Staff

Introducing our new Curriculum Management Approval System

Chief Operating Officer, Dr Stephen Weller and Interim Provost, Professor Zlatko Skrbis, introduce ACU's new Curriculum Management Approval System (CMAS), which went live last week.

Ethics in 2020 and beyond

Important dates Sunday 6 December

Ethics is an academic discipline, a subbranch of philosophy and theology. But it’s also something each of us thinks and talks about in handling everyday life, social issues and work matters.

Professional Term 8: Final date

Final date to withdraw from a unit via Student Connect with a Withdrawn Fail (WN) grade recorded on the academic transcript. Financial liability remains.

Student Connect

Farewell to Professor Michelle Campbell

Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Michelle Campbell will leave ACU this Friday. In honour of her dedicated service, she has been awarded the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Sapien...

AFR recognition for ACU

Congratulations to ACU staff involved in three innovative projects shortlisted in the recent Australian Financial Review (AFR) Higher Education Awards for their contribution to the sector in Australia...

Excellence in Student Experience awarded to Director LTC and ADLTs

The Director, Learning and Teaching Centre (LTC), and Associate Deans, Learning and Teaching (ADLTs) have been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Award for Excellence in Student Experience for their ...

LLC team awarded Excellence in Student Experience

The Living and Learning Communities (LLC) team has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award for Excellence in Student Experience. This award acknowledges the services and support they p...

Embedding Indigenous content in curriculum

All teaching staff are invited to complete a short survey about levels of confidence in embedding Indigenous content into curricula, teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander information, and acc...

Update on Performance Review and Planning changes

The ACU-wide introduction of the Progress Plan in early 2021 is a significant shift away from the current Performance Review and Planning (PRP) paper-based process. Here are some of the key changes an...

Congratulations to Pitch Plus winner Garreth Wigg

The Collaborate Plus team congratulate winner of the Pitch Plus Award Garreth Wigg, a religious education postgraduate student based in Canberra, for his digital experience idea.

Save your My Library Favourites

My Library will be upgraded to ACU's single sign-on system at the end of the month. Find out how to save your My Library Favourites or saved searches for use after the upgrade.

Celebrate ACU’s 2020 graduates

Join an online celebration to mark the graduation of almost 8,000 ACU students this Saturday 28 November at 5pm AEDT.

Digital Workspace Program and Team awarded for Service Excellence

The Digital Workspace Program (DWP) and Team has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award in Service Excellence for a transformational program that redesigns how ACU works and collabora...

Curriculum Management Approval System goes live

ACU's new Curriculum Management Approval System (CMAS) will be live from tomorrow evening after more than 12 months of intense, collaborative work from the project team.

Corporate Services end-of-year arrangements and deadlines

Find out what the end-of-year deadlines and operating hours are for a range of staff and student services within Corporate Services.

University closedown dates

ACU’s campuses close over the Christmas and New Year period each year due to public and university holidays. Here are the university closedown dates for 2020-21.

Chief Information Officer is tops

ACU Chief Information Officer and Director of IT, Niranjan Prabhu, has been awarded a place in the list of Top 50 CIOs in Australia.

Researchers awarded more than $2 million

A message from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Wayne McKenna: I am delighted to announce that ACU researchers have been successful in Australian Research Council Discovery funding for...

ACU academic appointed to National Liturgical Council

Assistant Director of ACU’s Centre for Liturgy, Dr Jason McFarland, has been appointed to the National Liturgical Council to advise on matters pertaining to Catholic liturgical worship in the Australi...

Advancing teacher education quality

ACU’s Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) project team has received international recognition in the 2020 European e-Learning Excellence Awards.

Examination Team Plus awarded for Service Excellence

The Examination Team Plus has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award for Service Excellence for moving from centrally scheduling on-campus, paper-based exams to scheduling all onlin...

Masterclass on Any Catholic University

Join Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Coordination) and Professor of Catholic Philosophy, Professor Hayden Ramsay, in his Masterclass on Any Catholic University as he shares key insights from Ex Corde Ecclesia...

Progress amid a pandemic

A message from the Executive Dean (Faculty of Health Sciences), Professor Michelle Campbell: I would like to acknowledge the amazing efforts and work from staff across ACU in this challenging year, an...

Update to Service Central operating hours

Did you know that Service Central’s operating hours vary according to service demand? From Monday 16 November, Service Central will be available between 9am and 5pm AEDT to assist with your queries.

OTC team awarded Spirit of Reconciliation Award

The Occupational Therapy Curriculum (OTC) team has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Spirit of Reconciliation Award for embedding First Peoples’ “knowing, being and doing” in the occupational therapy...

Supervise for Success update

There has been an overwhelming response to the first week of this year’s Supervise for Success program. The program has been developed for supervisors to have the opportunity to engage with each other...

Research engagement and impact toolkit available

Maximising the impact of research beyond academia should now be easier with the launch of the research engagement and impact toolkit. This resource includes case studies, fact sheets and flyers, tools...

Staff awarded for progressing reconciliation

A cross-disciplinary, co-designed project supporting culturally responsive practice in student placements has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award for Spirit of Reconciliation.

Online EndNote training

EndNote is a personal bibliographic software program that allows you to organise your references and build bibliographies for theses, research papers and more. Staff are invited to attend an online we...

Recruitment system update

A number of participants across the university have now contributed to a pilot of the Position Review process in Staff Connect, with an ACU-wide rollout planned for early 2021.

Q&A: Strategic Priority 6

To help you understand how you can support our strategic plan, we've been showcasing a different priority each month through a Q&A. This month, Chief Operating Officer Dr Stephen Weller talks about th...

PhD candidate wins inaugural studentship

Alysia Coventry, a Senior Research Officer at the Nursing Research Institute (NRI) and PhD candidate at the Centre for Palliative Care and the University of Melbourne, has been awarded a new graduate ...

2020 Vice-Chancellor's Medal for Excellence winners

The Student Urgent Relief Fund Team has been awarded the 2020 Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence in recognition of their work raising funds to support grants for students through the pandemic. Re...

Remembering our loved ones

A message from the Vice President, Father Anthony Casamento CSMA: November marks the Feast of All Souls and we remember our loved ones no longer with us.

Five community scholarship projects announced

ACU Engagement update: Following a competitive EOI process, ACU’s Stakeholder Engaged Scholarship Unit has selected five community-initiated scholarship projects across Australia for funding in the 20...

ACU Staff Ministry team awarded for Mission Excellence

Members of the Campus Ministry Staff Ministry team have been awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award for Mission Excellence for their dedicated work to provide a distinctive and mission-ori...

New short course in theology

ACU staff are invited to participate in a free online short course in theology: 'Reading for Renewal: Revelation, Revolution and the Reception of the Bible’. This four-week course will be delivered vi...

Why it is important to keep your EndNote library local

Did you know that cloud storage can cause problems for EndNote libraries? Find out how you can ensure that your EndNote library files are stored on your local hard drive.

Changes for Performance Review and Planning

28 October

ACU is responding to your feedback that the Performance Review and Planning (PRP) process needed to be improved. Through the ongoing development of our HR/Payroll system, Aurion, we are designing and ...