The Board of Directors Newsletter September 2025 - Melbourne Institute of Technology

The Board of Directors Newsletter: September 2025 - Melbourne Institute of Technology

On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am pleased to bring you this edition of our newsletter for the period January to June 2025. It has been a busy few months, and the Board would like to take this opportunity to recognise the hard work of allour staff and share some key updates.

Policies and procedures approved

 Revised Agents Appointment Monitoring Management and Termination Policy and Procedure

 Revised MarketingPolicyand Procedure

 Revised Social Media Policy and Procedure

 Staff Health and Wellbeing Policy and Procedure

 Revised Domestic Student Agreement

 Revised HDR Supervision Policy andProcedure

Strategic Discussion

This year the Board introduced, as a standing item on the Board’s agenda, a Strategic Discussion. Each Board meeting the Board invites a different guest to present on their topic of experience or area of responsibility, the Board then follows this with discussion. The Board has hosted several special presenters including:

 Mr Sean Ryan, TEQSA Director on MIT’ Self-Accrediting Authority Status application and insightsintotheUniversity College category;

 Professor Mohini Singh,MITResearch Director on research at MIT;

 Professor Savitri Bevinakoppa, MIT Head of School (SITE) on Leading Academic Initiatives by SITE 2025-2027

 The Hon. Phil Honeywood, CEO International Education Association Australia, on current developments in internationalhigher education

MIT Strategic Plan 2023-2027 and Strategic Implementation

Plan

 Noted reports on progress against the Strategic Implementation Plan at its April meeting.

MIT Student Accommodation

 Considered and approved the business case for MIT’s strategic investment into Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) at 2-8 Spencer Street Melbourne including a strategic refurbishment investment of up to $20M to develop 190 plus beds for the PBSA facility and tasked the Executive Management Committee with its implementation. Given the pressing need for student accommodation in the CBD, this is an exciting project.

Appointment of Directors

 Following the retirement of Emeritus Prof. Wayne Robinson from the MIT Board of Directors and as Chair, the Board, sitting as the Nominations Committee unanimously appoint Dr Rowena Coutts the Chair of the Board of Directors effective 1 January 2025.

 Appointed Emeritus Professor John Yearwood as an Independent Director for a term of 2 years. Prof. Yearwood commenced his term on 1 April 2025.

Academic Board

 Accepted the Learning &Teaching Plan2024-2027 AnnualProgress Report 2024

 Endorsed the Research and Scholarship Plan [2025-2028]

 Noted the2024AnnualSelf-assessment of the Academic Board’sPerformance

 Accepted the AcademicAppealsCommitteeAnnual Report 2024

 Approved the revised membership compositionof theAcademic Board Executive (ABEX)

 Accepted the Final Report on Academic Board’s response to the recommendations from the2023 Loxton ExternalReview of the Academic Board

 Approved the following appointments to themembership ofthe Academic Board:

o Ms Sherine Soliman as Industry Representative (IT and Engineering) for a term of 2 years

o Prof. Adel Al-Jumaily as an Academic Staff Representative – SITE (Sydney) for a term of 20months

o Mr Rupesh KC as Student Representative(SITE). Read more…