The mission of the Council of Australian Directors of Academic Development (CADAD) is to promote and advance research, policy and practice as it relates to the leadership, management and development of higher education learning and teaching.

CADAD is the peak professional body of Directors who have responsibility for academic development within their university. It seeks to enhance its members' capacity to be key strategic advisers in academic development.

CADAD aims to realise its mission by:

• undertaking an advocacy role for evidence-based processes and initiatives to advance learning and teaching in higher education
• providing leadership for the investigation, development and evaluation of international, national and institutional approaches to advancing learning and teaching in higher education
• encouraging and fostering communication and collaboration with key bodies (e.g., the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), ACODE, CAUL, CAUDIT) on the advancement of learning and teaching in higher education
• fostering collaboration amongst those central organisational units within higher education institutions which carry formal responsibility for academic development to disseminate and share knowledge and expertise in relation to their practices for advancing learning and teaching in higher education, and to establish and monitor benchmarks for performance
• creating and supporting professional development, career development, and networking opportunities for Australia's community of academic developers

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Future CADAD meetings

The University of Queensland, Brisbane

Institutional Profiles Update, November 2011

Most of the institutional profiles on the CADAD website are now out of date. We are updating the institutional profile document and ask you to complete this prior to the meeting in November. The profiles are made available to all members on the Community site and so are only accessible to members. These can be used for initial benchmarking, for identifying expertise and resources and for information sharing.

Please log in to the Community site to see your current profile and download the updated template (contact Alison, cadad-sec@mq.edu.au if you have forgotten your password).