SYDNEY – The University of Technology Sydney has confirmed it will improve Aboriginal participation in higher education by appointing a respected leader, then bravely letting the institution do what it does best: schedule.
Sources say the appointment was celebrated with a “historic” morning tea, followed by a rapid rollout of governance activity designed to ensure no single outcome occurs without first being evaluated, re-evaluated and placed in a future “implementation roadmap”.
UTS insiders confirmed the university has already established the Indigenous Participation Working Group, the Indigenous Participation Working Group Oversight Working Group and a small but powerful Subcommittee for the Strategic Use of the Word ‘Journey’.
“We are deeply committed to tangible change” said a spokesperson, while pointing to a colour-coded wall chart titled 2026–2037: Pathway To Considering Possibilities. “The Council will be empowered to ask the hard questions, like ‘What is a student?’ and ‘Can we put reconciliation in a KPI?’”
In a bold move to increase access, the university also announced a new “Open Doors” initiative, where doors will be ceremonially opened during a photo call, then immediately closed due to “campus safety protocols and budget headwinds”.
Students welcomed the news, noting that universities are uniquely skilled at producing reports about inequity at the exact moment they’re cutting the resources required to fix it.
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