Assessment and Policy Development in Higher Education with AISHE 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 1 2 3 4 5 AISHE PLAN DO CHECK Niko Roorda

AISHE Auditing Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education University Vision on SHE Staff development plan SHE in Traineeships Communication about SHE Sustainability in Curriculum Environmental management

Plan Quality Circle Act Do Check

Plan Do Check 1. Vision and policy 2. Expertise 3. Educational goals 1.1. Vision 1.2. Policy 1.3. Communication 1.4. Environmental Management 1. Vision and policy Plan 2.1. External Network 2.2. Internal Expert Group 2.3. Staff Development Plan 2.4. Research & External services 2. Expertise 3.1. Profile of the Graduate 3.2. Educational Methodology 3.3. Role of the Teacher 3.4. Student Examination 3. Educational goals and methodology Do 4.1. Curriculum 4.2. Integrated Problem Handling 4.3. Traineeships, Graduation 4.4. Speciality 4. Education content 5.1. Staff 5.2. Students 5.3. Professional Field 5.4. Society 5. Result assessment Check

Five stages in a university: Activity oriented Stage 1: ad hoc individual initiatives Process oriented Stage 2: support by management projects System oriented Stage 3: assessable goals evaluation and feedback Chain oriented Stage 4: profess. field involved link with secundary edu. Society oriented Stage 5: society involved active in society

Example. Criterion 3.1: Profile of the Graduate Stage 1: The profile contains some aspects of SD. Stage 2: SD is named explicitly in the profile (…) SD in a broad, multidisciplinary sense is recognisable in het profile (…) Stage 3: The professional field is actively involved in the design of SD elements in the profile (…) Stage 4: Many actors in society are involved in the design of SD elements in the profile: a transdisciplinary process (…) Stage 5:

Consensus meeting Teacher 1 Teacher 2 Student 1 Student 2 Manager 1 1.1 Vision x 1.2 Communic x 1.3 Public pos x 2.1 Network x 2.2 Expert Inst x 2.3 Staff Dev x 2.4 Knowledg x 2.5 Research x 3.1 Envir Man x 4.1 Prof profil x 4.2 Responsib x 4.3 Attitude x Teacher 1 1.1 Vision x 1.2 Communic x 1.3 Public pos x 2.1 Network x 2.2 Expert Inst x 2.3 Staff Dev x 2.5 Research x 3.1 Envir Man x 4.1 Prof profil x 4.2 Responsib x Teacher 2 1.1 Vision x 2.1 Network x 2.3 Staff Dev x 2.4 Knowledg x 2.5 Research x Student 1 1.2 Communic x 2.2 Expert Inst x 2.3 Staff Dev x 2.5 Research x Student 2 1.1 Vision x 1.2 Communic x 1.3 Public pos x 2.1 Network x 2.2 Expert Inst x 2.3 Staff Dev x 2.4 Knowledg x 3.1 Envir Man x 4.1 Prof profil x 4.3 Attitude x Manager 1 Consensus meeting 1.1 Vision x 1.2 Communic x 1.3 Public pos x 2.1 Network x 2.2 Expert Inst x 2.3 Staff Dev x 2.4 Knowledg x 2.5 Research x 3.1 Envir Man x 4.1 Prof profil x 4.2 Responsib x 4.3 Attitude x Consensus

Part of an AISHE report:

1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 1 2 3 4 5 AISHE PLAN DO CHECK

Policy Plan So, what you get: Sustainability A nice picture Lively discussions Involved people A verbal description of now… … and of the desired situation and a task for the management! Sustainability Policy Plan

AISHE Project 2002 (probably also in 2003) SHE Consultancy for Universities AISHE Audits SHE Policy development Workshops for the staff, etc. Training course for University SHE Co-ordinators

Auditing Instrument for AISHE Auditing Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education Niko Roorda, nroorda@planet.nl