[UMA-SR-000001904] Minute Books of the Professorial Board Policy Committee / Academic Board Policy Committee/ Academic Board Steering Committee

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IdentifierUMA-SR-000001904Extent37 volumesScope and ContentAt a special meeting of the Executive of the Professorial Board on the 20th of May 1966, it was proposed that a Standing Committee on Policy be created as a source of effective advice to the Board on academic policy, priority and planning. Its role was to assist the Board in formulating policy recommendations for consideration by Council and to recommend ways of achieving policy objectives. The committee would have the right to request investigations and reports from any of the sub-committees or other committees of the Board on any matter of Academic Policy. It would also consider and report back on any matter referred to it by the Board or by one of its sub-committees. The committee would report to the Board, but it would also have delegated discretion to work closely with Council and Council's committees. The first meeting of the committee was held on the 13th of September 1966.The committee was reformulated (with no change of its role) as the Academic Board Steering Committee from the 1st of January 1990 and was eventually abolished on the 31st of December 1994. Contents The minute books contain minutes and extracts of reports regarding issues such as:Building Planning Sub-committee; Academic Sub-committee; postgraduate research students; staff tenure; Budgets Sub-committee; directorships in business companies; legislation relating to course structures and changes; changes to degree and diploma resolutions; personal chairs; priority lists of new chairs; linking of disciplines; quotas; future planning of small departments; proposals for student exchanges; complementary courses; "free" trust funds and donations; role of the University in tertiary education; regulations; proposed changes to statutes; council standing resolutions; Disputed Examinations Committee; Union Day; Open Day; Central Budgets Committee; limitation of student numbers; Chair Committee procedures; term and exam dates; PhD Standing Committee; funding projections and University policy on Equal Opportunity. Collection CategoryUniversity, officialAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this Series

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CreatorPolicy Committee (The University of Melbourne)

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Date1966-1993

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Records Services IDUM451Other IDs2018.00052016.0094 2000.0139

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Genre/FormMinute books

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[UMA-SR-000001904] Minute Books of the Professorial Board Policy Committee / Academic Board Policy Committee/ Academic Board Steering Committee