Regional Updates 

Oceania Regional Coordinators:
Andrea Strachan (andrea.strachan@uq.edu.au)

ANNOUNCEMENTS/GENERAL ACTIVITIES

The international IASAS Board includes a Regional Director for Oceania who seek to connect student affairs practitioners, and promote professional development opportunities in Oceania.

  • Andrea Strachan (based in Australia) – representing Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific nations including Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
  • The Region requires a number of colleagues to come together to form an Oceania Team with a focus on sharing news, successes, opportunities and challenges across our many institutions and vast region.  We are currently looking for colleagues to assist with our work:
    • Regional Communications Coordinator
    • Regional Coordinator(s)
    • Regional Membership Coordinator

The success of our activity in supporting and building capacity across student affairs in the Region, is based on the input and assistance from many colleagues.

Our intention is to provide webinars, podcasts and mentoring. Members are also encouraged to access the regional group through the IASAS website to connect with our Oceania community and share news about research projects, professional focus groups, and other upcoming development and networking activities and events.

*If colleagues are interested in getting involved in leading aspects of our activity across our region, please get in touch.

CONFERENCES & EVENTS

Events in the region that may be of interest:

ANZSSA Annual Conference – Sunday 8 to Wednesday 11 December 2019, University of Otago in Dunedin

ISANA Annual Conference – 3 – 6 December at the Bayview Eden Melbourne.

RESOURCES

Journal of Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association: https://janzssa.scholasticahq.com

NOTE: The above is not an exhaustive list of all events or activities within each region, but only includes the information reported by our members.  For additional details of professional organizations around the world visit the IASAS website page Links to Higher Education and Student Services Organizations

IASAS does not necessarily support or endorse the events and resources listed on this page.  It is provided here for informational purposes.