Committee of Deans Meeting 11-1993

Meeting No. 11/93 of the Committee of Deans was held on Tuesday, 14 September 1993, in the Lounge Room, at Frank Tate House, Armadale, between 2.30 and 4.00 pm.

There were present: Professor M.I. Logan, Vice-Chancellor, in the Chair

Professor I.W. Chubb, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics

Professor R.J. Pargetter, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Projects)

Professor P.LeP. Darvall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Dean, Faculty of Engineering

Professor L.H.T. West, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International Programs)

Professor J.L.C. Chipman, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Gippsland)

Professor G.C. Clark, Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts

Professor C.J. Bellamy, Dean, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology

Professor D.N. Aspin, Dean, Faculty of Education

Professor A.J. Duggan, Acting Dean, Faculty of Law

Professor R. Porter, Dean, Faculty of Medicine

Professor C.B. Chapman, Dean, Victorian College of Pharmacy

Professor R.J. Snedden, Dean, Faculty of Professional Studies

Professor I.D. Rae, Dean, Faculty of Science

In attendancewere:

Mr J.S. White, Acting General Manager

Professor R.McD. Anderson, Campus Director, Frankston

Mr M.D. Watson, Acting Academic Registrar

Mr G.F. Neat, Executive Director, University Development

Ms C.E. Anderson, Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor

M I N U T E S

Membership

In opening the meeting, the Vice-Chancellor welcomed Professor Lauchlan Chipman to his first meeting of the Committee since taking up appointment as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Gippsland).

84. Minutes

The minutes of Meeting No. 10/93 held on 31 August 1933, copies of which had been circulated, were confirmed and signed.

85. MattersArising From the Minutes

No matters were raised from the minutes.

86. Report of the Vice-Chancellor

86.1 Profiles

Professor Logan informed Deans that the profile discussions with DEET officials on 3 September had gone reasonably well, if predicably, for Monash. There was some hope of a modest increase in higher degree load, he said, and the offer of a one-off capital grant to commence the new Berwick campus if the University backed the development by a transfer of some student load. Professor Chubb reported that Monash had successfully argued a case that would enable it to reduce progressively the over-enrolment that would otherwise have remained entrenched in the University's student load. For 1994-96, it was noted that total load, commencing load, and commencing school leaver targets had been set.

86.2 Executive Report

Deans were briefed on and the meeting discussed the appended listing of matters discussed at meetings of the Executive on 6 and 13 September.

87. Urgent Matters

87.1 Fees for Postgraduate Courses

In response to a question from Professor Porter, it was agreed that a IWC paper should come to a later meeting addressing the new provisions for the levying of fees on local postgraduates students and setting down guidelines to govern action that faculties might initiate in this regard.

87.2 Level A Staff Appointments

Professor Chubb reported that negotiations with the unions were continuing. He gave notice that he would be writing to Deans requesting them to consider the making of tenured appointments at level A, particularly in those cases where contracts had been repeatedly renewed.

88. ResearchMatters

88.1 Research Management Policy and CADRES Statute

Professor Darvall said he had received some comment on the papers he had tabled at the previous meeting, and asked those Deans who were in a position to do so to forward to him up-dated faculty research management plans.

89. Chair of Asian Law

The Committee approved for transmission to Academic Board the OC appended proposal (D36/93) submitted jointly by the Dean of the Faculty of Law and the Director of the Monash Asia Institute for the establishment of a Chair of Asian Law. On the suggestion of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Duggan agreed AJD that it might be useful to incorporate a reference to the commercial aspects of Asian Law in the proposal and draft advertisement.

90. Other Business

90.1 AVCC Credit Transfer Project

Professor Chubb tabled and asked for comment from Deans on the appended memorandum from the AVCC on the future directions of its credit transfer project.

90.2 1994 Meeting Dates

It was agreed that, if the Academic Board approved the Steering OC Committee's proposal to revert to a six-weekly meeting cycle in 1994, the Committee of Deans should adopt a three-weekly schedule of dates that included meetings being held at 11.30 am and over a working lunch if necessary on Academic Board meeting days.

Next Meeting

It was noted that the next meeting of the Committee was scheduled to be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 5 October, in the Council Room, University Offices, at the Clayton campus. Mr M.D. Watson.

In closing the meeting, Professor Logan paid warm tribute to the work of Michael Watson who had served as Secretary of the Committee of Deans over the past fifteen years. These remarks were endorsed with acclamation.