Committee of Deans Meeting 4-2004
Meeting 4/2004 of the Committee of Deans will be held at
4.00pm on Tuesday, 22 June 2004 in the Monash City Office, Level 11, 30
Collins Street, Melbourne. Dinner will be served at 6.00pm.
Tony Calder, Secretary
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.
AGENDA
1 Attendance and apologies
Apologies have been received from Professor Stephen
Parker, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Edwina Cornish, Deputy
Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Brian Mackenzie, Pro
Vice-Chancellor, Gippsland and Professor John Anderson, Pro
Vice-Chancellor, South Africa.
Professor Merran Evans, Director, University Planning
and Research, will be in attendance.
Mr John Levine, Divisional Director, Financial Resources
Management and Mr Reynold Dias, Deputy Director, Financial Resources
Management will be in attendance for item 4 and Professor Chris Browne,
Centre for Medical and Health Science Education, Faculty of Medicine,
Nursing and Health Sciences will be in attendance for item 3.1.
2 Notes
Notes of meeting 3/2004 of the Committee of Deans held
on 11 May 2004 are attached. (Attachment 1).
3 Matters arising from the
Minutes (not dealt with elsewhere in the Agenda)
3.1 Higher Education
Support Act 2003 – Equity initiatives
The Vice-Chancellor will introduce the item. Professor
Merran Evans and Professor Chris Browne will be in attendance for this
item. A paper is attached. (Attachment 2)
3.2 Pro Vice-Chancellor,
Monash Gippsland Campus – Position Specification
At meeting 3/2004 (11 May), members discussed matters
arising from the document The Future of Multi-Campus Monash: vision,
governance and management including issues relating to greater
autonomy of the Gippsland Campus, load distribution and allocation and
the roles of senior academic staff on the Gippsland Campus.
The Vice-Chancellor will introduce the item. Professor
Merran Evans will be in attendance for this item. A draft position
specification for the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Gippsland is attached.
(Attachment 3)
4 University Financial Targets 2005-2007
Ms Alison Crook will introduce the item. Mr John Levine
and Mr Reynold Dias will be in attendance for this item. A paper is
attached. (Attachment 4)
5 Annual Plan 2005
Section 5 of Monash University – Excellence and
Diversity: Strategic Framework – 2004-2008, states that
"An annual planning cycle will be implemented involving
the formulation of a university wide annual plan, the formulation or
updating of the teaching and learning plan, the research and research
training management plan, the support services plan, faculty specific
plans, campus specific plans, and the marketing plan. The emphasis will
be on formulating plans that are linked to the budget-setting process
and are subjected to an annual cycle of evaluation of progress against
plan. It will be essential throughout that staff and students have
substantial input into the planning process and feel committed to the
plans proposed."
The Vice-Chancellor will introduce the item. Professor
Merran Evans will be in attendance for this item. A paper is attached.
(Attachment 5)
6 Monash University South Africa
The Vice-Chancellor will introduce the item. The
following papers are attached:
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Attachment 6 – South African Campus Business Plan
Project - report from Mr David Gilmour
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Attachment 7 – Draft Recommendations to Resources
and Finance Committee and to Council Concerning Future Operations of
Monash University in South Africa
7 Leadership Program for Elite Students
The Vice-Chancellor will introduce the item. A paper is
attached. (Attachment 8)
8 Melbourne-Monash Collaborations
The Vice-Chancellor will introduce the item.
9 Other business
10 Next meeting
The next meeting of the Committee of Deans will be held
at 4.00 pm on Tuesday, 3 August 2004 in the City Office.
Distribution
Vice-Chancellor
Deputy
Vice-Chancellor
Deputy
Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Deputy
Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Deputy
Vice-Chancellor (Resources)
Pro
Vice-Chancellors
Deans
Director,
Research Graduate School
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