About Making VU
Making VU is the action plan for achieving a distinctive and sustainable future for VU. It is made up of a Program Management Office (PgMO), which guides the overall planning and implementation of Making VU, and five Commitment Projects dedicated to implementing the five Making VU commitments:
Commitment One: Collaboration - Industry and Community Clusters (led by SDVC Education Programs Professor John McCallum and PVC Industry and Community Professor Peter Creamer)
VU will focus on 12 industry and community clusters in which VU has strong education and research capabilities and align them more effectively with future needs, with input from roundtables chaired by prominent industry and community leaders.
Commitment Two: Career - Learning in the Workplace and Community (led by PVC Teaching and Learning Professor Gregory Baxter)
VU will make at least 25% learning in the workplace and community a universal feature of VU courses.
Commitment Three: Choices - Strategies for Student Success (led by PVC Students Stephen Weller)
VU will provide students with the ability to customise their learning experience around course choice and learning support to best meet their current needs and future demands.
Commitment Four: Connected - Workforce Futures (led by PVC Vocational Education Dr. Anne T Jones)
VU will reposition learning for the professional, paraprofessional and skilled workforce, to provide continuing workforce development and work-based teaching practice that responsive, relevant and evidence-based.
Commitment Five: Community - Initiatives for the West (led by DVC Research and Region Professor Linda Rosenman)
VU will resource three initiatives for a better life in Melbourne's western suburbs and to share this knowledge with other communities in Australia or overseas that may face similar challenges.
About the Making VU Vision
Making VU is being developed and implemented over 2007 to 2012 but its full impact will extend beyond that period. By our centenary in 2016, we want to be known for:
- responding to the changing nature of work & the workplace - here and in our major international markets
- having strong community values
- earning a name for ourselves as a university that blends vocational and professional, conceptual and creative pursuits
- challenging conventional thinking as A New School of Thought
- being a distinctive international university.
Making VU is the plan to get us there.
About the Making VU Office and Program Team
Making VU has a dedicated program team headed by Program Director Professor Brian King. The program team works across the Program Management Office and the five commitments to ensure that the Making VU strategy is implemented in a coordinated way and in accordance with sound project management principles. You can contact the team via email makingvu@vu.edu.au or see below.
Contact
Making VU Program Director: Professor Brian King (03) 9919 7738
Executive Assistant: Leanne Howatson (03) 9919 7739
Program Manager: Tara Schuurmans (03) 9919 7740
Marketing and Engagement Coordinator: Reshmee Gunesh (03) 9919 7744
Program Officer: Sandra Schipano (03) 9919 7743
Senior Program Officer: Dr. Emma Curtin (03) 9919 7741
Planning Officer: Cuong Nguyen (03) 9919 7742
Industry and Community Course Clusters: Professor John McCallum (03) 9919 4255
Industry and Community Course Clusters: Professor Rodger Eade (03) 9919 5264
Industry and Community Round Tables: Professor Peter Creamer (03) 9919 4918
Project Officer: Jane Odgers (03) 9919 7750
Project Officer: Kelly Murphy (03) 9919 7751
Learning in the Workplace and the Community: Professor Gregory Baxter (03) 9919 4576
Project Coordinator: Leoni Russell (03) 9919 7745
Project Officer Terry Miller (03) 9919 7757
Project Officer Rachel Standfield (03) 9919 7756
Strategies for Student Success: Mr Stephen Weller (03) 9919 5460
Project Coordinator: Wendy O'Connor (03) 9919 7746
Project Officer: Jeffrey Jones (03) 9919 7748
Project Officer: Susan Oldham (03) 9919 7747
Workforce Futures: Dr Anne Jones (03) 9919 8885
Improving life in the West of Melbourne: Professor Linda Rosenman (03) 9919 4020
Project Officer: Carole Demirdjian (03) 9919 7721
Project Director Access and Success: Dr Merryn Davies (03) 9919 5456
Project Director Access and Success: Dr Bill Eckersley (03) 9919 7453 (Melton)
