Committee of Deans Meeting 16-1996

Meeting No. 16/96 of the Committee of Deans will be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 17 December 1996 in the Sir George Lush Room, Ground Floor, University Offices 3a, Clayton Campus.

Janice H Newham
Secretary
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AGENDA

1. Minutes

The Minutes of Meeting No. 15/96 have been circulated.

For confirmation, subject to amendment as follows:

Under item 8.1 Restructure of the Faculty of Business and Economics, the following sentence to be added to the last paragraph:

"Members also noted an objection raised by Professor Davies, Dean of the Faculty of Science, to the word "Statistics" being used in the title of the proposed new name of the Department of Econometrics."

2. Matters arising from the Minutes not dealt with elsewhere in the Agenda

2.1 Supervision/Evaluation of Staff

At the previous meeting the General Manager, Mr P B Wade, agreed to provide to the Vice-Chancellor information pertaining to performance appraisal in the Divisions. The attached responses from the following Directors have been received:

D147/96 p5-34b

Ms O Cornelius, Academic Registrar
Mr J R Trembath, Director, Facilities and Services Division
Mr J S White, Deputy General Manager
Mr P Marshall, Director, Personnel Services Division
Mr R Burnet, Director, Student Services Division and Acting Director, Research Services Division
Mr J E Matthews, Director, Financial Services Division.

Mr Marshall's response includes an evaluation of the performance appraisal process for general staff at Monash, conducted in 1995 by Mr L H Parrott, Manager, Policy Implementation Training, Professional Development Centre.

For information and discussion.

3. Vice-Chancellor's Report

4. Urgent Matters

5. Research Matters

6. International Matters

7. Special Items

7.1 Interim Award in Fixed Term Employment Case

A document will be tabled by Professor P LeP Darvall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor.

For noting.

8. Matters Raised by Deans

8.1 Chair in Taxation and Business Regulation

A proposal from the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics is attached.

D148/96 p35-40

For endorsement.

9. Reports of Administrative Divisions / Departments

There are no reports presented at this meeting.

10. General Business

10.1 Computing Matters

As foreshadowed at the previous meeting, the Committee is to consider two papers: D132/96 (meeting 14/96) and D145/96 (meeting 15/96) prepared by Mr P R Annal, Director, Computer Centre. The documents are available for perusal on the Web as follows:

D132/96 attached to Deans Agenda 14/96

http://www.monash.edu.au/unisec/c'tees/dag/96-14da.htm

D145/96 attached to Deans Minutes (tabled paper) 15/96

http://www.monash.edu.au/unisec/c'tees/dmin/96-15dm.htm

For information and discussion

11. Next Meeting

The next meeting of the Committee of Deans will be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 28 January 1997 in The Sir George Lush Room, Ground Floor, University Offices 3a, Clayton Campus.

Distribution

Vice-Chancellor
Deputy Vice-Chancellors
Pro Vice-Chancellors
Deans
General Manager
Executive Director, Marketing & Communications
Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor
Academic Registrar
Campus Director, Gippsland
Campus Director, Berwick
Campus Director, Caulfield
Campus Director, Peninsula

Agenda for the current meeting is available on the web at:

http://www.monash.edu.au/unisec/notice.htm

Agenda and Minutes for previous meetings available on the web at:

http://www.monash.edu.au/unisec/ctees/ag-min.htm

a:(Deans96)Agenda/16agda96.doc

DOCUMENTS 147/96 AND 148/96 ARE NOT AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY AT THIS STAGE