student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching

Part A: Developing a Distributed Leadership Model - Secton 3: Building Leadership Capacity
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social affinity/the ‘networked student’;
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learning environments, administration and resource.
A key finding in the report was the need to more closely align student
Orientation and Induction. Orientation involves general familiarisation of the
student with the University community. Induction relates more to academic
familiarisation of the student with their program of study. While Student
Services have developed a more inclusive program to engage students
socially across the university this needs to be linked to their programs
of study.
The University Registrar explained the purpose of action taken by RMIT in
response to complaints from students about their perception of inconsistent
and unjust decisions in regard to their assessment, and the need to provide
a more systematic approach to assisting students with chronic conditions
by a more inclusive Special Consideration policy. A new policy has been
developed to be inclusive in the sense that the aim is to make equitable
assessment arrangements the preferred choice for students with chronic
conditions.
The representative from People and Culture identified the need for closer
alignment between the issues that emerged in this project and the formal
professional development opportunity for leadership and student feedback
in various aspects of management. RMIT had a Leadership program for the
Senior Executive for the past two years. In 2008 this program was extended
to a second stage to include staff with Direct Reports to the Senior Executive
(Directors of Research and Learning and Teaching, Program Directors).
However there is a need to link this more closely to leadership needs
established in this project.
Following this presentation participants to the Plenary were asked to consider:
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What are the key priorities for professional development for staff in the use
of student feedback?
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What additions to current professional development opportunities would
assist to support initiatives to improve student feedback?
– – What actions would make the process better to support participation
of RMIT staff in projects like the ALTC Leadership grant?
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