Annual Report 2005 - Publications Unit - The University of Western ...

performance and to ensure its fiscal viability. The Senate delegates operational responsibility to the Vice-Chancellor and monitors, guides and supports the work of the Vice-Chancellor and Executive. It hasidentified its key activities as the setting of strategic directions, the oversight, audit and review of propergovernance processes, the assessment and monitoring of performance against established targets, and themaking and amending of University legislation. It has adopted a charter that provides for these roles.The Vice-Chancellor is appointed by the Senate, following public advertising and standard recruitmentprocedures, for a period normally not exceeding seven years. Professor Alan Robson, the University’s 17thVice-Chancellor, commenced his duties in 2004.The Vice-Chancellor appoints an Executive group to assist him with his responsibilities for the academic,financial, administrative and other business of the University. In 2005 the Executive comprised:Deputy Vice-Chancellor—Professor Margaret SearesResponsible for broad line management of the deans of faculties, Dean of the School of IndigenousStudies and the University Librarian, for external relations and community activities, and deputisingfor the Vice-Chancellor in his absencePro 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 (Academic Services) and Registrar—Mr Peter CurtisResponsible for all matters relating to the academic administration of the UniversityExecutive Director (Finance and Resources)—Ms Gaye McMathResponsible for all matters relating to finance and resourcesA key feature of the University’s governance and management system is its strong collegial foundation.The University’s peak academic body is the Academic Board, established under Statute 19 and chairedin 2005 by Professor Graeme Martin. The Board is supported by the Academic Council and a rangeof standing committees which provide policy advice on academic matters. The committee system isreplicated at the faculty and school levels.Statute No. 8 establishes the faculties, which are responsible for the general administration of the coursesunder their governance. Each faculty is headed by a dean, who has dual responsibility: to the faculty forproviding vision, academic leadership and effective management, and to the Vice-Chancellor for theeffective leadership and management of the faculty’s human, physical and financial resources located inthe schools resourced by the faculty.In 2005, the faculties and their deans were as follows:Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts—Dr Clarissa BallArts, Humanities and Social Sciences—Professor Anne PauwelsEconomics and Commerce (UWA Business School)—Ms Tracey HortonEducation—Associate Professor Marnie O’NeillEngineering, Computing and Mathematics—Professor Mark BushLaw—Professor Bill Ford7