Committee of Deans Meeting 3-1997

Meeting 3/97 of the Committee of Deans will be held at 2.15 pm on Thursday, 20 March 1997 in the Sir George Lush Room, Ground Floor, University Offices Building 3a, Clayton Campus.

Janice H Newham
Secretary

AGENDA

1. Attendance and apologies

No apologies have been received.

Mr P Summers, Ms D Lampard, Mr I Dobson, Ms C Mingins and Associate Professor M Evans have been invited to the meeting for item 4.1.1.

2. Minutes

The minutes of meeting 2/97 have been circulated.

For confirmation and signature subject to the following amendment:

Under Item 6.2 (Deans' Representative on the Monash University Club Committee), the last sentence to read: "Noting that the Vice-Chancellor and the General Manager were both represented on the Club Committee, members agreed that it was not necessary for the Committee of Deans to be represented on that body."

3. Matters arising from the minutes not dealt with elsewhere in the agenda

4. Vice-Chancellor's business

4.1 Vice-Chancellor

4.1.1 Corporate Planning

A document titled "Monash and the future higher education environment" dated 12 March 1997, prepared by the Learning and Environment Reference Group (LERG), is attached for consideration and comment. (D15/97 p5-9)

The Vice-Chancellor will speak to this item. Members of the Corporate Planning Group, and Associate Professor M Evans, have been invited to the meeting for this item.

4.2 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development)

4.2.1 Information Technology Policy

Professor J Rosenberg, Dean (designate) of the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, has provided the attached comment dated 4 March 1997 on the draft Monash University Information Technology Policy, for consideration. (D16/97 p11-12)

Professor Darvall will speak to this item.

4.3 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Public Affairs)

Professor J E Maloney, DVC (I&PA), will inform the Committee about a re-structure of his portfolio.

4.4 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning)

4.4.1 Policy on admission of observers to Academic Board meetings

A draft policy, prepared by the Secretary to the Academic Board in accordance with minute 5.1 of the Board's meeting 8/96, is attached for consideration. (D17/97 p13-16)

Professor P LeP Darvall, DVC (R&D) will speak to this item.

4.4.2 Matter raised by the Dean of Law

A memorandum from the Dean of Law dated 17 March 1997 is attached for consideration. (Members only) (D18/97 p17-18)

Professor C R Williams will speak to this item.

4.5 General Manager

5. Matters raised by Deans

5.1 Articles published in The Sunday Times and The Australian

Copies of articles, extracted from the Internet on 15 February 1997, are attached for discussion.(D19/97 p19-21)

Professor R Porter will speak to this item.

6. Other business

7. Next meeting

The next Committee of Deans meeting will be held on Tuesday, 15 April 1997 at 2.15 pm in the Sir George Lush Room.

Distribution

(Hard copy):

Vice-Chancellor
Deputy Vice-Chancellors
Deans
General Manager
Executive Assistant to Vice-Chancellor