Makerere University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences and UNISA, College of Human Sciences January 2018 Title slide – option 2

Points of discussion from a College Management perspective Viability: Increasing subsidy and income, especially for smaller disciplines, esp. in the Humanities Structural issues: cognate disciplines and / or cross-subsidization Workload issues: balancing teaching load and research; performance management, promotion criteria for academics, research and teaching excellence awards and incentives The issue of engaged scholarship (also called community engagement at Unisa) to be infused in all the teaching and research collaborations to follow

Points of discussion from a College Management perspective (cont.) The MoU will be finalized by the Makerere CHSS Principal and the Unisa CHS Dean The MoU will be at a more generic level than the projects identified here, although the identified projects and reports can form part of the motivation for the MoU The MoU will be at College level and not at institutional level, even though the two colleges may be a conduit to further collaboration at institutional level Montoring and evaluation will take place at the CHSS Principal and CHS Executive Dean’s level

Points of discussion from a College Management perspective (cont.) Some of the prioritized areas will receive immediate attention and will not wait for the final MoU (cf. next two slides for low-hanging fruits and priorities of 2018) Each of the projects listed below will have one or more colleagues as champions, with at least one from Makerere CHSS and one from Unisa CHS and they will work jointly by email on a concept note for each area for a three-year project, to be submitted to the Makerere CHSS Principal and the Unisa CHS Dean by the end of February 2018

Immediate low-hanging fruits for implementation before MoU Hasifa Kabejja as Makerere CHSS Communications Specialist to be added to CHS Notice so that Makerere CHSS will receive all notifications of events at Unisa CHS; she will screen and distribute to relevant colleagues in Makerere CHSS Hasifa Kabejja to send a list of all Makerere CHSS management team with their emails and portoflios to Dr Zawada, and vice versa Hasifa Kabejja to send a list of all Makerere CHSS scholars with PhD’s (with their areas of specialization and email addresses) to Prof Madise at Unisa CHS; Prof Madise will engage with Unisa CHS academic schools and departments to use Makerere CHSS as external examiners

Agreed priority areas for 2018 Joint curriculum conference: to start with arrangements and funding applications for conference to be late in 2018 or early in 2019 Second call for papers for Decoloniality Conference to be sent to Makerere CHSS for participation Mutual visiting academics’ programme to be implemented to maximize current funding applications such as e.g. from the Mellon Foundation

Possible programmes for collaboration Programme / curriculum review Masters & doctoral studies ODeL Faculty development OERs and digitization of African resources Gender & Women’s Studies Language and Literature Studies Research collaboration

1. Programme / curriculum review Background: UNISA is in a new phase of curriculum transformation and Africanization and wants to learn from Makerere; colleagues shared philosophical positions, challenges and achievements; issues around national accreditation agencies and external reviewers Proposal: Curriculum review conference (aim for end 2018) Champions: Makerere: Dean of Social Sciences Unisa: Deputy Executive Dean of CHS

2. Masters and doctoral studies Background: Both Colleges have more needs than capacity in certain areas Proposals: Sharing supervision and co-supervision; need to share capacity and needs so that there can be an exchange Sharing of external examination capacity Discussion on standards for doctoral qualifications; external and mutual benchmarking of doctoral programmes Joint lecturing in M&D cohort workshop programmes Champions: Makerere: CHSS Deputy Principal and Graduate Studies Coordinator Unisa: CHS M&D Coordinator (a, b &d) and QA Champion (c)

3. ODeL Background: Makerere is in the process of phasing out their evening programmes but need to retain the working student population, and wants to learn from UNISA Proposals: Sharing of expertise Sharing of resources Possible mutual accreditation of courses By means of mutual staff exchange, visiting academics Maximise possible funding, e.g. Mellon Foundation Champions: Makerere: CHSS Dean of Psychology and ODeL Champion Unisa: CHS Deputy Executive Dean

4. Faculty development Background: A mutual need for staff development was identified in two main areas (cf. below) Proposals: Offer joint Faculty Schools for Continuous Professional Development, in terms of Curriculum transformation and Africanization ODeL in the Humanities and Social Sciences UNISA to retain a number of slots in the Decoloniality Summer School for Makerere faculty Champions: Makerere: CHSS Principal, Deputy Principal, 5x Deans Unisa: CHS Executive Dean, Deputy Executive Dean

5. OERs & digitization of African resources Background: Part of UNISA’s drive to become a truly African university is to make African knowledge and epistemologies more broadly available. Sharing expertise in digitizing Hons and undergraduate student work Proposals: UNISA Department of Information Science to assist with a project to digitize Hons and undergraduate student work Identify niche areas of expertise to develop joint OERs for the continent Makerere: CHSS Deans of Psychology and Languages, Literature and Communication Unisa: CHS Deputy Executive Dean and Directors of School of Arts, Humanites and Social Sciences

6. Women and Gender Studies Background: Makerere has a proud history in African Women and Gender Studies; UNISA has an Institute for Gender Studies which can use support Proposals: Makerere CHSS Deputy Principal and Dean of Women and Gender Studies, and Unisa CHS Head of Research to come up with concrete proposals

7. Language and Literature Studies Background: Makerere is strong in the area of developing an African literature and languages programme and UNISA wants to grow in this area. Both universities have experienced a loss of student numbers and funding for modern foreign languages, and need to work on improving their teaching and research programmes in this area Proposals: Makerere CHSS Dean of Languages, Literature and Communication and Unisa Director of the School of Arts to come up with concrete proposals

8. Research collaboration Background: Both Colleges have more needs than capacity in certain areas Proposals: Academic associates (e.g. research fellows) Postdoctoral fellows Visiting researchers Sharing mutual information about conferences Joint research and funding proposals International editorial board for Decoloniality journal Identify niche areas in common, e.g. by accessing the software and / or data in the QA Office at Makerere Makerere: CHSS Deputy Principal Unisa: CHS Head of Research