Calendar 2001 The University of Sydney Contents Introduction 6 Organisational Chart 8 General information about the University of Sydney 9 Principal officers 11 Senate 12 Professors 13 Deans, Pro-Deans and Faculty Managers 22 College Senior Administrative Staff 23 Heads of Departments/Schools 24 Central Senior Administrative Staff 26 Libraries 28 Museums and Collections 29 Centres and Institutes 30 Foundations 32 Senior officers since establishment 33 Awards 43 Honorary awards 45 Awards for excellence in teaching 49 Vice-Chancellors Special Awards for Outstanding Teaching: First Year Teaching 50 Statutes and Regulations 51 Royal Charter of the University of Sydney 53 University of Sydney Act, 1989 (as amended) 54 Part 1 Preliminary 54 Part 2 Constitution and Functions of the University 54 Part 3 The Senate, Authorities and Officers of the University 54 Part 4 Functions of Senate 56 Part 5 Establishment of Academic Colleges 57 Part 6 General 58 Schedule 1 Provisions relating to Fellows and to the Procedure of the Senate 59 Schedule 2 Investment 60 Schedule 3 Savings and Transitional Provisions 61 University of Sydney By-law 1999 63 Chapter 1 Preliminary 65 Chapter 2 Making Rules 65 Chapter 3 Chancellor and Deputy Chancellor 65 Chapter 4 Election of Fellows of the Senate 66 ii Chapter 5 Vice-Chancellor 70 Chapter 6 Academic governance 70 Chapter 7 Convocation 70 Chapter 8 Student discipline 71 Chapter 9 Miscellaneous 76 University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2000 77 Preliminary 78 Rules relating to Coursework Award Courses 78 Division 1 Award course requirements, credit points and assessment 78 Division 2 Enrolment 79 Division 3 Credit, cross-institutional study and their upper limits 79 Division 4 Progression 80 Division 5 Discontinuation of enrolment and suspension of candidature 80 Division 6 Unsatisfactory progress and exclusion 80 Division 7 Exceptional circumstances 81 Division 8 Award of degrees, diplomas and certificates 81 Division 9 Transitional provisions 81 University of Sydney (Amendment Act) Rule 1999 (as amended) 83 Part 1 — Preliminary 84 Part 2 — Standard format of Rules 84 Part 3 — Procedures of Senate 84 Part 4 — Convocation 84 Part 5 — Appointment to Student Proctorial Panel 85 Part 6 — Seal and Arms of the University 86 Part 7 — Senior officers of the University 86 Part 8 — Intellectual property 86 Part 9 — Admission to courses 89 Part 10 — Awarding degrees, diplomas and certificates 92 Rules relating to the Academic Board, 1996 (as amended) 97 1. Citation and commencement 98 2. Purpose 98 3. Dictionary 98 4. Functions 98 5. Constitution of the Academic Board 98 6. Observers may speak at meetings 99 7. Terms of office 99 8. Chair of the Academic Board 99 9. Deputy Chairs 100 10. Meetings 100 11. Meeting procedures 100 12. Report to Senate 100 13-19. Standing Committees 100 20-42. Elections 103 Rules relating to the Academic Forum, 1996 107 1. Citation and commencement 108 2. Purpose 108 3. Dictionary 108 4. Functions 108 5. Constitution of the Academic Forum 108 6. Terms of Office of members 109 7. Chair of the Forum 109 8. Meetings 109 9. Reports 109 10-30. Election of Forum members 109 iii Resolutions of the Senate and the Academic Board 113 Academic dress 114 Admissions and em-olment 119 Appointment of a Dean, Director or College Principal and procedures for consultation between the Senate and the Academic Board in respect of some senior administrative appointments 123 Centre for Continuing Education 125 Control of traffic within the University 126 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 130 Election of Principal Officers of the Senate and of Committees of the Senate and of the Fellow Referred to in Section 9(6) of the Act 137 Endowment of academic positions 139 Faculties, Colleges, College Boards, Boards of Studies, Departments, Schools and Committees — Academic Governance 140 Honorary awards 150 Law Extension Committee 151 Prizes and scholarships 151 Semester and vacation dates 152 Senate committees 152 Sports unions, SRC and faculty societies, SUPRA, Union, Cumberland Student Guild and SASCA 154 Student appeals against academic decisions 155 Student Proctorial Board and Student Proctorial Panel 159 University of Sydney Library 160 Resolutions relating to faculties, colleges and boards of studies 163 Faculty of Agriculture 164 Faculty of Architecture 175 Faculty of Arts 185 Faculty of Dentistry 205 Faculty of Economics and Business 211 Faculty of Education 235 Faculty of Engineering 259 Faculty of Health Sciences 271 Faculty of Law 287 Faculty of Medicine 301 Faculty of Nursing 321 Faculty of Pharmacy 327 Faculty of Rural Management 333 Faculty of Science 337 Faculty of Veterinary Science 351 Sydney College of the Arts 359 Sydney Conservatorium of Music 367 Australian Graduate School of Management Ltd 373 Board of Studies in Indigenous Studies 375 Board of Studies in Music 377 Board of Studies in Social Work 381 Abbreviations 391 Index 394 iv Elections must take place in the manner prescribed by the University of Sydney By-law 1999. The Senate has power Introduction to provide courses, confer degrees, appoint all academic and other staff, and has the entire management and superintendence over the affairs of the University, with power to make by-laws governing discipline, curriculum, and other matters, subject to the approval of the Governor. The functions of the Academic Board, the Universitys primary academic advisory body, include advising the Senate and the Vice-Chancellor on all matters relating to and affecting the Universitys teaching and research activities and its educational programs, including general advice on the academic priorities and policies of the University. The Academic Forum is an advisory body that reports directly to the Academic Board on matters of academic policy. The faculties, academic colleges and boards of studies are responsible for the supervision of teaching and the conduct of examinations. The fifteen faculties in order of establishment in the University are: Arts, Law, Medicine, Science, Engineering, Dentistry, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Economics (renamed Economics and Business in September 1999), The University of Sydney was incorporated by an Act of the Architecture, Education, Nursing, Health Sciences, Legislature of New South Wales on 1 October 1850, and Pharmacy and Rural Management. The Graduate School of was the first university to be established in Australasia. The Business at the University of Sydney and the Australian Act of incorporation was amended by subsequent Acts Graduate School of Management at the University of New enlarging the scope of the University and the whole were South Wales merged to become the Australian Graduate consolidated in the University and University Colleges Act School of Management (at the University of Sydney and the 1900, as amended. This was then replaced by the University University of New South Wales) as of 1 January 1999. of Sydney Act 1989, as amended. There are also boards of studies that supervise the award of By a Royal Charter issued 27 February 1858, the degrees degrees: Indigenous Studies, Music and Social Work. of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, In 1989, the New South Wales government legislated for Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of the amalgamation within the University of Sydney of the Medicine granted by the University of Sydney are entitled to Cumberland College of Health Sciences, the Sydney rank, precedence and consideration as if the degrees had College of the Arts and the Sydney Conservatorium of been granted by any university of the United Kingdom. Music as academic colleges of the University. Two members At the time of its inauguration on 11 October 1852 in the of the Sydney College of Advanced Education, the Institute Sydney College Building—now the Sydney Grammar of Nursing Studies and the Sydney Institute of Education, School near Hyde Park—the University had a staff of three also became part of the University. These consolidations professors and a total enrolment of 24 students. came into effect on 1 January 1990. Nursing became a Women were admitted to membership of the University Faculty on 1 January 1991; the Faculty of Health Sciences in 1881, the degree of Bachelor of Arts being conferred on was established on 28 October 1991; and Education merged the first two women graduates in 1885. with the Faculty of Education on 1 January 1992. Orange By the University of Sydney Act 1989, as amended, the Agricultural College, formerly an academic college of the University is a body corporate consisting of a Senate University of New England, was established as a college of constituted of parliamentary, official, appointed and elected the University of Sydney, with effect from 1 January 1994, members. The parliamentary members comprise two and from 1 January 2000, became the Faculty of Rural members, one elected by and from the Legislative Council Management. and one elected by and from the Legislative Assembly; the There are over 60 departments and schools in the official members comprise the Chancellor (if the Chancellor University, spanning a wide range of interests._In all of them is not otherwise a member of the Senate), the Vice- active research and other scholarly activities are carried out Chancellor and the presiding member of the Academic aimed at advancing the fund of human knowledge. The Board; the appointed members comprise four persons University of Sydney Library has the largest university appointed by the Minister of whom one is to be appointed collection in Australia. on the nomination of Senate; the elected members comprise The Camperdown and Darlington campuses, adjoining four persons elected by and from the members of the Parramatta Road and City Road, cover a total area of about academic staff of the University, one person elected by and 72 hectares, comprising 50.6 hectares administered by the from the non-academic staff of the University, one person University and 21 hectares granted to the six affiliated elected by and from the undergraduate students of the colleges.