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Renewed focus to help meet evolving AAIR community needs

The AAIR Executive Committee recently met to review our strategic plan. While COVID got in the way of us running this session earlier, we realised that it presented an opportunity to renew our focus to better meet the needs of our AAIR community that has evolved as a result of the pandemic.

Being an organisation that is predominantly run by volunteers, we are committed to focussing on areas that we believe will make the most impact on our community, given that we are also members of this community and beneficiaries of those focus areas.

Photo of the AAIR Executive Committee at the conclusion of the 2023 strategic planning session. All committee members are around a boardroom table, with some joining via Zoom on a screen in the background.

The strategic planning session, facilitated by Eva Seidel, was spent renewing the Association’s vision and mission statements. The new statements are:

Vision: We aim to be the pre-eminent Australasian association that empowers a professional institutional research community to be influential thought leaders.

Mission: We believe in building a confident and connected community that advances tertiary education and research success through useful institutional research.

We then identified key activities that we believe will help us achieve our vision and mission. These activities represented two themes that have now become the Association’s key focus areas: Building Capability and Building Community. These focus areas will become official portfolios for the Executive Committee to manage, and to build on them we will include the following activities:

Building Capability:

  1. Develop expertise in special interest group areas
  2. Promote innovation, investment, and awareness in institutional research systems and people

Building Community:

  1. Develop and maintain networks and ongoing collaborations
  2. Enrich online content and link the community in the virtual space

The AAIR Executive Committee took the opportunity to share this renewed focus with the community at the recent AAIR Forum in Sydney, with great input and feedback. We encourage the wider community to provide us with further feedback and/or to support these initiatives. We look forward to seeing how our renewed focus will help you get value from being a member of the AAIR community.

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To learn more, please visit our Mission, Vision, Values, and Strategy page.

Eva Seidel

AAIR Executive Committee member

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