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Contents Charter 1 Roles and values 1 Major goals 1 Highlights of 1999 2 Facts at a glance 4 Chancellor’s report 5 Vice-Chancellor’s report 6 The Senate 8 Principal officers 10 Academic and administrative structure 12 Deans of faculties 13 Quality teaching and learning 14 Diversity, access and equity 18 Excellence in research 19 The address of the University is: Internationalisation 23 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Telephone: (02) 9351 2222 Engaging with industry and the professions 26 Web site: www.usyd.edu.au Effective management 29 Hours of opening: Service to the community 33 Switchboard Monday – Friday, 8.30am–5pm Supplementary information 37 Fisher Library (during semester) Monday – Thursday: 8.30am–10pm Student statistics 37 Friday: 8.30am – 8pm Saturday: 9am – 5pm Cultural diversity 39 Sunday: 1pm – 5pm Library hours outside semester vary throughout the year. Research centres 41 University of Sydney Union facilities Departments and schools 43 (during semester): 7.30am – 7.30pm Hours for specific services vary. Awards to staff 44 Non-semester opening hours are reduced and vary throughout the year. Honorary degrees 45 Many offices of the University are open beyond the above times. To check University medallists 46 opening times, please telephone the unit or department you wish to visit. Memoranda and exchange programs 47 Produced by the Publications Office of the University of Sydney. Senate information 48 Design by The Tandem Group Pty Ltd Printed by National Capital Printing Staffing statistics 50 Print run and cost: 1,500 at $14.69 per copy ISSN 0313-4474 Capital works 51 © The University of Sydney 2000 For further copies of this Annual Report, Freedom of information 52 please contact the Publications Office, A14, University of Sydney 2006. Risk management 54 Phone +61 2 9351 6492, fax +61 2 9351 3289, e-mail: [email protected]. Publications 55 The Annual Report is also available on the University’s Web site at Index 56 http://www.usyd.edu.au/about/index.html. The University of Sydney is Australia’s first university. It leads the country in maintaining the best of time-honoured university traditions and demonstrates its leadership by the innovation and quality of its research and teaching. It measures its achievements by international standards and aspires to have these recognised throughout the world as the criterion by which Australian higher education is judged. Roles and values Major goals The role of the University of Sydney ● The University of Sydney will is to create, preserve, transmit and apply maintain and enhance its position as knowledge through teaching, research, an outstanding provider of high creative works and other forms of quality undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship. teaching, both in Australia and In carrying out this role, the University of internationally. Sydney reaffirms its commitment to: ● The University of Sydney will continue ● institutional autonomy, recognition of the to provide access to tertiary study and importance of ideas, intellectual freedom appropriate support for students from to pursue critical and open inquiry, and a diversity of backgrounds. social responsibility; ● The University of Sydney will develop ● tolerance, honesty and respect as the its reputation as an institution where hallmarks of relationships throughout the pure and applied research and research University community and underpinning training relevant to the economic, high standards of ethical behaviour; and social and cultural well-being of ● understanding the needs and expectations Australia and the region are conducted of those whom it serves and striving at nationally and internationally constantly to improve the quality and recognised standards. delivery of its services and access to ● The University of Sydney will further those services. enhance its position as a university of The University Strategic Plan, 1999-2004 high standing in the international community of scholars. ● The University of Sydney will continue Charter to make a significant contribution to The University of Sydney was incorporated the well-being and enhancement of the by the Parliament of New South Wales on wide range of professions with which 1 October 1850, making it Australia’s it engages. first university. ● The University of Sydney will improve “The functions ... of the University include: its position as an efficient, effective a) the provision of educational and research and responsible institution, striving to facilities at university standard; meet the needs of students and staff, b) the promotion, advancement and and committed to quality in all aspects transmission of knowledge and research; of its operations. c) the commitment to the development ● By providing knowledge, opportunity and provision of cultural, professional, and encouragement, the University technical and vocational services to the of Sydney will maintain and enhance community; and its position as a leading contributor to d) the conferring of the degrees of the opinions and ideas, cultures and Bachelor, Master and Doctor and the lifestyles of the many communities awarding of diplomas and other it serves locally, nationally and certificates.” internationally. University of Sydney Act, 1989 (as amended) The University Strategic Plan, 1999-2004 1 Highlights of 1999 Sydney graduate named The Australian Research Council (ARC) awarded 81 new Large Grants to Sydney Young Australian of University researchers, 20 more than its nearest the Year competitors, Melbourne University and the University of New South Wales. The grants are worth $13.5 million over three years. The profile of science was raised in 1999 by Young Australian of the Year and Sydney University graduate The University was ranked number one in Dr Bryan Gaensler. funding awarded by the National Health Dr Gaensler, who graduated from the University of and Medical Research Council. Sydney Sydney with his PhD in Astrophysics in May, took up University researchers won 63 new project a three-year, NASA-sponsored, Hubble Fellowship at grants worth nearly $5.5 million—an Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston after increase of 20 new project grants, or finishing his doctorate. But he still managed to spend nearly $2 million, on the University’s much of 1999 talking to school students about science ranking last year. and using his public profile as Young Australian of the Year to argue for increased funding for research. Sydney University was awarded funding for “Bryan is one of the most talented students to 27 new Strategic Partnerships with Industry— come through the School of Physics in my memory,” Research and Training (SPIRT) grants, said the Head of Physics, Professor Richard Collins. amounting to $4.8 million—the third highest “He established an international reputation while amount in the country. These grants will result still a graduate student.” in a further $16.5 million flowing to the University through industry partner From small acorns… contributions for research and training. The developers of WebMCQ, James Dalziel and Scott More than 600 contracts, valued at over Gazzard, had a series of successes in 1999. The team $33 million, were settled through the launched Version 1.3 of the Web-based educational University's Business Liaison Office for assessment software, signed an exclusive agreement research, consulting, licensing, joint with publishers McGraw-Hill and won the Nine Network’s ventures and related matters. New patent award for small business Internet software. applications were made for 48 inventions Mr Dalziel, from the University’s Department of by University staff, seven plant varieties Psychology, and Mr Gazzard, formerly a PhD student were registered and three trademark in artificial intelligence, created WebMCQ two years registrations were submitted. ago when Mr Dalziel was overseeing first-year psychology. He wanted a system that would allow his The University hosted many international students to complete practice multiple-choice questions visitors including the Crown Prince of and receive results and corrections immediately. Thailand, the Prime Ministers of Thailand and The pair released WebMCQ in 1998 and quickly Vietnam, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Professor attracted widespread interest all around the world. Jacques Derrida, and key adviser to Tony Blair, The Australian newspaper described it as the “basis David Miliband. of a multi-million dollar international business”. “That was never our emphasis,” Mr Dalziel said. “We wanted to create a tool everyone could use. Everyone wanted to use the Internet in teaching but they had no time. With this, the average teacher can put something together for the Web. It was always educationally driven.” 2 The University was the lead applicant Leading the way in in two projects which won National Teaching Development Grants from health policy the Federal Government's Committee for University Teaching and Staff Improving the standard of health policy analysis and Development, thus becoming the most debate in Australia is the aim of the country's first successful university in the country for the independent Health Policy Institute, established by second year in a row. Sydney academics the University's College of Health Sciences and the were also named as collaborative partners Medical Foundation in August. in a further four of the organisational The Institute is the only body of its kind providing grants announced by the Committee. independent high-quality analysis and research on a wide variety

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