Explore approaches to addressing equity issues in the tertiary education sector and create a personal strategy for addressing an equity issue.

Course outline

Online interactive workshop, using PowerPoint, discussion groups and other interactive activities.

Topics covered

This course will explore approaches to addressing equity issues in the tertiary education sector to enable participants to create a personal strategy for addressing an equity issue.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• explain the concept of equity and its importance in tertiary education
• identify equity issues in tertiary education organisations
• describe approaches to addressing equity issues in the tertiary education sector
• create a personal strategy for addressing an equity issue.

Who is this course for?

Anyone in tertiary education organisations wanting a basic understanding of how equity applies in tertiary education. 

About the facilitators

Christine Herzog

Originally trained as a social planner in the United States, Christine Herzog worked for the Auckland City Council as the Grey Lynn area planner from 1977-81. Subsequently, her interests shifted to community and adult education, with a focus on Te Tiriti o Waitangi from the mid-1980s. She spent over twenty years as co-ordinator of bi-cultural programmes in Te Tari Matauranga Māori at Manukau Institute of Technology, where she set up the Treaty Education Unit. In 2004, she moved to the community sector, becoming Coordinator at the Auckland Workers Educational Association where she established the Treaty Resource Centre and the related Culture Matters project.

Christine has facilitated more than a thousand Treaty and related workshops, for central and local government departments and other large institutions, for community groups, and for the general public.  She has also undertaken consultancy and published numerous articles relating to application of the Treaty in organisations. She was a founding member of Auckland Project Waitangi and continues to be active in Tamaki Treaty Workers. Christine supported Ngati Tamaoho Trust, a Waiohua hapu, through eight years of their Treaty claims negotiations and is now kaiwhahaere of Te Tai-awa o te Ora Trust, a kaupapa Maori social services organisation based in South Auckland. She was recently added to the Ministry of Education’s list of approved providers of professional learning and development for cultural capability, which includes the Treaty of Waitangi.

Catherine Delahunty

Catherine Delahunty has been teaching Te Tiriti o Waitangi workshops with a wide range of groups and in Polytechnics since 1988. She has also worked for the Department of Conservation, been a youth worker, a campaigner for Greenpeace, and a consultant on education issues. While in Parliament, she was spokesperson on education for the Green Party for nine years with a strong focus on adult education and was the Tangata Tiriti spokesperson working on Te Tiriti issues. She is a writer, a grassroots activist in Hauraki and a grandmother.

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