2017 Partner Forum
Enhancing Success
11 - 12 December 2017
Federation University Australia, Mt Helen Campus
Two days packed full of networking and professional development opportunities dedicated to optimising the success of partner programs.
The 2017 Partner Forum theme is “Enhancing Success” with four sub-categories:
- Academic
- Quality
- Student support; and
- Administration and operations
The FedUni Partner Forum, whilst being a professional development opportunity for the FedUni and partner staff, is also a great opportunity to network and create a collegiate environment between FedUni and partners. It is also a chance to share ideas to enhance student success and the scholarship of teaching and learning. View presentations on best practice, research outcomes, and initiatives / accomplishments that have been implemented for things such as student retention, study skills and student support, quality, administration and operations, and anything else that may be of interest to the FedUni / Partner community. It is also an opportunity to workshop discipline-specific opportunities or issues.
The first Partner Forums were hosted by the Federation Business School in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2016 the Partner Forum was renewed but this time managed by the Centre for University Partnerships with representation across the faculties and had 96 registrations with attendees coming from a range of partners, FedUni departments, Council members; and FedUni and Partner executives.
The forum will contain presentations in the following topic areas:
- Student retention and success
- Student engagement – what to do to make them engaged
- Quality in education
- Student support
- Academic intervention
Keynote speakers
Professor Helen Bartlett
Federation University Australia
Federation University Australia welcomed Professor Helen Bartlett to the role of Vice-Chancellor on 1st May 2017. She is the first female Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Professor Bartlett has worked in higher education for more than 30 years, holding senior leadership roles at all organisational levels in universities in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia. Previously, Professor Bartlett was Pro Vice-Chancellor, President and Chief Executive of Monash University Malaysia. Prior to this, she was Pro Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash’s Gippsland Campus.
A major focus of her previous appointments at Curtin University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Oxford Brookes University was research capacity building in health care and health sciences. She has also established and directed three research centres: the Australasian Centre on Ageing at the University of Queensland, the Oxford Centre for Health Care Research and Development, as well as the Oxford Dementia Centre at Oxford Brookes University.
Professor Bartlett holds a Bachelor of Arts, Masters of Science (Public Policy) and a PhD. She has an international research record in gerontology, with a focus on population ageing, healthy ageing, aged and community care.
Professor Bartlett has been awarded numerous ARC and NHMRC project and program grants and state and federal government consultancies. She has published widely - including several books - and has supervised over 35 higher research degree students. Professor Bartlett also has established and led many university initiatives related to student participation, university-community engagement and transnational education.
Dr Paul J H Hemming
ChancellorFedUni Chancellor Dr Paul Hemming graduated in Medicine in 1969 and was a principal in General Practice for over 40 years.
In 2007 he joined the Council of the University of Ballarat, and in 2012 became the fifth Chancellor of the University. During his term as Chancellor, the University has expanded to be Australia’s largest regionally based, dual sector university, re-branding itself as Federation University Australia in 2014.
Amit Sarwal
Federation University Australia Alumni
Student Success Stories
Amit Sarwal is a broadcaster, writer and researcher based in Melbourne. He is also the Founding Convenor of Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network, an Affiliate Member at the Contemporary Histories Research Group (Deakin University) and a Producer at SBS Radio Hindi.
He holds a PhD in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University and MBA from Federation University Australia. For academic excellence, he was a finalist in the Victorian Government’s International Education Awards 2016.
He has been featured as an expert in The Conversation, ABC Radio National, Sky News, SBS TV, Times of India, The Saturday Paper and other community media. As an academic, he has published in high-ranking international journals and is the author of Short Narratives of South Asian Diaspora and Labels and Locations.
Dr Michael Tomlinson FGIA, FCIS
Director – Assessment Group
Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA)
Michael Tomlinson is Director of the Assurance Group at TEQSA (the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency).
He leads case teams to organise and conduct assessments of over 120 providers of higher education (including all of Australia’s universities) against Australia’s Higher Education Threshold Standards. He is also leading the implementation of the Higher Education Standards Framework (2015) for TEQSA and TEQSA’s role in implementing the recommendations of the Admissions Transparency Report.
Before coming to TEQSA, Michael was an Audit Director at the former Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), and for twenty years worked in Australian universities, for the last fifteen of these in senior positions at Swinburne University of Technology.
Michael is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and of the International Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He has been an expert panel member for a number of provider reviews for the national accreditation agency in Timor Leste.
Forum program
Day one: Monday 11 December
| Program Details | Presenters |
|---|---|
| Keynote Speaker: Introduction to Federation University Australia | Professor Helen Bartlett, Vice-Chancellor and President, Federation University Australia |
| Keynote Speaker: New Higher Education Standards: Implications for Partner Providers | Michael Tomlinson |
| Session A: Teaching Creatively in a Partner Provider Environment | Sally-Anne Leigh, Academies Australasia Polytechnic |
| Session B: Partner Libraries Support Network | Clare Duffy, FedUni Library View presentation (pdf, 1.9 mb) |
| Session C: The challenge of language in Accounting | Marc Dawes, IIBIT Adelaide and Uni SA View presentation (pdf, 1.5mb) |
| Session D: How to conduct Academic Intervention | Amy Barnhouse, Federation Business School; Vanessa Brady, Centre for University Partnerships and Drew Burns, Disability Liaison Unit |
| Session E: Student Engagement: the Significance and Sources | Dr Sunaina Gowan (IIBIT Sydney) View presentation (pdf, 0.3mb) |
| Session F: Respect Now Always | Jerry van Delft, Student Connect Respect Now Always |
| Session G: Plagiarism prevention strategies, tools, & techniques | Adam Barbary, Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice View presentation (pdf, 0.9mb) |
| Session H: Quizzes 101 | Kim Pappaluca and Jim Carolan, Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice View presentation (pdf, 0.5mb) |
| Session I: Effective use of video in learning and teaching | Brian Martin, Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice View presentation (pdf, 1.1mb) |
| Session J: Preparing new students with Academic and English Literacies | Julie Sharp, Federation College View presentation (pdf, 0.3mb) |
| Keynote Speaker: Student Success Stories | Amit Sarwal, FedUni Alumnus View presentation (pdf, 1.4mb) |
Day two: Tuesday 12 December
| Program Details | Presenters |
|---|---|
| Keynote Panel: Partnership QnA Panel | Facilitator: Jessie Harman, Centre for University Partnerships Panellists: Kishore Vallam, IIBIT; Graham Bowrey, ATMC; Alan Labas, Federation Business School; Sue Brown, Faculty of Health |
| Session K: Work Integrated Learning | Facilitator: Vanessa Brady, Centre for University Partnerships Panellists: D Panellists: Deb Cutts, Careers and Employment Service; Deb Lord, Federation Business School, and Brooke Adams, Student Systems and Processes View Work Integrated Learning web page View Federation Business School WIL course options (pdf, 4.04mb) |
| Session L: Enhancing academic quality | Dr Graham Bowrey, ATMC Sydney View presentation (pdf, 0.2mb) View Peer Observation document (pdf, 0.03mb) |
| Session M: The lowdown on BOLD | Kim Pappaluca and Sara Warren, Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice View presentation (pdf, 0.8mb) |
| Session N: Student support and retention strategies for Western Sydney | Kay Lampard and Valerie Snedin, TAFE NSW - Western Sydney View presentation (pdf, 1.6mb) |
| Session O: eVALUate: what to our partner students say? | Barbie Panther, Faculty of Science and Technology View presentation (pdf, 0.6mb) |
| Session P: What is SPARK? | Amy Barnhouse, Federation Business School View presentation (pdf, 6.9mb) |
| Session Q: Student Support: the key to academic success for students who 'never thought they would ever get a university degree' | Biljana Stanojcic, TAFE NSW - St George campus View presentation (pdf, 1.6mb) |
| Session R: Teaching International Students and their learning styles | Sally-Anne Leigh, Academies Australasia Polytechnic View presentation (pdf, 1mb) |
| Session S: Teaching strategies to keep students on track | Tulsa Andrews and Natasha Tonkin, Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice View presentation (pdf, 0.8mb) |
| Session T: English Language Support Program (ELSP) | Melania Pantelich, Federation College View presentation (pdf, 1mb) |
| Session U: Discussion forums - How to monitor engagement and learning in these spaces | Kate Roberts and Yvonne Button, Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice View presentation (pdf, 0.5mb) |
| Session V: FedUni Alumni - Staying connected | Pam Sutcliffe, Alumni and FedUni Foundation View presentation (pdf, 3.2mb) |