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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Non-academic pens award-winning academic paper 

Published on 28 July, 2005 

CQU general staff member Patricia Bovingdon (pictured) is lead author of an academic paper which has won an award at a conference in Dublin, Ireland.

Mrs Bovingdon, a research and development co-ordinator, teamed with Faculty of Business & Law colleague Dr Phil Bretherton to submit the paper about the Chilly Climate Environment for female distance education students. The Chilly Climate Environment is deemed to be the result of an accumulation of micro-inequalities and discrimination experienced within the classroom, with the major implication being that women are disadvantaged within an academic environment.

PhotoID:2319 The paper proposes that the Chilly Climate is more complex for women studying via distance education and explored the integration of the actors of role strain into the chilly climate environment. Coping strategies and overall GPA scores were also explored.

The paper was judged the best paper for the Chartered Institute of Marketing Charitable Trust Special Award for Teaching and Learning at the Academy of Marketing conference, held in early July in conjunction with the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

More than 300 delegates attended the conference.