Brigid Heywood spent her first 18 months as University of New England vice chancellor getting the organisational ducks in a row, so the university would be staff and structure ready for what she has in mind

Now she has set out the purpose she wants UNE fit for in a ten-year plan.

While it includes unquantifiable commitments to goodness and kindness, there are also a bunch of specifics demonstrating the VC means business, including in the setting and measuring of staff performance and cost control.

Big policy objectives in three core categories include;

“personalised student journeys:” * “modularised unit content, short-courses and micro-credentialing” for award and non-award offerings * a scalable, personalised academic and student support and pastoral care model * review UNE’s Graduate Attributes, credentialing them “as achieved”

“empowering communities:” * work integrated/related “opportunities” in HDR models * university-wide teaching development programme * flagship courses/units that “promote our digital-first approach to academic delivery” * “identify and develop key priority areas of high impact research” * open access platform for university research and scholarship * “formalised” scholarship framework to record outputs/outcomes *research institutes to enhance reach and attract funding * “capability and capacity” to commercialise research outputs

“building resilience:” * resources to research priority areas and a research performance framework * reduce transaction costs and improve efficiency * implementing an hours-based work load model.