CUAC UK – The Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion
Church-Founded Universities in a
Decade of Change
28 February 2013,
Institute of Education, London
20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL (ioe.ac.uk)
A Resourcing Day
for
Vice Chancellors and Governors,
PVCs, Academic Deans, Deans of Students, HR Directors,
Heads of Education, Health care, Theology, Chaplains
and other HE managers
Aims
to explore the distinctive vision for a University that grows from our
Christian foundation
to learn from one others’ successes and good practice
to support one another in the contemporary expression and delivery of
our values and mission
Speakers
Professor Muriel Robinson, Vice Chancellor, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln,
Chair of CUAC UK
Professor Joy Carter, Vice Chancellor, University of Winchester, Chair of Cathedrals
Group
Rt Rev John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford, Chair of National Society Council and
Board of Education
Rev Dr Stephen Heap, Church of England National Adviser for Higher Education
Professor Rob Warner, Executive Dean of Humanities, University of Chester
Programme
10:00-10:30
Registration and coffee
10:30-11:15
Main session 1 – Setting the scene
11:15-12:00 Workshop 1 - Church Foundation values
What are our core values? How are they expressed? How well are they embedded?
12:00-12:20 Plenary feedback
12:20-12:45 Reflection in peer groups
- Core values and managing change
- Core values and seeing students as more than consumers
- Core values and the new landscape for teaching
- Core values and the new landscape for nursing
- Core values and the secularising drivers in HE
12:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Main session 2 - ‘Church-founded HEIs: impact on students’ (AHRC/ESRC findings)
2:00-3:00 Workshop 2 - Identity into action
a) How might we embed and express our foundation and mission more effectively? How
might our foundation be contemporised and transformative? (NB Could form sub-groups if
sufficient delegates with similar responsibilities)
b) External - How is a Church university best promoted? To whom and in what ways?
c) Collaboration – What can Christian universities do better together? How can we best
resource one another? (as institutions, and in our particular academic or professional
expertise)
d) Defending our core values – How do we best present Christian HEIs to government, to
media, to staff and governors
e) Transformation – How to build research priorities into HEIs with a heritage of teaching
excellence and professional development
3:00-3:30 Plenary feedback
3:30-4:00 Concluding session
Muriel Robinson – where we have got to?
Joy Carter– where are we going?
4:00 tea and depart
£20 per delegate. Pay for three and get your fourth place free.
To reserve places (£20 each, payable to CUAC UK) for your university delegation,
please contact: Charlotte Morgan, Faculty of Humanities Administrator, University of
Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ
email c.morgan@chester.ac.uk
When you book your places, please confirm any dietary and access requirements.