L&T Strategic Plans & TILT & International Partnership and Performance Research, L&T, 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

5. 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 L&T Professional development is aligned with staff induction and open to all staff L&T, HDR, Research: partly integrated professional development program

6. 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

7. 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 - ??

8. 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%)

9. International Activity Integrated approach Internationalisation Committee (reps from Research, HDR, L&T) 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)

10. 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

11. Higher Degree Researchin the Faculty of Arts Associate Dean (HDR) – Marea Mitchell

12. 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

13. 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?

14. 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

15. Completions • 2009 target approx 70 • 45 identified by mid year • Manager Arts HDR data for HDR director and HoDs

16. QUALITY • Examination process/quality of examiners • VC commendations • Co-tutelle: • FOA 16 [FOHS 8, FOS 21]

17. Code of Supervisory Practice • The Higher Degree Research Guide for Candidates and Supervisors 2009 pp. 22 ff.

18. 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?

19. Learning and Teachingin the Faculty of Arts • Associate Dean (Learning &Teaching)– Marnie Hughes-Warrington

20. 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 L&T 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Research in the Faculty of Arts Associate Dean (Research) – Andrew Buck

27. 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 nation’s social, environmental, cultural, economic and commercial well-being Faculty of Arts Research Strategy 2009 – 2011

28. 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 Concentrations of Research Excellence & University Research Centres

29. 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 L&T) • Encourage co-tutelle arrangements

30. 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