Committee of Deans
Meeting 5/2006 of the Committee of Deans will be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 25 July 2006 in the Sir George Lush Room, Building 3a, Clayton Campus.
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 Arie Freiberg, Dean, Faculty of Law, Professor Ed Byrne AO, Dean, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Professor Stephanie Fahey, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International), Professor Stephen Parker, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Merilyn Liddell, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Monash Malaysia and Professor Tyrone Pretorius, Pro Vice-Chancellor, South Africa.
In Attendance
Professor HP Lee, Acting Dean for Professor Arie Freiberg
Associate Professor Tony Luff, for Professor Ed Byrne
2. Minutes
Minutes of meeting 4/2006 of the Committee of Deans held on Tuesday 20 June 2006 are attached. (Attachment 1) pp 1 - 3
3. Matters arising from the Minutes (not dealt with elsewhere in the Agenda)
3.1 The size of Monash University
Members are invited to note that this item will be discussed further once additional data is available to inform the discussion.
4. Vice-Chancellor
4.1 Vice Chancellor’s Report
The Vice Chancellor will report on a range of matters.
5. HR developments in the Faculty of Information Technology
Professor Weber will provide a report on this matter.
6. Reorganisation of CALTs
Deans would appreciate a report on the reorganisation of CALTS and how it’s going. There is concern at the loss of certain activities that CeLTS used to do for our students at risk, for example, assistance for students who were having difficulties in the academic progress committees. Services such as the recording of lectures are now directly costed to faculties with no obvious additional funds to pay for them. Finally, academic staff report upheaval of technical services, in particular, blamed on what is reported as repeated change in organisational structure, three this year they understand. The latter may not be correct and an update could clarify the situation
7. Monash College
Following from the Monash College Group presentation at the last Academic Board, Professor Redmond suggested that Monash College should not undertake initiatives in geographic areas in which Monash 'University' is not already well known until a strategy for managing the perceptual aspects of 'brand' for such activities has been developed. It would be useful for Deans to discuss whether Monash College should develop a protocol or strategy for managing the 'brand' aspects of any developments they are considering.
8. Staff Survey
Could Deans be informed about the rationale of University response to the Staff Survey, in relation to the response being undertaken separately at central and faculty/school levels, the focus of the 'focus groups' and the approach to identifying participants and managing processes.
9. Impost on faculty staff due to requests to collect data.
A concern has been raised by Deans about being asked to produce data that should already be available. The general concern is that rather than a group wanting data, going to existing data sources faculties are being asked to do this. How we might ensure less onerous and more efficient data collection processes merits discussion.
10. Other Business
11. Topics identified for discussion at future meetings
11.1 Budget and research funding
If possible for Mr David Pitt to give a report/update on any proposals about research related funding for the forthcoming budget.
12. Next meeting
The next meeting of the Committee of Deans will be held at 4 pm on Tuesday, 19 September in the City Office.
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