Calendar 2006 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 23 Heads of Schools 25 College Senior Administrative Staff 27 Central Senior Administrative Staff 27 University Library 29 Museums and Collections 29 Centres, Research Centres and Institutes 30 Foundations 32 Senior officers since establishment: 33 Visitors; Chancellors; Deputy Chancellors; Pro-Chancellors; Vice-Chancellors; Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellors; Deputy Vice-Chancellors; Pro-Vice-Chancellors; Assistant Pro-Vice- Chancellors; Assistant Vice-Chancellors; Vice-Principals; Deputy Principals; Secretaries; Registrars; Bursars; Directors, Finance; Directors, Financial Services; Chief Financial Officers; Accountants; University Librarians; General Counsels; Chairmen and Deputy Chairmen of the Professorial Board; Chairs and Deputy Chairs of the Academic Board; Chairs of the Academic Forum; Fellows of the Senate; Emeritus Professors. Awards and honours 43 Honorary awards 44 Distinguished International Fellows 47 Awards for Excellence in Teaching 1989-1999 48 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding Teaching 49 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision 50 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for the Support of the Student Experience 50 Statutes and regulations 51 Royal Charter of the University of Sydney 53 University of Sydney Act 1989 (as amended) 55 University of Sydney By-law 1999 (as amended) 71 University of Sydney (Academic Governance) Rule 2003 (as amended) 85 University of Sydney (Amendment Act) Rule 1999 (as amended) 95 University of Sydney (Appointment of Delegated Officers) Rule 2004 105 University of Sydney (Authority within Academic Units) Rule 2003 (as amended) 107 University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2000 (as amended) 109 University of Sydney (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)) Rule 2004 115 University of Sydney (Intellectual Property) Rule 2002 119 University of Sydney (Library) Rule 2003 125 University of Sydney (Senate) Rule 2002 129 University of Sydney (Student Proctorial Panel) Rule 2003 131 Resolutions of the Senate and the Academic Board 133 Academic dress 134 Appointment: Dean, Director or College Principal 141 Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Selection Committee 142 Vice-Chancellor: Procedures for consultation between the Senate and the Academic Board 143 Control of traffic within the University 144 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 148 Governance: University Governance 155 Senate committees 159 Election of Principal Officers of the Senate and of Committees of the Senate and of the Fellow Referred to in Section 9(1)(c) of the Act 164 Faculties, Colleges, College Boards, Boards of Studies Departments, Schools and Committees 166 Honorary awards 177 Restriction upon Re-enrolment 178 Sports unions, SRC and faculty societies, SUPRA, Union, Cumberland Student Guild and SASCA 179 Student appeals against academic decisions 180 Faculties, colleges, graduate schools and boards of studies: Resolutions relating to constitutions and courses 185 Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources 186 Faculty of Architecture 193 Faculty of Arts 197 Faculty of Dentistry 227 Faculty of Economics and Business 233 Faculty of Education and Social Work 247 Faculty of Engineering 263 Faculty of Health Sciences 285 Faculty of Law 295 Faculty of Medicine 311 Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery 339 Faculty of Pharmacy 345 Faculty of Science 357 Faculty of Veterinary Science 387 Graduate School of Government 397 Sydney College of the Arts 399 Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Department of Music 407 Board of Studies in Indigenous Studies 421 Abbreviations 423 Index 427 iii - T least one must have commercial expertise (as demonstrated by relevant experience at a senior level in the public or Introduction private sector). All appointed members of the Senate must have expertise and experience relevant to the functions exercisable by the Senate and an appreciation of the object, values, functions and activities of the University. The majority of members of the Senate must be external persons. 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 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 The University of Sydney was incorporated by an Act educational programs, including general advice on the of the Legislature of New South Wales on 1 October 1850, academic priorities and policies of the University. The and was the first university to be established in Australasia. faculties and board of studies are responsible for the The Act of incorporation was amended by subsequent Acts supervision of teaching and the conduct of examinations. enlarging the scope of the University and the whole were Three Colleges provide academic leadership and consolidated in the University and University Colleges administrative coherence to the University's faculties. Act 1900, (as amended). This was then replaced by the The College of Health Sciences comprises the Faculties University of Sydney Act 1989, (as amended). of Dentistry, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and By a Royal Charter issued 27 February 1858, the Midwifery, and Pharmacy. The College of Humanities and degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Social Sciences comprises the Faculties of Arts, Economics Laws, Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of and Business, Education and Social Work, and Law, the Medicine granted by the University of Sydney are entitled to rank, precedence and consideration as if the degrees had Graduate School of Government, Sydney College of the been granted by any university of the United Kingdom. Arts and Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The College At the time of its inauguration on 11 October 1852 in the of Sciences and Technology comprises the Faculties of Sydney College Building—now the Sydney Grammar Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Architecture, School near Hyde Park—the University had a staff of three Engineering, Science and Veterinary Science. professors and a total enrolment of 24 students. Women The faculties/academic colleges/graduate schools in were admitted to membership of the University in 1881, the order of establishment in the University are as follows: Arts, degree of Bachelor of Arts being conferred on the first two Law, Medicine, Science, Engineering, Dentistry, Veterinary women graduates in 1885. Science, Agriculture (renamed Faculty of Agriculture, By the University of Sydney Act 1989, (as amended), Food and Natural Resources in January 2002), Economics the University is a body corporate consisting of a Senate (renamed Economics and Business in September 1999), constituted of official, appointed and elected members. Architecture, Education (renamed Education and Social The official members comprise the Chancellor (if the Work from January 2003), Sydney College of the Arts, Chancellor is not otherwise a member of the Senate), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Nursing (renamed the Vice-Chancellor and the presiding member of the Nursing and Midwifery in 2005), Health Sciences, Academic Board. The appointed members comprise six Pharmacy, the Australian Graduate School of Management external persons appointed by the Minister of whom (at the University of Sydney and the University of New one is to be appointed on the nomination of the Senate South Wales), Rural Management and the Graduate (and with Senate having the option of nominating up to School of Government. There is also a Board of Studies in two Members of Parliament as part of the six appointed Indigenous Studies that supervises the award of degrees. members), and one external person appointed by the In 1989, the New South Wales government legislated Senate. The elected members comprise four persons for the amalgamation within the University of Sydney of elected by and from the members of the academic staff the Cumberland College of Health Sciences, the Sydney of the University, one person elected by and from the College of the Arts and the Sydney Conservatorium of non-academic staff of the University, one person elected Music as academic colleges of the University. Two members by and from the undergraduate students of the University of the Sydney College of Advanced Education, the Institute (who is not a member of the academic or non-academic of Nursing Studies and the Sydney Institute of Education, staff of the University), one person elected by and from also became part of the University. These consolidations the postgraduate students of the University (who is not came into effect on 1 January 1990. Nursing became a a member of the academic or non-academic staff of the Faculty on 1 January 1991; the Faculty of Health Sciences University), and five persons elected by and from the was established on 28 October 1991; and Education merged graduates of the University (who