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Faculty Manager (initial contact) | Faculty | Contact with | Status |
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| Kristina McGuiness-King (Manager, Student and Academic Services) | Humanities and Social Sciences | Tuesday 11th at 11am | |
| Noleen Williamson (Manager, Student and Academic Services) | Education | Emailed request | |
| Alison Munro (Manager, Student and Academic Services) | Law | Alison and Carol | Tuesday 11th 3.30pm |
| Suzan Hall (School Manager) | Engineering | Emailed request |
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- Paul spoke to Fay Julain on 8/5/15
- She is fairly comfortable with the workshop (and too busy) so a phone call was adequate to cover off a few points
- She expects most of the participants to be form their two schools, with 1-2 from the faculty office.
- She mentioned that their Comms person will start in a week or so would therefore be too new to contribute. Do we suggest that this could be a part of her introduction, if indeed she would have ongoing involvement in this work?
- She warned me that we might encounter quite a strong "disgruntled" sentiment, as the general perception is that the web site does not meet the staff's needs or what they perceive as the student's needs.
- She feels the planned agenda (so long as we are open to listen) will allow this to surface constructively
- She knows of some "bad blood" or feelings towards earlier (Web Team?) decisions. For example, around the last 1 October enrolment season Course FInder was (re)moved from the homepage without any warning or consultation.
- Heads up on timing: Fay does not think the meeting can be before 18/5 and maybe not until sprint 12. I wonder if this is the same for all faculties?
Science
- Paul met Megan Sellars on 11/5/15
- While this meeting was in the context of Science, she reports to Mike Wilson (Pro Vice-Chancellor of three faculties (Science, Engineering, and Architecture and Design)) and will seek some involvement across all three of the workshops, even if it is only an awareness or visibility of the progress and content.
- She believe that the timing is good, in that senior staff have been thinking about recruitment, publications, communications, etc. Maybe the web has been seen as a second (and poorer) cousin to the publications (except for international)?
- She will discuss with Dave Harper (Dean of Science) about who best to involve/invite.
- She requested that school staff join the faculty workshop, even if the number goes above 6.
- Psychology is probably the school to watch out for, in that they have done more "unique" things to raise awareness/profile (e.g. staff with WordPress sites to profile their research and publications activities).
- This school is actively trying to attract good PG students (based on those who want to study a specific thing that Victoria has an expert in.
- Also of interest because it can be studied in a BSc or a BA (in FHSS).
- She would like to see a clearer marketing focus in the web information (along with content/details (that ought not be in the publications) if and when somebody wants to access it).
- She believes that there is a general excitement about refreshing the web content/style, even if people do not yet know exactly what this means.