ANU Information Technology Services | Overleaf, LaTeX editor access for all students and staff
ANU is providing Overleaf access for all students, faculty, and staff who would like to use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects.
Access by signing in through the ANU Overleaf portal page.
If you have any Overleaf related questions, please, get in touch with the Overleaf support team directly at support@overleaf.com.
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Our 2022-2023 Workplace Gender Equality Report is now available for comment. Submit your feedback to the Staff Diversity team by close of business 25 July 2023, or directly to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
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Academic Portfolio and Student and University Experience (SUE) Portfolio Realignment
From Monday 3 July, the Academic Portfolio and Student and University Experience (SUE) Portfolio will be realigning some key functions to help enable greater collaboration. The changes are as follows:
1. Access and Inclusion will be renamed Accessibility and move from the Division of Student Administration and Academic Services (DSAAS) to the Student Safety and Wellbeing Team in the University Experience Division.
2. The Engagement and Success team in the University Experience Division will be renamed Student Life.
3. Australia Awards will move from DSAAS to Student Life in the University Experience Division.
4. Student Central will move within DSAAS to the Deputy Registrar.
5. Equity and Belonging will be renamed Inclusive Communities and move into the University Experience Division.
We aim to make this as smooth a transition as possible for all staff and to minimise any disruptions to daily responsibilities. With the realignment process now completed we will move forward together under the Academic Portfolio banner.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact academicnews@anu.edu.au.
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The Division of Planning and Service Performance (PSP)
PSP has developed a new streamlined process (via Microsoft Power App), for applying for a Non-Standard Student Survey (NSSS).
Any researcher, student or staff interested in conducting a Non-Standard Student Survey (e.g. survey, focus group, interview) requires approval from the PSP Director. The approval is necessary to ensure surveys comply with ANU policy and procedure.
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Message from the Chief People Officer, Kate Witenden - Update on the University’s Enterprise Bargaining
The negotiations of the University’s Enterprise Bargaining are going well and we are tackling all the major issues on each parties log of claims. We have made positive progress on several clauses so far. To date, discussions have taken place in relation to over 75 per cent of the matters within the current Agreement. To further progress bargaining, ANU, NTEU and the other bargaining representatives are engaged in four days of bargaining discussions this week.
Some of the proposals that have already been put forward by the University as part of the negotiations include:
-Salary offer that provides a 16.99 per cent cumulative increase to staff salaries since the last increase provided in 2022;
-A commitment to limiting the use of casual employment to circumstances where the work is genuinely temporary, irregular or of an intermittent nature, and to providing pathways to more stable employment options, as well as a range of other initiatives to support our casual employees such as reviewing casual sessional academic activity definitions;
-Strengthening provisions for staff access to flexible work arrangements;
-Provision for existing staff to access choice of superannuation fund, in alignment with choice of fund legislation;
-A commitment to professional staff career pathways, to support our professional staff in achieving their potential;
-Incorporating our sector leading partner leave provisions from policy to the Agreement;
-Improved provisions to support our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff members, including enhanced access to cultural leave and;
-Paid gender affirmation leave, to provide support to our staff in their affirmation/transition;
-Wellbeing leave of up to two days per annum, provided for under existing staff personal leave entitlements;
Good progress has also been made on clauses relating to workloads, academic freedom, organisational change, review of decision, disputes and grievances.
As you can see, this is a strong indication on how parties are continuing to work hard to achieve an agreement.
You may have also seen that last Wednesday, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) voted to strike for half a day on 27 July 2023. NTEU have advised that this strike in response to the salary offer and casual employment matters being discussed in the course of bargaining, and their members would be meeting one week prior (i.e. 20 July 2023) to review progress made in bargaining, and to consider if the strike will take place. In the University’s communications with all bargaining parties, as well as the NTEU, all say that strike action is not their preferred action, achieving an agreement is their goal. This is a joint goal shared by ANU.
Further information on the bargaining process can be found on the Enterprise Agreement webpage. If you have any questions, please contact ea.comments@anu.edu.au
