AACRAO Australia Study-Tour Delegation Visit “Australia & North America Working

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AACRAO Australia Study-Tour Delegation Visit

“Australia & North America Working Together to Advance Access and Equity”

AACRAO 2013 Annual MeetingSession # W3.770, Tuesday, April 17th, 2013

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AACRAO partnered with Australian Education International (AEI).

May 2012 a North American delegation visited the following:

~Australian government

~Tertiary organizations

~Fulbright commission

~10 Australian Universities

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Who is AEI-NA?

The mission of AEI is to facilitate international collaboration and partnerships in education and training in order to support mobility and the global exchange of knowledge.

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Areas of Exchange/Discussion:

• Serving the Community – being a global entity while serving the local community.

• International Education – as part of the mission and community.

• Social Inclusion – mission to policy to practice.

• Completion & Quality – the role and responsibility of university staff

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Visited 4 Capital Cities:

Canberra National Capital

Melbourne

Brisbane

Sydney

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Australian institutions

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AACRAO Australia Delegation

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Some differences between three English-Settler Societies

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Serving the Community

• Australian institutions are getting creative about access and equity via Foundation programs to the community

• K-12 level educational need on aspirations for indigenous groups

• Education has emerged as a tool for nation building and strengthening Native communities, empower our students to utilize that tool

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International Education

• Australia has a culture of attracting international students, int’l students retain higher than domestic students

• Awareness of and strategies to effectively manage globalization, demographic shifts, fiscal realities

• More attention to articulation of credits, persistence, retention, success,

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Social Inclusion

• Focus on low SES measure too narrowly focused on low SES

• Increasing understanding of public universities

• Success strategies by North American Universities

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Completion & Quality

• Managing quality - performance measures to achieve targets

• Accountability, reporting, transparency

• Holistic, Broad-Based Admissions in North America. Use of noncognitive variables in admissions as a retention tool

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Aboriginal/American Indian/First Nations student access, equity and success.

• Australian Indigenous focus

• Quality for indigenous learners, means that they can see themselves, their communities, and their worldviews reflected in their formal educational experiences.

• Incorporating Indigenous ways into the four key areas

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Next Steps for Us and Opportunities for You

• Conferences

• Publications

• Partnerships

• Future delegations

• Scholarship awards for in-country projects

• Student exchanges

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To our fathers’ fathersThe pain, the sorrow;

To our children’s childrenThe glad tomorrow.

- Oodergoo Noonnuccal

(excerpt from “Song of Hope”)