That the recommendations of the Steering Committee be adopted without discussion for all items other than those starred.

That the Minutes of Academic Board Meeting 2/98 held on 25 February 1998 be confirmed and signed, subject to:

• addition of Dr R Pollard to the list of Apologies for the Meeting; and
• amendment of the date of the Meeting on the front cover of the Minutes to read 25 February 1998.

That Academic Board welcome Professor J Warren, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Malaysian Campus, and note the advice of the Vice-Chancellor regarding the new campus of Monash University.

That Academic Board receive the Report on Science at Monash presented and note the advice of Professor DA Robinson about the recommendations contained within the document.

That Academic Board receive the document presented titled Performance Indicators for Research and note the advice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development) regarding the document.

That Academic Board receive the document presented regarding the Audit of 1995 Composite Index Publications Data and note the advice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development) regarding the document.

That Academic Board note the advice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development) about the appointment of the Director, Information Technology.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the Institute of Public Health Research, a joint initiative of Monash University and the Southern Health Care Network, as detailed in the documentation presented.

That Academic Board receive the Annual Report of the Intellectual Property Committee presented and note the advice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development) about the Report.

That Academic Board receive and note for transmission to Council the 1997 Annual Report of the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor CR Williams, and note the Dean’s comments about the Report.

That Academic Board receive and note for transmission to Council the 1997 Annual Report of the University Librarian, Professor E Lim, and note the Librarian’s comments about the Report.

That Academic Board note that the above mentioned paper will be submitted to the Board via the Steering Committee for its Meeting on 3 June 1998.

That Academic Board receive and note the report presented by the Faculty of Arts on the admission of Monash Orientation Scheme for Aborigines (MOSA) candidates into that Faculty for 1998.

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 1/98 of the Admissions Committee held on Tuesday 17 February 1998.

That, subject to the drafting of appropriate legislation, Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the proposal of the Admissions Committee to:

• remove reference to the approval of subject quotas from Statute 6.1.1 - University Entrance and Admission to Courses;
• establish a formal procedure whereby subject quotas are approved by the Education Committee; and
• ensure that where quotas apply to first year subjects, students are clearly informed about the quotas in all literature available to prospective students.

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 1/98 of the Committee of Associate Deans Research (CADRES) held on Thursday 12 February 1998.

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 2/98 of the Committee of Associate Deans Research (CADRES) held on Thursday 26 March 1998.

That Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 2/98 of the Education Committee held on Wednesday 18 March 1998.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Education Committee to establish the following guidelines for the use by Faculties of the ‘NP’ grade:

1. That Faculties determine whether or not to award the ‘NP’ grade;
2. Where Faculties opt to employ the ‘NP’:

2.1 In line with Faculty regulations, examiners should award an ‘NP’ grade for marks in the range 45-49. This is a signal that the case is to be reviewed at the Board of Examiners’ Meeting.

2.2 At the Board of Examiners’ Meeting, a decision should be made as to whether the grade is to remain as ‘NP’ or be converted to ‘N’.

2.3 Faculties should, therefore, not award more ‘NP’ grades than they are prepared to count toward the degree. They may, however, attach conditions to an ‘NP’ grade where sequences of subjects are involved.

That, subject to the drafting of appropriate legislation, Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Business and Economics to allow a maximum time limit for course completion in its postgraduate/graduate courses to four times the normal full-time course duration.

That, subject to the drafting of appropriate legislation, Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Business and Economics that part-time honours students will normally be required to complete an honours program in the Faculty within two successive years.

That the Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Education to establish an award titled Postgraduate Certificate in Special Education, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Engineering to establish a University / TAFE Double Award titled: Bachelor of Technology (Advanced Manufacturing Technology) / Associate Diploma in Engineering, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Information Technology to establish the degree of Bachelor of Network Computing, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Information Technology to establish the award of Bachelor of Information Management and Systems and the award of Honours Degree of Bachelor of Information Management and Systems, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the award of Graduate Diploma in Forensic Medicine, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Business and Economics to replace the core statistics subject in the Bachelor of Business, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board, noting that intake for this mode of offering is restricted to semester one 1998, approve the proposal of the Faculty of Business and Economics to:

• offer the first and second years of the Bachelor of Business (tagged) courses in accounting, banking and finance, business administration, management and marketing at Sunway College; and
• approve the offering of the third year of the courses at the Caulfield and Peninsula campuses on a twinning arrangement basis, in accordance with the structure detailed in the documentation presented.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Engineering that the "Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering" be renamed, so that it becomes the "Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering".

That the Academic Board approve the subjects proposed by the Faculties of Arts, Business and Economics, Information Technology and Medicine as detailed below:

• CVL4040 Professional Celebration of the Rites of Passage
• AFF9XXX International Business Finance
• CPE1001 Object Oriented Programming in Java
• CPE1002 Computer Equipment and Operating Systems
• CPE1003 Introduction to the Design and Implementation of Web Sites
• CPE1004 Advanced Object Oriented Programming
• CPE1005 Systems Modelling and Simulation Techniques
• IMS5014 Writing and Editing for Multimedia
• IMS5015 Writing and Editing for Multimedia
• OR1001 Medical Evidence
• FOR1002 Injury Interpretation
• FOR1003 Ethics, Medicine and the Law
• FOR2001 Traffic Medicine
• FOR2002 Offences Against the Person
• FOR2003 Custodial Medicine
• FOR2004 Elements of the Forensic Sciences

That Academic Board note the disestablishment of seventy-five existing subject and/or alternative codes in this agenda: one from the Faculty of Business and Economics and seventy-four from the Faculty of Engineering.

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 1/98 of the General Library Committee held on Wednesday 25 March 1998.

That Academic Board note that the General Library Committee has established a working party to review the terms of reference for the General Library Committee and its user committees.

That Academic Board note the current membership of the General Library Committee as detailed in the document presented.

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 1/98 of the Intellectual Property Committee held on Tuesday 10 March 1998.

That Academic Board recommend to Council the following amendments to the intellectual property legislation:

• Section 2.3.2 - (revenue distribution):
• Substitute "Academic Board’s" for "Council’s".
• Section 4 - (committee status):
• Substitute "Academic Board" for "Council".

• Regulation 4.2.5 - (revenue distribution):
• Substitute "Academic Board’s" for "Council’s".
• Regulation 5.5 - (reporting):
• Substitute "Academic Board" for "Council".

That Section 2.5 of Statute 11.2 - Intellectual Property be amended to read:

"Despite 2.1, an originator who is a member of the academic staff owns copyright in a copyright work prescribed by the regulations made pursuant to this statute."

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 2/98 of the Offshore Quality Assurance Committee held on 3 April 1998.

That Academic Board approve the Terms of Reference of the Offshore Quality Assurance Committee as detailed below:

"The role of the Offshore Quality Assurance Committee is to:

• make recommendations to Academic Board on proposals by the University’s faculties and colleges to offer courses offshore;
• ensure that the actual delivery and content of the University’s courses delivered offshore is equivalent to the courses as initially approved by the Academic Board on behalf of Council;
• oversee the review of the University’s offshore courses;
• report the findings of the review process and to make recommendations to Academic Board regarding the operation of offshore courses subsequent to their review; and
• advise Academic Board on any matters referred to the Offshore Quality Assurance Committee by Academic Board, the Vice Chancellor’s Group or other bodies."

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 2/98 of the PhD and Scholarships Committee held on Friday 27 February 1998.

That Academic Board note the document presented titled Intellectual Property: a Guide for Postgraduate Research Supervisors, which has been endorsed by the PhD and Scholarships Committee and forwarded to all doctoral supervisors.

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 3/98 of the PhD and Scholarships Committee held on Friday 27 March 1998.

That Academic Board note for transmission to Council that the University Readership/Associate Professorship Committee has recently approved the following appointments/reappointments of honorary associate professors, clinical associate professors and honorary clinical associate professors until 31 December 2000:

NEW APPOINTMENTS

Clinical Associate Professor:

• Dr Jeff Wassertheil (Medicine, Peninsula Health Care Network)

Honorary Associate Professors:

• Dr Geoffrey Albert Head (Pharmacology)

Honorary Clinical Associate Professors:

• Dr John Olver (Medicine, The Alfred)
• Dr Anthony P. Schwarer (Pathology and Immunology)
• Mr Mark Frydenberg (Surgery MMC)
• Dr Arthur Gerard Van Deth (Pathology and Immunology)

REAPPOINTMENTS 

Honorary Associate Professors:

• Associate Professor Alexander Ian Smith (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
• Associate Professor Philip Burgess (Psychological Medicine)
• Associate Professor Alan Teik Wee Lim (Psychological Medicine)
• Associate Professor Ernest SL Luk (Psychological Medicine)
• Associate Professor Henryk Majewski (Pharmacology)
• Associate Professor Neil Paget (Psychological Medicine)

Honorary Clinical Associate Professors:

• Dr George Mendelson (Psychological Medicine)

• Clinical Associate Professor Krishnarao S. Vaddadi (Psychological Medicine)
• Dr Walimuni Chandra Padmantha De Silva Wijensinghe (Psychological Medicine)
• Mr Ian Favilla (Surgery MMC)
• Mr Lawrence Lau (Surgery MMC)
• Mr Donald Marshall (Surgery MMC)
• Mr Ken Myers (Surgery MMC)
• Mr William Geoffrey Parkin (Surgery MMC)
• Mr Colin Russell (Surgery MMC)

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 1/98 of the Board of the Faculty of Arts held on Wednesday 11 March 1998.

That Academic Board note that the Dean of the Faculty of Arts approved fifteen appointments as Honorary Research Associates of the Faculty of Arts.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council, subject to the drafting of appropriate legislation, the amendments to Schedule 1 - Faculty of Arts (pursuant to Statute 2.3 - The Faculties) as detailed in the document presented.

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 1/98 of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics held on Wednesday 11 February 1998.

That Academic Board note for submission to Council the membership of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics for 1998.

That Academic Board approve, for transmission to Council, the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to disestablish the Graduate School of Government from the Faculty’s academic structure, noting that administrative responsibility for courses offered by the School would be transferred to the Monash Mt Eliza Business School.

That the Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 2/98 of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics held on Wednesday 1 April 1998.

That Academic Board note for transmission to Council the appointment of Professor C Chapman, Victorian College of Pharmacy and Ms A Forsyth, Dean’s nominee for the Faculty of Education, as members of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics for 1998.

That Academic Board approve for transmission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to establish the following prizes:

1. a prize of $300, to be awarded annually for three years to the top ranking student in TBC2180 Finance Law; said prize to be named the "Commonwealth Bank of Australia Prize";
2. a prize of $200, to be awarded to the most outstanding student in the School of Business and Electronic Commerce in ECG9124 Natural Resources and Environment; said prize to be named the "Yallourn Energy Pty Ltd Prize";
3. a prize of $200, to be awarded to the most outstanding student in the School of Business and Electronic Commerce in the Regional Economic subject area of the economics major; said prize to be named the "LaTrobe Shire Prize";
4. a prize of $300, to be awarded to the most outstanding student in the School of Business and Electronic Commerce in the Money and Banking subject area of the Economics major; said prize to be named the "Westpac Banking Corporation Prize"; and
5. a prize of $500, to be awarded to the most outstanding student in the major of the Bachelor of Business; said prize to be named the "Enterprise Credit Union Prize".

That Academic Board receive and note a Report of Meeting 5/97 of the Board of the Faculty of Education.

That Academic Board receive and note a Report of Meetings 5/97 and 6/97 of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, held on Wednesday 8 October and Wednesday 5 November 1997.

That Academic Board approve for transmission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering to establish the following prizes:

1. a prize of $300, to be awarded annually for the best project presentation by a final year student in the BSc/BE program with physiology as their science major. The award shall be made on the recommendation of the academic staff of the Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering. An award will only be made if there is a presentation of sufficient merit; said prize to be named the "DRM Projection Solutions Biomedical Engineering Project Presentation Prize";
2. a prize of $300, to be awarded annually for the best instrumentation project by a final year student in the BSc/BE program with physiology as their science major. The award shall be made on the recommendation of the academic staff of the Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering. An award will only be made if there is a presentation of project merit; said prize to be named the "Bard Australia Biomedical Instrumentation Prize";
3. a prize of $600, to be awarded annually for the best overall performance by a final year student in the BSc/BE program with physiology as their science major. The award shall be made on the recommendation of the academic staff of the Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering. An award will only be made if there is a student of sufficient merit; said prize to be named the "Acute Care Systems Best Overall Biomedical Engineering Prize";
4. a prize of $300, to be awarded annually for the best performance in the subject ECS4391, Biomedical Equipment Design, Development and Innovation. The award shall be made on the recommendation of the academic staff of the Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering. An award will only be made if there is a performance of sufficient merit; said prize to be named the "Acute Care Systems Innovation Prize";
5. a prize of $500, to be awarded annually for the best thesis project by a final year student in the BSc/BE program with physiology as their science major. The award shall be made on the recommendation of the academic staff of the Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering. An award will only be made if there is a project of sufficient merit; said prize to be named the "Chemtronics Bioengineering Project Prize"; and
6. a prize of $300, to be awarded annually for the best overall performance by a student in the BSc/BE program with physiology as their science major and one year of study remaining. The award shall be made on the recommendation of the academic staff of the Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering. An award will only be made if there is a student of sufficient merit; said prize to be named the "Chemtronics Prize for Level 3".

That Academic Board receive and note a Report of Meeting 1/98 of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, held on Wednesday 11 March 1998.

That Academic Board note for transmission to Council the Annual Reports of the following centres of the Faculty of Engineering:

• UNESCO Supported International Centre for Engineering Education;
• Australian Maritime Engineering Cooperative Research Centre;
• Institute of Transport Studies; and
• Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering to:

• change the name of the "Tubemakers of Australia, Water, Oil and Gas Industries Division Prize", so that it becomes the "Tubemakers Pipelines Research Centre Prize"; and
• change the name of the "ICI Australia Prize for Engineering", so that it becomes the "Orica Prize for Engineering".

That Academic Board receive and note a Report of Meeting 2/98 of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Information Technology held on Monday 16 February 1998.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Information Technology to establish, advertise and fill the Chair in Network Computing, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board receive and note a report of matters approved by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine under powers delegated by the Faculty Board.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council amendments to the membership of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Reproduction and Development, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board endorse the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the position of Professor / Director of Developmental Disability Health, as detailed in the documentation presented.

That the Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to award the degree of Doctor of Medicine to:

Professor Eleanor Joan Ozanne-Smith, for her thesis titled:

• ‘Evaluation of a public health intervention: community based injury prevention’; and
• Dr. Henry Miles Prince, for his thesis titled: ‘Autologous transplantation with gene transfer into myeloma cells’.

That Academic Board establish a prize of $200, to be awarded to the second year student who achieves a high mark in the Rural Medicine Assessment and also makes a valuable contribution to the Students Rural Practice Association. The student would be identified by the Director of the Centre for Rural Health based on advice received from the senior academic staff responsible for the second year Rural Medicine subject and the Rural Practice Association. If two equally deserving candidates are identified, the prize will be awarded jointly; said prize to be named the "Second Year Rural Medicine Prize".

That Academic Board receive and endorse the Minute of Appreciation presented for Professor R Porter, who has recently retired as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

That Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 1/98 of the Board of the Faculty of Science held on Wednesday 18 March 1998.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Science to establish a Centre of Applied and Professional Psychology, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board:

• note for transmission to Council the appointment of Dr G Hyman to fill a casual vacancy for the representative of the Caulfield/Peninsula section of the Department of Psychology, in accordance with Statute 2.3, Section 6.1; and
• subject to the drafting of appropriate legislation, endorse for submission to Council an amendment to the Faculties Regulations to enable Science Faculty Board membership to be extended to include the Deans (or nominees) of the Faculty of Art and Design and the Victorian College of Pharmacy.

That Academic Board, on the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Science:

• endorse for submission to Council:

1. the appointment of Professor G Coleman as Associate Dean (Research) for 1998;
2. the re-appointment of Dr K Macrae as Associate Dean (Teaching) for 1998;

• note that at its Meeting 8/97, Council approved the appointment of Associate Professor M Hooper as Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Science (Resolution CL8/97/493); and
• noting the endorsement of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development), note the appointment of Professor RH Grimshaw as Director of the Centre for Dynamical Meteorology and Oceanography, to replace Dr MJ Reeder.

That Academic Board:

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• endorse the recommendation of the Monash Orientation Scheme for Aborigines (MOSA) Committee that the MOSA candidate named in the attached document be eligible for admission to the Faculty of Business and Economics in semester two, 1998; and
• request that the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics report to the Academic Board on the admission of that candidate.

That Academic Board receive and note the Annual Report of the Standing Committee on Ethics in Research on Humans presented.

That Academic Board receive and note the current membership of the Standing Committee on Ethics in Research on Humans, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the above draft legislation.

That, in accordance with section 4.6 of the Examinations regulations, Academic Board approve the recommendation of the Examinations and Certifications Branch that the supplementary and special (deferred) examinations for 1998/1999 be held during the period 11-15 January 1999.

That Academic Board nominate Professor K O’Dea and Professor P Tharenou as representatives of the Board on the Decanal Selection Committee for the position of Dean, Faculty of Law.

That Academic Board nominate Professor T C Brown as the representative of the Board on the Selection Committee for Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies.

That Academic Board note:

• the document presented regarding the election of professorial and teaching staff members of the Academic Board, for terms of office from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2000; and
• that the deadline for nominations to be received by the Returning Officer is 12:00 noon on Thursday, 23 April 1998.

That Academic Board note the matters of interest to the Academic Board from Council Meetings 1/98 and 2/98, as detailed in the document presented.