A meeting of the Council was held in the Council Chamber, University, on Monday 6 July, 1992 at 3.30 pm.
Present
Mr M J Blamey, Mr T C Borgeest, Mr L J Carden, Mr A Chernov, Dr N G Curry, Ms N E Davies, Mr J C Finemore, Mrs P A Fry, Mrs B M Hamer, Professor T W Healy, Professor T A McMahon, Dr D J Philips, Mr F J P Robotham, Mr G N Rundle, Mr J P Ryan, Professor C A Saunders, Mr A R Stockdale, Mr K C Stone, Mr D V C Tricks, and Mr H S Wragge.
Ms E O`Keefe and Mr P O`Keefe were in attendance.
Leave of absence for this meeting had been granted to Mrs Blainey, Mr Bruce, Mrs Calvert-Jones, Dr Evans, Dr Forward, The Rev. Dr. Manley, Mrs Marles, Mr Muir, and Mr Justice Northrop and Professor Williamson
The Registrar reported that some uncertainty now surrounded who should fill the position on Council filled by nomination of the Minister. Recent correspondence from the Minister has indicated he intends to resolve the matter shortly.
The minutes of the meeting of Council held on 1 June 1992, copies of which had been circulated, were confirmed.
Items B.4(1), B.5 (3.2), B.6 (4), and tabled paper B.6.6 were starred for discussion.
5.1 Council received the Vice-Chancellor`s Report.
5.2 Council approved the following recommendations:
that Professor T. Brown, Professor of Statistics, be appointed as Head of the Department of Statistics for the period 1 July, 1992 to 30 June, 1997;
(Note: the Vice-Chancellors recommendation concerning a Head for the new department in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, is dealt with in minute 7.8 below.)
that the term of office of Professor A.R. Egan as Dean of Agriculture and Forestry be extended until 31 December, 1993;
that Dr M.A.K. Lambiris, Faculty of Law be appointed Acting Conciliator of Disputes, and Professor D.O. White be reappointed as the Reserve Conciliator of Disputes;
that The University of Melbourne resign as a Research Member of ACCI, as provided for under Clause 7(b) of the Articles of Association;
that Council approve the proposed amendment to CIRCIT`s Articles of Association in the terms set out in Attachment 2 to the report; and
that Council specify 17 July, 1992 as a date for a conferring ceremony of the Victorian College of the Arts.
Council noted that the Vice-Chancellor's report on the outcome of the considerations of the Academic Sub-Committee of the Amalgamation Consultative Committee on Staffing Issues would be made at a subsequent meeting.
6.1 Council received the report of the Joint Committee on Policy meeting 5/92, held on 9 June, 1992.
6.2 Council adopted the following recommendations:
that the establishment of a position of Professor/Director of Drug and Alcohol Studies at St Vincent`s Hospital, as set out in Appendix A to the report be approved;
that the establishment of a position of Professor/Director of Orthodontics at The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, as set out in Appendix B to the report be approved;
that, subject to consideration by the Central Budgets Committee, and satisfactory arrangements for the transfer of resources, undergraduate teaching in Business Administration be transferred to the Faculty of Economics and Commerce from the Graduate School of Management, as set out in Appendix D to the report; and
that a new department be established to house the disciplines of human resource management and organisational behaviour.
Council noted that this department will teach at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The three positions currently located in The Graduate School of Management, which are used to provide semester courses in management and marketing, will be returned to the Faculty along with the funding and EFTSUs. The group of academic staff who currently teach Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management will also be transferred to the Department.
It was also noted that the Department of Economic History will remain as a department, and that the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research will remain as a separate department until the end of 1994 at which time the situation will be reviewed.
The present Finance group will remain in the Department of Accounting and Finance, and the Actuarial group will go into the Department of Economics until such time that it is of sufficient size to warrant the establishment of a separate department.
A program of Banking and Finance is to be established to span the related activities of the Department of Economics and the Department of Finance and Accounting.
Council noted that a review of the proposal from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce relating to the filling of the Ritchie Chair of Economics will be conducted jointly by the Faculty and the Joint Committee of Policy.
Council approved the following recommendations:
6.4.1 that Associate Professor Stephen Wheatcroft be re-appointed as Director of the Centre for a further term of 3 1/2 years to December, 1995;
6.4.2 that an Executive Officer be appointed to assist the Director and to develop a Business Plan for the future management and financial support of the Centre;
6.4.3 that the reporting track of the Centre and its appropriate University administrative affiliations be further investigated as soon as possible;
6.4.4 that the Centre for Soviet and East European Studies be granted support from the University Development Fund for a further period;
6.4.5 that Council supports the recommendation for a grant from the University Development Fund for $25,000 from July 1992- December 1992 and $50,000 for each of the years 1993, 1994, and 1995, which would allow the Centre to employ an Executive Officer and would assist with Vote Funding;
6.4.6 that the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Economics and Commerce be requested to combine to match the funding from the University Development Fund, so as to provide secretarial assistance, teaching or administrative relief for the Director on a secondment basis and lectureship for the academic programs taught with Economics; and
6.4.7 that the brief of the Executive Officer should include assisting the Director with the development of a Business Plan, with a view to ensuring that the Centre can function after 1995 independently of the University Development Fund.
7.1 Council received the report of the Academic Board meeting 5/92, held on 25 June, 1992.
Council adopted the following recommendations:
that the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws be awarded to the person whose career statement was distributed at the meeting;
that a committee be established to appoint a Professor/Director of Drug and Alcohol Studies (St Vincent`s Hospital) as set out in Appendix A to the report;
that a committee be established to appoint a Professor/Director of Orthodontics (Royal Dental Hospital) as set out in Appendix B to the report;
that the following new courses be established:
Graduate Certificate in Forest Industries, Graduate Diploma in Forest Industries, as set out in Appendix C to the report;
Graduate Diploma in Building, Graduate Diploma in Environmental Planning, as set out in Appendix D to the report;
Graduate Diploma in Arts (specialisations in Art History & Cinema Studies, Jewish Studies, Women`s Studies), as set out in Appendix E to the report;
Postgraduate Diploma in Archeology, Postgraduate Diploma in Art History and Cinema Studies (Type A), Postgraduate Diploma in Art History and Cinema Studies (Type B), Postgraduate Diploma in Classical Studies, Postgraduate Diploma in Philosophy, as set out in Appendix F to the report;
Graduate Certificate in Development Technologies, as set out in Appendix G; and
Master of Psychology in Child Clinical Psychology degree, as set out in Appendix H to the report.
Council adopted the recommendation for revised procedures for the appointment and promotion of staff to Level D (Associate Professor, Reader) as set out in Appendix I to the report;
Council resolved that the new department of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce (Minute 6.5), be titled the Department of Management and Labour Relations;
Council adopted the recommendation from the Vice-Chancellor that Professor S J Deery, Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Studies, be appointed as Head of the Department of Management and Labour Relations for the period 1 January, 1993 to 31 December, 1995;
Council resolved that an Institute of Electrical Engineers Prize in the Faculty of Engineering be established, as set out in Appendix J to the report.
8.1 Council received the report of the Finance Committee meeting 5/92, held on 24 June, 1992.
Council adopted the following recommendations:
that the statements detailed in Appendices I to V inclusive, as set out in Attachment A to the report, be published in accordance with the conditions laid down in the Post-Secondary Education Act 1984 (as amended); and
that the restriction in paragraph 2.2.3 of Standing Resolution 9.3 be removed, to enable Departmental Business Managers of level less than Administrative Officer level 4 to authorise, as well as commit, expenditure up to $2,000.
9.1 Council received the report of the Libraries Committee meeting 2/92, held on 2 June, 1992.
Council noted that Academic Board had endorsed the proposed changes to the borrowing rules, as set out in Appendix A and Appendix B to the report, subject to approval of the proposed fees by the Finance Committee, and review by the Libraries Committee of borrowing by non-commercial groups. Council agreed in principle to the introduction of fees for borrowing privileges for external users, and noted that the proposals in their final form would be submitted to a later meeting of Council.
10.1 Council received the report of the Buildings Committee meeting 3/92 held on 18 May, 1992.
Council adopted the recommendation that charges to the Parking Fund relating to staff costs be phased in over three years, 60% in 1993, 70% in 1994 and 80% in 1995, based on a maximum of eight traffic officer positions.
11.1 Council received the report of Administrative Committee meetings 18/92 - 22/92.
Council approved the University Transport Policy, as set out in Attachment A to the report.
Council adopted the recommendation that the structure of the committee for the selection of the Conciliator of Disputes be revised, as set out in the tabled supplementary paper to the report, amended by replacing the words "Deputy Chancellor (Mrs Marles)" with "A Deputy Chancellor as agreed between the Vice-Chancellor and the Deputy Chancellors".
Council endorsed the arrangements made by the Administrative Committee for a working group to review student discipline procedures, as set out in Attachment C to the report.
Council received the report of the Committee of Convocation meeting 4/92 held on 17 June, 1992.
13.1 Council received the report of the Standing Committee on Staff Salaries meeting 4/92 held on 18 June, 1992.
Council adopted the recommendation that the Vice-Chancellor be empowered to approve supplementary payments for academic staff who carry unusual or additional management responsibilities.
14.1 Council received the report of the Biohazards Committee meeting 1/91 held on 19 June 1992.
Council adopted the recommendation that Standing Resolution 2.13 be revised, as set out in Attachment A to the report.
15.1 Council received the report of meeting 1/92 of the Committee for Appointment of a Professorial Associate with the Title of Professor, held on 1 July, 1992.
Council adopted the recommendation that, in the event that the person whose career statement was circulated at the meeting of Council accepts an offer of appointment as Director of Clinical Neurosciences at St Vincent`s Hospital, the University should invite him to accept the position of Professorial Associate with the title of Professor in the Department of Medicine (St Vincent`s Hospital and Geelong Hospital) for a term of five years or for the period in which he holds the appointment of Director of Clinical Neurosciences, whichever is the shorter.
16.1 Council received the report of the Legislation Committee meeting 4/92 held on 29 June 1992, and made the following items of legislation, as detailed in the report.
(1) Amendment - Statute 5.2A To clarify the provision governing general staff representation on the board of the faculty of Music, Visual and Performing Arts (36/92)
(2) Amendment - Statute 12.4 To correct an error in a heading and to make a change to a procedure (27/92)
(3) Amendment - Statute 12.2 To provide for the Board to make special arrangements with respect to specific classes of students with disabilities (28/92)
(4) Amendment - Statute 12.8 To exempt Victorian College of the Arts from complying with the University's academic dress requirements at conferring ceremonies (54/92)
(5) Amendment - Statute 5.5 To make an editorial amendment (67/92)
16.2 Council made the following "R" Series" Standing Resolutions as detailed in the report.
(1) Making - Standing Resolution R3.212 To establish the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Planning (45/92)
(2) Making - Standing Resolution R3.213 To establish the degree of Bachelor of Early Childhood Studies
(3) Making - Standing Resolution R3.214 To establish the Graduate Certificate in Forest Industries (61/92)
(4) Making - Standing Resolution R3.215 Graduate Certificate in Development Technologies (56/92)
(5) Revocation and re-making - Standing Resolutions
(6) Amendment - Standing Resolution R6.187 Tom Zucker Scholarship in Labour Law (57/92)
(7) Amendment - Standing Resolution R6.60 The Daniel Curdie Scholarship (59/92)
16.3 Council made the following "O" Series" Standing Resolutions as detailed in the report.
(1) Revocation - Standing Resolution 5.21 South African Investments
(2) Revocation and re-making - Standing Resolution 2.28 Committee on Staff Academic Staff Development Committee
(3) Amendment - Standing Resolution 2.28 Finance Committee
(4) Amendment - Standing Resolution 6.3.13 School of Technology Education and Development (Hawthorn Institute)
(5) Revocation - Standing Resolution 3.18 Appeals against Decisions of Committee on Staff
Reports on Special Studies Programmes and Conference Leave from the following members of staff were available to Council members.
Council received the summary of reports on matters dealt with by the Vice- Chancellor, as set out in Items D.2(a) and D.2(b).
Council received the report of Conferring Ceremony No. 1/92 of the Hawthorn Institute of Education which was authorised by Council and held on Friday, 22 May 1992 at 8.00 p.m.
Council received the report of meeting 3/92 of the Discipline Committee - Division B, held on 17 June, 1992.
Council received the report of meeting 1/92 of the Selection Committee for the Position of University Librarian, held on 18 May, 1992.
Council received the Annual Report 1991 of the Department of Veterinary Clinic and Hospital.
Council received the report of Investment Committee meeting 2/92, held on 26 May, 1992.
Council received the report of the Special Meeting of the Buildings Committee, held on 10 June, 1992.
Council received the report of the Committee of Deans of Faculties meeting 5/92 held on 18 June, 1992.
Council received the report of the Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee meeting 5/92 held on 4 June, 1992.
Council received the report of the Committee for Sport and Physical Recreation meeting 3/92 held on 9 June, 1992.
Council received the report of meeting 3/92 of the Information Technology Policy Advisory Committee, held on 15 June, 1992.
Council received the report of the Standing Committee for the Chair of Architecture meeting 1/92 held on 25 June, 1992.
Council received the Annual Report 1991 of the Melbourne University Law School Foundation.
In accordance with established procedure it was formally agreed that the items of business that had not been specifically discussed should be adopted where containing recommendations or received where containing reports.
Professor Smith and Professor Young were introduced to Council and welcomed to the meeting.