Committee of Deans Meeting 8/97

Meeting 8/97 of the Committee of Deans was held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 8 July 1997 in the Sir George Lush Room, Ground Floor, University Offices Building 3a, Clayton Campus.

Tony Calder
Secretary

1. Attendance and apologies

Professor Peter Stewart attended for Professor C B Chapman, Dean and Director, Victorian College of Pharmacy

Professor Bala Srinivasan attended for Professor R Willis, Acting Dean, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology

2. Minutes

The minutes of meeting 7/97 were confirmed.

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 The Monash Plan - Implementation

Commenting on the outcome of the Council meeting held on 7 July, the Vice Chancellor advised the Committee that he would be contacting all Deans and Campus Directors to initiate the implementation phase of the Monash Plan.

Further, the Vice Chancellor advised the meeting that Peninsula campus would be assisted in the implementation phase by the Corporate Planning Support Team and the establishment of Working Groups that would provide input to all areas including innovative teaching programs and the research profile of the campus

(File: 97/0788)

4.2 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development)

4.2.1 Enterprise Bargaining

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development), Professor P LeP Darvall provided an update on progress in the current round of negotiations.

(File: 96/1377)

4.2.2 Information Technology Matters

Professor Darvall advised the Committee that a draft of the Information Technology Policy (Tabled Paper) would be submitted to the next meeting of Academic Board.

In addition, Professor Darvall tabled a paper titled Year 2000 Compliance Project and requested that each Dean nominate a staff member to join the Year 2000 Compliance Executive Committee.

(File: 97/0846)

4.3 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Public Affairs)

4.3.1 Becoming Global

Mr Anthony Pollock, General Manager - Monash International Pty. Ltd., providing background to the document Streamlined Application Processing Procedures at Monash International (D36/97) and noted that Monash International would face increasing competition in its tradition recruitment markets and would need to adopt new ways of marketing and positioning Monash in order to increase the recruitment of international students.

Following detailed discussion of postgraduate offers to international students, several areas requiring further exploration were identified. These were:

• Overseas authorities may restrict funding for PhD students to three years;
• in addition, AusAid is now restricting time to completion;
• lengthy response times in making offers is resulting in the loss of quality students; and
• a PhD including a course work component would be attractive to some overseas candidates. In addition, it was noted that the coursework component would assist in the student's transition to Monash.

A sub group of the Committee of Deans, lead by Professor Lindsay and consisting of Professors Williams, White and Davies was formed and will report back to a subsequent meeting of the Committee.

Any member with views or issues relating to international and/or postgraduate issues was requested to contact a member of the sub group.

(File: 95/0755)

4.4 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning)

4.5 General Manager

5. Matters raised by Deans

5.1 Professor/Director of Trauma

A memorandum from Mr Brian Ruck, Faculty Manager of Medicine, dated 20 June 1997 together with supporting documentation seeking approval to establish a wholly externally funded position of Professor/Director of Trauma at Alfred Hospital was received. (D37/97)

The Committee endorsed the proposal for submission to Academic Board and Council.

(File: Personnel)

6. Other business

7. Next meeting

The next scheduled Committee of Deans meeting will be held on Tuesday, 29 July 1997 at 2.15 pm in the Sir George Lush Room.

Distribution

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