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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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Uni can 'get some satisfaction' feedback, thanks to staff efforts 

Published on 09 December, 2010 

CQUniversity has not only recognised course coordinators whose courses scored highly for student satisfaction. It has also congratulated those who have solicited the highest course evaluation response rates.

Professor Rob Reed explained that course coordinators and teaching teams already have access to the detailed feedback for their courses and will be able to use this information to close the loop with their students, as part of the course enhancement process.

PhotoID:10174, Professor Rob Reed (centre) congratulates academics who excelled in ensuring student satisfaction and course evalution rates L-R Clinton Hayes (Transition Maths 1), Ingrid Kennedy (Computing for Academic Assignment Writing) and Dr Tania Signal (Learning)
Professor Rob Reed (centre) congratulates academics who excelled in ensuring student satisfaction and course evalution rates L-R Clinton Hayes (Transition Maths 1), Ingrid Kennedy (Computing for Academic Assignment Writing) and Dr Tania Signal (Learning)

In his role as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching), he congratulated staff whose courses scored highest in the overall satisfaction scores for Term 2.

BIOL12105  Associate Professor Steve McKillup  BOTN12010  Dr Leo Duivenvoorden  INDG19016  Mrs Cheri Yavu-Kama-Harathunian SKIL40008  Ms Muriel Strahm LNGE40049  Ms Helen Holden OCHS12015  Mr Dave Brown COIT40208  Ms Ingrid Kennedy PSYC13022  Dr Tania Signal HMSC12007  Mr Aaron Scanlan MATH40233  Mr Clinton Hayes MATH11219 Dr Rob McDougall

Professor Reed congratulated all staff who have been involved in the revised approach to student evaluation via the Moodle online learning environment. The outcomes of student evaluation of courses in Term 2, 2010 are now available in summary format on the new Office of Learning and Teaching website.

Meanwhile, Dr Pierre Viljoen has recognised academics who were able to solicit the highest response rates from their students.

In his role as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Community & Engagement), Dr Viljoen said "one of the most important areas where we can engage, is in the classroom, building positive, supportive and trusting relationships with our students.  Students who find themselves in positive relationships are usually also more open to provide constructive feedback when requested".

The successful members of the academic staff were:

Ms Ingrid Kennedy - COIT40206 Ms Muriel Strahm - SKIL40013 Mr Clinton Hayes - MATH40237 Mrs Sherie Elliott - SKIL40016     Mr Dave Cardnell - ENEE13018  Dr Leone Hinton - NURS13117 Mr Ian Clarkson - PROP19002 Mr Gerry Dares - NURS12150 Dr Sandrine Makiela - MBIO19013  Dr Tania Signal - PSYC13022