A meeting of the Council was held in the Council Chamber, University, on Monday, 7 November 1994 at 4.00 p.m.
Present
Ms G M Blood, Mr L J Carden, Mrs N E Davies, Ms A Doyle, Mr J C Finemore, Dr K E Forward, Hon B Forwood, Mrs B M Hamer, Professor T W Healy, Ms K R Hegarty, Professor P S Kincaid-Smith, Ms K McCoy, Professor T A McMahon, Associate Professor P T McTigue, The Rev Dr K R Manley, Dr A M O'Brien, Mr R M Parris, Mr I A Renard, Mr K C Stone, Mr D V C Tricks, and Mr D D Westmore.
Ms C Buckridge, Ms L Dyson, Ms P McKay, Ms E O'Keefe and Mr P O'Keefe were in attendance.
1.1 Apologies were received from Mr Chernov, Mrs Fry, Mr Kirby, Mr Perton, Mr Priestley and Professor Saunders.
1.2 Leave of absence for this meeting had been granted to Mr Wragge.
1.3 Leave of absence for the December meeting was granted to Mr Perton.
The Registrar reported that Mr Jonathan Li had been elected to Council by the undergraduate students for a two-year term from 1 January 1995, and that the person elected as the 1995 President of the Student Union, an ex officio member of Council, was Ms Emma Johnston.
He also advised members that nominations had been called for the office of Deputy Chancellor for a two-year term from 1 January 1995, that nominations would close on 16 November, and that if an election were required, voting would close at 5 p.m. on Monday 5 December 1994.
The minutes of the meeting of Council held on 3 October 1994, copies of which had been distributed, were confirmed.
Item B.1.2 and Item C were starred for discussion.
5.1 Council received the Vice-Chancellor's Report.
Council authorised the Vice-Chancellor to finalise the making of an Annual Funding Agreement with Melbourne University Student Union in the terms as set out in Appendix B to the report.
Council noted that, at its meeting in November 1993, it had designated Professor C B Schedvin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) to perform the duties of Acting Vice-Chancellor during 1994 and 1995, and adopted the recommendation that Professor F P Larkins, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) be appointed as the other Deputy Vice-Chancellor on Council for 1995.
Council adopted the recommendation that Professor J R V Prescott, President-elect of the Academic Board, and Professor T W Healy, Vice-President-elect of the Academic Board, be appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellors for 1995.
Council noted that the appointment of Professor Healy as Pro Vice-Chancellor and ex officio an appointed member of Council, created a vacancy for the election of a professor to Council from 1 January 1995.
Council adopted the recommendation for the following appointments as Heads of Departments:
This item was dealt with in the Open Section of the meeting. Minute 29 below refers.
The Vice-Chancellor referred to the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Policy in regard to the Bachelor of Visual and Performing Arts course (Item A.5, Recommendations 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3), and advised that, based on advice received, he believed that it would be possible to transfer this course to the VCA from 1 January 1995, which made these recommendations unnecessary.
Council agreed to the Vice-Chancellor's request that the recommendations be withdrawn, but authorised the Vice-Chancellor, should it prove necessary, to proceed along the lines set out in the recommendations.
The Vice-Chancellor advised that it was planned that the governance of the National Academy of Music would take the form of a company limited by guarantee, that he expected it would be some time before the nature of the proposed company, constitutional aspects etc. would be known, and that it was likely that the matter would be brought back to the December meeting of Council.
Council authorised the Vice-Chancellor, should it prove necessary to act more rapidly than this, to act on behalf of the University to establish a company, and resolved that it was of the opinion that the management or conduct of the affairs or concerns of the University requires the University to participate in the formation of a company limited by guarantee to manage the National Academy of Music.
This item was dealt with in the Open Session. Minute 29 below refers.
6.1 Council received the report of the Joint Committee on Policy Meeting 7/94, held on 10 October 1994.
Council adopted the recommendation that, subject to further amplification of the mission statement of the Registrar's Division, the strategic plans for Faculties, affiliated Colleges, Library and Administration as shown in Appendix A to the report, be approved.
The three recommendations were withdrawn. Minute 5.7 above refers.
Council approved an academic exchange agreement between the University of Melbourne and Ruprecht-Karls-Universit„t Heidelberg, as set out in Appendix C to the report.
7.1 Council received the report of the Academic Board meeting 7/94, held on 27 October, 1994.
Council adopted the following recommendations:
7.2.1 that an honorary degree of Doctor of Agricultural Science be awarded to the person whose career statement was circulated at the meeting of Council;
7.2.2 that honorary degrees of Doctor of Science be awarded to the two persons whose career statements were circulated at the meeting of Council; and
7.2.3 that honorary degrees of Doctor of Music be awarded to the four persons whose career statements were circulated at the meeting of Council.
7.3.1 Council adopted the recommendation that a Foundation Chair of Agriculture (Soil Science) be created, as set out in Appendix A to the report.
7.3.2 Council resolved that a standing committee for the Foundation Chair of Agriculture (Soil Science) be established, as set out in Appendix B to the report, and that Mr Taylor be appointed as the member of Council who is not a member of staff of the University.
Council adopted the recommendation that the Associate Diploma of Applied Science (Farm Production), offered by the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, be retitled as the Diploma of Applied Science (Farm Production).
Council adopted the recommendation that a new award, The Manual Physiotherapy Prize, as set out in Appendix C to the report, be established.
Council adopted the recommendation that, in accordance with the agreed duties of the Registrar and Academic Registrar, the words "Academic Registrar (or nominee)" replace "Registrar (or nominee)" in Section 2.1.1 of the General Principles of Selection for Special Admissions Scheme Entry to Undergraduate Courses.
This item was dealt with in the Open Section of the meeting. Minute 30 below refers.
9.1 Council received the report of the Finance Committee meeting 9/94, held on 26 October, 1994.
Council approved the following recommendations:
Council approved the capital allocations as set out in Appendix A to the report.
Council approved the University of Melbourne Financial Plan with Projections for the 1995-97 Triennium, as set out in Appendix B to the report.
Council approved the basis for an agency agreement with Unimelb Limited, as set out in Appendix C to the report.
Council approved the Community Relations Allowances and Entertainment Matters for 1995, as set out in Appendix D to the report.
10.1 Council received a paper titled "Appointments to Council Committees, Statutory Committees and Outside Bodies for 1995", and considered the paper in conjunction with a recommendation from the Administrative Committee (Item B.6).
10.2 Council adopted a recommendation from the Vice-Chancellor that all vacancies on Council committees as shown in the report, be filled at the December 1994 meeting of Council, with the exception of Council appointments to the Central Budgets Committee (S.R. 2.3), to be filled at the April 1995 meeting of Council.
10.3 Council noted that a recommendation will be brought to the December meeting of Council to alter the constitution of the Executive Committee (S.R. 2.11) in regard to student representation on that committee.
11.1 Council received the report of Administrative Committee meetings 32/94 to 36/94.
This recommendation was considered in conjunction with the previous item. Minute 10 above refers.
Council resolved to designate every day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day observed as a University holiday as a day on which teaching is scheduled.
Council received the report of the Committee of Convocation meeting, held on 19 October, 1994.
13.1 Council received the report of the Standing Committee on Staff Salaries meeting 5/94, held on 20 October, 1994.
Council adopted the following recommendations:
14.1 Council received the report of meeting 2/94 of the Standing Committee for the ICI Australia-Masson Chair of Chemistry, held on 25 October, 1994.
14.2 Council adopted the recommendation that the person whose career statement was distributed to the meeting be appointed to the ICI Australia-Masson Chair of Chemistry.
15.1 Council received the report of meeting 7/94 of the Equal Opportunity Standing Committee, held on 21 October, 1994.
Council adopted the recommendation that Ms Marion Costelloe, Director of the Student Advisory Service be appointed as a Sexual Harassment Adviser for the period from 1 December, 1994 to 31 December, 1996.
16.1 Council received the report of meeting 9/94 of the Committee of Deans of Faculties, held on 20 October, 1994.
Council approved the academic year dates for 1996 for the Victorian College of the Arts, as set out in Appendix A to the report.
17.1 Council received the report of the Legislation Committee meeting 7/94, held on 31 October, 1994.
17.2 Council made the following items of legislation, as detailed in the report.
(1) Amendment of Statute 12.7 - To alter the provision governing the honorary degree of doctor(74/94)
(2) Amendment of Statute 11.1 - To add a new provision dealing with second undergraduate degrees(80/94)
(3) Amendment of Statute 7.2 - To dis-establish a chair(84/94)
(4) Amendment of Statute 9.11 - To correct references(86/94)
(5) Amendment of Statute 7.2 - To establish a chair(91/94)
(6) Amendment of Statute 13.1 - To vary a provision governing appeals under the Student Discipline statute(92/94)
(7) Repeal of Statute 6.6 - To repeal the statute governing the School of Environmental Planning(94/94)
(8) Amendment of Statute 5.5 - To make editorial amendments(95/94)
Item (9) - Amendment of Statute 12.6, was deferred, to enable consideration by the Academic Board.
17.3 Council made the following "R Series" Standing Resolutions as detailed in the report.
(1) Revocation and Re-making Resolution R3.6 - To revise the degree of master of Arts(57/94)
(2) Making - Standing Resolution R3.246 - To establish a graduate diploma in Environmental Studies(70/94)
(3) Making - Standing Resolution R3.247 - To establish a postgraduate diploma in Environmental Studies(71/94)
(4) Amendment - Standing Resolution R3.87 - To provide for the award of the degree of Master of Social Work with honours(75/94)
(5) Making of Standing Resolution R3.248 -To establish a degree of Master of Criminology(76/94)
(6) Revocation and Re-Making Standing Resolution R3.90 - To establish the degree of Master of Environmental Studies(77/94)
(7) Making - Standing Resolution R6.194 - To establish the R Douglas Wright Fellowship(82/94)
(8) Making -Standing Resolution R3.249 - To establish the degree of of Master of Planning and Design(83/94)
(9) Revocation and Re-making Standing Resolutions R3.45, R3.46, R3.72, R3.166 - To change references from Surveying to Geomatics(85/94)</p>
(10) Amendment - Standing Resolution R3.238 - To correct an error(88/94)
(11) Amendment - Standing Resolution R3.77 - To make an editorial amendment(90/94)
(12) Amendment - Standing Resolution R6.177 - To alter arrangements governing scholarships awarded under the Arthur Gordon Whitlam Bequest (87/94)
(13) Amendment - Standing Resolution R6.98 -To vary a provision governing the award of the Lizette Bentwitch Scholarship(93/94)
(14) Amendment - Standing Resolution R3.112 -To re-name a course(96/94)
(15) Amendment - Standing Resolution R3.243 -To correct an error(102/94)
17.4 Council made the following "O Series" Standing Resolution as detailed in the report.
(1) Amendment - Standing Resolution 2.12, Appendix 3 - Audit Sub-Committee
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 a report on Conferring Ceremony 14/94, authorised by the Council, and held on Wednesday 5 October, 1994 at 7.30 p.m.
Council received the report of Medley Hall Council meeting 4/94.
Council received the report of meeting 6/94 of the Melbourne Theatre Company Board of Management, held on 23 September, 1994.
Council received the report of meeting 6/94 of the Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee, held on 22 September, 1994.
Council received the report of meeting 1/94 of the Standing Committee for the Chair of Economics, held on 17 October, 1994.
Council received the report of meeting 1/94 of the Standing Committee for the Chair of Chinese, held on 1 November, 1994.
Council received the report of meeting 1/94 of the Standing Committee for the Chair of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, held on 26 October 1994.
Council received the report of meeting 3/94 of the Strathfieldsaye Institute of Teaching and Research in Agriculture and Allied Sciences, held on 14 October 1994.
Council received the report of meeting 1/94 of the Selection Committee for the Position of Vice-Chancellor, held on 6 September, 1994.
Council received the report of meeting 2/94 of the Hanson Bequest Committee, held on 8 August, 1994.
The Vice-Chancellor spoke briefly to his paper - "Amalgamation with the Former MCAE" (Appendix C to the Vice-Chancellor's Report - Item A.4), and quoted from Commissioner Bryant's Statement of 2 November 1994, in which the Commissioner stated that only two members' arrangements had to be finalised and asked that both parties use its best endeavours to achieve an early and effective resolution. The Vice-Chancellor expressed his confidence that the two outstanding cases would be resolved shortly.
Council received reports outlining the services offered to students by The Melbourne University Student Union Inc., University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association Inc.,and the University of Melbourne Sports Centre (Appendices G, H & I to the Vice-Chancellor's Report), and discussed aspects of the reports.
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.
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