Meeting No 2/96 of the Academic Board was held on Wednesday, 28 February 1996 in the Council Room of the University, commencing at 2.15 pm.
There were present:
Vice-Chancellor Professor MI Logan, AC - presiding, Ms H Anderson, Ms M Anderson, Mr P Annal, Mr C Avram, Professor R Axford, Ms A Bardoel, Professors CJ Bellamy, J Bigelow, A Bond, Assoc Professor G Bouma, Professors J Bowers, JW Breen, ML Brisk, R Brown, Assoc Professor RAR Bywater, Professor B Caine, Assoc Professor JD Cashion, Ms D Ceddia, Professors BW Cherry, JLC Chipman, Ms V Clulow, Professor R Coppel, Ms O Cornelius, Professors J Crossley, R Curnow, Dr D Cuthbert, Professor PLeP Darvall, Dr G Davies, Assoc Professor R Devenish, Professor AJ Duggan, Assoc Professor S Easton, Professor GK Egan, Dr M Evans, Dr MSJ Gani, Mr R Garnett, Ms R Gedge, Professor C Gibbs, Dr D Goldsworthy, Professor G Griffin, Dr IP Griffith, Professor P Grundy, Mr B Harding, Professors K Hart, MTW Hearn, M Hooper, T Hore, Mr M Iskander, Professors WR Jackson, R Jones, MJ Kartomi, Mr BA Knox, Professor M King, Assoc Professor A Lill, Mr E Lim, Professors P Nagley, I Nicholls, Ms T Nicholls, Dr F Ng, Professors RJ Pargetter, B Parmenter, Mr C Paterson, Professors JR Pilbrow, R Porter, U Proske, M Quartly, J Ratnatunga, Dr J Redman, Professors J Redmond, JA Rickard, B Seddon, M Skully, Mr ML Soste, Professor PJ Stewart, Assoc Professor P Swatman, Professors P Tharenou, N Thomson, Mr J White, and Professor RT White.
Apologies were received from: Professor J Anderson, Dr J Brien, Ms M-L Brien, Professors P Chandler, MN Clayton, DM de Kretser, Ms M Drysdale, Professors R Doherty, A Farley, Dr L Farrell, Mr J Glover, Professors JD Hamill, J Harris, Dr B Hatley, Dr P Nestor, Professor J Northfield, Ms C Spencer, Mr PB Wade, Professors PL Waller, LHT West, and CR Williams.
In attendance was: Ms ER Brooks, Executive Officer, and Ms JH Newham, Secretary.
Observers: Ms E Anderson, Mr R Burnet, Ms BL Chew, Ms V Maschette, Dr S Matchett, and Professor J Wood.
The Steering Committee had met on Tuesday 20 February 1996 in the James McNeill Room.
Present were: Professors RJ Pargetter (Chair), J Pilbrow, P Tharenou, and Associate Professors M Evans and M Gani.
Present by Invitation was: Professor JLC Chipman.
In attendance were: Ms E Anderson, Ms ER Brooks, Ms O Cornelius and Ms JH Newham.
M I N U T E S
| *1. | ARRANGEMENT OF AGENDA AND PROCEDURAL MATTERS | |||
| 1.1 Starring of Items | ||||
| Items 8.2 and 8.5 were starred by members of the Board, and item 3.1 was added to the Agenda. | ||||
| 1.2 Approval of Non-Starred Items | ||||
| The recommendations of the Steering Committee were adopted without discussion for all items other than those starred. | ||||
| 2. | MINUTES | |||
| 2.1 Minutes of Academic Board Meeting No 1/96 held on 31 January 1996 | ||||
| The Minutes of Academic Board Meeting 1/96 were confirmed and signed. | ||||
| 3. | MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES | |||
| * 3.1 University Surveys and their Co-ordination | ||||
| A paper was tabled (Attachment 1) which replaced the paper submitted to Academic Board Meeting 1/96 (Item 5.9: Statistics and Surveys). | ||||
| The Academic Board received and noted the tabled paper dated 22 February 1996, which revised information noted by the Board at Item 5.9 of the Academic Board Agenda 1/96. | Secretary | |||
| (File No 94/1245) | ||||
| 4. | MATTERS REFERRED TO ACADEMIC BOARD BY COUNCIL | |||
| The Board noted that there were no matters referred to Academic Board by Council for this meeting. | ||||
| * 5. | REPORT OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR | |||
| 5.1 Computing, Communications and Multimedia Advisory Board Report | ||||
| (Circulated p 0357-0358). | ||||
| Professor Egan advised the Board that a further report would be available for the next meeting of the Board. He also advised the Board that the issues which he and the Advisory Board were considering were more complex than a single report could encompass, and that he anticipated presenting a series of reports to the Board. | Professor Egan | |||
| The Vice-Chancellor indicated that this item would be a standing item of the Vice-Chancellor's Report for the foreseeable future. | Secretary | |||
| The Academic Board received and noted the report of the Computing, Communications and Multimedia Advisory Board (previously the Communications and Multimedia Advisory Board); and noted that the full report requested at Meeting 8/95 of the Board would be presented to the April 17 1996 Meeting of the Board (3/96). | ||||
| (File No 95/0954) | ||||
| 5.2 CASMAC | ||||
| At Meeting 1/96, the Board received a paper dated 17 November 1995 regarding CASMAC (Academic Board item 6.5). Discussion of the item was deferred to this meeting of the Board. | ||||
| An additional paper dated 7 February 1996 was circulated to the Board (p 0359 - 0361). | ||||
| The Acting General Manager, Mr J White, informed the Board that the CASMAC project under development by the UniPower consortium of 19 universities involved the establishment of five large software systems, and a total commitment of $25 million over seven years. Mr White said that Monash University would use the Finance and Human Resources Systems and would examine carefully the Research and Consultancy and Physical Resources packages, but he did not anticipate using the Student Records System. He informed the Board that the MUSIS and MEMFIS student records systems were of more benefit to this University as they had been developed for this particular environment over the past several years. | ||||
| In response to a question from a member of the Board, Mr White advised the Board that there was a performance bond relating to the delivery of the finance system, but that Monash expected no significant delays in the delivery. He also advised that the system as a whole was anticipated to be fully operational by the end of 1998. | ||||
| The Academic Board noted the report on CASMAC and the information presented by the Acting General Manager. | ||||
| (File No 95/0486) | ||||
| 5.3 Research | ||||
| The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor PLeP Darvall, advised the Board regarding the current round of scholarship offers to postgraduate students, the applications for the Monash University Logan Fellowships, and the applications for ARC Small Grants and Australian Research Centres. A member of the Board queried whether the University would offer "trial collaborative grants" as this scheme had been successfully piloted at other universities, and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor agreed that this might prove a viable and valuable option at Monash. | Professor Darvall | |||
| The Academic Board noted the advice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor PLeP Darvall regarding scholarship, ARC Small Grants and Australian Research Centres applications. | ||||
| (File No 93/1694) | ||||
| 5.4 Subfaculty of Art & Design | ||||
| (Circulated p 0363 - 0367). | ||||
| The Vice-Chancellor introduced the proposal and then asked the Dean of the Faculty of Arts to speak. | ||||
| Professor Quartly informed the Board that the Faculty of Arts and the Subfaculty of Art and Design were in agreement that the proposal before the Board was the best way to proceed at this time. In addition, she informed the Board that the Committee of Deans had suggested that the proposed name for the College should be the "Monash University College of Art & Design". | ||||
| Professor Quartly further commented that the efforts of the Subfaculty to enhance its reputation, and those of the Head of the Subfaculty in particular, were to be applauded, and that it was anticipated that the new College would in time become a major player in its field of expertise. | ||||
| In response to a question from a member of the Board regarding the differences between the history, cultures and traditions of colleges of art and design as opposed to those of universities, the Head of the Subfaculty advised the Board that he "wanted to make sure that they did not stop doing what it is that they do and begin to write about what others do instead". | ||||
| The Academic Board approved the proposal of the Faculty of Arts and the Sub-Faculty of Art & Design, endorsed by the Committee of Deans at its Meeting 2/96, that: | Professor Quartly, Professor Redmond | |||
| The Subfaculty of Art & Design continue as a Subfaculty until it is reviewed for faculty status; | ||||
| A review of the Subfaculty regarding its potential to become a faculty be undertaken within two to five years; | ||||
| The Subfaculty be known in future as the Monash University College of Art & Design; | ||||
| The Head of the Subfaculty be known in future as the Director, Monash University College of Art & Design; | ||||
| The agreements on the responsibilities of the Director of the College and the College be implemented with instructions to all University administrative departments; | ||||
| The Director be the head of the College, the Chair of the College Board, an ex officio member of any committee of the College or the College Board and, at his or her discretion, may be Chair of any such committee; | ||||
| The student load and budget continue to be separate allocations from the University to the College, provided in conjunction with Faculty of Arts allocations. | ||||
| (File No 93/1936) | ||||
| 5.5 Subfaculty of Nursing | ||||
| The Vice-Chancellor drew the Board's attention to a review in progress of management arrangements within the Subfaculty of Nursing and between the Subfaculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine. The Board noted that Professors C Chapman and M Quartly would examine management and structural issues and report their findings to the Vice-Chancellor. The Board also noted that both the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Head of the Subfaculty of Nursing were in complete accord with these proceedings. | ||||
| The Academic Board noted the information provided regarding the review of management structures within the Subfaculty of Nursing and between the Subfaculty and the Faculty of Medicine. | Professor Porter, Professor Bowers | |||
| (File No 96/0289) | ||||
| 6. | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DEANS | |||
| Receipt of Report | ||||
| (Circulated p 0371 - 0373). | ||||
| The Report of Meeting 1/96 of the Committee of Deans held on 30 January 1996 was received and noted. | ||||
| (File No 94/0129) | ||||
| 7. | REPORT OF THE BOARD OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE | |||
| Receipt of Report | ||||
| (Circulated p 0377). | ||||
| The Report of Meeting 1/96 of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine held on 7 February 1996 was received and noted. | ||||
| (File No 87/0301) | ||||
| 7.1 Queen Victoria Medical Centre Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology | ||||
| (Circulated p 0379). | ||||
| The Academic Board approved the establishment of a prize to be awarded to the sixth year student at Monash Medical Centre who obtained the highest aggregate mark in Obstetrics and Gynaecology as determined by the results of the Fifth Year Obstetrics and Gynaecology rotation and the final year clinical Objective Structured Clinical Assessment Examination; said prize to be called the "Queen Victoria Medical Centre Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology". | Mr Ruck | |||
| (File No 94/1286) | ||||
| 8. | REPORT OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE | |||
| Report of Meeting 1/96 | ||||
| (Circulated p 0389 - 0395). | ||||
| The Academic Board received and noted the report of Meeting 1/96 of the Education Committee held on 7 February 1996. | ||||
| (File No 95/1483) | ||||
| 8.1 Audit of Undergraduate Courses for 1996 | ||||
| (Circulated p 0397 - 0402). | ||||
| The Board noted that this document had been circulated to all faculties for comment and clarification. | ||||
| The Board also noted the decision of the Education Committee that, given the relative size of the faculties and the number of campuses, a range of courses of the magnitude indicated in the attached documentation was reasonable. The Board also noted the conclusion of the Committee that the current number and variety of double award programs was acceptable. | ||||
| The Board was advised that this was the first of four reports to the Board regarding courses and subjects of the University; the next report to be presented would concern undergraduate subject offerings of the University, followed later in the year by a report of graduate and postgraduate courses, and finally by a report of graduate and postgraduate subjects before the end of 1996. | Faculty Registrars | |||
| The Academic Board noted the information provided by the Education Committee regarding the range of undergraduate degree programs available in 1996, and the assurance provided by that Committee prior to assessing undergraduate degree programs for offer in 1998. The Board also noted, however, that the Committee considered that careful consideration should be undertaken before further expansion of the number of tagged Bachelor of Business degree programs. | Secretary | |||
| Subsequent to the Meeting, the Secretary was informed that the award Bachelor of Engineering Studies had been omitted from the listing of degrees available for first year intake, and that the Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Engineering degree programs should have been listed as allowing intake only from the second year rather than from first year as indicated in the original document. The revised document submitted to Council is attached to these Minutes (Attachment 1). | ||||
| * 8.2 Specialist Degree Titles | ||||
| The Board endorsed a number of principles regarding tagged degree titles, which have been reproduced below: | Faculty Registrars | |||
| When a degree was tagged (ie had the specialisation inserted in the title of the award
in brackets), the tag must relay a significant content. For example, Bachelor of
Arts (Journalism) would be an example of a 'good' tag, while Bachelor of Arts (Humanities
and Social Sciences) would not. When a program was a tagged version of another program with the same basic form of title, there should be course structure similarities between the two. For example, a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Science (Environmental) should have a basic structural relationship; two Bachelor of Business (tagged) degrees should have the same initial form. If this was not the case, then a specific title would be more appropriate, as Bachelor of Business Systems would be more appropriate than Bachelor of Computing (Business Systems). In a tagged degree, there should be a mechanism for students to move to the untagged form, or to an equivalent award, even if there were to be no intake into that course at first year. For example, a student who had enrolled in Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) should be able, if their interests or abilities had changed, to transfer to a Bachelor of Arts without significant loss of credit. Further to these principles, the Board noted the comments made by the Education Committee regarding existing degree programs, as follows. The Committee had: noted that the range and nature of undergraduate programs of the Faculty of Engineering was under review, and looked forward to a plan for a clear rationalisation of courses by the end of 1996, with implementation to commence not later than 1998; |
Mr Secomb | |||
| requested a review of programs from the Faculty of Education, and looked forward to a plan for a clear rationalisation of courses by the end of 1996, with implementation to commence not later than 1998; | Mr Yates | |||
| requested that the Faculty of Arts a) replace the Bachelor of Arts (Humanities and Social Science) and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Humanities) with the Bachelor of Arts, or another general degree; and b) rename the Bachelor of Arts (Police Studies) as the Bachelor of Police Studies or clarify that it was now a specialised version of a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a similar core structure to the Bachelor of Arts; | Miss Jordon | |||
| requested that the Faculty of Business and Economics bring the requirements of the Bachelor of Business and the tagged Bachelor of Business degrees into line with principles laid down by the working party for implementation no later than 1998. | Ms Pilgrim | |||
| In response to a question, the Deputy Vice- Chancellor, Professor RJ Pargetter, confirmed that the last dot point was intended to raise the issue of the lack of a structural link between the tagged and untagged versions of the Bachelor of Business degrees. He advised the Board that the intent behind this request was to prompt the Faculty of Business and Economics to do one of three things: tag the untagged degree, change the title entirely, or review the structure of the untagged degree to bring it structurally into line with the other degrees. | Ms Pilgrim | |||
| The Academic Board endorsed the principles detailed above regarding degree titles and noted the recommendations for action made by the Education Committee to each Faculty indicated above. | Ms Brooks, Mr Calder | |||
| 8.3 Guidelines for Approval of New Courses | ||||
| The Board noted the endorsement of the Education Committee for the following guidelines for the number of places to be made available in new courses of the University. Part of this statement was previously approved by the Associate Deans (Teaching) and noted by the Academic Board (in the report of the Committee of Deans made to Academic Board Meeting 8/95); however, the second sentence was added at the Education Committee Meeting. | ||||
| The Academic Board approved the recommendation of the Education Committee that, in order not to have prospective students use preferences on courses with very low numbers of places available, new courses should normally be subject to a guaranteed minimum number of places available to qualified applicants; for VTAC offered undergraduate courses, this should be 30 full-time places, while for direct entry undergraduate courses the minimum should be 20 full-time places available each year. The Board noted that this policy could be varied by the setting of specific entrance requirements which may make the number of students eligible for the course lower, or by direct application for exemption from the recommended number of places made to the Vice- Chancellor along with the submission of the course proposal or amendment to the Education Committee. | Ms Brooks, Mr Calder | |||
| 8.4 Examinations Regulations - Relating To Subject Assessments And Examinations | ||||
| (Circulated p 0403 - 0405). | ||||
| The Academic Board approved the recommendation of the Education Committee that Examinations Regulations - Subject assessments and terminal examinations (made pursuant to Statute 6.1.5 - Examinations) be amended according to the following guidelines: | University Solicitor, Ms Brooks, Mr Calder | |||
| subsection 2.3 be amended to include reference to the Education Policy and the Education Committee; | ||||
| subsection 2.4 be amended to allow for the Dean to make ad hoc revisions to examinations and assessment requirements, followed by subsequent reports to the Education Committee, provided that students are not disadvantaged by these ad hoc amendments; and that amendments made for semesters other than the current semester are normally to be approved according to Faculty processes and reported to the Education Committee; and | ||||
| subsection 2.5 be deleted from the Regulations. | ||||
| Subsequent to the Meeting further advice was received from a member of the Education Committee, suggesting an amendment to this recommendation. Both the recommendation and the advice will be forwarded to the University Solicitor's Office for consideration in the drafting process, and the draft legislation will be submitted to the Board through the Education Committee. | University Solicitor, Ms Brooks | |||
| * 8.5 Statements of Intent to Offer New Undergraduate Courses in 1997 | ||||
| A member of the Board starred this item in order to add the Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) / Bachelor of Education to the list of courses intended for offer in 1997, as it had been omitted from the report of the Education Committee in error. | ||||
| The Academic Board noted the courses, listed below, which faculties intend to offer in 1997 to commencing undergraduate students, and noted also that any of these programs which are not endorsed for transmission to the Academic Board at Education Committee Meeting 2/96 (to be held on 20 March 1996) and subsequently approved by the Board at its Meeting on 17 April 1996 would be removed from the VTAC Guide. | Mr Burnet, Mr Vernon | |||
| Bachelor of Applied Science / Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences) - Peninsula | ||||
| Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Education - Peninsula | ||||
| Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) / Bachelor of Education - Gippsland | ||||
| Bachelor of Education / Bachelor of Computing - Peninsula | ||||
| Bachelor of Applied Science / Bachelor of Education - Peninsula | ||||
| Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Tourism (Resort Management) - Berwick (title to be confirmed by the Faculty of Business and Economics) | ||||
| Bachelor of Computing / Bachelor of Business (Management) - Peninsula | ||||
| Bachelor of Business / Associate Diploma of Business (Marketing) - Berwick / Casey TAFE | ||||
| Bachelor of Business / Diploma of Information Technology (Technical and User Support) - Berwick / Casey TAFE | ||||
| Bachelor of Business / Associate Diploma of Business (Hospitality Supervision) - Berwick / Casey TAFE | ||||
| Bachelor of Software Engineering (not to be offered as a stand-alone award) - Caulfield and Clayton | ||||
| Bachelor of Digital Systems / Bachelor of Software Engineering - Clayton | ||||
| Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science) - Clayton | ||||
| Bachelor of Computing / Bachelor of Software Engineering - Caulfield | ||||
| Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of Software Engineering - Clayton, to be offered in each of five divisions | ||||
| Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of Software Engineering - Caulfield, to be offered in each of the tagged degree programs : ie (Civil and Computing), (Electrical and Computing), (Industrial and Computing) and (Mechanical and Computing) | ||||
| minor and major sequences in Medical Informatics in the Bachelor of Computing- Peninsula | ||||
| 8.6 Distance Education and Open Learning Committee | ||||
| (Circulated p 0407 - 0411). | ||||
| The Academic Board noted the establishment of a Distance Education and Open Learning Committee as a standing subcommittee of the Education Committee, reporting to the Academic Board through the Education Committee, with membership and terms of reference as detailed in the documentation presented. | Professor Pargetter, Secretary, Ms Brooks | |||
| 8.7 New Course Proposals | ||||
| 8.7.1Bachelor of Information Systems | ||||
| (Circulated p 0413 - 0419). | ||||
| That Academic Board approved the proposal to establish a new degree program, to be titled Bachelor of Information Systems, subject to confirmation from the Faculty that the title of this proposed award would not lead to confusion with similar award courses offered in other disciplines. | University Solicitor | |||
| 8.7.2The honours degree of Bachelor of Information Systems | ||||
| (Circulated p 0413 - 0419). | ||||
| That Academic Board approved the proposal to establish a new award, to be titled the honours degree of Bachelor of Information Systems, subject to confirmation from the Faculty that the title of this proposed award would not lead to confusion with similar award courses offered in other disciplines. | University Solicitor | |||
| 8.7.3Bachelor of Business Systems / Bachelor of Law | ||||
| (Circulated p 0421 - 0427). | ||||
| A memorandum from the Dean of the Faculty of Law is also attached, indicating in principle approval on behalf of the Faculty Board, which does not meet until 24 April 1996. | ||||
| The Academic Board approved the proposal to establish a new double degree program entitled Bachelor of Business Systems / Bachelor of Laws, subject to ratification of the Dean's approval by the Board of the Faculty of Law at its meeting on 24 April 1996. | University Solicitor | |||
| 8.8 Amendments To Existing Courses | ||||
| * 8.8.1 Monash Mt Eliza Graduate School of Business and Government Ltd - amendments to structure of Master of Business Administration and to structure and title of Graduate Diploma in Business Administration | ||||
| The Steering Committee drew the attention of the Board to the fact that not all of the courses to which the documentation presented refers were under consideration or review, and that not all of the said courses were awards of the University. The Board noted that it was concerned at this point only with proposals to amend the Master of Business Administration and the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and to retitle the latter award. | ||||
| The Steering Committee further drew the attention of the Board to the advice of the Education Committee, as presented in its report to the Board, regarding the original proposal considered by that Committee (since revised). | ||||
| The Education Committee had transmitted the proposal with general approval for the academic structure and content incorporated in the proposal as documented. A number of issues were raised by the Committee, about which the Vice-Chancellor received further advice prior to the meeting of the Academic Board. These concerns were resolved as follows: | ||||
| The matter of the workload proposed for the programs in the proposal was resolved by revising the page referring to that workload, as documented in an attachment to the Agenda (p 0491) after discussion with the Director: MBA Programs and the Chair of the Education Committee; | ||||
| The titles of the awards incorporated in this proposed restructure, including graduate certificate and graduate diploma programs which could be confused with those offered by the Department of Business Management were considered by the head of the Department of Business Management and the Director: MBA Programs, and information regarding these discussions was presented to the Board as an attachment to the Agenda (p 0495); | ||||
| The level of funding proposed in the documents received for the Departments which would be involved in teaching the program were addressed by the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics in a confidential memorandum to the Vice-Chancellor and by the General Manager in a document attached to the Agenda (p 0493); and | ||||
| The space and resource allocations for the Monash Mt Eliza School of Business and Government Ltd and the location of the offices to be used by that organisation on Monash campuses were addressed by the General Manager in a document attached to the Agenda (p0493). | ||||
| In addition to those points detailed above the Steering Committee raised the issue of staffing for the course, which was addressed in a confidential memorandum to the Vice-Chancellor. | ||||
| The Director: MBA Programs, Professor Wood, had also prepared a separate proposal for the amendment of the structure of the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and the retitling of this award as the Graduate Diploma in Management, as requested by the Steering Committee of the Board. | ||||
| Professor Wood had been invited to attend the meeting to respond to any questions posed by the Board. | ||||
| The Steering Committee had recommended that Academic Board approve the proposed structure and content of the revisions to the Master of Business Administration and Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, and the retitling of the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration as the Graduate Diploma in Management, provided the Board was satisfied concerning the issues raised by the Education Committee and Steering Committee. | ||||
| The matter was discussed in detail at the Meeting. Members of the Board were informed that the Faculty had been adequately consulted regarding the majority of the proposal before the Board, and the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Professor Rickard, commended Professor Wood on his attempt to restructure the MBA program in order to better differentiate the program in the marketplace. He raised, for the consideration of the Board, the matter of the time frame given to the Dean and his executive to determine whether proposed amendments to programs of Monash Mt Eliza were to be considered major or minor amendments (as permitted in the Supplementary Agreement) and the Board agreed to suggest that further time be made available for this process. | ||||
| The Board agreed to recommend that the costs for the further reviews of courses of Monash Mt Eliza requested by the Board be borne by Monash Mt Eliza, and that formal and separate advice from the Faculty of Business and Economics be sought by the Academic Board when each review was presented to the Board. | ||||
| Further discussion centred around the proposal to retitle the Graduate Diploma of Business Administration and the concerns of the Department of Business Management regarding that proposal. After lengthy consideration, the Board decided not to refer this issue to Council at this time, but to a small group of senior academic staff (see iv below) for further consideration, and requested that the Board be informed of their decision regarding this matter. | ||||
| Members of the Board also raised two further issues related to these proposals: the matter of whether other courses of the Faculty were financially subsidising the teaching of the MBA program, and the Faculty's concerns regarding availability of space for housing postgraduate students of the Faculty in light of the arrangements foreshadowed for Monash Mt Eliza. | ||||
| In view of the points raised, the Vice-Chancellor suggested some amendment to the recommendations made by the Steering Committee, and the Board agreed, as follows. | ||||
| (i) The Academic Board: | University Solicitor, | |||
| noted the advice of the Steering Committee as detailed above; | Ms Brooks, Professors | |||
| received and noted the revised proposal to amend the structure of the Master of Business Administration; | Pargetter, Griffin, | |||
| received and noted the proposal to amend the structure of the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, and to retitle the award the Graduate Diploma in Management; and | Rickard, Wood | |||
| received and noted the additional documentation presented and the advice of the
Vice- Chancellor in relation to issues raised by the Education Committee and the Steering
Committee. (ii) The Academic Board approved the proposal to amend the course program of the Master of Business Administration in the light of the information provided to the Board. (iii) The Academic Board approved the proposal to amend the course program of the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration in the light of the information provided to the Board. |
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| (iv) The Academic Board asked that a meeting be held between the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor RJ Pargetter, the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Professor Rickard, and Professors Griffin and Wood to further consider the proposal to retitle the existing Graduate Diploma in Business Administration as Graduate Diploma in Management, and to advise the Vice- Chancellor so he might report to Council and to the Academic Board on the recommendation made by that group. | ||||
| (v) The Academic Board recommended that Council advise the Program Advisory Council of the Monash Mt Eliza Graduate School of Business and Government Ltd that the academic content and structure of the Master of Business Administration be subject to ongoing scrutiny, monitoring and review by experts in the discipline who are academic staff of Monash University as part of the University's normal course review and quality assurance processes. | ||||
| (vi) The Academic Board noted particularly that consideration had only been given to the courses Master of Business Administration and Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (proposed new title "Graduate Diploma in Management") and not to any other courses to which the documents presented refer (pages 9 to 21 [end of first paragraph] and 24 to 32 of the document presented in particular). | ||||
| (vii) The Academic Board requested a full review of the program structure and content of each of the other awards of the University offered through the Monash Mt Eliza School of Business and Government Ltd, to be submitted to the Board via the Education Committee within a time frame to be specified. | ||||
| (viii) The Academic Board agreed that in future when major amendments to Monash programs offered by the Monash Mt Eliza School of Business and Government Ltd were to be considered by the Board, that the formal view of the Faculty would be sought and submitted to the Academic Board separately from the Mt Eliza submission. | ||||
| (ix) The Academic Board requested advice from the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics by the end of 1996 regarding the matter of financial subsidy from other courses of the Faculty for teaching in the MBA program. | ||||
| (x) The Academic Board requested advice from the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics by the end of 1996 regarding the matter of allocation of space for postgraduate students, especially PhD candidates, in the Faculty of Business and Economics. | ||||
| * 8.8.2 Bachelor of Nursing - Change to Structure of both programs | ||||
| (Circulated p 0497 - 0509). | ||||
| A member of the Board raised concerns about inadequate consultation with faculties involved in service teaching in courses under review and revision. | ||||
| Subject to satisfactory consultation with the providers of service teaching in the courses under consideration and the report of the outcome of those discussions to the Education Committee, the Academic Board approved the proposal of the Subfaculty of Nursing to amend the structure of the Bachelor of Nursing programs at the School of Health Sciences, Gippsland campus, and the Caroline Chisholm School of Nursing, Peninsula campus, so that the programs would have the same structure. | Professor Bowers, Ms Brooks, University Solicitor | |||
| 8.9 NEW SUBJECT PROPOSALS | ||||
| The Education Committee endorsed for transmission to the Academic Board the proposals for subjects detailed below. Full documentation was available for perusal by members of the Board. | ||||
| The Academic Board approved the subject proposals from the Faculties of Arts, Business and Economics and Computing and Information Technology as detailed below: | Miss Jordon, Ms Pilgrim, Mr Hobbs | |||
| VSA4023/VAD4023/VAM4023/VAM5023 Museum Practice and Research | ||||
| MKT4030 Advanced Business Research Methods for Honours | ||||
| MKT4020 History and Philosophy of Marketing | ||||
| SYS2104 System Development Methods | ||||
| SYS3550 Information Systems Project | ||||
| (File No 95/1483) | ||||
| 9. | REPORT OF THE PhD AND SCHOLARSHIPS COMMITTEE | |||
| Report of Meeting 1/96 | ||||
| (Circulated p 0513 - 0515). | ||||
| The Report of Meeting 1/96 of the PhD and Scholarships Committee held on Friday 2 February 1996 was received and noted. | ||||
| 9.1 Amendment to Statute 2.5 - Committees, Boards of Studies and Institutes - Division 1: PhD and Scholarships Committee (Amendment No 1 1996) | ||||
| Refer Item 11. | ||||
| The Academic Board noted the approval of the PhD and Scholarships Committee for amendment of Statute 2.5 - Committees, Boards of Studies and Institutes - Division 1: PhD and Scholarships Committee. | University Solicitor | |||
| (File No 95/1621) | ||||
| 10. | ANNUAL REPORTS | |||
| * 10.1 Annual Report of the University Librarian, 1995 | ||||
| (Circulated p 0519 - 0546). | ||||
| Professor E Lim, University Librarian, spoke briefly to the Board regarding his report. The Vice-Chancellor particularly drew the attention of the Board to the concluding paragraph of the report, and acknowledged the work of the Libraries staff over the term covered by the report. | ||||
| The Academic Board received and noted the 1995 Annual Report of the University Librarian. | ||||
| (File No 88/2838) | ||||
| 11. | LEGISLATION | |||
| The University Solicitor had prepared legislation in accordance with instructions from the appropriate offices, to implement proposals which were approved by the Academic Board for submission to Council. A copy of the following item of legislation was tabled for perusal by members of the Board, and a copy of the explanatory memorandum prepared with the legislation was attached to the Agenda for the Board's information. | ||||
| 11.1 Statute 2.5 - Committees, Boards of Studies and Institutes (Amendment No 1 1996) Statute | ||||
| The Academic Board approved for transmission to Council the above draft Statute. | University Solicitor | |||
| (File No 95/0835) | ||||
| 12. | EXCLUSION APPEALS | |||
| A copy of Statute 6.2 - Exclusion for unsatisfactory progress was circulated (p 0553 0555) as amended by Council in December 1995 and enacted in January 1996. | ||||
| The Board noted that the Exclusions Appeals Committee constituted under Section 6.1 of the Statute had been formed, incorporating the changes in the legislation. | ||||
| Since the Exclusions Appeals Committee was reconstituted under the above-mentioned Statute with some changes to its membership and procedures, the Academic Board was asked to exercise its powers of delegation to this Committee, which were provided for under Section 6.5 of the previously mentioned statute. | ||||
| A similar delegation by Faculty Boards to Faculty exclusion committees would also be required. | ||||
| The Academic Board: | ||||
| delegated to the Exclusion Appeals Committee of the Board the authority to determine the right of students to appeal the decisions of faculty exclusion committees and subsequently to hear appeals under Statute 6.2 - Exclusion for unsatisfactory progress; and | Ms Brooks, Ms Wilson-Reid, Faculty Registrars | |||
| recommended that Faculty Boards make similar delegations to Faculty exclusion committees in relation to Section 2.4 of Statute 6.2 - Exclusion for unsatisfactory progress. | ||||
| (File No 94/1358) | ||||
| 13. | COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP MATTERS | |||
| 13.1 Chair Selection Committee - Chair of Marketing | ||||
| The Academic Board nominated Professor R Coppel as the representative of the Board on the selection committee for the Chair of Marketing. | Professor Coppel | |||
| (File No 95/0590) | ||||
| 13.2 Election of Alternates to the Steering Committee of Academic Board | ||||
| (Circulated p 0559). | ||||
| The Academic Board approved the proposed guidelines for the election of three professorial members and one non-professorial teaching staff member of Academic Board to be alternates to the Steering Committee of Academic Board; to be elected annually at the same time as Steering Committee for a period of two years, noting that the initial term of office for two professors be one year and three months and for one professor and one non-professor for two years and three months to create staggered retirement/election of members. | Members | |||
| (File No 91/0795) | ||||
| 14. | ACADEMIC BOARD MEMBERSHIP | |||
| 14.1 Casual Vacancies | ||||
| 14.1.1 Faculty of Medicine | ||||
| The Academic Board noted that Associate Professor R Devenish of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology had been nominated by the Faculty Board to replace Dr JI Rood who has resigned his position in order to undertake an Outside Studies Program, for a term of office ending on 30 June 1996. | Professor Devenish | |||
| (File No 94/1041) | ||||
| 14.1.2 Faculty of Business and Economics | ||||
| The Academic Board noted that the Faculty Board had nominated Ms V Clulow of the Syme Department of Marketing to fill a casual vacancy for the position of a non-professorial teaching staff member, for a term of office ending 30 June 1997; and Professor A Sohal, Department of Business Management to fill a casual vacancy for the position of a professor (replacing Professor JW Freebairn who had left the University) for a term of office ending 30 June 1996. | Ms Clulow, Professor Sohal | |||
| (File No 94/1041) | ||||
| 14.2 Request for Special Leave | ||||
| The Academic Board granted Dr Terri Seddon, Faculty of Education (term of office ending June 1997), special leave from Academic Board meetings held during February to July 1996 as she would be on study leave. | Dr Seddon, Ms Hayes | |||
| (File No 90/1414) | ||||
| 15. | ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM MINUTES OF COUNCIL | |||
| (Circulated p 0565 - 0566). | ||||
| The Board noted the items of interest from the unconfirmed Minutes of Council Meeting 1/96, held on 12 February 1996. | ||||
The Meeting concluded at 3:45 pm.