For almost 60 years, Massey University has shaped the lives of people in New Zealand and around the world. The purpose of this investment plan is to articulate Massey University's strategic direction and contribute to meeting the Government's priorities for higher education in New Zealand over the next three years.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
Projects include accommodation refurbishment at the Manawatü campus, seismic upgrading of the Manawatü Recreation Centre, the new Wellington Marae and other accommodation refurbishments. In terms of building partnerships, projects include the community athletics track at the Manawatü campus, the Manawatü hockey and soccer field, the joint food science building with AgResearch, the veterinary complex improvement program and infrastructure support for the School of Music and Creative Media Production; .
SUPPORTING STAFF CAPABILITY
Women in leadership development: as part of the University's commitment to equal employment opportunities, Massey offers an internal development program to support the movement of talented women staff into senior academic and administrative roles. This is now being refreshed in line with Massey's new strategy; we are currently in the process of developing a University-wide skills framework that identifies the behavioral and technical skills for every role in the University.
RESPONDING TO KEY
GLOBAL AND NATIONAL TRENDS
RESPONDING TO KEY NATIONAL TRENDS
Furthermore, we are committed to continuous improvement to ensure that we offer excellent learning experiences to our students – wherever they are based and wherever they come from. We are also piloting, in Semester 2, 2018, a new employability initiative, 'Kahurei' (which literally means 'an embellished cloak', a reference to the range of formal and informal skills that students develop during their time at university) , which is characteristic of Massey in its endeavor to recognize and reward the development of 'soft skills' through both formal academic and extracurricular activities.
RESPONDING TO KEY GLOBAL TRENDS
ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF YOUR STAKEHOLDERS
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IS INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED AS A CRITICAL ELEMENT OF STRATEGIC PLANNING THAT UNDERPINS REPUTATION MANAGEMENT
IMPLEMENTING A PURPOSEFUL, COORDINATED, PAN-UNIVERSITY STRATEGY FOR AND APPROACH TO EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT SPANNING RESEARCH,
STRATEGY 2018 – 2022 UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL PARTNERSHIPS WITH GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY
RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF OUR LEARNERS
RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS
GIVING EFFECT TO THE TERTIARY EDUCATION STRATEGY 2014–2019
- DELIVERING SKILLS FOR INDUSTRY
Graduates will be empowered to participate in the existing and emerging economies as well-educated citizens around the world. A new academic plan, currently being developed, will complement our learning and teaching strategy.
STUDENT SUCCESS IS A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF OUR MISSION
DIGITAL LEARNING
SKILLS FOR INDUSTRY
PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INDUSTRY
GETTING AT-RISK YOUNG PEOPLE INTO CAREERS
More detailed information is available on the University's website and through one-to-one advisory appointments with the University's 18 full-time student advisors. Massey University works to maintain connections with existing students between the end of one academic year and the start of the next. Academic Standing model enables students to assess their performance after each semester against the University's performance criteria.
BOOSTING ACHIEVEMENT OF MÄORI
KIA MÄRAMA
NGÄ WHAI PAINGA (THE VALUES)
NGÄ TUMANAKO (THE AIMS)
NGÄ ARA KI TE MÄRAMA (THE PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS)
We will provide Mäori students with opportunities and support to excel in a wide range of endeavors.”. Aside from achieving excellence in academic pursuits, Mäori students at Massey will have the opportunity to strengthen their cultural identity and expect the university to provide opportunities to become more fluent in te reo Mäori, Mäori cultural activities on campus , marae experiences and the practice of tikanga and kawa. Aside from other benefits, the college experience has the potential to strengthen resilience, dedication, confidence, adaptability, the ability to form positive relationships, and the adoption of a healthy lifestyle.
MÄORI STUDENT SUCCESS
PÜHORO SUCCESS
NEW MÄORI PROGRAMMES
MASSEY UNIVERSITY MÄORI LEARNER SUCCESS PLAN
FOCUS AREA – TAI TOKERAU NORTHLAND
BOOSTING ACHIEVEMENT OF PACIFIC PEOPLES
Institutional Objective Increasing the participation and success of Pacific students at all levels of study. Engage Pacific students who are high achievers at Massey as role models for Pacific success;. Pacific Students' Culture Night: About 80 per cent of Pacific students are from outside Palmerston North.
PACIFIC STUDENT SUCCESS
Pacific community awards: The Pacific community awards are proudly sponsored by the Tongan community group, Fofo'anga Inc.
MASSEY UNIVERSITY PACIFIC LEARNER SUCCESS PLAN
IMPROVING ADULT LITERACY AND NUMERACY
Massey University recognizes the important role that higher education organizations play in improving adult literacy and numeracy. Massey does not see its primary role as improving adult literacy and numeracy and understands that this priority is better addressed through other higher education organisations.
STRENGTHENING RESEARCH-BASED INSTITUTIONS
RESEARCH STRATEGY
Massey actively collaborates with a number of other research organisations, including Crown research institutes such as AgResearch (through the New Zealand Food Safety Science and Research Centre), the Riddet Institute and Hopkirk Research Institute, Plant and Food Research, and the Cawthron Institute, to name but a few. Our efforts in this regard are designed to optimize nationwide capacity and minimize duplication through a number of research projects, particularly in the applied animal and food science areas.
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESS
Massey University researchers are also involved in teams led by other institutions that have received funding. Thanks to our own highly regarded publishing company, Massey University Press, we were able to share our research with a wider audience. The press will also provide publishing infrastructure for Te Papa Press following an agreement signed in July; Te Papa Press and Massey University Press books will continue to be published under their respective imprints, but the publishing partnership will benefit both organizations.
OUR FOCUS ON THE PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
The Institute of Food Science and Technology has a new research partnership with Canterbury-based dairy company Synlait. Massey University owns and organizes the awards and is a leading provider of knowledge for food and health innovation in New Zealand. The centre, led by Professor Dorian Garrick, will build world-leading expertise in quantitative breeding, genetics and genomics to benefit New Zealand's agricultural sector.
MÄORI RESEARCH
The center is named in memory of one of the founders of modern animal husbandry, Massey's Professor Alexander Lindsay Rae. Through these relationships, Massey provides a PhD scholarship to one of the iwi members for a PhD related to their environmental management aspirations. The research proposes the development of a 3D printing machine for use in the growing medical transplant industry.
PACIFIC RESEARCH
Dr Tracie Mafile'o, School of Social Work, organized the first Pacific-wide symposium on social work. Held in Fiji in March, the 'Advanced Pacific Social Work Symposium', organized in collaboration with the University of the South Pacific and Western University of Sydney, provided a forum for Pacific social work educators, policy makers and practitioners from across the region to share practices and perspectives for the development of social work education in the South Pacific region. Rae Bainteiti, a School of Social Work student originally from Fiji, was invited by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to be part of a panel in Geneva, Switzerland on human rights, climate change and migrants and persons displaced across international borders.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMERCIALISATION
Massey University and Pacific Adventist University in Papua New Guinea are in the early stages. This is expected to establish the Pacific Adventist University Institute of Alternative Energy as a leader in education in renewable energy systems in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, ultimately resulting in social, cultural and. Professor Bruce Glavovic, School of People, Environment and Planning, was invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to serve as coordinating lead author on Chapter 4: Sea Level Rise and Implications for Low Lying Islands, Coasts and Communities of the Special of the Panel Report on the Ocean and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.
SUPPORTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
GROWING INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES
The University's staff includes more than 50 nationalities and Massey hosts more than 5,000 students from 160 countries around the world. As part of the adoption of the University's new strategic plan, revisions were made to our Internationalization Framework 2017-2025. The framework sets out a path for the University to engage strategically and continue to grow.
MASSEY UNIVERSITY WORLDWIDE
The agreement formalized an agreement that has seen 228 academics from 38 Chinese universities participate in a short course taught by the University's Center for Vocational and Continuing Education over the past three years. In 2017, a contractual agreement was signed with the Royal Brunei Armed Forces for the delivery of the Postgraduate Diploma in International Security in Brunei Darussalam. University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for the Massey University Master of Management (human resource management), delivered offshore through the University of Economics in Vietnam as a block program.
STUDENT EXPEDITIONS
PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES
INCREASING PARTICIPATION
MARKETING AND RECRUITMENT
OUR PROVISION
SUPPORTING PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
OUTCOMES AND MEASURES
PAST PERFORMANCE
EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE COMMITMENTS – 2017
Massey continues to work with other tertiary education organizations in the wider tertiary education system. The university's strategy is to grow in line with the growth of the general and school population in the areas surrounding the university's Albany campus. Since the last investment plan period, Massey has sold part of its Auckland campus and is investing in the development of new facilities.
POST-STUDY OUTCOMES
Massey does not offer the following areas: Levels 4-7 in Tourism Studies, Sports (Coaching, Games, Officials and Instruction), Beauty Therapy, Graphic Arts and Design Studies, Fine Arts and Word and Information Processing. An analysis of Massey University's provision for areas identified with low post-graduate employment outcomes shows that for non-degree (levels 4-7) and degree (level 7), the University already has overall low and declining levels of delivery to the areas. listed above. While there is no data available on post-graduate outcomes from the New Zealand Standard Classification of Education (NZSCED), overall the University shows post-graduate outcomes that are significantly higher than those of the university sector for non-degrees (49.9 percent of employed versus the sector 39.6 percent in 2014-15) and higher than the sector for degree level (73.6 percent employed versus 71.2 percent for the sector).
QUALITY ASSURANCE REVIEW
The University was pleased to receive recognition from the audit panel for the significant development and good work done in these areas. Some recommendations require long-term planning and activities involving a wide cross-section of the University. The academic audit is a snapshot of the University at a particular point in time, looking at the policies, processes and practices in place at that time.
OTHER MARKERS OF QUALITY OF PROVISION
They confirmed the confirmations of the audit committee that the university has identified where improvements are needed, that measures have been taken and the committee believes that the measure will be effective when it is completed. Activities and projects have been launched for all recommendations and significant progress has been made on some. Universities are evolving and student needs, strategic priorities and market influences influence how the university operates and the services that are needed and provided.
INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATIONS
Some activities to address the recommendations, such as grading practices, have been completed and benefits are now being realized. Areas such as benchmarking and equivalence, given the multi-campus nature of Massey University, are expected to take some time to complete. Monitoring shared services and the Academic Stability model are ongoing activities that may evolve over time.
RANKINGS AND RATINGS
The Shanghai Jiao Tong Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017 ranked two areas in the top 50; veterinary sciences 35th in the world, and food science and technology 45th in the world. It also placed Massey Business School's finance program in the top 150 finance programs globally, the highest for a New Zealand university.
FIVE STAR PLUS STATUS WITH QS STARS RATING
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Since the strategy was launched in 2017, we have begun to examine how our organization functions and how to best prepare ourselves for a dynamic and uncertain future. Our aim throughout the new strategy is to ensure that Massey remains sustainable and known. We have made significant progress in improving our business and financial processes and have already started investing in our IT systems in an effort to build efficiency and consistency across the business.
TRANSFORMING MASSEY
Although our strategy is still new to us, significant progress has already been made in achieving our goals. The strategy will serve as a roadmap for years to come, ensuring that the university can continue to be a world-leading university connected to community and business.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND CURRICULUM
PEDAGOGY REFORM
STUDENT SUCCESS AND ENTERPRISE
Kahurei is a unique Massey University initiative that provides students with a holistic education that focuses on imparting transferable skills, knowledge and competencies. A second stream of work within the initiative seeks to explore our current student academic advising and communication framework by conducting an external review of these functions. The recommendations from the review will be taken into account with the possibility of changes in the future.
TRANSFORMING RESEARCH
REDESIGN OF BUSINESS PROCESSES
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
DRAFT FORECAST STATEMENT OF SERVICE PERFORMANCE INVESTMENT PLAN 2019-21
NGÄ KETE O TE WÄNANGA | RESEARCH
INPUTS
OUTPUTS
TE AKO | LEARNING AND TEACHING
HEI ARATAKI | CIVIC LEADERSHIP
CAPITAL INITIATIVES
INVESTMENT IN FACILITIES
INVESTMENT IN ENTERPRISE-WIDE IT SYSTEMS
FURTHER INFORMATION
In this vein, the University continued to promote its Environmental Sustainability Strategic Plan with the circulation of the draft plan to staff and students for consultation in 2017. For example, the Lives and Afterlives of Plastic conference in 2017 was hosted entirely online by Massey University's Political Ecology Research Center during June and July. An example of this was the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples conference, jointly hosted by Massey University's Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.
