{"id":4444,"date":"2024-01-12T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwaasa.org.au\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2024-01-12T10:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:50:49","slug":"newsletter-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwaasa.org.au\/newsletter-december-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4444\" class=\"elementor elementor-4444\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dea522c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dea522c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4d6de54\" data-id=\"4d6de54\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d4837ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d4837ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, another academic year comes to a semi-close. Semi-close because we all know that many are preparing deferred exams, and others for the inevitable supplemental exams. Of course, some are working on end-of-year reporting and\/or on new research grants&#8230; Oh well, just forget the comment about any \u201cclose.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A quick look back over the year reminds us that many Schools remain under-staffed with reports of overwork and burn out not uncommon.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UWAASA sponsored a discussion of a WA Universities merger \u2013 an idea under investigation by the WA State government. No news on the outcome of that as of yet.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UWAASA will start our year of activities with a February forum on understanding who our current students are and how they interact with the University. We\u2019d love to hear from anyone actually doing research and with actual data on this.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UWA ASA Committee and its members were stunned to hear the announcement about the latest senior executive-level appointment. It appears that the old Chief Operations Officer (COO) role has been \u2018rebranded\u2019 with an \u2018academic\u2019 title as a DVC Operations. I can only imagine that UWA academic staff are thrilled to hear that we have appointed someone whose background is \u201cbanking, financial services, insurance and health. \u201d It appears that UWA is adding yet another person to the senior leadership with no discernible background working in the tertiary sector but with skills developed \u201cleading large and diverse teams\u201d in, say, banking &#8212;\u00a0 which must be entirely transferable. Not such a good look that, having ripped the academic heart out of anthropology and sociology and molecular sciences etc, and \u2018streamlined\u2019 Student Life, we are putting some of those savings to good use with another outsize Exec salary. While UWA managed without the role for 3 years, surely there must have been a good business for reinstating it \u2026 as well as a case for giving the role an academic title?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, here we are approaching December which means a bit of time officially on \u201cleave.\u201d As is our practice, we will wind up the year with drinks for members (and feel free to bring along a soon-to-be-new-member guest!) starting at <\/span><b>3 pm on December 4<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> at the Uniclub caf\u00e9<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We look forward to exchanging news, re-invigorating our group identity, and engaging in a bit of seasonal cheer. 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Of course, some are working on end-of-year reporting and\/or on new research grants&#8230; Oh well, just forget the comment about any \u201cclose.\u201d A quick look back over the year &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/uwaasa.org.au\/newsletter-december-2023\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter December 2023<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Newsletter December 2023 - The University of Western Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwaasa.org.au\/newsletter-december-2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Newsletter December 2023 - The University of Western Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, another academic year comes to a semi-close. 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