What Defines Academic Scholarship at Massey University in the 21^st Century?

30th October

Wellington Campus (Host Venue)

This year's Vice-Chancellor's Symposium, hosted on the Wellington Campus, Tuesday October 30th, is designed to address the above question. Next year marks 50 years since the passing of Massey's founding act of Parliament. At the core of that charter is the following assertion: ‘For the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination and maintenance thereof by teaching and research there shall be a University to be called Massey University’.

What does this claim mean to us now, five decades on? For one thing it means that the purpose of the institution is neither teaching nor research – these are just the mechanisms. Rather Massey has a higher scholarly purpose in advancing, disseminating and maintaining knowledge. But what do these practices, the practices of academic scholarship, mean for us today as professionals, as members of the Massey University community, as individual teachers and researchers? How are they changing, how are they reshaping us and how are we responding to these shifts? What does it mean to advance, to disseminate and to maintain knowledge in the 21st Century?

These are the questions that the 2012 Vice-Chancellor's Symposium will be considering and all Massey's staff are invited to take part in this year's event. You can click on the following link to register to attend the Symposium on the Wellington Campus:

• Register for the Symposium

• Participate online during the Symposium

• Login to the Symposium Stream environment

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