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Pillars and goals

1. TRANSFORMATIVE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Our students are at the heart of all we do as a university. Securing the future of UniSC’s educational service delivery through growth and diversification, we focus on equity, expansion of online learning, and innovation in our learning and teaching model. We will achieve these aims through the following objectives:

1.1
Design and implement a significant evolution of the UniSC Learning and Teaching Model to differentiate and modernise our approach to learning and teaching to meet the diverse needs of current and future students.
1.2
Expand the size and breadth of our student body through a five-year Enrolment Strategy that will drive diversification and enrolment growth in Australia and around the world.
1.3
Increase participation of students from equity backgrounds through a revised Student Success and Equity Plan, with specialised support to ensure every student has the best chance of success, with strong retention, satisfaction, and graduate outcomes.
1.4
Implement a comprehensive governance and delivery framework to drive growth through an Online Program Management Framework and a Short Courses and Micro-credentials Program Stream.
1.5
Implement a staged approach to establish a Doctor of Medicine program by 2030, leveraging strategic partnerships with a leading tertiary hospital.

Over the next four years, UniSC will seek to transform its learning and teaching model. Our model will truly place students at the centre of a world-class and contemporary blended delivery model which seeks to differentiate from peers based on teaching quality, personalisation, and flexibility. This will be complemented with a comprehensive program of learner engagement, support, curriculum and program renewal, online learning, and skills development.

Our measures of success

KPI 1
Teaching quality, overall satisfaction and graduate outcomes
KPI 2
Achievement of enrolment strategy targets
KPI 3
Access, participation and success

2. PEOPLE FIRST

We are a people first workplace that cares for the health, safety and wellbeing of our students and staff, where our work has meaning and impact, and our culture and values are embedded in every step of what we do.

2.1
Identify talent requirements, build capability, and mobilise our people toward achieving strategic goals around quality education, research excellence, and exceptional leadership through a five-year university-wide Strategic Workforce Plan.
2.2
Embed a Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Framework that fosters a culture of safety through risk control, accountability, compliance, and measurable outcomes, supported by training, education, and community engagement.
2.3
Set the tone for our culture, decisions, and behaviours across the university through an Embedding our Values Program of communication, awareness, and engagement with our values of integrity, community, and sustainability.
2.4
Continue to develop, renew, and enrich the adoption of the UniSC Reconciliation Charter by supporting new and innovative approaches to strengthening meaningful partnerships with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students, staff, and communities.

Our measures of success

KPI 4
Staff engagement and satisfaction
KPI 5
Equity, diversity, and inclusion metrics on employment representation and belonging
KPI 6
Engagement with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students and communities
KPI 7
Culture of Health, Safety, and Wellbeing

3. LOCAL AND GLOBAL IMPACT

Our partner engagement and research focus is on sustainability, social and environmental justice, addressing global challenges, expanding strategic partnerships, deepening connections in the Asia-Pacific, and enhancing our global reputation through key strategies.

3.1
Tackle pressing global challenges and change lives to create healthy people and a healthy planet, while strengthening our capability to drive research performance, commercialisation and impact through a five-year Better Tomorrow Research Strategy.
3.2
Expansion of strategic partnerships in key growth areas with a focus on enhanced industry-integration through a five-year Partner Engagement Strategy.
3.3
Deepen key connections in the Asia-Pacific and expand community development opportunities and student enrolments through the development and implementation of a Transnational Education Strategy.
3.4
Strengthen our global reputation and profile in key markets through the University Brand Strategy and University Rankings Improvement Plan.

Our measures of success

KPI 8
Research productivity, performance, and impact
KPI 9
Strengthened brand equity and expanded strategic partnerships
KPI 10
Achievement in the Times Higher Education overall, Young University and Impact Rankings

4. SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT ORGANISATION

We provide vibrant and optimised physical, digital and campus operations through the University’s domestic and global footprint. In doing so, we will build on the unique character of each place we operate in and each community we serve to embrace our local context, optimising our deployment of resources, and to engage key partners to drive innovative and strategic outcomes.

4.1
Transform our built environment; learning, teaching, research; digital, data; and enabling services through a ten-year Strategic Investment Plan.
4.2
Leverage our physical and digital assets through a Campus Optimisation Model to define our future campus footprint while deepening local opportunities and a multi-campus, place-based approach.
4.3
Review and redevelop the University Operating Model to underpin financial performance and sustainability, and effective resource planning and management.
4.4
Enhance revenue diversification through an Integrated Revenue Diversification Plan to leverage industry and government partnerships, research, training and commercialisation, philanthropy, and alumni advancement and university assets.

Our measures of success

KPI 11
Timely and effective delivery of the Strategic Investment Plan
KPI 12
Toward carbon neutral emissions
KPI 13
Operating result, financial sustainability, management efficiency