Committee of Deans Meeting 2-1992
The following extract from the unconfirmed minutes of Meeting No. 2/92 of
the Committee of Deans, held on 10 March 1992, is drawn to your attention:
15. Matters Arising from the Minutes
15.1 Enrolment
The meeting discussed at length continuing shortcomings and developmental
and design problems associated with the new student information system,
MUSIS. Arising from this discussion, the Committee agreed that:
. Associate Comptroller John White should retain oversight of the
project as a whole, reporting direct to the Vice-Chancellor;
. the Vice-Chancellor should report to the next meeting after
being briefed by Mr White;
. the Vice-Chancellor should raise the matter at the meeting of
the Academic Board being held on the following day by speaking to a
statement to be prepared by Mr White in consultation with the Registrar,
Comptroller, and one or two Deans; and
. a special meeting of the Committee should be held before the
second semester enrolment period to address any remaining problems with the
system.
The meeting also noted suggestions that a `dummy run' might be held
before second semester enrolment to help fine-tune procedures, and that the
Staff Development section might consider mounting special training courses
for MUSIS operators.
M.D. Watson
Senior Assistant Registrar
University Secretariat
MONASH UNIVERSITY
Memorandum to: Professor M.I. Logan
Vice-Chancellor
Committee of Deans
The following extracts from the unconfirmed minutes of Meeting No. 2/92
of the Committee of Deans, held on 10 March, are drawn to your attention:
16.7 Academic Staff
By way of clarification of the Vice-Chancellor's remarks at the previous
meeting, Professor Pargetter confirmed that the performance appraisal of
pre-merger Monash academic staff would fall due in the middle of the year
after the initial two-year review period. Post-merger staff would commence
their two-year review period at that time following agreement with UACA/CASA,
he said, bringing all academic staff under the same performance appraisal
procedures. Deans would be advised on what was expected of them, he said,
and Monash would remain on the exempt list with union support. Professor
Pargetter also said a review of associated staff development packages would
be commenced shortly.
The Vice-Chancellor noted and agreed to take on board a comment that
Deans should be seen to be part of the performance appraisal program.
20. Decanal Presentations to Council
The meeting approved the attached schedule of decanal
presentations to Council, D18/92.
Professor Logan said he would take up with the Chancellor a suggestion
from Professor Aspin that Council might usefully be briefed on major
research initiatives as well.
M.D. Watson
Senior Assistant Registrar
University Secretariat
MONASH UNIVERSITY
Memorandum to: Mr B.W. Cunningham
Manager
Central Services
Committee of Deans
The following extract from the unconfirmed minutes of Meeting No. 2/92 of
the Committee of Deans, held on 10 March, is drawn to your attention:
17.1 Security Procedures
A requirement that security should be notified in advance of all
out-of-hours attendance on campus was considered by the Committee to be
unrealistic and unenforceable. It was agreed instead that Deans be
authorised to approve local arrangements in their own faculties.
M.D. Watson
Senior Assistant Registrar
University Secretariat
MONASH UNIVERSITY
Memorandum to: Professor L.H.T. West
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International Programs and Development)
Committee of Deans
The following extract from the unconfirmed minutes of Meeting No. 2/92 of
the Committee of Deans, held on 10 March 1992, is drawn to your attention:
17.2 Immigration Provisions
Professor West undertook to take up with Mr Armstrong the difficulties
experienced by overseas students seeking, often for sound academic reasons,
to revert to part-time study.
M.D. Watson
Senior Assistant Registrar
University Secretariat
MONASH UNIVERSITY
Memorandum to: Mr I.C. Gregory
Assistant Registrar
Committee of Deans
The following extract from the unconfirmed minutes of Meeting No. 2/92 of
the Committee of Deans, held on 10 March, is drawn to your attention:
18. Monash University College Gippsland
The Committee received and generally endorsed the attached paper
submitted by Professor Pargetter, D17/92, setting out the framework and
principles for the full integration of Monash University College Gippsland
with the rest of the University by the beginning of 1993. Professor Logan
urged Deans to be constructive in working through the issues that would be
involved in this important exercise.
M.D. Watson
Senior Assistant Registrar
University Secretariat
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