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c. How does the political economy of the university contribute to the perpetuation
of unacceptable and exploitative practices?
d. How does our self-interest facilitate anachronistic aspects of the academy?
e. How do we overcome inertia and lack of courage in confronting the major issues
facing our institutions?
f. Who controls the material, academic, organizational and social instruments to
reproduce the faculty and the university?
g. Do we have the capacity and categories for self-understanding and self-
clarification to transform ourselves?
h. What qualitative indicators can we point to in the data which is demonstrative of
real transformation?
i. How do we study and transform institutional culture?
j. What is the role of students and academics in the different dimensions of
university transformation?
k. What is the equity profile of our most powerful internal committees?
l. What role does teaching, learning and research play in institutional culture? How
can we study and disrupt these?
m. What is the correlation between the composition of committees and the nature
of decisions taken in respect of the goals of equity, inclusion and social justice?
n. How do we recognize and act against ‘gatekeeping’ inimical to the goals of
inclusion, diversity and social justice?
o. How do we set up our baseline data, especially in relation to the ‘hard-to-
measure’ areas?
p. How do we make sure that shifts in numbers for marketing purposes translate
into deeper experiences of transformation?
q. What does the barometer data say about us?
r. How does the distribution of academic and research support play out patterns of
in/exclusions?

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