2007 Annual report (PDF 8.1 Mb) - University of Melbourne

UNIVERSITY
goVERNANCE
ACADEMIC & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
COUNCIL
OFFICE OF THE
VICE-CHANCELLOR
Academic Board
UNDerGRADUATE PROGRAMS
COMMITTEE
POSTGRADUATE COURSEWORK
PROGRAMS COMMITTEE
TEACHING & LEARNING QUALITY
ASSURANCE COMMITTEE
SELECTION PROCEDURES
COMMITTEE
LIBRARIES COMMITTEE
TEACHING & LEARNING
(MULTIMEDIA & EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGIES) COMMITTEE
OTHER ACADEMIC COMMITtEES
COMMITTEE of deans
(from 2007)
academic programs
management committee
research training
management COMMITTEE
melbourne experience
COMMITTEE
Planning & Budget
COMMITTEE
ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE
HUMAN RESOURCES ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE
MELBOURNE EXPERIENCE
COMMITTEE
EQUITY & DIVERSITY COMMITTEE
RISK MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
UNIVERSITY INFRASTRUCTURE
COMMITTEE
knowledge transfer
committee
RESEARCH & RESEARCH TRAINING
Academic Board
The Academic Board is established
under the University Act and in Statute
4.1 – Academic Board. It reports directly
to Council and its primary functions are
‘… the supervision and development of
all academic activities of the University,
including the maintenance of high
standards in teaching and research;
and communication with the academic
community through the faculties and
departments...’ The President of the
Academic Board is an elected position with
a term of office of two years.
The Standing Committees of the Board
report to the Board on matters relating to
their terms of reference after each meeting.
The Academic Board meets on a monthly
basis and in 2007 met eleven times from
February to December.
CoRPorate Changes
Since the 1990s the structure of the
University has undergone profound change,
commencing with an amalgamation
between the University and the Melbourne
College of Advanced Education followed
later by the integration of the Hawthorn
Institute of Education into the Faculty of
Education. In 1992, the Victorian College
of Agriculture and Horticulture affiliated
with the University and over the course of
2005, the University finalised arrangements
to relinquish the teaching of Vocational
Education and Training courses, previously
offered through the Institute and Faculty,
to specialist TAFE providers at various
campuses. The Faculty of Land and Food
Resources now concentrates its efforts on
the delivery of higher education teaching
and research programs.
The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)
became a faculty of the University with
effect from 1 January 2007, having been
affiliated with the University since 1991.
Until 2007, it was a largely autonomous
institution with its own Act of Parliament,
Council and Director (Chief Executive),
although its students were enrolled in
courses approved by the University’s
Academic Board and received degrees from
the University.
Both parties, the University and the VCA,
are signatories to a Heads of Agreement
which sets out at a high level the basis
on which any integration is to proceed
including a guarantee of previous
funding levels over the first five years of
integration. An Integration Implementation
Committee maintained oversight of
progress towards integration during 2007
and made a favourable final report to the
DEST Collaboration and Structural Reform
Fund in September 2007 against key
performance indicators. The University
Council established a VCA Integration
Committee to continue to monitor progress
and it reported to the University’s Council
in December 2007 that the integration
process had been completed on time and
was successful at the operational level.
Some outstanding strategic planning
matters remain to be addressed at a later
date which will be monitored by the VCA
Integration Committee. In the course
of the last two years the University has
divested its various Hawthorn English
Language Schools on the basis that
they were no longer considered as core
business. Towards the end of 2007, the
University concluded negotiations for
the sale by UMEE Ltd of the last of the
Hawthorn English Language teaching
businesses. The sale comprised the
Hawthorn-Melbourne School and a
franchise in Oman. The franchise in
Singapore was discontinued.
FACUlties
In 2007, the University comprised 12
faculties together with a School of Graduate
Studies, the School of Enterprise and the
Melbourne Business School (the latter
being an affiliated institution).
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