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AACRAO Australia Study-Tour Delegation Visit “Australia & North America Working

AACRAO Australia Study-Tour Delegation Visit “Australia & North America Working Together to Advance Access and Equity”. AACRAO 2013 Annual Meeting Session # W3.770 , Tuesday, April 17th, 2013. AACRAO partnered with Australian Education International (AEI).

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AACRAO Australia Study-Tour Delegation Visit “Australia & North America Working

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  1. AACRAO Australia Study-Tour Delegation Visit “Australia & North America Working Together to Advance Access and Equity” AACRAO 2013 Annual Meeting Session # W3.770, Tuesday, April 17th, 2013

  2. AACRAO partnered with Australian Education International (AEI). May 2012 a North American delegation visited the following: ~Australian government ~Tertiary organizations ~Fulbright commission ~10 Australian Universities

  3. Who is AEI-NA? The mission of AEI is to facilitate international collaboration and partnerships in education and training in order to support mobility and the global exchange of knowledge.

  4. Areas of Exchange/Discussion: • Serving the Community – being a global entity while serving the local community. • International Education – as part of the mission and community. • Social Inclusion – mission to policy to practice. • Completion & Quality – the role and responsibility of university staff

  5. Visited 4 Capital Cities: Canberra National Capital Melbourne Brisbane Sydney

  6. Australian institutions

  7. AACRAO Australia Delegation

  8. Some differences between three English-Settler Societies

  9. Serving the Community • Australian institutions are getting creative about access and equity via Foundation programs to the community • K-12 level educational need on aspirations for indigenous groups • Education has emerged as a tool for nation building and strengthening Native communities, empower our students to utilize that tool

  10. International Education • Australia has a culture of attracting international students, int’l students retain higher than domestic students • Awareness of and strategies to effectively manage globalization, demographic shifts, fiscal realities • More attention to articulation of credits, persistence, retention, success,

  11. Social Inclusion • Focus on low SES measure too narrowly focused on low SES • Increasing understanding of public universities • Success strategies by North American Universities

  12. Completion & Quality • Managing quality - performance measures to achieve targets • Accountability, reporting, transparency • Holistic, Broad-Based Admissions in North America. Use of noncognitive variables in admissions as a retention tool

  13. Aboriginal/American Indian/First Nations student access, equity and success. • Australian Indigenous focus • Quality for indigenous learners, means that they can see themselves, their communities, and their worldviews reflected in their formal educational experiences. • Incorporating Indigenous ways into the four key areas

  14. Next Steps for Us and Opportunities for You • Conferences • Publications • Partnerships • Future delegations • Scholarship awards for in-country projects • Student exchanges

  15. To our fathers’ fathers The pain, the sorrow; To our children’s children The glad tomorrow. - OodergooNoonnuccal (excerpt from “Song of Hope”)

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