Not only can Macquarie U staff have e-input into the new operating plan some staff and students can tell the VC what they think direct

Vice Chancellor S Bruce Dowton is hosting workshops for invited staff and students, on a range of issues that input into the plan. It’s all part of a comms opportunity to “collectively decide our next steps.”

Staff who don’t get to go to meetings can still comment on-line and vote on ideas.

MU observers say the consultations look like management recognition that it needs to talk more with and less at staff. Members of the university executive are said to have been surprised at how badly staff responded to the October announcement that the Faculty of Human Sciences would be broken up to save money.