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Deliver
on our obligations to one another, our
students and stakeholders while maintaining high
standards and ethical behaviour;
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Engage
and collaborate with one another, our
students and all stakeholders;
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Empower
one another and our students to
make a difference. MUT ensures the safety and
wellbeing of our people. We create an inclusive
and supportive university community in which
achievements are celebrated and rewarded. Our
people have the opportunity to enrich their lives
and pursue their goals;
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Discover
and share new knowledge and new ways
to lead through teaching, intellectual engagement
and use of technology; and
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Sustain
our local and global environment,
organisational health and ability to create a viable
future.
The third aspect of our transformation agenda is to
reinforce the foundational themes for MUT. These are
the critical capabilities which MUT needs to develop
for the success of our 2025 strategy. They point to the
skills and perspectives needed to inform the culture
within MUT and guide our role beyond the University.
Our foundational themes are:
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Transformative leadership:
critical thinking,
analytical and reflective evaluation, and the ability
to effect positive change;
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Promoting diversity:
understanding and valuing
differences among us. Enhancing our view of the
world, how we express ourselves, relate to one
another, and our intellectual and moral obligations;
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Globalisation:
technological, communicative,
social, and cultural knowledge and skills to lead
and succeed in the intensively connected global
world.
Our transformation agenda is well documented in
MUT Strategy 2025. The onus is now upon us to
educate ourselves about our core values, leadership
capability expectations and foundational themes for
MUT. Would these change any of us? Yes. As I said
during the State of the University address:
“We must put our students first and ensure an
environment conducive to learning and student
success. The first-year students who are joining
us for the first time are beginning a new life with
new routines and new ways of thinking. Let us join
them as they set out on this exciting journey. Let
us help them to cope with new challenges and
opportunities. From all our students, we expect
a positive attitude towards study. They must
demonstrate that they are ready to work hard – that
they are not applying to MUT just to receive the
NSFAS allowance and enjoy a social life. This is
crucial in this era of a stagnant national economy
which is attended by joblessness among our
graduates and attractiveness of our institutions as
places of sanctuary cushioned by NSFAS grants.
We have to reassert our institution as a place for
learning first and foremost.”
With or without COVID-19 threats, our transformation
trajectory must be foregrounded by our ability to
understand and execute our MUT Strategy.