Meeting 1/2002 of the Deans Discussion Group was held at 4.00 pm on Tuesday, 22 January 2002 in the Monash City Office, Level 11, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne.

Tony Calder

The Vice-Chancellor opened the meeting and welcomed members to the first meeting for 2002.

Noting the significant contribution of the Committee of Deans and the Deans Discussion Group, the Vice-Chancellor requested that Deans ensure that normal matters of business were submitted to the meetings of the Committee of Deans thus leaving meetings of the Deans Discussion Group free to focus on matters of operational and strategic importance.

Professor D A Robinson, Vice-Chancellor and President, Presiding

Professor P LeP Darvall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President, (Research and Development)

Professor A W Lindsay, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic and Planning)

Ms A Crook AO, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Resources)

Professor B Mackenzie, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Gippsland Campus

Professor J Anderson, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Monash South Africa

Professor J K Redmond, Dean, Faculty of Art and Design

Professor H Le Grand, Dean, Faculty of Arts

Professor G Palmer, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics

Professor S Willis, Dean, Faculty of Education

Professor M Brisk, Dean, Faculty of Engineering

Professor J Rosenberg, Dean, Faculty of Information Technology

Professor N Saunders, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Professor C Chapman, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy

Professor R Norris, Dean, Faculty of Science

Professor S Parker, Dean, Faculty of Law

Mr T Pollock, Executive Director, Office of International Affairs

Mr I Porter, Principal Adviser, International Government Relations via teleconference for item 5

The Notes of meeting 8/2001 held on 4 December 2001 were received and noted.

The Vice-Chancellor introduced this item and informed members that Council had approved the Global Development Framework and Global Development: 2002-2006 and noted the paper Monash in North America. Further, members were advised that the Global Development Framework would be published in hardcopy whereas Global Development: 2002-2006 would be a web-based publication that would be updated as changes to targets occurred.

In response to a question regarding initiatives in North America, the Vice-Chancellor confirmed that all proposals to establish new partnerships, centres or campuses should conform with the process detailed on page 20 of attachment 3 (Global Development: 2002-2006) which would in no way impede one-on-one relationships that staff might wish to establish.

Professor Le Grand informed members that a North America Steering Committee would be established to guide activity in North America over the initial years. Members were advised that a progress report would be provided in the second half of 2002.

Mr Ian Porter, Principal Adviser, International Government Relations was present via a teleconference link.

Professor Alan Lindsay, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic and Planning), introduced the item and advised members that a delegation had recently visited City University – Hong Kong to discuss the possibility of entering into a partnership arrangement.

Professor Lindsay noted that initial discussions with City University were positive as they were interested in a full partnership arrangement which might progress to include postgraduate and research programs across most faculties.

Mr Porter advised that a representative of the Hong Kong Government had indicated keen interest in the ongoing discussions.

During discussion, members noted that although many issues remained to be worked through, recent discussions indicated that the possibility of a university to university agreement might offer significant benefits to both parties and that further discussions should continue with a paper on the emerging position to come to a future meeting of Committee of Deans/Deans Discussion Group.

Professor John Redmond, Dean, Faculty of Art and Design spoke to this item.

The Committee approved the proposal to establish and fill the position of Professor/Associate Professor of Design Research.

Mr Tony Pollock, Executive Director, Office of International Affairs, introduced this item noting that the visit by TMC (Singapore) was largely routine and that he would contact Deans regarding their availability to meet with TMC representatives.

Members noted that it was important that discussions with partners focus on the benefits to Monash as a whole and that the discussions were informed by the Global Development Framework and Global Development: 2002-2006.

Mr Tony Pollock introduced this item and noted that the existing focus was on preparatory programs delivered via Monash College, the development of postgraduate courseware programs via arrangements with Chinese universities and professional development/non-award programs.

Mr Pollock noted that the development of undergraduate programs was not at this time a priority.

Following discussion, the Vice-Chancellor advised that an informed strategy was emerging and a further paper progressing the issue would be presented to a future meeting of the Committee of Deans/Deans Discussion Group.

Professor John Rosenberg, Dean, Faculty of Information Technology provided an update on the status of the bid by the Federation consortium.

Professor Peter Darvall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research and Development), advised members that 260 ARC grant applications, most with mentors nominated, were underway.

In response to a question, Deans were advised that applications not deemed of an appropriate standard should be filtered out and that the coming weeks should be used to shape applications and assist those that would be applying in future rounds.

The next meeting of the Deans Discussion Group will be held at 4 pm on Tuesday, 19 March 2002 in the City Office.

The next meeting of the Committee of Deans will be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 26 February 2002 in the Sir George Lush Room.

Vice-Chancellor and President

Deputy Vice-Chancellors and Vice-Presidents

Pro Vice-Chancellors