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Aligning academic perceptions of what constitutes a'graduate'with university graduate attributes. The past few years have seen an emphasis on explicit definition of skills and ideals that were once implicit in a student graduating from university. These skills are termed graduate attributes. Whilst these attributes are defined in general at a university level, the interpretation and contextualisation is devolved to each school. This has proven difficult for some schools to approach effectively due to misunderstanding and preconceived ideas of academic staff in the application of these attributes. As part of a larger project to interpret and map all graduate attribute in undergraduate programs in the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University, this paper describes the approach taken to address these misunderstandings and align academic thinking with the university strategic'graduate attributes' …