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Professor Alan Lindsay and Professor Robinson
at the signing of the agreement. 
Monash academic and general staff will shortly receive their first official pay instalment under an across-the-board 12 per cent salary increase following last week's signing of the university's Enterprise Bargaining Agreement.
University staff overwhelmingly voted in favour of the agreement (92 per cent) in a recent independent ballot conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission.
The 12 per cent pay increase provided for under the Agreement includes:
The agreement and supporting documentation, prepared in consultation with the NTEU, was signed off by vice-chancellor Professor David Robinson and forwarded to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission for certification last week. It is expected that the commission will schedule a certification hearing in early to mid-June.
Professor Robinson said he was pleased to sign off the agreement. "Staff are now a significant step closer to receiving their well-deserved pay rise," he said.
Once the agreement is certified, the university will immediately begin processing the salary increase, with the likelihood of salary adjustments for both the first and second instalments of the Enterprise Agreement being included in the 2 July 1998 pay. Backpay and superannuation corrections are likely to be included in the following pay of 16 July.
For further information about the Agreement or pay increases, contact the university's Employee Relations & Consultancy Branch on extn 56011.
Director of Hull University's Centre for Systems Studies and Professor of Management Sciences Professor Robert Flood will be guest speaker at a Monash seminar on 4 and 5 June.
The seminar is hosted by the Department of Management's Australian Systems Thinking and Organisational Learning Group (ASTOLg), and aims to offer new perspectives and approaches to understanding organisational issues and the management of change.
The seminar costs $550. For further information, contact ASTOLg on extn 32035 or 32590.
US expert in teaching and learning in higher education Dr Tom Angelo will give a presentation on learning communities at Monash on Thursday 4 June.
Dr Angelo, who is professor of Educational and Psychological Studies and coordinator of the Higher Education Program at the University of Miami, is in Melbourne as a guest of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia and is the HERDSA 1998 Visiting Fellow.
His Monash presentation, 'Seven shifts and seven levers: Using assessment to build more productive learning communities', focuses on 'seven macro-level shifts' in the broader environment, which he suggests may help universities move towards becoming learning communities. He also gives an insight into what form these communities might take.
According to Dr Angelo, changes in society are changing university and academic cultures. But among the many worrying trends, he says, there are "some positive signs that a renewed, more collegial academic culture could emerge".
The free seminar, hosted by Monash's Centre for Higher Education Development, is being held in the Malvern Room, First Floor, 700 Blackburn Road, Clayton, adjacent to Science Park.
For further information, contact Ms Deidre Bruton on extn 56814.
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