Tea and coffee will be served in the foyer prior to the meeting.

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 2/99 held on 24^th February 1999 be confirmed and signed, subject to amendments to Minute 3.5 as follows:

That Academic Board note the appointment of Professor Homer Le Grand as Dean– Faculty of Arts.

That Academic Board note the advice regarding this matter.

That Academic Board note the document presented titled Timetable for Monash Plan 2000-2004.

That Academic Board receive the report titled Monash University Sunway Campus Malaysia – Report to Academic Board and note the advice of Pro-Vice-Chancellor Jim Warren.

That Academic Board receive and note for transmission to Council the Report of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Nick Saunders, and note the Dean’s comments.

That Academic Board receive and note the Interim Stage 1 Report of the Academic Board LTOP Working Party on the Promotion of Educational Technology; and

endorse the process outlined in the report; and

approve referral of the recommendations (pages 155 - 157 of the agenda papers) in the report to relevant managers and faculties .

That Academic Board approve the recommendations (pages 166 – 167 of the agenda papers) contained in the final summary report of the Academic Board LTOP Working Party on Cross-Faculty Programs.

That Academic Board approve the recommendations (page 175 of the agenda papers) contained in the final report of the Academic Board Working Party LTOP Working Party on Cross-Institutional Programs.

That Academic Board receive and note the Report of 1/99 of the Committee of Associate Deans Research held on Wednesday, 17 February 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the Report of Meeting 2/99 of the Education Committee held on Wednesday, 17 March 1999.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Boards of the Faculties of Information Technology and Arts to establish the degree of Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Computer Science, commencing semester two, 1999, to be offered as an on-campus course on the Clayton campus.

That, subject to endorsement by the Board of the Faculty of Law, Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Law to establish the Graduate Diploma in Trade Mark Law and Practice, to be offered as an on-campus course at the city premises, commencing semester two, 1999.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish a Master of General Practice Psychiatry (Clinical), to be offered as a distance education course via the Department of Community Medicine and General Practice, commencing semester two, 1999.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to amend the Bachelor of Business, to offer the course as a stand alone exit award at the Berwick campus from semester one, 1999.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to amend the structure for the Bachelor of Business (Accounting) / Bachelor of Computing, Caulfield and Peninsula campuses, as a consequence of the introduction of the new Bachelor of Computing at the Caulfield campus and the new Bachelor of Network Computing at the Peninsula campus.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to amend the structure of the Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)/Bachelor of Computing, Caulfield campus, as a consequence of the introduction of the new Bachelor of Computing.

That, subject to endorsement by the Board of the Faculty of Education of the change to the title of the award, Academic Board approve the proposal of the Faculty of Education to amend the Bachelor of Special Education as detailed in the document presented, including a change to the title of the award to become the Graduate Diploma of Education (Special Education).

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to change the title of the Bachelor of Business Systems offered at the Malaysia campus, to become the Bachelor of Business and Information Technology.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to cease intake into the Graduate Diploma in Computing at the Peninsula campus.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to cease intake into the Graduate Certificate in Computing at the Peninsula campus.

That Academic Board approve the proposals of the Faculties of Business and Economics, Education, Information Technology, Law and Medicine to establish the subjects listed below:

MGC2xxx Managing International Business

BTG2223 Business Regulation and Corporate Crime

EDF40xx International Perspectives in Special Education

CPE2001 Concurrent Programming Techniques

CPE2002 Data Communications and Networks

CPE2003 Analysis and Design of Distributed Information Systems

CPE2004 Engineering Distributed Software Applications

CPE2005 Database Systems in Networked Environments

CPE2006 Managing Distributed System Development

CPE3001 Information and Network Security

CPE3002 Web Interfaced Databases

CPE3003 Topics in Advanced Web Page Design and Development

CSE1434 Web Programming with Java Applets

BUS5600 Business Case Development

LAW7223 Overview of Intellectual Property

LAW7224 Trade Mark Practice

CMT001 Trauma, Culture and Environment

CMT003 Indigenous Wellbeing

CMT004 Placement and Supervision in Trauma-Based Fieldwork

CMT002 Qualitative Research Methods Responsive to Culture

MGP1008 Psychotic Disorders

MGP1009 Personality Disorders

MGP1010 Somatoform Disorders

MGP1011 Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry

MGP1012 Psychiatry of Old Age

MGP1013 Organic Psychiatry

NUR9204 Education in Nursing

MPH2070 Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

NUR2202 Ethical Issues in Nursing

That, in accordance with the University entrance and admission to courses regulations, Academic Board endorse the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics that the minimum VCE requirements for courses in the Faculty for 2002 remain as for 1998 – 2001, viz.:

for Berwick and Gippsland courses, English with a study score of at least 25 plus two units of General Mathematics or Mathematical Methods at the Unit 1 and 2 level;

for courses at Caulfield and Peninsula, a study score of at least 25 in English and in mathematics (any) at Unit 3 and 4 level, and a study score of at least 20 in any two other VCE studies; and

for Clayton, a study score of at least 25 in English and in either Mathematical Methods or Specialist Mathematics at Unit 3 and 4 level, and a study score of at least 20 in any two other VCE studies.

(These prerequisites would normally be the minimum for all double degree courses of which these were a component.)

That Academic Board receive and note the report of Meeting 1/99 of the General Committee held on Wednesday, 24^th March 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the Report of University Librarian.

That Academic Board receive and note the Report of the University Librarian.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of Meeting 1/99 of the PhD and Scholarships Committee held on Friday 5^th February 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of Meeting 2/99 of the PhD and Scholarships Committee held on Friday 5^th March 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of Meeting 1/99 of the Admissions Committee held on Thursday 11^th March 1999.

That Academic Board approve the proposal that:

1. That guaranteed entry levels for HECS-liable students be discontinued.

2. That guaranteed entry levels for fee-liable students be retained.

3. That the usefulness of guaranteed subject/study standards for fee-liable students be reviewed in 12 months.

That Academic Board approve that the minimum ENTER score of 95 be required for admission of applicants who would not turn 18 years of age by 31 December of the year of entry.

That Academic Board approve the following amendments to the categories and terms of membership of the Admissions Committee:

1 That the faculties not represented by an academic staff member (Faculty of Art & Design and the Victorian College of Pharmacy), be invited to nominate an academic staff representative.

2 That the concept of specific representation for each campus and for distance education be discarded.

3 That the term of office for the student representative be one year with the possibility of an extension for a further period.

That Academic Board receive and note the Report of the Faculty of Arts on admission to Faculty of Arts courses via the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT).

That Academic Board

1 That for the year 2000, faculties be given the discretion to decide the timing of offers for their faculties for Awards for Excellence and Deans Scholars awards.

2 That faculties reserve the right to allow or refuse deferment of scholarships.

3 That budget allocations for Awards for Excellence and Deans Scholars Awards for 2000 be reviewed.

4 That Monash Support Bursaries be available to Australian fee-paying students relating to special needs and circumstances as identified by the University at commencement of or during their course.

That Academic Board receive and note the Annual Report of the Intellectual Property Committee.

That Academic Board receive and note the Annual Report of the Standing Committee on Ethics in Research on Humans and commend them for their valuable work.

That Academic Board receive and note a report of the Board of the Faculty of Arts held on Wednesday 3^rd March 1999.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Arts to appoint Dr Paul James as Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) for a term expiring 31 December 1999.

That Academic Board note that the Board of the Faculty of Arts approved the following amendment to regulation 13.2 of the Faculty of Arts regulation for transmission to the Office of the University Solicitor:

Amend regulation 13.2 to read :

Except where the Faculty Board in any particular case otherwise determines, one NP may be awarded in semester one or two or three of the first year sequence to students who have achieved a mark in the range 45 – 49.

That Academic Board receive and note a report of Meeting 1/99, held on 10^th February 1999 and Meeting 2/99, held on 31^st March 1999 of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business & Economics to appoint Professor Amrik Sohal as Associate Dean (Research) for the term 1 March 1999 to 31 December 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note a report of meeting 1/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering held on Wednesday 10 March 1999.

That Academic Board note the Annual Reports of the following centres of the Faculty of Engineering:

UNESCO Supported International Centre for Engineering Education

Institute of Transport Studies

Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology

That Academic Board note the membership of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering.

That Academic Board approve the following transitional arrangements for 27 students previously enrolled in the Associate Diploma of Engineering (Industrial management):

That students enrolled in 1994 at the time of, or within one month before, Academic Board approval of the change of course name from Associate Diploma of Engineering (Industrial Management) to Diploma of Engineering (Industrial Management) are eligible to receive the re-named award.

That Academic Board note that the Board of the Faculty of Engineering has approved that Mr Denby Ward be reappointed as a Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering for a further two year term to expire on 31^st December 2000.

That Academic Board note that the Boards of the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Information Technology have approved the disestablishment of the Board of Management for the Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering and the Bachelor of Software Engineering.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of meeting 1/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology held on 3^rd March 1999 and meeting 2/99 of the Faculty Executive held on 18^th March 1999

That Academic Board note that the Boards of the Faculty of information Technology and Faculty of Engineering have approved the disestablishment of the Board of Management for the Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering and the Bachelor of Software Engineering.

That Academic Board note for submission to Council the nomination of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology of Dr R Pose and Ms D Pickett to fill casual vacancies on the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology.

That Academic Board receive and note a report of the Board of the Victorian College of Pharmacy held on 3^rd March 1999.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the proposal of the Board of the Victorian College of Pharmacy to appoint the following staff as Associate Deans of the Faculty for a period of twelve months:

Professor Mark von Itzstein – Associate Dean (Research)

Professor Peter Stewart – Associate Dean (Graduate Studies)

Associate Professor Louis Roller – Associate Dean (Teaching)

Mr Michael Watson – Faculty Director of International Affairs

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

That Academic Board reappoint Professor Phyllis Tharenou (Department of Management) to membership of the Honorary Degrees Committee as a professor appointed by Academic Board and reappoint Professor John Anderson (Campus Director- Gippsland & Berwick) as an alternate to the professors appointed by Academic Board.

That Academic Board nominate Professor Kerin O’Dea as a representative of the Board on the Selection Committee for the Chair of Fluid Mechanics.

That Academic Board nominate Professor Thea Brown as a representative of the Board on the Selection Committee for the Chair of Injury Prevention.

That Academic Board nominate Professor Phyllis Tharenou as a representative of the Board on the Selection Committee for the Sun Microsystems Chair of Network Computing.

That Academic Board, in accordance with section 4.6 of the examinations regulations, approve the recommendation of the Examinations and Certifications Branch that the supplementary and special (deferred) examinations be held during the period 17^th January to 21 January 2000.

That Academic Board note the attached schedule of Future Directions Reports to Academic Board and Council.

That Academic Board note the matters of interest to the Academic Board from Council meetings 1/99 & 2/99, as detailed in the document presented.

That Academic Board note the Operational Reports of Faculties that have been extracted from the Annual Report of the Council of Monash University1998.