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• Institutional culture: do we consider how some individuals This work should land in the institutional culture WG.
may be apathetic and non-participating. What is creating • Apathy is found in all kinds of institutions. Reproductive
this disinterest, and can it be remedied? Is apathy a theories tell us that many people in an institution will have
non-factor and how do we then navigate it? apathy. But it’s an active apathy.
• Prevailing sense of apathy amongst students. • Values, symbols, and signs – WG will consider visual
• When we assumed the name, it automatically sets a redress.
standard. We will be measured according to our name. • The Meta Analysis report – could become one of our main
No other institution in the world shares that same name. source documents in going forward.
Mandela name has the same power are Jesus Christ. • TB aligned with V2030 and ITP – there are many
• Mandela University should take the opportunity to live up colleagues in the field than can provide assistance.
to the name and stamp out the rampant apathy. Students • Measurement, M&E of transformation – Is important but
don’t really care and believe their lecturers don’t care. UG many escape routes exist to avoid these.
students have the greatest sense of apathy. Can we • Unresolved national question in the country. University
identify the root cause of the apathy? functions against the backdrop of broader society – how
• Mandela name: The striving for vs living of. The iconi- things play out/not play out. We have students coming
sation of Mandela shouldn’t make the burden of carrying from a broad society.
the name too heavy to bear. • Centrality of student voice / student consultations.
• We can rather use the name to set the horizon for us. • Stakeholder communities and how they feed into institu-
Mobilise around a set of values imaged in the icon of tional culture.
Mandela. It can help build a cohesive identity. • We have dropped the ball in terms of the national ques-
• Implementation issues will remain a very real issue. tion. We have new forms of nationalism creeping in. We
• M&E: we could spend more time deconstructing the need to bring this question much more to the fore.
dimensions of institutional culture rather than indicators.

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