Calendar 2000 The University of Sydney Contents Introduction 6 Organisational Chart 8 Senior officers of the University 9 Principal officers 11 Senate 12 Professors 13 Deans, Pro-Deans and Faculty Managers 21 College Senior Administrative Staff 22 Heads of Departments/Schools 23 Central Senior Administrative Staff 25 Libraries 27 Museums and Collections 28 Centres and Institutes 29 Foundations 30 Senior officers since establishment 31 Awards 41 Honorary awards 43 Awards for excellence in teaching 46 Vice-Chancellors Special Awards for Outstanding Teaching: First Year Teaching 47 Statutes and Regulations 49 Royal Charter of the University of Sydney 51 University of Sydney Act, 1989 (as amended) 52 Part 1 Preliminary 52 Part 2 Constitution and Functions of the University 52 Part 3 The Senate, Authorities 52 and Officers of the University Part 4 Functions of Senate 54 Part 5 Establishment of Academic Colleges 55 Part 6 General 56 Schedule 1 Provisions relating to Fellows and 57 to the Procedure of the Senate Schedule 2 Investment 58 Schedule 3 Savings and Transitional Provisions 59 University of Sydney By-law 1999 61 Chapter 1 Preliminary 63 Chapter 2 Making Rules 63 2 Chapter 3 Chancellor and Deputy Chancellor 63 Chapter 4 Election of Fellows of the Senate 64 Chapter 5 Vice-Chancellor 68 Chapter 6 Academic governance 68 Chapter 7 Convocation 68 Chapter 8 Student discipline 69 Chapter 9 Miscellaneous 74 University of Sydney (Undergraduate Courses) Rule 1999 75 Part 1 — Preliminary 76 Part 2 — Rules relating to Undergraduate Courses 76 Division 1 Course requirements, credit points 76 and assessment Division 2 Enrolment 77 Division 3 Progression 77 Division 4 Discontinuation of enrolment 77 and suspension of candidature Division 5 Unsatisfactory progress and exclusion 77 Division 6 Award of degrees and University medal 78 Division 7 Exceptional circumstances 78 Division 8 Transitional provisions 79 University of Sydney (Amendment Act) Rule 1999 81 Part 1 — Preliminary 82 Part 2 — Standard format of Rules 82 Part 3 — Procedures of Senate 82 Part 4 — Convocation 82 Part 5 — Appointment to Student Proctorial Panel 83 Part 6 — Seal and Arms of the University 83 Part 7 — Senior officers of the University 84 Part 8 — Intellectual property 84 Part 9 — Admission to courses 87 Part 10 — Awarding degrees, diplomas and certificates 90 Rules relating to the Academic Board, 1996 95 1. Citation and commencement 96 2. Purpose 96 3. Dictionary 96 4. Functions 96 5. Constitution of the Academic Board 96 6. Observers may speak at meetings 97 7. Terms of office 97 8. Chair of the Academic Board 97 9. Deputy Chairs 97 10. Meetings 98 11. Meeting procedures 98 12. Report to Senate 98 13-19. Standing Committees 98 20-42. Elections 100 Rules relating to the Academic Forum, 1996 105 1. Citation and commencement 106 2. Purpose 106 3. Dictionary 106 4. Functions 106 5. Constitution of the Academic Forum 107 6. Terms of Office of members 107 7. Chair of the Forum 107 8. Meetings 107 9. Reports 107 10-30. Election of Forum members 107 3 Resolutions of the Senate and the Academic Board 111 Academic dress 112 Admissions and enrolment 117 Appointment of a Dean, Director or College Principal 121 and procedures for consultation between the Senate and the Academic Board in respect of some senior administrative appointments Centre for Continuing Education 123 Control of traffic within the University 124 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 128 Election of Principal Officers of the Senate and 135 of Committees of the Senate and of the Fellow Referred to in Section 9(6) of the Act Endowment of academic positions 137 Faculties, Colleges, College Boards, 138 Boards of Studies, Departments, Schools and Committees — Academic Governance Honorary awards 148 Law Extension Committee 149 Prizes and scholarships 150 Semester and vacation dates 150 Senate committees 151 Sports unions, SRC and faculty societies, SUPRA, 152 Union, Cumberland College of Health Sciences Student Guild and SASCA Student appeals against academic decisions 154 Student Proctorial Board and Student Proctorial Panel 157 University of Sydney Library 158 Resolutions relating to faculties, colleges and 161 boards of studies Faculty of Agriculture 163 Faculty of Architecture 185 Faculty of Arts 199 Faculty of Dentistry 223 Faculty of Economics and Business 229 Faculty of Education 255 Faculty of Engineering 281 Faculty of Health Sciences 295 Faculty of Law 311 Faculty of Medicine 327 Faculty of Nursing 349 Faculty of Pharmacy 357 Faculty of Rural Management 363 Faculty of Science 375 Faculty of Veterinary Science 405 Sydney College of the Arts 413 Sydney Conservatorium of Music 419 Australian Graduate School of Management Ltd 429 Board of Studies in Indigenous Studies 431 Board of Studies in Music 433 Board of Studies in Social Work 439 Abbreviations 445 Index 4 1.:OW,0004 4 appoint one other person to be a member of Senate. Elections must take place in the manner prescribed by the Introduction University of Sydney By-law 1999. The Senate has power 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 The University of Sydney was incorporated by an Act of the (renamed Economics and Business in September 1999), Legislature of New South Wales on 1 October 1850, and was Architecture, Education, Nursing, Health Sciences, the first university to be established in Australasia. The Act Pharmacy and Rural Management. The Graduate School of of incorporation was amended by subsequent Acts enlarging Business at the University of Sydney and the Australian the scope of the University and the whole were consolidated Graduate School of Management at the University of New in the University and University Colleges Act 1900, as South Wales merged to become the Australian Graduate amended. This was then replaced by the University of School of Management (at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Act 1989, as amended. University of New South Wales) as of 1 January 1999. There By a Royal Charter issued 27 February 1858, the degrees are also boards of studies that supervise the award of of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, degrees: Indigenous Studies, Music and Social Work. Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of In 1989, the New South Wales government legislated for Medicine granted by the University of Sydney are entitled to the amalgamation within the University of Sydney of the rank, precedence and consideration as if the degrees had Cumberland College of Health Sciences, the Sydney College been granted by any university of the United Kingdom. of the Arts and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as At the time of its inauguration on 11 October 1852 in the academic colleges of the University. Two members of the Sydney College Building—now the Sydney Grammar Sydney College of Advanced Education, the Institute of School near Hyde Park—the University had a staff of three Nursing Studies and the Sydney Institute of Education, also professors and a total enrolment of 24 students. became part of the University. These consolidations came Women were admitted to membership of the University into effect on 1 January 1990. Nursing became a Faculty on in 1881, the degree of Bachelor of Arts being conferred on 1 January 1991; the Faculty of Health Sciences was the first two women graduates in 1885. established on 28 October 1991; and Education merged with By the University of Sydney Act 1989, as amended, the the Faculty of Education on 1 January 1992. Orange University is a body corporate consisting of a Senate Agricultural College, formerly an academic college of the constituted of parliamentary, official, appointed and elected University of New England, was established as a college of members. The parliamentary members comprise two the University of Sydney, with effect from 1 January 1994, members, one elected by and from the Legislative Council and from 1 January 2000, became the Faculty of Rural and one elected by and from the Legislative Assembly; the Management. official members comprise the Chancellor (if the Chancellor There are over 65 departments and schools in the is not otherwise a member of the Senate), the Vice- University, spanning a wide range of interests. In all of them Chancellor and the presiding member of the Academic active research and other scholarly activities are carried out Board; the appointed members comprise four persons aimed at advancing the fund of human knowledge. The appointed by the Minister of whom one is to be appointed on University of Sydney Library has the largest university the nomination of Senate; the elected members comprise collection in Australia. four persons elected by and from the members of the 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 72 from the non-academic staff of the University, one person hectares, comprising 50.6 hectares administered by the elected by and from the undergraduate students of the University and 21 hectares granted to the six affiliated University (who is not a member of the academic or non- colleges.