| Summary: | In the first national strategy of its kind, universities will seek to grow the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students enrolled in university by 50 per cent above the growth rate of non-Indigenous students. This strategy is our commitment to work in continuing partnership with Australia’s Indigenous peoples. It guides work towards the common objective of translating declared rights into practice, and ensuring Australian universities are vehicles for social, cultural and economic development of, with and by Australia’s diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Through this strategy, Universities Australia members also acknowledge that, as large institutions that contribute significantly to Australia’s ongoing nation building, they have a strong moral obligation to social justice and self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. They also recognise the valuable contribution made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – through knowledge, expertise and experience – to universities’ development of effective global citizens and to the generation of new knowledge. The members of universities Australia endorse several principles to help with Indigenous participation. In endorsing this strategy, the members of Universities Australia commit to collaborate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academic and community leadership. Targets have been set for different levels of students and completion levels to allow for data collection and reviewing these targets at a later time to report on progress. [Executive summary, ed]
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