CQUniversity Annual Report - Central Queensland University

CQUniversity ANNUAL REPORT 2012STRONG TO GREATCQUNIVERSITY RECOGNISED AS ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S TRULYGREAT UNIVERSITIES BY 20209OUR FUTUREBy 2020, CQUniversity will be recognised as one of Australia’sgreat universities. It will be Australia’s most engaged university bypartnering with its students, staff, alumni and all of the communitiesand industries it serves.By partnering with its communities, the University will have a positiveimpact on the communities it serves and enable them to reach theirgoals, and vice versa. In doing this, CQUniversity will have reached itsprimary objective.CQUniversity will provide the highest quality student experiencepossible. We will offer a great learning and teaching experiencefor our students. A primary focus of the student experience will bethe innovative and student-centred ways in which the Universityengages with its students. Our learning activities will be focussedon authentic learning, which is informed by collaboration withemployers and our communities.CQUniversity will be an inclusive university. It will be known asthe university that prides itself on the types of students it embraces,rather than one which defi nes its success on its elitism and exclusivity.The University will have grown in stature but it will not have forgottenits roots. It will be proud of the diverse range of students it attractsand helps succeed. CQUniversity will provide a comprehensive rangeof post-school education and training and ensure multiple pathwaysare available for its students spanning from enabling, to vocationaleducation and training (VET), to higher education. Students will beenabled to reach their full potential and have clear pathways betweenall parts of the University. The University will be a leading providerof VET through delivery at its campuses and via distance education,and will form partnerships throughout Australia and internationally toenable communities to meet their post-school educational needs.CQUniversity will be a university that celebrates all of its students’successes equally regardless of the nature of their endeavours. Bybeing an inclusive university it will engage with the widest possiblespectrum of students and will break down barriers between them.CQUniversity will be one of Australia’s leading distance educationproviders. The University will be one of the largest providers ofdistance education and training in terms of student numbers and oneof the best in terms of student satisfaction. Through being Australia’sleading provider of distance education, the University will be engagingwith many students who would not otherwise have access to itsquality education and training.No university can be truly great unless it is a research-focuseduniversity. CQUniversity will be such a university. It will be auniversity that knows its power of place and uses it to contribute tostronger, more vibrant communities through the engaged research itundertakes. Research will be focused on areas where the greatestcontributions to our communities can be made.CQUniversity will be a university that gives back. The Universitywill demonstrate a distinct moral, ethical conscience and a strongethos of philanthropy and humanity that inspires our students, staffand communities. The University will contribute to the developmentof all its communities including those overseas. The University willutilise its student, staff, physical and fi nancial resources to makethe communities it serves – both locally and globally – betterplaces to live, work and learn. The University will focus its givingon underserved communities. By being a university that givesback, CQUniversity will engage with many people who are oftenforgotten by others.CQUniversity will be a national university. It will be auniversity with a physical presence right across Australia.While its foundations and origins are in Central Queensland,CQUniversity will provide quality education and training incampuses and study centres across the country. By operatingas a national university, CQUniversity will engage withcommunities outside of its traditional base. All campuses willbe a mix of Australian and international students; by being anational university CQUniversity will engage with people aroundthe nation – and the world – by exporting its power of place.The new Multi-Faith Centre at CQUniversity Rockhampton provides a locationwhere students and staff can gather for prayer and meditation.CQuniversity’s $1.8m partnership with mining giant BHP Billiton MitsubishiAlliance (BMA), to fund a BMA Chair in Indigenous Engagement and a numberof student scholarships, was welcomed in April 2012 with the helpof the Darumbal Waru dance group.