Ensuring Wits' sustainability
Entering Wits’ next century, it is important to set the University on a sustainable path. The higher education landscape has changed rapidly in recent years and we need to adapt and embrace change to be ahead of the curve.
We commit to:
Reimagining work and institutional life
- Using innovation to reimagine work for improved sustainability, efficiency, and access
- Enhancing access for multiple publics to university precincts
- Leveraging technological acceleration for both real-world and virtual platforms
- Preserving the university as a public, intellectually engaging, diverse space
Financial strength
- Expanding and diversifying income streams
- Growing the university's financial reserves
- Maximising cost-effective resource utilisation
- Addressing dependence on state funding and foreign donor reliance
Modernising systems and operations
- Digitalising university processes
- Ensuring cost-effective and efficient operations
- Optimising through continuous development of people, systems, and operations
- Maximising the benefit of IT modernisation
Campus of the Future
- Leveraging knowledge and human capital to design a leading model for energy, water, and waste efficiency
- Creating an environmentally safe, physically accessible, and green campus environment
- Improving access and security on and around campus
- Serving as an example for surrounding areas
- Working toward carbon neutrality