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Sustainability: The role of Advancement

Sustainability: The role of Advancement . The Next Generation of Academics Carnegie Meeting Nairobi November 2010. Content. Context Resources Advancement Divisional Structure Development Office Structure & Function Reputation Case Study Partnerships Social Leadership. Context.

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Sustainability: The role of Advancement

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  1. Sustainability:The role of Advancement The Next Generation of Academics Carnegie Meeting Nairobi November 2010

  2. Content • Context • Resources • Advancement Divisional Structure • Development Office Structure & Function • Reputation • Case Study • Partnerships • Social Leadership

  3. Context • Paradox: Shrinking public finding – expanding salience of knowledge & skills • Redistribution of knowledge-production across sectors of society • Draw on resources from the wider reservoir of society • Repositioning HE in relation to other social institutions (private sector, government, etc) • Restructuring relationships between HEIs themselves • Protect the central covenant of the academy

  4. The Advancement Project • Advance the strategic priorities of the university in collaboration with partners more widely • Institutions need to attract resources and support

  5. Resources & Support • Four kinds of ‘capital’ • Economic capital • Intellectual capital • Relational capital • Reputational capital

  6. Relational Capital • Johan Mouton’s presentation • Boundary-crossing is high-cost • Needs to be sustained to yield rewards • Convergence of purposes • Mutuality of rewards • Dedicated resources & distinctive skills

  7. Reputational Capital • Profiling & asserting one’s real excellence • Projecting a compelling institutional identity • Attracts excellence – staff, students & partners • Attracts resourcing of all kinds • Sustains loyalties & affiliations • Institutional self-affirmation & self-confidence • Shapes the stance of all role-players: state, donor/partners, private sector, civil society, individuals • Sustainability is built on known excellence (Alex Ezeh)

  8. Wits’ Advancement Structure Deliberately brings together (Inyathelo): • Development and Fundraising • Alumni Relations • Marketing • Communications • Public Relations and Events Management • Partnerships

  9. Intentions • Shared purposes, widened perspectives • Complementary skills & resources (data-bases) • Boundary softening • Collaborative relationships • Reputation & resources

  10. Development & Fundraising Fundraising strength arises from: • Research, intelligence gathering & strategy • Data-bases • Sectoral specialisation • Strong project & monitoring systems • Stewardship systems, and ingenuity • Academics as partners • Commitment of leadership

  11. Case Study Discovery of the Sediba fossils • 2 skeletons of early homind • Almost 2 million years old • Declared new species • Transitional form – challenges existing theories

  12. Case Study Sediba fossils – public launch: • Every unit involved • Unprecedented media coverage globally • Institutional morale • Government ad hoc grants (& future promises!) • Commercialisation possibilities (media contract) • Strengthened, or energised, relationships • Strengthened regional development project • Re-worked national policy on Palaeo-sciences

  13. Sustainability Advancement can: • Reposition institutions reputationally and competitively (based on firm substance) • Grow & sustain support from various constituencies • Optimise third-stream resource flows • Enable self-driven institutional development • Strengthen institutional self-confidence

  14. Resourcing • Current internal optimization measures • Contemporary philanthropy • Need significant change in the external resourcing environment • Change the custom & practice of resourcing streams • Recruit deep pools of capital in private sector • Underspent, poorly directed state budget

  15. But: • Unlikely to resource the imperatives & ambitions • System remains dependent on external funding – usually ear-marked, restricted time-horizons • Privatised investment vs. Social investment • Need significant change in the external resourcing environment • Change the custom & practice of resourcing streams • Recruit deep pools of capital in private sector • Underspent, poorly directed state budget

  16. Social leadership • The shifting social contract with HE • ‘Values’ trumped by ‘value’ • The new social contract is being written by outsiders • HEI’s as platforms for informed deliberation on issues of high social consequence

  17. Partnerships Address the ‘Big Issues’, the ‘Grand Challenges’ • (Re)assert the role of partnerships: • Organic (bilateral) • Structured (multilateral ) • Strategic (multi-institutional) In the absence of formal differentiation: • Self-driven assertion of identity • Niche-seeking • niche-consolidating • niche-authority

  18. Social Authority • Insist of the role of HEIs in National Science & Innovation Systems • Articulate, authoritative & compelling • We are being positioned; how do we position ourselves?

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