Committee of Deans Meeting 5-1997

Meeting 5/97 of the Committee of Deans will be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 6 May 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

Professor B Srinivasan will attend for Professor R J Willis, Acting Dean, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology.

Ms J Chandler, Executive Director, Marketing and Development, has been invited to the meeting for item 4.3.1.

2. Minutes

The minutes of meeting 4/97 have been circulated.

For confirmation and signature.

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

3.1 Council's review of committees - Buildings Committee

A document dated 23 April 1997 provided by Professor Quartly, Dean of Arts, is attached for information (D 28/97 p3-4).

4. Vice-Chancellor's business

4.1 Vice-Chancellor

4.1.1 Corporate Planning update

The Vice-Chancellor will speak to this item.

4.2 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development)

4.3 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Public Affairs)

4.3.1 Alumni research and Marketing update

Ms J Chandler has been invited to the meeting to make a presentation.

4.4 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning)

4.5 General Manager

5. Matters raised by Deans

6. Other business

7. Next meeting

The next scheduled Committee of Deans meeting will be held on Tuesday, 27 May 1997 at 2.15 pm in the Sir George Lush Room.

The second special meeting of the Committee of Deans to consider the draft corporate plan will be held on Tuesday, 13 May 1997 at 3.00 pm in the Sir George Lush Room.

* The wording of this statement is subject to reconsideration by Council on 12 May 1997.

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M O N A S H   U N I V E R S I T Y

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AUSTRALIA

To: Deans

From: Professor Marian Quartly

Dean, Faculty of Arts

Reference: 97/0332

Subject: Review of Committees

At its last meeting the committee of Deans discussed its response to the University Council's Review of Committees Working Party. As a result of that discussion, Professors Porter and Quartly were deputed to prepare a draft response for Professor Brisk's committee of review.

We suggest that in reviewing the Buildings Committee of Council, the review committee should consider

• a restructuring of the Buildings Committee to allow for proper representation of the interests of both the Academic Board and the Committee of Deans through formal membership of the Buildings Committee
• the reporting back to Academic Board and to the Committee of Deans concerning Buildings Committee proceedings and developments.
  • that each of the working parties or project teams for each projects should be chaired by the relevant dean, the teams functioning as subcommittees of the Buildings Committee.

The physical facilities responsibilities of the Campus Planning Committee might well become a responsibility of the Buildings Committee. Its wider planning responsibilities seem already to have been overtaking by the Corporate Planning Group. There is however, a need for a greater involvement of the Committee of Deans in global planning for the University - a function that is not well served by separate Planning Groups at each campus location or by the present Campus Planning Committee which is disconnected from faculties and their plans and expirations.

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(Hard copy):

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