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UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...

Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

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Feedback on ANU Governance Project Draft Report The ANU Governance Project Working Group are proud to present the Draft Project Report for community feedback and consultation. The Draft Project Report is available on our website or through THIS LINK. Using a process that has involved deep listening and a participatory and deliberative process across the ANU community, we have compiled a unique and valuable body of evidence that documents what’s wrong with governance at the ANU and charts a way forward to help rebuild trust and to deliver best practice governance. Over 600 ANU staff, students, and stakeholders have participated in this project, and in contributing constructively to the future of ANU. This includes 590 members of the community who participated in our survey, 75 who participated in one-hour small group discussions, and over 40 from across the university who participated in our project workshop. The ANU community told us there a critical need for change: Over 96% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants believe current ANU governance is not fit for purpose and should be reformed. Over 92% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants expressed dissatisfaction with current ANU governance. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with current practices of transparency at the ANU. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with accountability frameworks at the ANU. The ANU Community has proposed the following near-term steps forward for a reformed ANU: Council must direct Finance to produce and publish a current budget breakdown. Council must revise and publish selection criteria for Executive positions. Council meetings must immediately be made fully accessible to the community. Academic Board must regularly review and assess the financial decisions of senior executives and Council. Commence senior leadership listening tours with the ANU community. Additional recommendations forwarded by the community are summarised in the full report, including a proposal to co-design legislative reform of the ANU Act with the community. The Working Group invites the ANU community and stakeholders to offer feedback via this form on the draft report by midnight on Tuesday 7 October. This deadline has been extended in order to allow us more time to hear and incorporate community feedback ahead of the release of our final report on Monday 20 October.

ANU colleagues and students - please share this post if you can:

The ANU governance project has extended our deadline to comment on the Draft report to next week - 7 October.

Here's a link to a feedback form, which also contains the link to the draft report:

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Exactly - there is a UTS governance group forming in the spirit of our ANU governance group to ask these questions 🙌

Both I think 😮‍💨

Cheers! Always love to visit and chat ❤️

Not currently on my itinerary, but I do have a day free towards the end...

ANU campus notice boards continue to inspire 😂

You know I cannot keep off the stage - put me in coach!

Thanks! Can't get between me and a microphone

ANU people - please share! The ANU governance project has a media release about the presentation by the Interim Vice Chancellor's speech on Thursday here: drive.google.com/file/d/1oGH5...

Thanks - we succeeded beyond all expectations at getting attention from management - remains to be seen if there is follow up, but a promising start

Solidarity

Very very far from ok

He's a work husband of many talents 😂

Thanks friend ❤️

I picked a bad day to not brush my hair or put on make up - but I was happy to get to have my say about the goings on yesterday 🙌

Oh amazing!!

ANU academics! You will have read about the draft ANU governance report in the Canberra Times and AFR. We'll use it inform, amongst other things, a paper to the senate inquiry. Please share widely!

We can make a difference.

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LOL! It happens 😂

This is such perfect Canberra it almost looks like AI!

Congrats! It looks great 👍 I enjoyed the read 🙌

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Righto

Yes, as I said, the Youngs have a good ability to actually read critically and creatively, just often really low boredom threshold to stick with it.

Stuck in the middle with you The middle is a hard place to be. The middle of a thesis or a book can be excruciating. Things are underway, but not finished. The end is in sight, but not yet reached. In the middle, it’s easy to …

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Maybe. I reckon governments various will step in to protect companies from artists though. Governments around the world see AI as a sovereign capacity issue and will pass laws to make sure 'progress' is maintained. I'd lay serious money on this happening - unless political pressure is asserted.

I think that ship has sailed - I can't see how the genie goes back in the bottle. I prefer to fight battles that I can fight, but I know many don't share that view.

Yes, exactly. It's so enraging

If anyone wants to start a class action about our academic publishers selling our books to Open AI without our permission (or any profit sharing), I'm in.

Dr Jason Downs. Cat Whisperer