Enterprise25

The Academic Units will be UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, UniSA STEM, UniSA Creative, UniSA Education Futures, UniSA Justice and Society and UniSA Business.

All feedback has been considered by the Enterprise25 Sponsoring Group, led by the Provost & Chief Academic Officer, Professor Allan Evans. This feedback helped to inform the Final Change Plan for our academic organisational transformation and the changes we need to make to our service delivery models, systems, policies and procedures.

Under Enterprise25, the University has ambitions to grow overall student and staff numbers, with a view to improving our student-academic staff ratio and through that our student experience and outcomes. Any reductions in expenditure on management positions achieved through this transition process will be reinvested in teaching and student-facing positions.

The organisational transformation program is focused on creating a program-focused structure, through creating new Academic Units. It is intended that the structures and service delivery arrangements for the University’s central administrative units will be reviewed as a later phase of activity, to ensure that our professional services appropriately align with and support the teaching, research and external engagement activities of our Academic Units.

The changes proposed under Enterprise25  are designed to provide for more investment in the ongoing development and enrichment of our academic programs and enhanced support services for students.  It is not anticipated that current students should be subject to any disruption to their study and the change program will be designed to ensure minimum inconvenience. However, it is recognised that some Higher degree by research (HDR) candidates may experience minor changes as a result of the transition. Drop-in sessions will be offered to ensure they are fully supported throughout the transition.

The transformation is expected to have minimal impact on the staff and students based in the regions. Academic staff will continue to be part of the program that they currently support, even though that program will transition to a newly formed Academic Unit. Students will continue to receive support from their regional campus as well as professional staff within the relevant Academic Unit and central units.

While we do envisage consolidating our metropolitan campuses over the life of Enterprise25 there are no plans for students to relocate between campuses as an outcome of the academic organisational transformation process. If there are future changes in the campus location of academic programs, changes will be in line with current processes of informing students well ahead of such changes.

Similarly, we do not envisage the requirement for the relocation of significant numbers of professional and academic staff. Nevertheless, some relocations between campuses will be inevitable (for example for staff who transition to a position that is based in a different location).

The application process for the executive team positions, including Executive Deans, General Managers, Deans of Research, and Deans of Programs is underway. It is envisaged that the outcomes for all these positions will be confirmed by the end of February 2020.

An Associate Dean (Research Education) reporting to the Dean of Research, may be created in each Academic Unit with responsibility for supporting HDR candidates. There will also be ongoing support for HDR candidates from the Program Services Teams and academic staff who are Research Degree Coordinators or Research Education: Portfolio Leaders (REPLs) will continue.