Untitled - Annual Report 2004 - The University of Western Australia

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation)—Professor Doug McEachernResponsible for research and research training, industry liaison and commercialisation, IT PolicyPro Vice-Chancellor (Academic)—Professor Belinda ProbertResponsible for teaching and learning, undergraduate students, staffing policyExecutive Director (Finance and Resources)—Mr Mark Altus (on an acting basis to March 2004)—Ms Gaye McMathResponsible for all matters relating to finance and resourcesExecutive Director (Academic Services) and Registrar—Mr Peter CurtisResponsible for all matters relating to the academic administration of the UniversityThe University has long valued the collegial contribution that its members can make to academic and otherdecision making. The existence of committees at all levels of the University’s operations has provided the mainmechanism for this contribution. The most visible of these committees are the University’s central academiccommittees: the Academic Board, the Academic Council and a range of expert standing committees of Council. TheAcademic Board is established under Statute No. 19 and is the University’s peak academic body. In 2004 its Chairwas Professor Dennis Haskell. The Academic Council is its Executive Committee and deals, under delegatedauthority, with most of the Academic Board’s responsibilities as defined in Statute No. 19. Among otherresponsibilities, it has a significant role in determining academic policies which apply across all faculties. TheCouncil’s standing committees, while acting executively on many matters under delegated authority, also provide itwith expert policy advice on the full range of academic activities within the University (for example, teaching andlearning, research, admissions).Statute No. 8 establishes the faculties, which are responsible for the general administration of the coursesunder their governance. All new courses are subject to the approval of the Academic Board/Council and Senate.Major changes to courses are subject to the approval of the Academic Board/Council.Each faculty is headed by a Dean, who has dual responsibility: to the faculty for providing vision, academicleadership and effective management, and to the Vice-Chancellor for the effective management of the faculty’shuman, physical and financial resources.In 2004, the Faculties and their Deans were as follows:Architecture, Landscape and Visual ArtsArts, Humanities and Social SciencesEconomics and Commerce (UWA Business School)EducationEngineering, Computing and MathematicsLawLife and Physical SciencesMedicine and DentistryNatural and Agricultural SciencesMr Patrick BealeProfessor Anne PauwelsProfessor Paul McLeodDr Marnie O’NeillProfessor Mark BushMr Bill FordProfessor George StewartProfessor Louis LandauProfessor Alistar RobertsonEach faculty has a number of standing committees, which not only act executively on some matters underdelegated authority approved by the Academic Board in accordance with Statute No. 8, but also advise the facultyon the various elements of its responsibilities.Each school resourced by a faculty has a head, appointed by the Vice-Chancellor, who has dual responsibility:to the school for providing effective leadership and to the Dean for the effective management of the school’s human,physical and financial resources.The University’s decision-making structures and processes combine a significant level of operationalautonomy (both academic and budgetary) in the faculties with a cohesive institution-wide approach to policy in thecollegial and executive governance systems.page 12