Waipapa Ki Uta: Waipapa the Landing Place

The place of arrival and connection, connecting the land and the sea, the domains of Tangaroa and Tāne. This is the space where people connect the far and the near, bringing in the resources that make this a space of abundance and generosity.

Icon with three parts, a small circle symbolising the sun in the top left hand corner, a curved, stepped ascending form going from left to right in the top half of the space symbolising a headland, and a curved line that starts narrow at the base of the headland, and widens as it reaches the bottom of the space symbolising the edge of the water as it meets the shore. Background is an ascending diagonal two-tone zig-zag or poutama step pattern.

Waipapa Taumata Rau actively cares for the places where we reside, including the cultural and social histories and relationships into which we are woven. Waipapa Taumata Rau delivers social, physical and digital services and facilities that are responsive and accessible, and enhance the mana, well-being and sustainability of our communities and planet.

Stanley is an older man with a whitening moustache and goatee beard and smiling eyes. He wears a cap, plaid shirt and leather jacket, standing in our rose gardens, surrounded by roses – red/pink in front, white behind. His body emerges from the roses from just above his waist.
Stanley Jones, head gardener of University of Auckland campuses for 14 years, 2023.

Taumata Teitei priorities:

  1. Create mana-enhancing experiences for our communities through effective, efficient and valued operations and services.
  2. Deliver a distinctive, capable, and flexible people-centred environment that celebrates our place in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific.
  3. Actively continue and measure progress towards overall sustainability and net-zero carbon status.
  4. Enable long-term operational sustainability and resilience through careful stewardship and planning and by enabling revenue growth.

Indigenising initiatives

  • Develop and embed Indigenous priorities and people capabilities to deliver the university, faculty and function plans to ensure the sustainability of Te Tiriti commitments.
  • Drawing on Toitū Waipapa, support the indigenising priorities of Te Rautaki Tūāpapa Estate Strategy and Te Rautaki Aronga Toitū Sustainability Strategy.
  • Refresh the University Language Plan for the Revitalisation of te reo Māori and Te Kūaha te reo Māori learning app for staff, students and alumni.
  • Develop an evaluation framework to measure the impact of Kawea Ake.

Measuring our achievement

The Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Operations and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Strategic Engagement are partners for all measures.

 Five-year performance measures
University, faculty, and function plans include Indigenous priorities and people capabilities that ensure sustainability of Māori interests.
Mātauranga a iwi, a Māori and the Toitū Waipapa framework guide indigenising priorities in Te Rautaki Tūāpapa, Estate Strategy and Te Rautaki Aronga Toitū, the Sustainability Strategy.
Establish, publish and track University Te Reo Language Plan commitments for the period 2025 to 2030.
Deliver a new 2024 version of Te Kūaha available to staff, students and alumni.

Waipapa Taumata Rau

Kawea Ake sections