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Official information request for information related to the faculty name changes

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request dated 29 August 2019.

Your request was caught by our spam filter, and was received in our email inbox today on the 5th of September. We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 3 October, being 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

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Georgia Tawharu
Adviser, Information Access and Copyright – Legal Services
Victoria University of Wellington | Te Whare Wânanga o te Ûpoko o te Ika a Mâui

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I apologise for not including this in the previous email. But the University has resolved the issue which caused your email to be marked as spam. This will not happen again.

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Georgia Tawharu
Adviser, Information Access and Copyright – Legal Services
Victoria University of Wellington | Te Whare Wânanga o te Ûpoko o te Ika a Mâui

Phone: 04 463 5249
Room 213, Hunter Building
Gate 2 Kelburn Parade PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

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Kia ora Lisa

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act).

 

Information relating to your request is publicly available on the
University’s website [1]here.  In particular, you will find the relevant
minutes and papers from recent meetings of the University Council.

 

If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please feel free to contact
me.

 

Ngâ mihi nui

 

Georgia Tawharu

Adviser, Information Access and Copyright – Legal Services

Victoria University of Wellington | Te Whare Wânanga o te Ûpoko o te Ika a
Mâui

 

Phone: 04 463 5249

Room 213, Hunter Building

Gate 2 Kelburn Parade PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

 

This message and any attachments may contain confidential information. If
you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately
and destroy any copies of this e-mail.

 

 

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Kia ora Lisa

 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Information relating to your request is publicly available on the
University’s website [1]here.  In particular, you will find the relevant
minutes and papers from recent meetings of the University Council.

 

If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please feel free to contact
Georgia Tawharu, Adviser, Information Access and Copyright.  Georgia can
be contacted by emailing [2][VUW request email] or on 04 463 5249.

 

Ngā mihi,

Simon

 

Simon Johnson

General Counsel

Victoria University of Wellington

Phone: +64-4-463 6551

Mobile: +64- 21 898 187

Room 212, Hunter Building

Gate 2, Kelburn Parade

PO Box 600

Wellington 6140

 

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On 5/09/19, 1:56 PM, "Lisa Dymond"
<[FYI request #11082 email]> wrote:

 

    Dear Victoria University of Wellington,

   

    I request to know the following details surrounding the VUW faculty
name changes that have been announced by VUW in 2019.

   

    Specifically:

    1. Which faculties or sub faculties are being targeted for change?

    2. What research was performed to ascertain name change is necessary
or viable?

    3. Which faculties have either started, about to start or have
completed the research?  "At a faculty level we've determined from our
research that having the phrase Victoria Business School means close to 60
per cent of people assume the school is either in Australia or Canada and
the rest don't know, with only around 12 per cent thinking it's in
Wellington," Guildford 31/7/19 NZ Herald

    4. Who are the key stakeholders leading the changes, consider all
parties at a University council, faculty or sub faculty and/or staff
level?

    5. How much has been budgeted for the changes both in time and
financial cost, broken down per faculty and as a total?

    6. What is the timeline for change roll-outs by each faculty?

    7. Which internal and external parties have been engaged with or
involved in the PR of the name changes - both proposed and actual?

    8. How are the name changes decided and what is the process being
followed?

    9. How will the changes be advertised to affected/interested parties
such as staff, students, Alumni members and the public?

    10. Does the VUW Council need to approve the changes unanimously or by
a voting process?

    11. What research is being planned for following the name change to
review the success or failure of the changes?

    12. How much funding will be allocated to this review?

    13. Who decides and on what basis which faculties require name
changes?

   

    Yours faithfully,

   

    Lisa Dymond

   

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