Meeting 2/98 of the Committee of Deans will be held at
2.15 pm on Tuesday, 24 February 1998 in the Sir George Lush Room, Ground
Floor, University Offices Building 3a, Clayton Campus.
Members having a direct commercial or financial interest
in any item before this meeting must declare that interest to the Chair via
the Committee secretary prior to consideration of the item, and must not
take part in a vote on any matter concerning it.
1. Attendance and apologies
An apology has been received Professor D Robinson,
Vice-Chancellor; Professor J Maloney, Deputy Vice-Chancellor - International
and Public Affairs; Professor J Rickard, Dean - Faculty of Business and
Economics; Professor R Porter, Dean - Faculty of Medicine and Mr P Wade,
General Manager.
Professor N Saunders, Dean-elect - Faculty of Medicine
will attend for Professor R Porter. Professor A Russell will attend for
Professor J Rickard.
Professor R J Pargetter, Special Adviser to the
Vice-Chancellor on Admission Matters, will be in attendance for item 4.4.3..
Ms A Lazar will be in attendance for item 6.1.
2. Minutes
The minutes of meeting 1/98 have been circulated.
For confirmation and signature.
3. Matters arising from the minutes not dealt with
elsewhere in the agenda
3.1 Revised Budget Process
Details of a special meeting of the Committee of Deans to
discuss matters relating to a revised budget process are as follows:
Deans are currently being contacted by staff of the
University Secretariat to ascertain their availability for the meeting.
4. Vice-Chancellor’s business
4.2 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development)
4.2.1 Malaysian Campus
Professor Darvall will speak to this item.
4.2.2 Docklands
Professor Darvall will speak to this item.
4.2.3 Microsoft Software Licensing Arrangements
Professor Darvall will speak to this item.
A document is attached (D5/98).
4.2.4 Special Monash Research Research Fund (SMURF)
Professor Darvall will speak to this item.
A document is attached (D6/98).
4.3 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Public
Affairs)
4.4 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning)
4.4.1 Melbourne Monash Cooperation Protocol
Professor Lindsay will speak to this item.
4.4.2 Strategic Innovation Fund - Draft Guidelines
Professor Lindsay will speak to this item.
A document is attached (D7/98)
4.4.3 Undergraduate Guaranteed Entry Scheme
Professor Lindsay will introduce the matter.
Professor Pargetter, Special Adviser to the
Vice-Chancellor on Admission Matters, will be in attendance and speak to the
item.
4.4.4 Enterprise Bargaining
Professor Lindsay will speak to this item.
A document will be distributed prior to / tabled at the
meeting
4.5 General Manager
5. Matters raised by Deans
5.1 Proposal to establish, advertise and fill a Chair of
Network Computing
Professor Rosenberg will speak to this item.
A proposal from the Dean of Information Technology to
establish, advertise and fill a Chair of Multimedia Technology is detailed
in D8/98
For endorsement and transmission to Academic Board and
Council.
5.2 Proposal to establish, advertise and fill a Chair of
Rural Psychiatry
A proposal from the Dean of Medicine to establish,
advertise and fill a Chair of Rural Psychiatry is detailed in D9/98.
For endorsement and transmission to Academic Board and
Council.
6. Other business
6.1 Defamation : Guidelines for Academic Staff
Ms Amanda Lazar, Deputy University Solicitor, will be in
attendance for this item.
A document is attached (D10/98).
6.2 General Library Committee - request for nomination.
The term of office of the current member of the General
Library Committee nominated by the Committee of Deans, Professor M Quartly,
expired in December 1997.
The matter is referred to the Committee of Deans to
consider nomination of a Dean to the General Library Committee with a term
of office to expire in December 1999.
7 Items for information
8. Next meeting
The next scheduled Committee of Deans meeting will be
held on 17 March at 2.15pm in the Sir George Lush Room.
Distribution
(Hard copy):
Vice-Chancellor
Deputy Vice-Chancellors
Deans
General Manager
Executive Assistant to Vice-Chancellor
