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The overall direction of Monash's international activities will be coordinated by a new entity called Monash Global.
Established by University Council at its final meeting in December last year, Monash Global will, according to vice-chancellor Professor David Robinson, ensure that the university's international strategy is fully integrated into overall Monash planning.
"The Monash Plan made it clear that our international activities are an essential part of our core activities, and the failure to adequately resource and support this task will seriously undermine the broader teaching, learning and research activities we undertake both in Australia and overseas," Professor Robinson said.
"Since Monash International began in 1994, the income from international student fees has almost doubled to around $65 million each year. Monash International's role was to market and recruit international students and provide for their initial pastoral care on arrival in Australia.
"The international activities of this university have now grown and diversified. A major step was taken in this direction last year with the opening of the campus in Kuala Lumpur. Our plans over the coming years to venture into southern Africa and other countries means that the creation of a structure such as Monash Global is vital."
Monash Global's activities will be managed by a board comprising the vice-chancellor and the other members of the Vice-Chancellor's Group, the deans of the Faculties of Business and Economics and Information Technology, and the deputy chancellor and chair of Resources and Finance Committee, Mr Paul Ramler. Mr John Button and Mr Will Bailey, who were members of the board of Monash International, have also been invited to join the Monash Global board.
The day-to-day activities of Monash Global will be the responsibility of deputy vice-chancellor Professor John Maloney, and the executive director, International Affairs, Mr Ian Porter.
Monash International will continue to operate but its role is now that of a service organisation carrying out the directions and policies of Monash Global. The board of Monash International has been stripped back to include just Professor Robinson, Professor Maloney and the general manager, Mr Peter Wade.
"The formation of Monash Global provides the appropriate structure to guide and monitor all of our international activities," Professor Robinson said. "It will ensure those activities are in no way peripheral or antagonistic to our core concerns of educating scholars and professionals and advancing applying knowledge, but absolutely integral to them."
Monash Law School has teamed up with a snow-bound US law school to offer American students an Australian summer school experience.
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conjunction with Thomas Cooley Law School of Michigan, Monash is offering a
summer program that includes courses on international law, international aviation
law and international human rights, taught by Monash staff. A US legal remedies
course is also being taught by visiting academic Professor Peter Jason of Thomas
Cooley Law School.
Over the seven weeks, students will visit the Victorian parliament, the courts and legal professional bodies.
The American Bar Association has approved the program, giving students who complete the Monash-based courses automatic eligibility for credit towards US law degrees. The program has attracted law students from at least four American institutions.
Monash program co-director Mr Leighton Morris said the idea of an Australian summer program was particularly innovative from a US perspective.
"While most US study-abroad programs occur during the northern summer - in June and July - this program runs during the US winter, allowing students to exchange winter for summer," he said.
Its success, he added, appeared to be due to its emphasis on international and transnational law courses and its ability to present these from an Australian or non-US perspective.
The program is Monash's first venture into the American legal education market.
Let the sun shine: US law students, from left, Karen Haapala, John Cipolla and Teresa McKinney II are enjoying the weather as much as their law studies at Monash University this summer.
An honorary Monash academic has been recognised in the 1999 Australia Day Honours List for his work in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.
Dr Donald Marshall was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) last week for service to medicine and to the Interplast foreign aid program.
Dr Marshall was head of plastic surgery at Prince Henry's Hospital and Monash Medical Centre from 1968 until 1996, and in 1997 was appointed Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery in the Medicine faculty.
A number of Monash alumni also received honours:
Conductor
hits the right note in RussiaSenior lecturer in the Music department Mr Andre de Quadros recently returned from Russia, where he had the honour of conducting the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The one-night concert, part of an ongoing series titled 'Music has no borders', was broadcast internationally by Radio Russia and is likely to be followed by a CD release jointly sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Monash University.
Mr de Quadros has worked on several other international projects, but said he enjoyed working with the Moscow Radio Symphony because of the musicians' "sensitivity and technique".
The event was undertaken in collaboration with the Australian Embassy in Moscow.
The impact of technological change will affect the way we all live and work, according to the Victorian Treasurer and Minister for Information Technology and Multimedia, Mr Alan Stockdale.
Opening the recent Monash IT summer school at Clayton campus, Mr Stockdale added that we were "in the midst of a revolution".
"The IT summer school is about taking a number of high-achievers and giving them an intensive experience about what IT can mean to their lives," he said.
Sixty Year 11 students gave up the beach to take part in summer school projects ranging from improving the Met system and building web pages to designing interactive houses and playing the stock-market.
Unisys Australia is contributing $200,000 over four years to the program, which is being run by the Faculty of Information Technology.
The dean of Information Technology, Professor John Rosenberg, who attended via video conference from Israel, said taking up studies in IT was a student's ticket to "an international career".
Unisys believes the Monash summer school provides IT professionals of the future with an ideal opportunity to begin early training in the industry.
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