* HERDSA Pre-Conference Workshops
* Call for Papers: Special Issue of HERD 2019: New Perspectives on Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines
* STEM Education Special Interest Group
* Online Workshop - Introduction to Educational Change
* Position Vacant: Learning and Teaching Advisor, UNSW Business School
* The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) invites proposals for special issues
* Job vacancy: Executive Director–Academic
* Job Vacancy: Executive Director - Student Success and Employability
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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HERDSA Pre-Conference Workshops

Check out the Pre Conference workshops (held 2 July 2018) now available for registration. Abstracts online herehttp://herdsa2018.aomevents.com.au/pre-conference/#pre_conference_workshop

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of HERD 2019: New Perspectives on Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines
Full papers due 31 March 2018

Guest editors: Judith Seaboyer (University of Queensland) and Tully Barnett (Flinders University)

This special issue connects a growing body of work on and interest in reading and writing across the disciplines, including cognitive science, the text-based foundations of much of new media and digitisation, and the widening international participation agenda in the tertiary sector.

Deep reading and its concomitant good writing are essential both to the mastery of content across disciplines and across cultures, and to the transformative potential of higher education. This special issue seeks inventive papers that consider reading and writing from practical, theoretical, and political perspectives. What are the challenges, difficulties, and pleasures of reading for students and teachers? What strategies best help students learn to de-code complex texts and enter into meaning-making dialogue?

We are interested, too, in papers that consider how twenty-first-century technologies and modes of knowledge production and dissemination influence how as well as what students do and don’t read. What reading platforms are students using? What are the intersections and tensions between digital and traditional ways of reading and writing? What are their implications?

Does constant hyperlinking, as Naomi Baron, Nicholas Carr and others have suggested, undermine the brain’s capacity to process long-form text? How might we foster what Maryanne Wolf has termed bi-literacy, the capacity to shift between two activities: the efficient rapid reading-for-information that involves scanning, clicking, linking and the “slower, more time-consuming cognitive processes ... vital for contemplative life.”

Submissions might address the following:
• What is the case for the core importance of reading and writing across the disciplines, or within specific disciplines, in an increasingly marketised university?
• Might a tertiary education that fosters imaginative, thoughtful, hospitable, adaptable reading be reflected in a democratized citizenry? Or is this a consolatory narrative?
• What role might deep reading play in developing the creative thinking necessary for success in an AI world?
• To what extent are programs that create a space for reading and writing shaped by outside forces? What pressures are shrinking budgets, the massification of tertiary education, job markets in crisis, and political influences placing on different programs across different geopolitical locations?
• What are the affordances of technologies? How are they changing the way students read and write? How might students benefit from a range of platforms for both activities?

HERD seeks articles of between 5000 and 7000 words (all inclusive) that engage with these issues in some way. Full articles are due by 31 March 2018. The special issue is slated for publication in early 2019. For more information or to seek feedback on an idea, please contact the special issue editors Judith Seaboyer j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au and Tully Barnett tully.barnett@flinders.edu.au

A guide for authors, along with other relevant information, can be found on the journal’s homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/herd Submissions should be made online at HERD’s Scholar One site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cher

Further information j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au

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STEM Education Special Interest Group

If you teach and/or research in STEM higher education fields and are interested in joining our STEM Education Special Interest Group and shall be attending the 2018 HERDSA Conference in Adelaide, please come along to the SIG event at the conference (check the program)and meet like-minded people. We would like to move forward with this SIG and plan activities - such as a 2020 HERD Special Issue devoted to STEM Education. Hope to see you there, Susan Blackley (STEM Education SIG Chair).

Further information susan.blackley@curtin.edu.au

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Online Workshop - Introduction to Educational Change
February 12, 2018

SEDA is taking bookings for its forthcoming course in educational change:

Online Introduction to Educational Change: a four-week online workshop: running from 19th February – 16th March 2018.

Go to https://www.seda.ac.uk/online-introduction-educational-change for further details of the course and registration form. The deadline for submitting registration forms is 12th February 2018. 

Further information Emma.Mastin@seda.ac.uk

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Position Vacant: Learning and Teaching Advisor, UNSW Business School
Applications close: 11.59pm Wednesday 14th February

The UNSW Business School is looking to appoint a Learning and Teaching Advisor

• $91,755 – $99,306 pa (plus 17% superannuation and annual leave loading)
• Continuing, full-time (35 hours per week)

The role will provide services that develop academic staff capability for quality teaching. A particular component of the role is to contribute to the development and implementation of a new, refined approach for assurance of learning (AOL) and to promote AOL as a means to ensure quality and continuous program improvement. In addition, the L&T Advisor will work to build and engage a Business School cohort of sessional staff, along with a suite of continuing professional development (CPD) activities and resources to support them.

Position description and further details available at https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/.Search for Job ID 61022

Further information Further information contact Amanda Lockett on a.lockett@unsw.edu.au or (02) 9385 6182.

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The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) invites proposals for special issues
Monday 30 April 2018

The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice is calling for proposals for 2019 special issues, especially on contemporary themes associated with effective and innovative teaching and learning practice in the higher education environment. The expectation is that the special issue would be of interest to an international audience. JUTLP is indexed by SCOPUS.

To propose a special issue, please complete the Special Issue Proposal template at http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/latestnews.html and return to Associate Professor Dominique Parrish by email dominique.parrish@uow.edu.au by Monday 30 April 2018

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Job vacancy: Executive Director–Academic
Auckland CBD, New Zealand

An international education institute located in Auckland, New Zealand, has a vacancy for an Executive Director – Academic, to provide strategic leadership to the academic team, actively contribute to the Executive Leadership team and contribute to the wider interests of the organisation.

The Role
As the Executive Director, Academic you will:
• Strategically lead and manage the quality of learning, teaching and research, ensuring that high standards are maintained;
• Ensure that academic staff have the capabilities necessary for teaching, research, and designing innovative programmes of learning. 
• Lead academic innovation through curriculum transformation and change, to support and facilitate the organisation’s vision of New Zealand’s most employable international graduates. 
• Ensure programmes and courses are designed to best-practice standards and incorporate the capability development framework. 
• Lead and inspire embedding of experiential learning principles (enquiry-based, project-based, and/or problem-based), and learner capability development, into the curriculum. 

What’s on offer
• An opportunity to join a very exciting, innovative and well-known brand.
• A leadership role within a highly-respected academic team.
• An outstanding team culture where staff seek continuous quality improvement.
• A competitive salary and benefits.
• Flexible work practices.

This will be a very exciting, high energy role. The organisation wishes to encourage strong applicants with a well-established executive academic management record and strategic development experience. Your employment record should demonstrate an ability to engage effectively with members of staff, provide leadership, an ability to oversee assurance of quality, and a passion for education.

Further information about the position or to apply online can be found at: 
https://www.luminarysearch.co.nz/role?i=ASE62015LUM

Further information https://www.luminarysearch.co.nz/role?i=ASE62015LUM

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Job Vacancy: Executive Director - Student Success and Employability

An international education institute located in Auckland, New Zealand, has a vacancy for an Executive Director – Student Success and Employability, to provide strategic leadership to the Student Success Directorate, actively contribute to the Executive Leadership team and contribute to the wider interests of the organisation.

The Role
As the Executive Director, Student Success and Employability you will:
• Lead and inspire a unique learner experience;
• Strategically lead and manage student services and learner employability, ensuring that high standards are maintained;
• Ensure that learners receive the services (mentoring, guidance and counselling), and support necessary for their academic and employment success; 
• Provide a comprehensive range of responsive and supportive student services across the campus, including orientation, student advice, pastoral care, and graduation, and develop new service provisions in line with changing student needs;
• Further the development of capable, work-ready graduates who are able to gain sustainable employment either in New Zealand or overseas;
• Build strong connections with industry and business partners and alumni, to establish collaborative partnerships and provide meaningful opportunities for internships and workplace experiences, to our learners;

What’s on offer
• An opportunity to join a very exciting, innovative and well-known brand.
• A leadership role within a highly-respected executive team.
• An outstanding team culture where staff seek continuous quality improvement.
• A competitive salary and benefits.
• Flexible work practices.

This will be a very exciting, high energy role. The organisation wishes to encourage strong applicants with a well-established executive management record and strategic development experience. Your employment record should demonstrate an ability to engage effectively with members of staff, provide leadership, an ability to oversee assurance of quality, and a passion for education.

Further information about the position or to apply online can be found at: 
https://www.luminarysearch.co.nz/role?i=ASE62016LUM

Further information https://www.luminarysearch.co.nz/role?i=ASE62016LUM

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Higher Education in the Headlines

ACU cuts courses due to cap | JOHN ROSS | Australian Higher Education | 07 February, 2017
Snap course cancellations by ACU provide the first sign that mini-budget funding cuts will affect enrolments.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/australian-catholic-un...

How an Army of Survivors Toppled a President | Steve Kolowich and Andy Thomason | Chronicle of Higher Education | 2 February, 2017
Public anger over a sex-abuse scandal forced Michigan State’s leader from office — and demonstrated that ignorance may no longer be an adequate defense for leaders of institutions tainted by scandal.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-an-Army-of-Survivors/242343

Global student mobility growth ‘to dwindle over next decade’ | Ellie Bothwell| Times Higher Education | 1 February, 2018
British Council research tells major international student destinations to widen their internationalisation strategies in light of new forecast
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/global-student-mobility-growth...