[UMA-SR-000001896] Standing Committee of Convocation Minute Books

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IdentifierUMA-SR-000001896Extent21 volumesScope and ContentThis series consists of the minutes of the Standing Committee of Convocation as well as the minutes of the ordinary meeting of the Committee of Convocation. The minutes of the Standing Committee detail the motions put forward to the committee those being;
amendments to the regulations and statutes regarding courses, funds , prizes, as well as the creation of faculties and legislation regarding the standardisation of affiliations with other institutions.
At times these motions were accompanied by a delegation associated with the subject of the motion for example it was put to the committee to approve the establishment of the Faculty of Architecture,the meeting was attended by a delegation of Architects to plea that the position of Dean be an Architect.
n the minutes, amendments to regulations put to the Standing Committee are sometimes accompanied by an explanatory memorandum. Temporary regulations, included in the minutes, were approved by the committee in order to facilitate, for example, the transfer of third year civil engineering students to a special 4th year on the completion of which they might take the degree of Bachelor of Mining Engineering.
All the proposed alterations to the statutes and regulations are printed then glued into the minute book, each entry approved is initialled by the warden. The Annual report of the Standing Committee, found in the minutes of the ordinary meeting of the Committee of Convocation, are included at the beginning of the minutes for each year. The report informed Convocation of how it has dealt with legislative action passed by Council for the previous year.
Sometimes included in the minutes of Convocation are the addresses given by the guest of the Committee of Convocation. These guests included the Chancellor Sir Robert Menzies, and the Commonwealth Minister for Science and Education Malcolm Fraser. Collection CategoryUniversity, officialAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this Series

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CreatorCommittee Of Convocation (The University of Melbourne)

Dates

Date1924-1993

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Records Services IDUM439Other IDs2013.00762000.00092015.01022016.01002018.0011

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[UMA-SR-000001896] Standing Committee of Convocation Minute Books