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Committee of Deans Meeting 4-1997

Meeting 4/97 of the Committee of Deans will be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 15 April 1997 in the Sir George Lush Room, Ground Floor, University Offices Building 3a, Clayton Campus.

Members are required to refrain from voting and absent themselves from the discussion of an item of business in which they have a personal interest.

Janice H Newham
Secretary

AGENDA

1. Attendance and apologies

No apologies have been received.

Members of the Corporate Planning Group and the Vice-Chancellor's Special Adviser on Admission Matters have been invited to the meeting for item 4.1.

2. Minutes

The minutes of meeting 3/97 have been circulated.

For confirmation and signature.

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 Review of the role of the Committee of Deans

Council has established a Review of Committees Working Party. The attention of members is drawn to the document approved by Council on 17 March 1997 titled Review of the Council of Monash University: Final Report on Outcomes of a Council Retreat. This document has been referred to the Academic Board and is available for perusal on the Monash homepage.

The following documents are attached:

  • a copy of a memorandum from the Academic Registrar dated 24 March 1997, inviting committees to provide input to the Working Party (D21/97 p 5-8);
  • the terms of reference and membership of the Working Party, as approved by Council (D22/97 p 9-10);
  • a copy of Statute 2.9 - Committee of Deans, showing the Committee's terms of reference (D23/97 p 11-12).

The Committee of Deans is invited to consider its own role and terms of reference in relation to the revised role of Council.

4.1.2 Monash University College of Art & Design - Faculty status

A memorandum from the Vice-Chancellor and President to the Deans dated 10 April 1997, along with a submission from Professor J Redmond, is attached for consideration. (D24/97 p 13-32).

4.1.3 Corporate Planning

The following documents are attached:

  • Paper from the Vice-Chancellor and President dated 10 April 1997 titled Principles for Changes in Funded Load (D25/97 p 33-34);
  • Paper titled Strategic Innovations Fund dated 10 April 1997 from the Vice-Chancellor and President (D26/97 p 35-36).

A document titled Australian Undergraduate Fees and Scholarships will be tabled.

For consideration.

4.2 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development)

4.3 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Public Affairs)

4.4 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning)

4.4.1 Enterprise Bargaining - the next stage

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

4.5 General Manager

5. Matters raised by Deans

6. Other business

7. Next meeting

The next Committee of Deans meeting will be held on Tuesday, 6 May 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