USQ gets creative over arts structure

The University of Southern Queensland loves a restructure, with four change plans proposed in the last six months. The latest is a proposal to create separate schools of creative arts and humanities-comms. It follows a review of the creative arts academic unit which included how it interacts with the university’s performance provider Artsworx, which sounded that things might be tense at times (CMM October 3).  This proposal is about undoing a 2014 academic merger so that creative arts can have “a strong and visible identity … to effectively deliver the programs and facilitate future growth.” The university states that only academic employees are involved with no impact on services or the academic programme. If the proposal gets up the university wants the school split in place by January 1.

But what about Artsworx? USQ says it, “will be the subject of a separate organisational change process,” in the new year.


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