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Senior Management Committee Meeting 3-2005

Meeting 3/2005 of the Senior Management Committee will be held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday 7 June 2005 in the Council Room, Clayton campus.

Rhonda Hinds, Executive Officer

AGENDA

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  
Apologies have been received from:
  In attendance

Ms Lee-ann Norris, Director Student Recruitment & Acting Director, Marketing (for item 8)

Mr Don Gregg, General Manager, Monash International (for item 8)

Dr Grant McBurnie, Executive Officer, Office of International Development (for item 8)

  
     
2. Minutes of Meeting 2/2005

pp 1 - 8
  The Minutes of Meeting 2/2005, held on 12 April 2005 are attached.

Members are invited to confirm the minutes as an accurate record of the meeting.

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3. Matters arising from the Minutes  
  Matters arising from the Minutes have been included as individual agenda items.  
     
4. Committee Matters  
  At the conclusion of Meeting 2/2005, members were requested to complete a Meeting Feedback Form.

The Chair will report on feedback received to date.

 
     
5. Vice-Chancellor’s Report

pp 9 - 12
  5.1 Professor Richard Larkins will report.  
  5.2 Attached for noting is a paper outlining the Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Awards. Further information may be obtained at:

http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/sss/equity-diversity/equity-awards.html

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6. Strategic Planning and Initiatives

pp 13 - 36
  6.1 Annual Priorities  
    The Chair will lead discussion on progress towards achievement of the Annual Priorities for 2005:
  • Improving our management of people.
  1. This item will include consideration of the Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements (HEWRRs).

Attached is a copy of the joint ministerial media release. Information is also available at:

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/
programmes_funding/programme_categories/
professional_skills/hewrrs/

  1. Attached for noting are the following papers relating to the impact of the Choice of Superannuation Funds legislation:
  • Memorandum from Mr Peter Marshall.
  • Table of Employee Choice categories.
  • UniSuper Choice of Fund briefing paper.
  • UniSuper Choice of Fund Issues and Options paper.
  • Responding appropriately to Backing Australia’s Ability 2.
  • Improving our engagement and collaboration.
  • Broadening and co-ordinating our approach to development.

 

 

 

 

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  6.2 Learning and Teaching Plan  
    The Chair will report on the attached Schedule for development of the University Learning and Teaching Plan.

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7. Quality Matters
     
8. International

pp 37 - 164
  Members were previously advised that discussion on a range of matters relating to review of the University’s international strategies, including its approach to international recruitment and the International Self-Review, would take place at SMC Meeting 3/2005.

Ms Norris and Mr Gregg will deliver a presentation to the Committee on the approach to international recruitment.

Attached also for discussion by the Committee are the following:

  • ‘International Students and Monash’ (summary paper).
  • The compendium ‘International Students and Monash - Choosing Our Future Direction’. (Please note that this is a ‘Commercial in Confidence’ document.)
  • A paper from Ms Norris, ‘Recruitment and Marketing to International and Domestic Students’
  • Report of the International Self-Review.
  • Recommendations of the International Self-Review.
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    The compendium is also accessible at the following address:

    http://www.monash.edu.au/international/knowledge/

    (Note that the footnotes (which link to related reference materials) contained in the compendium are soft links.)

    Please also note that further development of the International Plan has been deferred pending appointment of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International).

     

     


     

     

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    9. Education  
           
    10. Research and Research Training

    pp 165 - 174
      10.1 Research and Research Management Review  
    Attached for noting is the draft Action Plan deriving from the Report of the Research and Research Management Review.

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      10.2 Research Quality Framework (carried over from Meeting 2/2005)  
        Professor Cornish will provide an oral report.

    Information relevant to the RQF may be obtained from the following website:

    http://www.dest.gov.au/resqual/default.htm

    		 
         
    11. Management

           
    12. Other business  
           
    13. Next meeting  
      The next meeting of the Senior Management Committee is scheduled for 2.15 p.m. Tuesday 12 July 2005 at Berwick campus.

     

    Membership List

    		  
       
    Vice-Chancellor and President, Academic Director, Caulfield
    Professor Richard Larkins AO Professor Rob Willis
    Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Presiding Executive Director, Information Technology
    Professor Stephen Parker Services
    Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Mr Alan McMeekin
    Professor Alan Lindsay Director, Audit and Risk Management
    Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Mr Greg Connell
    Professor Edwina Cornish University Librarian
    Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Resources) Ms Cathrine Harboe-Ree
    Ms Alison Crook AO Director, Learning & Teaching
    Deputy Vice-Chancellor ( International) Professor Denise Kirkpatrick
    represented by Mr Clive Vernon Divisional Director, Financial Resources Management
    President of the Academic Board Mr John Levine
    Professor Chris Browne Divisional Director, Corporate Finance
    Vice-President, University Advancement Mr John Matthews
    Vacant Divisional Director, Student and Staff Services
    Pro Vice-Chancellor, Malaysia Mr Peter Marshall
    Professor Merilyn Liddell Divisional Director, Facilities and Services
    Pro Vice-Chancellor, South Africa Mr Stephen Davey
    Professor Tyrone B. Pretorius University Solicitor
    Pro Vice-Chancellor, Gippsland Mr Renn Wortley
    Professor Brian Mackenzie Director, Research Office
    Pro Vice-Chancellor, Planning and Director, Ms Peggy Daroesman
    Monash University Centre in London

    Professor Merran Evans

    		 Senior Adviser, Special Initiatives

    Professor David Copolov

    Pro Vice-Chancellor, Quality  
    Professor Graham Webb  
    Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research & Research Training  
    Professor Max King  
    Pro Vice-Chancellor, Campus Coordination and  
    Academic Director, Berwick & Peninsula  
    Professor Phillip Steele  
    Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Industry)  
    Professor John Anderson  
    Dean, Faculty of Art and Design  
    Professor John Redmond  
    Dean, Faculty of Arts  
    Professor Homer Le Grand  
    Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics  
    Professor Gill Palmer  
    Dean, Faculty of Education  
    Professor Sue Willis
    Dean, Faculty of Engineering  
    Professor Tam Sridhar  
    Dean, Faculty of Information Technology  
    Professor Ron Weber  
    Dean, Faculty of Law  
    Professor Arie Freiberg  
    Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences  
    Professor Edward Byrne  
    Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy  
    Professor Colin Chapman  
    Dean, Faculty of Science  
    Professor Rob Norris