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Calendar 2004 Calendar 2004 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 Heads of Departments/Schools 24 College Senior Administrative Staff 25 Central Senior Administrative Staff 26 Libraries 28 Museums and Collections 28 Centres, Research Centres and Institutes 29 Foundations 31 Senior officers since establishment 32 Awards and honours 43 Statutes and Regulations 53 Royal Charter of the University of Sydney 55 University of Sydney Act, 1989 (as amended) 56 University of Sydney By-law 1999 (as amended) 67 University of Sydney (Academic Governance) Rule 2003 83 University of Sydney (Authority within Academic Units) Rule 2003 93 University of Sydney (Library) Rule 2003 95 University of Sydney (Student Proctorial Panel) Rule 2003 99 University of Sydney (Senate) Rule 2002 101 University of Sydney (Intellectual Property) Rule 2002 103 University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2000 (as amended) 109 University of Sydney (Amendment Act) Rule 1999 (as amended) 115 ii Resolutions of the Senate and the Academic Board 127 Academic dress 128 Appointment: Dean, Director or College Principal 134 Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Selection Committee 136 Vice-Chancellor: Procedures for consultation between the Senate and the Academic Board 137 Control of traffic within the University 137 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 141 Endowment of academic positions 148 Governance: 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 149 Faculties, Colleges, College Boards, Boards of Studies, Departments, Schools and Committees 151 Senate committees 162 Honorary degrees and honorary fellows 164 Law Extension Committee 165 Restriction upon Re-enrolment 166 Semester and vacation dates 168 Sports unions, SRC and faculty societies, SUPRA, Union, Cumberland Student Guild and SASCA 169 Student appeals against academic decisions 170 University Governance 175 Faculties, colleges, graduate schools and boards of studies: Resolutions relating to constitution and courses 179 Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources 180 Faculty of Architecture 185 Faculty of Arts 189 Faculty of Dentistry 219 Faculty of Economics and Business 225 Faculty of Education and Social Work 253 Faculty of Engineering 281 Faculty of Health Sciences 299 Faculty of Law 321 Faculty of Medicine 335 Faculty of Nursing 359 Faculty of Pharmacy 363 Faculty of Rural Management 373 Faculty of Science 377 Faculty of Veterinary Science 399 Australian Graduate School of Management Ltd 407 Graduate School of Government 409 Sydney College of the Arts 411 Sydney Conservatorium of Music 419 Board of Studies in Indigenous Studies 427 Board of Studies in Music 429 Abbreviations 435 Index 439 iii Introduction power to make by-laws governing discipline, curriculum, and other matters, subject to the approval of the Governor. Introduction The functions of the Academic Board, the University's principal academic decision-making body subject to the Senate, include maintaining the highest standards in teaching, scholarship and research and, in that process, safeguarding the academic freedom of the University. The Academic Board advises the Senate and the Vice-Chancellor on all academic matters relating to and affecting the University's teaching and research activities and its educational programs, including general advice on the academic priorities and policies of the University. The faculties, academic colleges and boards of studies are responsible for the supervision of teaching and the conduct of examinations. The nineteen faculties/academic colleges/graduate schools in order of establishment in the University are: Arts, Law, Medicine, Science, Engineering, Dentistry, Veterinary Science, Agriculture (renamed Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources in January 2002), Economics (renamed Economics and Business in September 1999), Architecture, Education (renamed Education and Social The University of Sydney was incorporated by an Act of Work from January 2003), Sydney College of the Arts, the Legislature of New South Wales on 1 October 1850, and Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Nursing, Health was the first university to be established in Australasia. The Sciences, Pharmacy, the Australian Graduate School of Act of incorporation was amended by subsequent Acts Management (at the University of Sydney and the enlarging the scope of the University and the whole were University of New South Wales), Rural Management and consolidated in the University and University Colleges Act the Graduate School of Government. There are also boards 1900, as amended. This was then replaced by the University of studies that supervise the award of degrees: Indigenous of Sydney Act 1989, as amended. Studies and Music, with the board of studies in social work By a Royal Charter issued 27 February 1858, the degrees merging with the Faculty of Education from January 2003. 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. The Graduate School of Business at the and one elected by and from the Legislative Assembly; the University of Sydney and the Australian Graduate School of official members comprise the Chancellor (if the Chancellor Management at the University of New South Wales merged is not otherwise a member of the Senate), the Vice- to become the Australian Graduate School of Management Chancellor and the presiding member of the Academic (at the University of Sydney and the University of New Board; the appointed members comprise four persons South Wales) as of 1 January 1999. appointed by the Minister of whom one is to be appointed There are over 50 departments and schools in the on the nomination of Senate; the elected members comprise University, spanning a wide range of interests. In all of them four persons elected by and from the members of the active research and other scholarly activities are carried out academic staff of the University, one person elected by and aimed at advancing the fund of human knowledge. The from the non-academic staff of the University, one person University of Sydney Library has the largest university elected by and from the undergraduate students of the collection in Australia. University (who is not a member of the academic or non- The Camperdown and Darlington campuses, adjoining academic staff of the University), one person elected by and Parramatta Road and City Road, cover a total area of about from the postgraduate students of the University (who is not 72 hectares, comprising 50.6 hectares administered by the a member of the academic or non-academic staff of the University and 21 hectares granted to the six affiliated University), and five persons elected by and from the colleges. In addition, several important parts of the graduates of the University (who are not members of the University are located away from these campuses. These academic or non-academic staff or undergraduate or include the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the postgraduate students of the University). The Senate may redeveloped Greenway Building in Macquarie Street; the appoint one other person to be a member of Senate. Law School in Phillip Street; the Faculty of Dentistry at the Elections must take place in the manner prescribed by the United Dental Hospital in Chalmers Street and at Westmead; University of Sydney By-law 1999. The Senate has power the Faculty of Health Sciences at Lidcombe; Sydney to provide courses, confer degrees, appoint all academic and College of the Arts at Rozelle; the Faculty of Nursing at other staff, and has the entire management and Camperdown; the Faculty of Rural Management at Orange; superintendence over the affairs of the University, with 6 the University Farms, Rural Veterinary Centre and some teaching and research accommodation for the Faculties of the University's achievements. Copies of all publications I NTRODUCTION Veterinary Science and Agriculture at Camden; the may be obtained on application to the Registrar. Crommelin Biological Research Station at Pearl Beach; One A major two-volume history of the University, entitled Tree Island Marine Biology Research Station; the Plant Australias First: A History of the University of Sydney, has Breeding Institute, Camden; I.A. Watson Wheat Research been published.
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