Council Meeting No 11/07

A special meeting of the Council was held in the Chemistry Learning Lab, on Monday, 12 November 2007, at 5.00 pm.

Present

Members

The Chancellor (Mr I Renard) (in the Chair)
The Deputy Vice-President of Academic Board (Professor Ron Slocombe)
Ms Elizabeth Alexander, Associate Professor Les Allen, Mr Paul Briggs, Mr Michael Coyle, Dr Meredith Doig, Professor Mark Elgar, Ms Jessie Giles, Mr Robert Johanson, Mrs Lynne Landy, Dr Virginia Mansour and Mr Tony Williams.

Others Attending

Committee of Convocation Members: Ms Lesley Boston, Mr Geoffrey Thomas,
Mr Laurence Simpson, Ms Cecily Close, Ms Ann Rusden and Mr John Nicholas.

The Provost (Professor Peter McPhee)
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Innovation and Development) (Professor Vijoleta Braach-Maksvytis)
The Vice-Principal and Head of University Services (Ms Liz Baré)
The Vice-Principal (Information) Ms Linda O’Brien)
The Vice-Principal (Property and Campus Services) (Mr Russell Elliott)
The University Secretary (Ms Janet White)

BUSINESS

1. Formal Matters

A.1 Apologies and Leave of Absence Requests [Item A01]

Council received apologies from Justice Alex Chernov, Ms Rosa Storelli, Judge Irene Lawson, Ms Eda Ritchie, Ms Melanie Sloss, Mr David White, Professor Glyn Davis, Professor Pip Pattison, Committee of Convocation Member (Mr Barry Dance), Professor Frank Larkins, Professor John McKenzie, Senior Vice-Principal (Mr Ian Marshman), Vice-Principal and Chief Financial Officer (Mr David Percival) and Vice-Principal (Commercialisation) (Mr Allan Tait).

The Chancellor welcomed members of the Committee of Convocation as observers at the meeting.

A.2 Declarations of Interest

The Deputy Chancellor called for any declarations of interest for items on the agenda for the current meeting. No declarations were received.

2. Chancellor’s Matters [Item A3 (a)]

There were no Chancellor’s matters.

3. Vice-Chancellor’s Report [Item A5]

C.1 Faculty of Engineering Response to the International Review of Engineering

The Chancellor advised that this item would be held over to the December meeting of Council because the Vice-Chancellor was not able to attend this meeting.

C.2 Academic Board Urgent Matter

Council approved the award of an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa to the individual whose citation was tabled at the meeting.

The meeting closed at 5.17 pm.