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ACHIEVEMENTS IN ONE

ACHIEVEMENTS IN ONE. One Slide – One Minute Presentations. Combined Chairs and Managers Leadership Forums 2010. What is Achievements in One?. An opportunity for collaboration and enhancing a One University/One Waka approach

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  1. ACHIEVEMENTS IN ONE One Slide – One Minute Presentations Combined Chairs and Managers Leadership Forums 2010

  2. What is Achievements in One? • An opportunity for collaboration and enhancing a One University/One Waka approach • Celebrating our success and recognising Excellence, Distinctiveness and International Connectedness • Ko te tangata – developing collective leadership • Working smarter – responding to the external environment more proactively

  3. Achievements in One Mike Bell PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT

  4. PDU Achievements 2010 • Successful development of Postgraduate Certificate: Leadership in Higher Education (22 participants in 2011) • Leadership and Management Development Programme • Women in Leadership • Forums in third year become self-directed • Development of Staff Performance and Professional Development Policy and Continual Professional Development Framework • Action Learning methodology introduced • Review and enhancement of Staff Awards • Website enhancements (Leadership & Professional Development) • Enhancement of new staff induction programme

  5. Achievements in 60 x 106 microseconds: 2010 #1 in NZ!! Merilyn Manley-Harris CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENTFSEN

  6. Chemistry Achievements 2010 • 9.5 FTE Academic Staff & 0.5 FTE Senior Tutor (teaching only) • Mean Taught Paper Quality Semester A : 1.6 • 31 Refereed Journal Articles • 16 Posters or conference presentations or invited seminars • 8 MSc (Research) , 1 PhD and 1 MPhil completions; 24 current MSc (Research), 16 current PhD. • 2 Te Tipu Putaiao Scholarships, 2 UW Doctoral scholarships, 4 TechNz scholarships, 1Environment Waikato Scholarship, 1 ESR scholarship; all new in 2010. • Active research collaborations with : Agrifeeds, Ballance, Cawthron Institute, Dow Agrosciences, Environment Waikato, Fonterra, Hexion, Hill Laboratories, IRL, Landcare Research, Nature’s Country Gold, NIWA, NZ Biotechnologies, Plant & Food, SCION, Steen’s Honey. • International collaborations active with Australia, Bangladesh, Denmark, France, Germany, Singapore, Thailand, UK, USA(Hawaii, Montana, Chicago, Texas) • >300 High School students hosted at ChemQuest, analytical chemistry competition, NCEA Scholarship Day

  7. Achievements in One David Lumsden SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

  8. SoSS Achievements 2010 • Surviving the birthing process on 15th March 2010 • From 5 former departments: GTEP; History; Philosophy & RS; Political Science & PP; Societies and Cultures; linked to Population Studies Centre (and its Marsden success). • Early stages of Bachelor of Social Work • First year of placements and appointment of two new staff • Bachelor of Environmental Planning • CUAP approved, teaching already, new appointments • Surviving a difficult redundancy process

  9. Achievements in One Alistair Swale SCHOOL OF ARTS

  10. School of Arts Achievements 2010 • Establishment of new School of Arts within FASS • Success with 2010 Marsden round • Music programme restyled as Conservatorium • School seminar series around Text and Translation • Launch of the Bachelor of Media and Creative Technologies degree • Round 2 Significant academic development of the International Languages and Culture major • Consolidation of Research Centres: Music Media and Performing Arts & Text and Translation. • Mediarena, WEL Academy and Arts Electronica

  11. Achievements in One Virginia Duncan PROCUREMENT OFFICE, FINANCIAL SERVICES DIVISION

  12. FSD Procurement Office Achievements • Chairperson of the UPG (Universities Procurement Group) in 2009 • Completed UPG accommodation & branded clothing tenders plus UOW specific tenders for internal audit & security services • Launch of new Procurement Policy • Creation of various reports to monitor policies compliance – self-approvals, PCard audit • Moved all suppliers into Unimarket – now moving the receipting and approvals processes  into Unimarket • Continuous  advice and support at a tender and day to day purchasing level

  13. Achievements in One Annabel Chaston DEVELOPMENT OFFICE ALUMNI & FOUNDATION

  14. Development Office Achievements 2010 • Launched a direct alumni and friends fundraising appeal for the first time in 5 years, sent to 28,000 individuals • Implemented Payroll Giving so that staff who donate to the University can get an immediate tax rebate of 33.33% • Coordinated effort to find ‘lost alumni’ through mediums such as Community, E-News, Off Campus, events, graduation and our website • Markedly improved merchandise sales through product improvement and re-location to Bennetts, 5% of sales goes to support scholarships • Successful bid to Environment Bay of Plenty to fund $1.5 million over ten years to support a new Chair in Coastal Science • Other major gifts include $50,000 from both Priority One and Port of Tauranga for Intercoast, $50,000 from Antarctica NZ for ICTAR, a $25,000 bequest for scholarships, and a pledge of $90,000 over 3 years for a WMS fellowship

  15. Achievements in One Milo Roth INFORMATION SYSTEMS GROUP (ISG)

  16. ISG Achievements 2010 • We are a business enabler, a full service provider: Advise/Consultancy, Business Process Redesign, Software Design & Development, Project Management, Maintenance & Support • We keep the lights on: Oracle Financials, Anfield, Jobtrack, UniMarket, Alesco HR, PBRF, Institutional Research Repository, SASe-Web, Syllabus Plus, Raises Edge, TMA, PrintCost, etc • Projects: • Academic Staff Portfolios Phase 1 – Academic Promotions and Salary Advancements • Uniorder to Unimarket • Implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture Framework • Project Accounting – management of research projects • Continued development and support of the Institutional Research Repository (Dspace) for LCoNZ • Programme Planning on the Web • Many other

  17. Achievements in One Dougal Mair Manager, ICT Infrastucture INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

  18. ITS Infrastructure Achievements 2010 • Evaluation of solutions and selection of Google suite of enterprise products for Project Fusion (see www.waikato.ac.nz/project-fusion) • Replaced aging network Firewall with next generation technology that will allow us to now greatly improve network security • Server virtualisation and ‘cloud’ infrastructure strategy continues to provide great results – 72% of servers are virtual with 152 virtual production servers running on 7 physical servers • By End of Year: • Eduroam and improved staff wireless network • Wireless network expansion • Desktop backup service • New telephony solution – vendor and solution selected • Home drive and Departmental shares expansion started

  19. Achievements in One: Campus Safety The vision….. “The University will provide a full and dynamic University experience which is distinctive in character.” Ray HaywardSecurity Manager University Security enhancing the campus culture and educational experience. FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION

  20. Enhancing the campus culture and educational experience. • At Risk Monitoring Group. Aim.... Identifies and sets strategies around those students with concerning behavioural issues that could manifest into harming others. Who is involved…. SASD staff & Councillors , Medical Centre Doctors, NZ Police, Security Manager. • Alcohol harm watch group. Aim…. Indentifies businesses or organisations that target/promote excessive student drinking. Who is involved… SASD staff & Halls Managers, District health Board staff, ACC staff, NZ Police and the Security Manager. • Department of Corrections- Home detainees. Aim… To have prior notification from the Corrections staff of any potential student wishing to commence or continue studies at University. Who is involved…. SASD staff, NZ Police & the Security Manager.

  21. Achievements in One Chris Eames Centre for Science and Technology Education Research

  22. CSTER Achievements 2010 • Celebrating 29 years of science, maths, technology and environmental education research • 3.35 FTE academic staff plus associate staff • 4 refereed journal articles and 2 book chapters • 5 invited presentations, 14 elective conference presentations • Mean 500-level Taught Paper Quality Semester A : 1.5 • 2 MSc thesis and 3 PhD completions; 10 MSc thesis and 17 PhD students currently • Contract research for Ministry of Education and Teaching and Learning Research Initiative for $120,000. New contracts likely for 2011 (ca. $250,000) • National executive role in environmental education; organising Science Communication symposium and Cafe Scientifique (Tauranga); international collaborations in Australia, Canada, Austria, France, South Africa, Turkey

  23. Achievements in One Vye Perrone Associate University Librarian, Collection Services

  24. Library Collection Services Achievements 2010 • Improved access to information • Summon – One search to rule them all • VDX – place & track your own interloans • Subject Portals redevelopment • National & international recognition for the Library • Library Catalogue enhancements • ETTLIS Best Paper award • DigitalNZ award to digitize NZ-related British Colonial Papers • More books for the Uni $$

  25. Teaching and Research in the Library Rae Gendall ASSOCIATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIANTEACHING AND RESEARCH SERVICES

  26. Library Achievements 2010 • Research Consultations with individual graduate students - over 1300 Academic staff consultations - 560 Students attending classes - 8000 • Showcase UoW research outputs to the world through open access Institutional repository Research Commons Nearly4000 items – more journal articles than any other NZ university 771 theses, 260 are higher degree theses • New technologies to engage students

  27. Achievements in One Bill Rogers Computer Science /Computer Graphic Design

  28. Brian Gabbitas SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING FSEN ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS 2010

  29. 23 FTE Academic Staff / 10 Technical staff Mean Taught Paper Quality Semester A : 1.8 23 Refereed Journal Articles/10 refereed conference presentations 5 MSc (Research) , 12 ME, 1 MPhil and 6 PhD completions; 17 current ME(Research), 45 current PhD. A FRST research contract $2.4m over 4 years More than 120 High School students hosted at the engineering open day. Janis Swan became an MNZM and wins the J.C. Andrews Memorial Award, the top Food Technology award bestowed by the New Zealand Inst. Of Food Science and Technology. 1 Teaching Excellence award A successful 2010 Engineering design Show. 3rd year Mech. Eng student Victoria McCullough wins $3000 Society of Petroleum Engineers scholarship. PhD student Paul Ewart gains a Fulbright scholarship to spend 1 year at University of Texas An engineering technician, Pawan Shrestha wins a Queen Elizabeth II scholarship spend two months at Cambridge University Another racing car designed and built for the SAE competition in December 2010

  30. Achievements of Biological Sciences in 2010 Brendan Hicks, COD BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESFSEN

  31. Biological Sciences achievements in 2010 • Teaching – 25 undergrad courses, 13 MSc courses. Grad students - 64 MSc and PGDip, 48 PhD • Staffing - 260 students, 23 PBRF-eligible academic staff , 17 general staff, 1 Senior Tutor • Research – 251 PBRF-eligible outputs (78 journal articles, 12 book chapters, 2 books, 139 conference contributions) • External income – about $3.3 M per year • PBRF income - $2 M annually before 39% central contribution. PBRF rankings in 2006: • First in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour • First in Molecular, Cellular and Whole Organism Biology • Successful Marsden Fund applications – 4 current, 3 new in 2010 • FRST funding • Outcome Based Investment - $10 M over 10 years – harmful algae (Hamilton) , pest fish (Hicks) • Urban restoration - $1.9 M over 5 years (Clarkson) • Health Research Council - $844 k over 3 years (Arcus) • Antarctic research programme – 8 researchers, 8 students, $3.3 M logistic support over 4 years • Two business units – DNA sequencer, Waikato Stable Isotope Unit - $200 k income in 2010

  32. Achievements in One Sally Sleigh WAIKATO PRINT

  33. Waikato Print Achievements 2010 • New equipment-excellent colour printing • Photography project with CER • New MIS system-better quoting and estimating • Renovated work space-better workflow • Which means we can do an excellent job for you at any time

  34. TE PUA WĀNANGA KI TE AO (SMPD)

  35. SMPD Achievements 2010 • Remaining a SCHOOL • Meeting EFTS Target • International Connectedness • Staff Connectedness • Research Projects • Book Award • Teaching Excellence Award

  36. KUA MUTU!

  37. Achievements in One Carol Robinson (for Jan Bates) UNILINK

  38. UNILink Achievements 2010 • Increased research income • Increased number of Marsden applications and successful proposals • Managed the process of the establishment of Institutes and Centres • Increased number of Health Research Council applications • Staff research workshops - timetable to be introduced for 2011 • Hosted several Professional Development Workshops for research administration professionals within the region through the ARMS network • Strengthened relationships throughout the University

  39. Achievements in One Neil Couch SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES

  40. School Support Services Achievements 2010 • Continued successful delivery of In Service Teacher Education (ISTE) to 540 primary, area and secondary schools and kura in the region. • Over 100 workshops on National Standards delivered in the region, and support for NCEA re-alignment. • Awarded one of the Early Childhood contract in the new contestable contract environment. • Celebration of 20 years of support for schools in the region • Successful re-arrangement of staff in two locations – New venue at RS5 - ex Continuing Education – Ruakura, and offices, seminar rooms and Resource Centre at Durham Street, Tauranga

  41. And a VC in a pear tree… Sighting huge challenges for 2011 with enthusiasm Developing international recruitment strategy with PVC International Coordinating outbound contact to encourage conversion of applications to enrolments Updating agent contracts Appointed a new recruitment adviser in China Agent visits in Beijing Attended Combined Universities Recruitment Fairs in India Support for Faculties/Schools Recruitment events Support for the WPC Fairs for their students to move to degree level study Support for WILSS programmes on campus for secondary school students Recruitment becomes part of Communications and External Relations Integration with International Recruitment Supported the implementation of the partnership CUP programmes Newsline Newsletter to Secondary Schools and regular careers advisers emails Organised events for past and new VC’s prize winners Careers advisers’ website developed and updated Arranged and supported VC’s visits to Northland and Rotorua secondary schools Organised evening for new students from Auckland Appointed a New Auckland student recruitment adviser Worked with Maori students in Auckland schools through KATTI programme Promotional events and support for Hillary programme Held more than 1000 programme planning appointments on campus in Tauranga and Hamilton, many for mature students Held 1200 programme planning appointments in schools Conducted huge programme of school visits and campus tours Conducted huge programme of school visits and campus tours Organised and supported 5 events in schools and on-campus for Māori students Held 6 Update Days and events for Teachers Held University Open Day with Faculties and Schools for 3000 visitors to entire campus Organised UoW presence at 5 events for Pacifica students Organised UoW presence and advertising for 9 regional careers expos Organised and provided advertising for 13 information evenings in regions and on-campus Maintenance of events calendar Launching DVC’s Chorus website Provided support for Inaugural Professorial Lectures Provided support for Spring Lecture Series Created and ran internal re-enrolment campaigns Produced enews for Alumni Produced enews for Faculty of Education anniversary Provided support for launch of Intercoast project Contribute to and create Tauranga partnership enews Produced variety of prospectuses They produced an average of 131 press stories a month Generated on average 30 news releases a month Conducting major stakeholder survey Provided support for Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner Conducted survey and focus group for Community Provided support for honorary doctorates Created annual information/promotion pack for new students Took responsibility for merchandising Provided support for Rowing championships Produced Tauranga handbook Maintained top six pages of University website Saved $30,000 on handbooks Provided support for biotech student poster competition Centralised University events Supported Postgraduate Research Month Promoted Student Centre 5 Green Star rating Created Fieldays stand, collateral, news, seminars Monthly average of 35,000 hits on the news and events webpage Produced new style and branding guide Introducing a day planner for iWaikato Updated Facts and Figures brochure Produced Faculty of Education 50th anniversary book Produced Off Campus alumni magazine Provided support for Project Fusion Provided support for new research institutes Launching official University Facebook page Appointed communications adviser for Tauranga Launched VC on Demand website Introduced a web geo-targeting campaign Placed graduation programmes online Overhauled the Experts File online and for publication Created “New Books” page for website Hosted Business After 5 function in Tauranga Updated academic’s photos across University COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS

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