Strategic Plan

Mission

The mission of CAULLT is to promote and advance research, policy and practice as it relates to the leadership, management and development of higher education learning and teaching.

Vision

CAULLT’s vision is to be:

  1. Recognised in Australasia as the key advocate and influencer in university learning and teaching.
  1. A key support for learning and teaching leaders in their role as strategic and effective promoters of quality academic practices within their institutions and in the university education sector.

Values

CAULLT values a holistic approach to academic/educational development that focuses on both professional capability and institutional capacity for quality learning and teaching, including:

  • Open communication and a willingness to share across the university education sector,
  • Purposeful partnerships;
  • Evidence-based practice informed by the scholarship of learning and teaching;
  • A futures orientation based on a deep understanding of contemporary university education and changing landscape;
  • The well-being of university leaders in learning and teaching including the promotion of the professionalism;
  • Diversity and inclusion.

Objectives

CAULLT’s goals are to:

  • Undertaking an advocacy role for evidence‐based processes and initiatives to advance learning and teaching in higher education,
  • Providing leadership for the investigation, development and evaluation of international, national and institutional approaches to advancing learning and teaching in higher education,
  • Encouraging and fostering communication and collaboration with key bodies in the advancement of learning and teaching in higher education,
  • Fostering collaboration among those who lead learning and teaching within  universities, including those who carry formal responsibility  for academic development, to disseminate and share knowledge and expertise in relation to their practices for advancing learning and teaching in universities, and to establish and monitor benchmarks for performance,
  • Creating and supporting professional learning career development and networking opportunities for Australasia’s community of learning and teaching leaders.