As the leadership team of the North-West University we are dedicated to the pursuit of our dream to be “an internationally recognised university in Africa, distinguished for engaged scholarship, social responsiveness and an ethic of care”. As we pursue this dream, we are working hard on actualising our strategy, which aims to transform and position the NWU as a unitary institution of superior academic excellence, with a commitment to social justice.

To enable us to achieve our dream, the university has defined internal, external and financial success models. Of particular importance is the model for internal success. This encapsulates everything we do to offer a high-quality student experience in a supportive, diverse, enabling and caring environment, and ultimately produce top-rated, civic-minded graduates who actively contribute to the development of society.

In order for us to realise our success models, we need to create a shared organisational culture where every staff member and student is aligned behind a set of values, norms and everyday behaviours – where we all collectively live the NWU Way.

While the university’s current success models focus on creating a culture that is welcoming, inclusive and enabling, we believe that it is important to involve the whole university in crafting our desired culture and creating the NWU Way, which we can call our own.

Over the next few months, the university will embark on an NWU Way Culture Project to understand our current culture and define the future culture that will become the NWU Way.

This multi-phased project has already kicked off and will continue until June 2019. A key element of the project will involve focus groups where staff and students will be asked to describe and comprehend our current culture and assist us in determining the culture to which we aspire at our university.

During the course of the next six months you may be invited to participate in a staff or student focus group. I urge you to lend your voice, share your experiences and offer your ideas as we join together to understand the present and co-create our future.

The project will be informed by a diverse group of senior management team members, academics, support staff, student leaders and students from across the various campuses who will guide the process. Should you have any questions about the project or require further information, please contact Reitumetse Machaba at thenwuway@nwu.ac.za.

We look forward to creating an NWU Way that will guide us on our path to achieving our dream.

Kind regards

Prof Dan Kgwadi
Vice-Chancellor

Ons, as die leierskapspan van die Noordwes-Universiteit, is daartoe verbind om ons droom om “’n internasionaal-erkende universiteit in Afrika te wees wat bekend is vir betrokke wetenskapsbeoefening, maatskaplike responsiwiteit en ’n sorgsaamheidsetiek” na te streef. Terwyl ons hierdie droom najaag, werk ons hard om ons strategie te verwesenlik met die doel om die NWU as ’n unitêre instelling van voortreflike akademiese uitnemendheid, en met ’n toewyding aan maatskaplike geregtigheid, te transformeer en te posisioneer.

Om ons te help om ons droom te bewaarheid, het die universiteit interne, eksterne en finansiële suksesmodelle gedefinieer. Wat veral van belang is, is die model vir interne sukses. Dit omvat alles wat ons doen om ’n studente-ervaring van ’n hoë gehalte in ’n ondersteunende, diverse, bemagtigende en omgee-omgewing te bied, en om uiteindelik gegradueerdes van ’n topgehalte en met ’n burgersin te produseer wat ’n aktiewe bydrae tot die ontwikkeling van die samelewing lewer.

Om ons suksesmodelle ’n werklikheid te maak, moet ons ’n gedeelde organisasiekultuur skep waar elke personeellid en student ’n stel waardes, norme en daaglikse gedrag onderskryf – waar ons almal saam op die NWU-manier leef.

Terwyl die universiteit se huidige suksesmodelle daarop fokus om ’n kultuur te skep wat verwelkomend, inklusief en bemagtigend is, glo ons dat dit belangrik is om die hele universiteit te betrek om die verlangde kultuur en die NWU-manier wat ons ons eie kan noem, daar te stel.

Die universiteit gaan oor die volgende paar maande ’n nuwe NWU-manier-kultuurprojek aanpak om ons huidige kultuur te verstaan en die toekomstige kultuur, wat die NWU-manier gaan word, te definieer.

Hierdie multifaseprojek het reeds begin en sal tot Junie 2019 strek. ’n Sleutelelement van die projek sal fokusgroepe behels waar personeel en studente gevra sal word om ons huidige kultuur te beskryf en te verstaan, en om ons te help om die kultuur vas te stel waarna ons by ons universiteit streef.

Gedurende die verloop van die volgende ses maande kan jy uitgenooi word om aan ’n personeel- of studentefokusgroep deel te neem. Ek moedig jou aan om jou stem te laat hoor, jou ervarings te deel, en jou idees saam te bring wanneer ons saam besin om die huidige situasie te verstaan en ons toekoms saam te skep.

Die projek sal gerig word deur ’n diverse groep van ons senior bestuurslede, akademici, ondersteuningspersoneel, studenteleiers en studente van regoor die verskillende kampusse wat die proses sal lei. Indien jy enige vrae oor die projek het of verdere inligting nodig het, kontak asseblief vir Reitumetse Machaba by thenwuway@nwu.ac.za.

Ons sien daarna uit om ’n NWU-manier te skep wat ons op ons pad na die vervulling van ons droom sal lei.

Vriendelike groete

Prof Dan Kgwadi
Visekanselier

Rona re le Setlhopha sa Baeteledipele ba Yunibesiti ya Bokone-Bophirima, re ineetse go sala morago toro ya rona ya "go nna Yunibesiti ya mo Aforika e e amogelwang ke ditšhabatšhaba, e e itlhaolang ka sekolašipi e e tseneletseng, e e arabelang ditlhokego tsa boago mme e na le mowa wa tlhokomelo". Fa re sala toro e morago, re dira ka maatla go netefatsa togamaano ya rona e e ikaeletseng go fetola le go baya YBB mo maemong a go nna setheo sa seoposengwe sa akatemi ya boitseanape se se gaisang se se nnang le tlamego ya go tlisa tshiamo ya boago.

Go re kgontsha go fitlhela toro ya rona, Yunibesiti e dirisitse dimmotlele tsa Katlego tsa ka mo teng, tsa kwa ntle le tsa ditšhelete. Se se botlhokwa thata ke mmotlele wa katlego ya ka mo teng, o o akaretsang tsotlhe tse re di dirang go fana ka maitemogelo a go nna moithuti a a boleng jo bo golo mo teng ga tikologo e e thusang e e farologaneng e e maatlafatsang e e tlhokomelang mme mo bokhutlong go tswe baalogi ba ba bonwang boleng ba ba kgathalelang setšhaba ba ba abelang ka ditiro mo tlhabololong ya setšhaba.

Gore re kgone go diragatsa dimmotlele tsa rona tsa katlego, re tshwanetse go bopa setso se se direlwang mmogo mo setheong mo mongwe le mongwe wa badiri le baithuti ba tshegetsang dingwaelo, ditlwaelo le ditiro tsa letsatsi le letsatsi - mo rona rotlhe re phelang mmogo mokgwa wa YBB. Le fa mmotlele wa katlego wa Yunibesiti wa jaanong jaana o lebeletse go bopa setso se se amogelang, se se akaretsang le se se kgontshang, re dumela gore go botlhokwa go tsenya Yunibesiti yotlhe mo go bopeng ga setso se se solofelwang mme re bope Mokgwa wa YBB o re ka o amogelang rotlhe.

Mo palong ya dikgwedi tse di tlang, Yunibesiti e tlaa simolola ka Porojeke ya Setso ya Mokgwa wa YBB gore re tlhaloganye setso sa jaanong mme re tlhalose setso sa rona sa bokamoso se se tlaa nnang Mokgwa wa YBB. Porojeke e ya dikgato tse di farologaneng e simolotse mme e tlaa tswelela go fitlhela Seetebosigo 2019. Karolo e e botlhokwa mo porojekeng ke go tsenya ditlhopha tsa badiri le baithuti ba ba tlaa bodiwang go tlhalosa le go tlhaloganya setso sa rona sa jaanong mme ba thuse go netefatsa setso se re se solofelang mo Yunibesiting ya rona. Mo nakong e ya dikgwedi tse thataro tse di tlang, o ka kopiwa go tsaya karolo mo setlhopheng sa badiri kgotsa sa baithuti mme ke go kgothatsa go re fa kakanyo ya gago mme o fane ka maitemogelo a gago mme o tle ka dikakanyo tsa gago fa re tshwarana diatla go tlhaloganya maemo a jaanong mme re bope bokamoso mmogo.

Porojeke e tlile go tsamaisiwa mme e laolwa ke setlhopha se se farologaneng sa maloko a setlhopha sa batsamaisibagolo, baakatemi le badiri ba kemonokeng, baeteledipele ba baithuti le baithuti ba go tswa mo dikhamphaseng tse di farologaneng ba ba tlaa kaelang tsela ya tiro. Fa o ka na le dipotso dingwe ka ga porojeke kgotsa o tlhoka tshedimosetso e nngwe gape, ka kopo o ka ikgolaganya le Reitumetse Machaba kwa thenwuway@nwu.ac.za.

Re letela pele go bopa Mokgwa wa YBB o o tlaa re kaelang tsela go fitlhelela toro ya rona.

Madume ka masego

Mop Dan Kgwadi
Motlatsa-mokanseliri