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Creativity requires us to constantly review and improve our decision-making and practices for improved performance in line with our culture of ‘a shared responsibility and accountability’.
Fortunately, structures like the Senate and the Student Representative Council (SRC) remained steadfastly focused on their roles and actively defended the agenda of transformation that ENVISION2030 commits all of us to. By and large, the majority of staff members and the entire student body also remained focused on the academic project. With these renewed tensions between and among key structures of the University, it behoves all stakeholders to commit to rekindling the functional relationships and rebuild DUT’s unique social compact.
At its 19 August 2024 meeting the Executive Management Committee (EMC) approved the Living Values Implementation Plan in order to deepen and consolidate the strides we have made since the launch
of the LVF during the week of 18–21 July 2023. While there is evidence of progress on embedding the LVF and an emergent transforming culture, recent internal surveys and feedback have highlighted areas where our institutional culture could be strengthened to better support the University strategy and enhance improved and sustainable performance.
Creativity requires us to constantly review and improve our decision-making and practices for improved performance in line with our culture of ‘a shared responsibility and accountability’. For instance, the Living Values Implementation Plan is about focusing steadfastly and unequivocally on institutionalising, normalising and demonstrating our LVF in the critical life cycles of our
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