ANU has partnered with THE (Times Higher Education) Campus: an online global community intended for higher education professionals to learn, share and connect with their peers across the globe. THE Campus is seeking ongoing contributions from academic and professional staff across the ANU for publication on this resource rich online platform.
Benefits:
- Bring your current research to a wider audience by sharing best practice and teaching and learning expertise to an extensive audience – reaching 3 million unique visitors per month
- A selection of articles are featured in the platform’s weekly newsletter – sent to the inboxes of over 30,000 academics and professional staff worldwide
- Published pieces are widely promoted on social channels – for example, to over 100,000 Twitter followers
- Receive invitations to appear on Campus podcasts, webinars and in-person events.
Content:
ANU staff are invited to share their expertise and knowledge around six key areas of higher education:
- Teaching and Learning
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I)
- Early Career research support
- Research Management
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Internationalisation.
Spotlight themes:
Fortnightly Spotlight themes offer a curated experience and guidance for potential contributors.
Offering practical advice from and for HE professionals on:
- How to market an online course
- How to sell your expertise in the form of short courses
- Understanding the higher education “market”
- Advice on collaborating with other institutions
- When to pool resources with other institutions
- Transnational education: the keys to success
- What are students paying for when they learn online?
- Balancing commercial and educational priorities
- How to demonstrate the value of online education to paying students .
Offering practical advice from and for HE professionals on:
- Strategies to move universities/faculties/departments to net zero
- Reducing plastic use in labs
- Incorporating the UN’s SDGs into curricula
- Increasing biodiversity on campus
- How to ease/respond to students’ climate anxiety
- How to encourage reuse and recycling on campus
- Carbon off-setting
- Including the student voice in environmental initiatives
- Greener transport/accommodation
- Veganism on campus.
Offering practical advice from and for HE professionals on:
- How to integrate Indigenous knowledge into curricula
- Insights and lessons from Indigenous-serving institutions
- Case studies from Indigenous centres on campuses
- How to support Indigenous academics
- Recruitment and retention of Indigenous students
- Foregrounding Indigenous knowledge in research
- Building belonging among Indigenous students in universities
- Engaging with Indigenous communities.
THE Campus guides:
THE Campus accept the following formats:
Written resources (750–850 words) – these are advice resources, not promotional pieces
Video resources (3–5 minutes)
Opinion pieces (800–900 words) – known as Views
The editorial process:
- Download the above guidelines.
- Email clt.comms@anu.edu.au to express your interest or send your draft resource directly to the CLT Communications team.
- Existing articles can be repurposed, in line with the THE Campus guidelines.
- The Communication Coordinator and the PVC (E&D) will review your submission before submitting it to THE Campus editorial team.
- Alternatively, present an idea for a video resource. The CLT Communications team can provide AV or editorial support, if required. Please complete the AV eForm.
- If your contribution is accepted for publication, THE Campus’ editorial team will liaise directly with you, if they have any suggested edits.
Last updated September 2024
Melita Dahl, Communications Coordinator, Communications team, Centre for Learning and Teaching
