Futures Framework

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Indigenous participation and relevance

Rationale

Post-secondary education is crucial to ensuring that Indigenous people can access improved employment opportunities. Of equal significance are the roles universities can play in the development of Indigenous community leaders. But it is more than just this.

A wide range of initiatives that may further improve the outcomes of Indigenous people in tertiary education include:

• Incorporating Indigenous knowledge and practice into mainstream education
• Further engaging Indigenous educators in the development of initiatives to combat disadvantage
• Increasing support for campus-based Indigenous perspective units
• Improving Indigenous students’ awareness of financial support available to them
• Enhancing the Indigenous Support Funding program
• Ensuring enabling courses are appropriately funded to achieve desired outcomes
• Improving access and providing additional support to talented Indigenous students through scholarships, mentoring programs and international exchange programs
• Improving access and providing additional support to Indigenous students through targeted regional and remote delivery of courses
• Reviewing course structures, course content and attendance options
• Creating more opportunities for Indigenous researchers
• Delivering cultural awareness training programs and initiatives.

Key Elements

Over the next 10 years, Charles Darwin University (CDU) will achieve the following:

• Developing an understanding of Indigenous perspectives to enable the University to best serve the needs of Indigenous citizens and communities (2010)
• Improving access and providing additional support to Indigenous students, staff and other stakeholders (2010)
• Incorporating Indigenous perspectives and needs into mainstream university core business areas (2013).

Enabling Objectives

In order to achieve the Key Elements, CDU will:

• Engage with Indigenous citizens and communities to ensure Indigenous perspectives guide the design, access, delivery and evaluation of university programs (CA)
• Enhance research, research training and capability by and for Indigenous people (R)
• Implement frameworks to recruit, support and develop Indigenous staff (CS).

Trend Indicators

Over the next 10 years, CDU will measure success by:

• Improving number of Indigenous enrolments across a diverse range of courses and at higher levels
• Improving outcomes in and for regional and remote communities in which we work
• Recognition as being an employer with an increasing number of Indigenous employees across a diverse range of positions and at higher levels.