Thank you Suellen, Dean of CHED
Today you hand over the baton as our Dean after five tumultuous and wonderful years at the helm of CHED, the Centre for Higher Education and Development.
We congratulate and thank you for this incredible contribution to shaping a world class Careers Service, at the University of Cape Town.
Your leadership and oversight has supported the building of an enabling structure where students’ career development is our focus and inspiration so that they may realise their potential and contribute meaningfully to the communities in which they live and work. We have experienced you as an equal thinking partner to scenario planning for our strategies and their ongoing implementation. It has been always with a rounded view of outcomes that you offered opinions, advice and direction.
We thank you for this.
Your continued and ongoing support for our events, programmes and endeavours, from pipeline bluesky ideas to fully formed and Senate-approved programmes. One manifestation of this takes the form of the UCT Plus programme which rewards our students for their extra-curricular involvement and enables the development of the fully rounded society-focused graduates for which we collectively strive across CHED. We recall many of our events, where you attended and always were a champion for our increased visibility across multiple networks and partnerships.
Your support to raising the attention of the importance of entrepreneurship strategies needed to support our graduates’ employability is so appreciated.
It is always astounding that you with all the many people you have worked with are able to deliver messages with the most personal touch to teams and individuals about their successes.
Thank you!
Despite austerity pressures, your courage to support new endeavours and kindling innovation has had impact. As a result, we have pushed the envelope to look at innovation and new ways to expand revenue streams and expand our reach to the students we serve.
Raising the attention of the Entrepreneurship Strategies needed to support Employability.
We salute you for this.
Your support for ongoing research in graduate attributes aligned, was engrained and visible in your vision for leading a world class career service and threading this across the organisation.
Reminiscing back to the 50th year celebration of the Service in April, this quote captures the essence of your clarity of thinking of the location and impact potential for the Careers Service.
Your words about how to operate and forge forward as a Careers Service will remain in our intelligence for many years going forth.
We salute you.
The UCT Careers Service Team