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• % of research funding available for transformation
The diversification of knowledge, studies
its producers and beneficiaries, • Total number and value of grants
which specific emphasis on • Scholarly outputs on transformation themes
‘Africanization’ • Qualitative assessment of the roles of committees
such as research committees and ethics committees
on facilitating/ constraining transformation-themed
research
• Engaged scholarship
• Number of interdisciplinary diversity-themed research,
administratively, financially supported across faculties
Diversity and Enrolling and graduating • Number of students and demographic, socio-
inclusivity postgraduate students from economic, gender and ‘ability profiles’
diverse environments, • Study area and demographic profiles
geographical locales, ‘abilities’, and • Number of support initiatives for diverse post
socio-economic conditions (class graduate students
and social status) • Number of targeted recruitment initiatives of students
within a broad understanding of diversities, and
increase degree completion
• Develop and implement non-discriminatory
supervision standards and practices
• Number of interventions that facilitate postgraduate
student intellectual cultures
• Number of trainings on good practices in recruiting
and graduating diverse students
Internationally Commitment to developing and • % and value of funding/ support and development
recognised supporting the production of initiatives
research on ‘race’, nationally recognized research and • Number of research clusters
‘gender’, scholarship on race, ‘ethnicity’, • Number of scholarly outputs
‘disability’ and gender, ‘disability’ class, and other
social justice dimensions of transformation and
diversity.

Clearinghouse
of opportunities for funded
research, scholarship, and
creative activities addressing
transformation and diversity issues

Leadership, Diversity, training, Increasing opportunities for • Re-aligning skills development regime
relationships development and leadership training, professional • Institutional plans that link skills development with
with external professional growth and advancement of diversity training; and the diversification of the
stakeholders, growth diverse academics and staff in all professional base
and divisions
community Transformational Strong transformational leadership • Faculty, Departmental and Unit plans with targets in
engagement leadership at top level, deans and heads of place that include equity figures; and substantive
department; as part of key initiatives to advance inclusion
performance requirement • Number of transformation related training and
development interventions
Retraining and development of • Qualitative assessment of impact of transformational
academic and administrative leadership activities
managers

Coordination and support of
transformational leadership on
campuses, faculties, departments
and the various academic, support
and business units
Socially just, Advancing transformational • Qualitative assessment of external relations and
diverse, inclusive external relations and community community engagement on our academic and
community engagement practices institutional cultures
engagement • Number of transformational community engagement
initiatives - away from conventional, patronizing and
discriminatory paradigms, towards inclusive
epistemological practices
• Increase number and quality with diverse external
communities/ partnerships

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