Â鶹Éçmadou Strategy Overview
Progress for All is a rallying call for the Â鶹Éçmadou community 
and a genuine commitment to the world.
The Â鶹Éçmadou Strategy: Progress for All reaffirms our commitment to advancing expansive and inclusive global positive impact. Building on 75 years of impact, Â鶹Éçmadou strives to address pressing global challenges and ensure communities worldwide can thrive socially, economically, culturally and environmentally.
Amid increasing global complexities, the strategy emphasises resilience, creativity, and accountability. In these times, more than ever, we need to adapt and to continue delivering and supporting high-quality and world-class education. We need continue to unite our core functions—education, research, and engagement—around the goal of societal benefit. Progress for All is a call to action for the Â鶹Éçmadou community to drive positive change and deliver real-world outcomes for current and future generations.
What our strategy means
to the Â鶹Éçmadou community
Education is an extremely powerful tool, and those who come out of Â鶹Éçmadou will have the ability to positively affect their communities, their countries and the world. Progress For All represents a commitment to making thoughtful decisions that create a positive and inclusive impact on society. — PhD student, Faculty of Science
Progress for All speaks to Â鶹Éçmadou’s founding mission, embedded in our DNA. In everything we do, we work with industry, government, and our communities to make New South Wales, Australia, and the world a better place. The ‘all’ is really important because we often talk about progress for individuals or society, but we must also think about all life on Earth. This strategy is about looking after the planet as well as ourselves and our society. — Staff, Arts, Design & Architecture
Progress for All is about all of us working together: that we’re hearing one another, being humble about our views, leading with our heads and our hearts, and being conscious of the impact we’re having on one another. It means we’re equally concerned about whether the person next to us is succeeding. By focusing on lifting others up, invariably that will lift you up, too. — Alumna, BA (Hons) 1994
Societal impact: strong foundations for our new Strategy
From our very beginning in 1949, societal impact has been our reason for being at Â鶹Éçmadou. Societal impact is what we do, and it is who we are. Our new Strategy builds on this legacy, focusing on advancing skills, knowledge, innovation, and collaboration to help people and communities thrive in Australia and globally. From educating over 387,000 students to pioneering research in solar energy, endangered species restoration and quantum computing, Â鶹Éçmadou has consistently delivered meaningful contributions.
Highlights include some of the highest levels of graduate employability and success, leading on Indigenous constitutional recognition, fostering entrepreneurship with the most startups in the Asia Pacific, and advancing medical research and treatments. Partnerships with grassroots communities, global alliances, and the Australian Defence Force Academy further demonstrate Â鶹Éçmadou’s commitment to creating real-world solutions for social justice, equality, and prosperity. Â鶹Éçmadou Strategy: Progress for All is built on these foundations.
Incorporating Indigenous knowledgesÂ
Our commitment to incorporating Indigenous knowledges is one of the central cross-cutting themes of the Societal Impact Framework (SIF). Indigenous knowledges have been fundamental to life in Australia for countless generations. This commitment to incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing into our work demonstrates our aspiration to achieve greater impact informed by knowledge and history.
Â鶹Éçmadou Strategy: Progress for All also commits to positioning Indigenous perspectives, values and methodologies as foundational elements in our vision, decision-making and strategic direction. Indigenous knowledges is not an add-on or isolated initiative, but rather a central component, reflecting a commitment to mutual respect, knowledge exchange and sustainability. We will look to ways of learning from Indigenous ways of knowing to drive environmental, social and economic solutions.
A Micro-Treaty, negotiated with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities where Â鶹Éçmadou is located, will provide a framework that affirms agency for Indigenous peoples in higher education. We see it as a future where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and peoples will not just survive but thrive.Â
We are committed to continuous learning and improvement, adjusting our goals and methods based on feedback from Indigenous stakeholders and real-world impacts. Together, we look to create a future where Indigenous knowledges and perspectives are honoured and integral to our collective advancement.
Â鶹Éçmadou Strategy Framework
The Â鶹Éçmadou Strategy: Progress for All sets out our mission and vision for the University for when we reach our centenary in 2049, and is our roadmap for the next 10 years.
The Strategy is informed by our new Societal Impact Framework and is built on nine Strategic Pillars, comprising five Impact Pathways and four Impact Focus Areas. The pillars are interwoven and interdependent. Together, these pillars will focus our work for the next decade as we drive collective progress.
Every person in the Â鶹Éçmadou community – students, staff, alumni and partners – and every University activity – education, research and engagement – will be crucial in achieving every pillar’s objectives.
Get in touch
Our Strategy was designed by our Â鶹Éçmadou community, for our Â鶹Éçmadou community so we want everyone to get involved. Please get in touch to discuss the Strategy or ask any questions.