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The following is an extract from the document granting Arms to the University, dated May 1857: Argent on a Cross Azure an open book proper, clasps Gold, between The University of Sydney four Stars of eight points Or, on a chief Gules a Lion passant guardant NSW 2006 Australia also Or, together with this motto "Sidere mens eadem mutato" ... to Phone: +61 2 9351 2222 be borne and used forever hereafter by the said University of SYDNEY Website: www.usyd.edu.au on their Common Seal, Shields, or otherwise according to the Law of Arms. Production The motto, which was devised by F L S Merewether, Second Vice-Provost of the University, conveys the feeling that in this Digital and Print Media Office hemisphere all feelings and attitudes to scholarship are the same as Website: www.usyd.edu.au/digital_print_media those of our predecessors in the northern hemisphere. ii Contents Contents 105 Introduction 1 University of Sydney (Appointment of Delegated Officers) Rule 2004 Organisational Chart 5 University of Sydney (Appointment of 107 General information about the University of 7 Delegated Officers) Rule 2006 Sydney University of Sydney (Authority Within 109 Principal officers 9 Academic Units) Rule 2003 (as amended) Senate 10 University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2000 111 Professors 11 (as amended) Executive Deans, Deans, Pro-Deans, Faculty 24 Managers University of Sydney (Doctor of Philosophy 115 Executive Deans 24 (PhD)) Rule 2004 Deans, Pro-Deans, Faculty Managers 24 University of Sydney (Intellectual Property) 119 Heads of Schools 26 Rule 2002 Central Senior Administrative Staff 27 University Library 30 University of Sydney (Library) Rule 2003 125 Museums and Collections 30 University of Sydney (Senate) Rule 2002 129 Centres, Research Centres and Institutes 31 Foundations 33 University of Sydney (Student Appeals against 131 Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 Senior officers since establishment 35 University of Sydney (Student Proctorial Panel) 135 Senior officers 35 Rule 2003 (as amended) Fellows of the Senate 45 Academic dress 137 Emeritus professors 45 Appointment 145 Awards and honours 47 Appointment of a Dean, Director or College 145 Principal Honorary awards 49 Selection Committee for Deputy Vice-Chancellor 146 Distinguished International Fellows 53 Selection Committee for Pro-Vice-Chancellor 146 Awards for Excellence in Teaching 1989±1999 54 Procedures for consultation between the Senate 146 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding 55 and the Academic Board in respect of appointment Teaching of Vice-Chancellor and for selection of a Vice-Chancellor ± Selection Committee Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in 56 Research Higher Degree Supervision Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 147 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for the Support of the 56 Student Experience Governance: University Governance 153 Statutes, regulations and resolutions 57 Governance 157 Governance: Senate committees 158 Charter of the University of Sydney 59 Governance: Election of Principal Officers of the 162 University of Sydney Act 1989 (as amended) 61 Senate and of Committees of the Senate and of the Fellow referred to in Section 9(1)(c) of the Act University of Sydney By-law 1999 (as amended) 73 Governance: Faculties, Colleges, College Boards, 164 Boards of Studies, Departments, Schools and University of Sydney (Academic Governance) 87 Committees Rule 2003 (as amended) Honorary awards 171 University of Sydney (Amendment Act) Rule 97 Sports unions, SRC and faculty societies, 173 1999 (as amended) SUPRA, Union, Cumberland Student Guild and SASCA iii Contents Student appeals against academic decisions 175 Constitutions of faculties, colleges and boards 179 of studies Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources 181 Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning 181 Faculty of Arts 181 Faculty of Dentistry 182 Faculty of Economics and Business 183 Faculty of Education and Social Work 183 Faculty of Engineering and Information 183 Technologies Faculty of Health Sciences 184 Faculty of Law 184 Faculty of Medicine 184 Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery 185 Faculty of Pharmacy 185 Faculty of Science 186 Faculty of Veterinary Science 186 Sydney College of the Arts Board 187 Sydney Conservatorium of Music Board 187 Board of Studies in Indigenous Studies 187 Abbreviations for institutions 189 Index 205 iv introduction Introduction 2 Introduction Introduction by-laws governing discipline, curriculum, and other matters, subject to the approval of the Governor. 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 The University of Sydney was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature research and, in that process, safeguarding the academic freedom of of New South Wales on 1 October 1850, and was the first university the University. The Academic Board advises the Senate and the to be established in Australasia.The Act of incorporation was amended Vice-Chancellor on all academic matters relating to and affecting the by subsequent Acts enlarging the scope of the University and the University's teaching and research activities and its educational whole were consolidated in the University and University Colleges programs, including general advice on the academic priorities and Act 1900 (as amended). This was then replaced by the University of policies of the University. The faculties and board of studies are Sydney Act 1989 (as amended). responsible for the supervision of teaching and the conduct of examinations. By a Royal Charter issued 27 February 1858, the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws, Bachelor The faculties/academic colleges/graduate schools in order of of Medicine and Doctor of Medicine granted by the University of establishment in the University are as follows: Arts, Law, Medicine, Sydney are entitled to rank, precedence and consideration as if the Science, Engineering (renamed Engineering and Information degrees had been granted by any university of the United Kingdom. Technologies in 2006), Dentistry, Veterinary Science, Agriculture At the time of its inauguration on 11 October 1852 in the Sydney (renamed Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources in 2002), College Building ± now the Sydney Grammar School near Hyde Park Economics (renamed Economics and Business in 1999), Architecture ± the University had a staff of three professors and a total enrolment (renamed Architecture, Design and Planning in 2006), Education of 24 students.Women were admitted to membership of the University (renamed Education and Social Work from 2003), Sydney College of in 1881, the degree of Bachelor of Arts being conferred on the first the Arts, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Nursing (renamed Nursing two women graduates in 1885. and Midwifery in 2005), Health Sciences, Pharmacy, the Australian Graduate School of Management (at the University of Sydney and By the University of Sydney Act 1989 (as amended), the University the University of New South Wales) (dissolved as a joint venture in is a body corporate consisting of a Senate constituted of official, 2005), Rural Management (transferred to Charles Sturt University in appointed and elected members. The official members comprise the 2006) and the Graduate School of Government (relocated within the Chancellor (if the Chancellor is not otherwise a member of the Senate), Faculty of Economics and Business in 2005). There is also a Board the Vice-Chancellor and the presiding member of the Academic Board. of Studies in Indigenous Studies that supervises the award of degrees. The appointed members comprise six external persons appointed by the Minister of whom one is to be appointed on the nomination of the In 2006 the former College structure was replaced by a new Senate (and with Senate having the option of nominating up to two arrangement of academic entities, as follows: Members of Parliament as part of the six appointed members), and one external person appointed by the Senate. The elected members · Faculties of Engineering and Architecture, comprising the comprise four persons elected by and from the members of the Faculties of Engineering and Information Technologies; and academic staff of the University, one person elected by and from the Architecture, Design and Planning · Faculties of Health, comprising the Faculties of Dentistry; Health non-academic staff of the University, one person elected by and from Sciences; Medicine; Nursing and Midwifery; and Pharmacy the undergraduate students of the University (who is not a member · Faculties of Science, comprising the Faculties of Agriculture, of the academic or non-academic