Committee of Deans Meeting 14/98
Meeting 14/98 of the Committee of Deans will be held at
1.30 pm on Tuesday, 11 November 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.
Tony Calder
Secretary Members are requested to note that a special meeting of the
Committee of Deans has been scheduled for 10.00 am on 11 November 1998 in
the James McNeill Room, 1st floor, University Offices Building
3a, Clayton campus.
AGENDA
1. Attendance and apologies
In attendance as Acting Dean will be Professor Marcia Neave
(Law).
2. Minutes
The minutes of meeting 13/98 have been circulated.
For confirmation.
3. Matters arising from the minutes not dealt with elsewhere in the
agenda
3.1 Revisions to Draft University Practice policy
At meeting 13/98, Deans were requested to give further
consideration to the draft policy and submit any further comments to Ms S.
Wales and Mr G. Connell as soon as practical. The Committee was advised that
a final draft version of the document would be submitted to this meeting of
the Committee of Deans.
As several issues relating to the policy are still under
consideration, the final draft version will be submitted to meeting 15/98 on
1st December 1998
4. Vice-Chancellor’s Group
4.1 Vice-Chancellor
4.1.1 Arts at Monash
The Vice-Chancellor advised Council at its meeting on 21
September that it was his expectation that he would be able to report to the
Resources and Finance Committee that the future directions for the Faculty
of Arts were academically and financially sound. On that basis, he expected
to be in a position to recommend that the substantial loan finance to the
Faculty of Arts should be released and that a final report on progress would
be submitted to Council on 9 November 1998.
The attached document (D47/98) is provided prior to the next
meeting of Council for the information of Deans.
4.2 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development)
4.2.1 Research Management Plan
The publication titled ‘Research Management Plan – June
1998’ is attached. Professor Darvall will introduce this matter.
4.2.2 BHERT Sponsored Research Leaders courses.
Professor Darvall will introduce this matter.
4.3 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Public Affairs)
4.4 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning)
4.5 General Manager
5. Matters raised by Deans
5.1 Report on SMIF progress
Professor Davies will provide an oral report on this
matter.
5.2 Engagement with the Performing and Visual Arts
Documents D48/98 & D49/98 relating to this matter are
attached.
6. Other business
7. Items for information
7.1 Relative Funding Formula for Languages
A series of documents (D50/98) relating to this matter
are attached for information
8. Next meeting
A special meeting of the Committee of Deans will be will be
held in 11 November 1998 at 10.00am. Please note that the venue for the
meeting is the James McNeill Room, 1st floor, University Offices
Building 3a.
The next scheduled Committee of Deans meeting will be held
on 1 December 1998 at 2.15pm in the Sir George Lush Room.
Distribution
(Hard copy):
Vice-Chancellor
Deputy Vice-Chancellors
Deans
General Manager
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