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ACADEMIC BOARD TE TAUMATA A meeting of the Academic Board will be held on Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 1:00pm in the Hunter Council Chamber. AGENDA PART A 1 APOLOGIES AND WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS 2 PART B OF THE AGENDA To consider: requests from members to transfer items from Part B to Part A of the agenda. Items for approval that are not transferred to Part A will be considered approved. 3 RESOLUTION CONCERNING EXCLUSION OF NON-MEMBERS To resolve: That non-members be excluded from this meeting for consideration of item 12, for reasons of personal privacy. 4 ORAL REPORTS To receive: oral reports from: • Vice-Chancellor • Provost • Tumu Ahurei (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Māori) • Vice-Provost (Academic) • Vice-Provost (Research) 5 PROVOST’S FORUM: To discuss: the Provost will lead a discussion asking: How can AB20/23 we better support research activities into the future? 6 ACADEMIC PROGRAMME REVIEW AB20/24 To receive: the report for the academic programme review of the AB20/24a Programmes in the School of Information Management; the implementation plan for the academic programme AB20/24b review of the Programmes in the School of Information Management; To advise: the Pro-Vice Chancellor/Dean on any matters arising from the review. 7 GENERAL ACADEMIC STATUTE: AB20/25 To endorse: the proposed General Academic Statute for forwarding to AB20/25a Council for approval. To approve: the following new and relabelled policy documents: 1. Admission and Enrolment Regulations AB20/25b 2. Credit Transfer and Recognition of Prior Learning AB20/25c Regulations 3. Academic Progress Regulations AB20/25d 4. Academic Dress Regulations AB20/25e 5. Graduation Procedures. AB20/25f To endorse: the proposed repeal of: 1. Academic Dress Statute 2. Academic Quality Statute 3. Admission and Enrolment Statute 4. Graduation Statute 5. Qualifications Statute. To endorse: the proposed relabelling of the Academic Progress Statute To note: the proposal to repeal the Fees Statute and replace it with a new Fees Policy approved by the Vice-Chancellor. 8 CUAP ROUND TWO PROPOSALS AB20/26 To approve: 1. For submission to CUAP, the proposals listed below; 2. The request for access to Student Allowances and the Student Loan Scheme for new programmes and associated double-degree programmes; and 3. The consequent amendments to theQualifications Statute Faculty: Education New Schedule of Courses for Master of Teaching and AB20/26a Learning including deletions. New Schedule of Courses for BEd (Teaching) ECE including AB20/26b deletions and removal of section in General requirements. New Schedule of Courses for GradDip (ECE, Primary and AB20/26c Secondary) including deletions and reduction of EFTS. PART B 9 MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING To confirm: the minutes of the Academic Board meeting held on 23 June 2020 (Nos. 26.20-35.20). Note: Excludes Part C for reasons of confidentiality 10 REPORT OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE AB20/27 Endorses: for Academic Board approval, the 3 CUAP proposals itemized in Part A; To approve: the 2 non-CUAP proposals; To note: The 5 proposals approved by the Committee at its 30 June meeting; and To note: the other matters approved and discussed by the Committee at its 30 June meeting. 11 ACADEMIC PROGRAMME REVIEW UPDATES AB20/28 To receive: the Graduate Nursing, Midwifery and Health programme implementation update report (completed) 12 MEMBERS ONLY (PART C) AB20/29 The next meeting will be held at 1:00pm on Tuesday, 25 August 2020 in the Hunter Council Chamber. AB20/23 MEMORANDUM TO Academic Board FROM Professor Wendy Larner, Provost DATE 14 July 2020 SUBJECT Provost Forum: How can we better support research activities into the future? To discuss: Ways in which the University can better support research activities into the future. 1 AB20/24 MEMORANDUM TO Academic Board FROM Professor Stuart Brock, Vice-Provost Academic DATE 9 July 2020 SUBJECT Implementation Plan and Report from the Academic programme review of Programmes in the School of Information Management The programmes in the School of Information Management were reviewed in August 2019 and have finalised their response to the review panel’s report in the form of an implementation plan. The programmes note that the worldwide situation with Covid- 19 has impacted the timeframe for their responses. The report made six commendations of good practice, which covered the effective delivery of several of the Masters qualifications in the School and the work of technical ,professional, and academic staff to support student learning and success. The review also made 13 recommendations for improvement, most of which have been accepted and actions have begun to implement them, which includes several actions relating to the undergraduate programmes. For the recommendation that have not been accepted, this has been due to scalability issues with internship across the whole undergraduate programme, and the ICT graduate School model not being directly controlled by the School. Recommendations That the Academic Board: 1. Receive: the report and implementation plan for the academic programme review of the programmes in the School of Information Management 2. Advise: the Pro Vice-Chancellor/Dean on any matters arising from the review. 1 2 AB20/24a ACADEMIC PROGRAMME REVIEW Programmes in the School of Information Management 26 to 28 August 2019 Report Completed 13/12/2019 Review of Programmes in the School of Information Management AB20/24a Acknowledgements The Panel would like to acknowledge the tremendous effort put in by the staff in the School of Information Management in preparing for this review, and any staff in the wider university who also contributed to the process. In addition, the Panel want to thank the staff and students who met with them during the Panel visit to Wellington. The discussions were extremely useful in providing information and perspectives to the Panel alongside the review documents. Panel members Professor Uli Zuelicke (Convener) School of Chemical and Physical Sciences Faculty of Science Victoria University of Wellington Associate Professor Andrew Wertheimer Library and Information Science program Department of Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawai’i, Manoa Associate Professor Annette Mills, Head of Department for Accounting and Information Systems UC Business School, University of Canterbury Kim Tairi, University Librarian Auckland University of Technology Abinesh Krishan Client Strategy Director Potentia IDT Limited Secretariat: Edward Schofield Academic Office 2 Review of Programmes in the School of Information Management AB20/24a Table of Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................... 2 Panel members .......................................................................................................................... 2 Summary of Commendations .................................................................................................... 4 Summary of Recommendations ................................................................................................ 5 Scope of Review ........................................................................................................................ 7 Review Procedure...................................................................................................................... 7 The Panel’s Findings .................................................................................................................. 9 Design .................................................................................................................................... 9 Delivery and Assessment ..................................................................................................... 13 Evaluation and Quality ........................................................................................................ 14 Programme Community ...................................................................................................... 15 Māori ................................................................................................................................... 16 Pasifika ................................................................................................................................. 16 Stakeholder Engagement .................................................................................................... 17 Issues raised in the Review Processes ................................................................................. 18 3 Review of Programmes in the School of Information Management AB20/24a Summary of Commendations The Panel would like to commend the programmes in the School of Information Management for: Commendation 1: The recent creation and excellent delivery of the Master of Professional Business Analysis programme. Commendation 2: The Master of Information Studies realises an excellent design and superb delivery within the challenging distance education framework. Commendation 3: Technical support in the School of Information Management is provided in a coherent, thoughtful and dedicated way. Commendation 4: Staff are enthusiastically experimenting and innovating with teaching methods and delivery to ensure student satisfaction and achievement. Commendation 5: The school is commended on the high level of integration between different academic subjects within the teaching programme. Commendation 6: The administrative staff in the School of Information Management are providing