Calendar 2003 The University of Sydney Contents Introduction 7 Organisational Chart 10 General information about the University of Sydney 11 Principal officers 13 Senate 14 Professors 15 Deans, Pro-Deans and Faculty Managers 24 Heads of Departments/Schools 26 College Senior Administrative Staff 27 Central Senior Administrative Staff 28 Libraries 30 Museums and Collections 31 Centres, Research Centres and Institutes 32 Foundations 34 Senior officers since establishment 35 Awards 45 Honorary awards 47 Awards for excellence in teaching 51 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding Teaching 52 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision 53 Statutes and Regulations 55 Royal Charter of the University of Sydney 57 University of Sydney Act, 1989 (as amended) 58 Part 1 Preliminary 58 Part 2 Constitution and Functions of the University 58 Part 3 The Senate, Authorities and Officers of the University 59 Part 4 Functions of Senate 60 Part 5 Establishment of Academic Colleges 63 Part 6 General 63 Schedule 1 Provisions relating to Fellows and to the Procedure of the Senate 65 Schedule 2 Investment 66 Schedule 3 Savings and Transitional Provisions 67 University of Sydney By-law 1999 (as amended) 69 Chapter 1 Preliminary 71 Chapter 2 Making Rules 71 Chapter 3 Chancellor and Deputy Chancellor 71 Chapter 4 Election of Fellows of the Senate 72 Chapter 5 Vice-Chancellor 76 ii Chapter 6 Academic governance 76 Chapter 7 Convocation 77 Chapter 8 Student discipline 77 Chapter 9 Miscellaneous 82 University of Sydney (Senate) Rule 2002 83 University of Sydney (Intellectual Property) Rule 2002 85 Division 1 Dictionary 86 Division 2 Ownership of intellectual property created by staff members 86 Division 3 Ownership of intellectual property created by students 87 Division 4 Ownership of intellectual property created by visitors 87 Division 5 Reporting and developing intellectual property 88 Division 6 Dispute resolution 89 Division 7 Miscellaneous 89 University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2000 (as amended) 91 Preliminary 92 Rules relating to Coursework Award Courses 92 Division 1 Award course requirements, credit points and assessment 92 Division 2 Enrolment 93 Division 3 Credit, cross-institutional study and their upper limits 93 Division 4 Progression 94 Division 5 Discontinuation of enrolment and suspension of candidature 94 Division 6 Unsatisfactory progress and exclusion 94 Division 7 Exceptional circumstances 95 Division 8 Award of degrees, diplomas and certificates 95 Division 9 Transitional provisions 95 University of Sydney (Amendment Act) Rule 1999 (as amended) 97 Part 1 — Preliminary 98 Part 2 — Standard format of Rules 98 Part 3 — Procedures of Senate 98 Part 4 — Convocation 98 Part 5 — Appointment to Student Proctorial Panel 99 Part 6 — Seal and Arms of the University 100 Part 7 — Senior officers of the University 100 Part 8 — Intellectual property (Repealed — see University of Sydney (Intellectual Property) Rule 2002) 100 Part 9 — Admission to courses 100 Part 10 — Awarding degrees, diplomas and certificates 103 Rules relating to the Academic Board, 1996 (as amended) 109 1. Citation and commencement 110 2. Purpose 110 3. Dictionary 110 4. Functions 110 5. Constitution of the Academic Board 110 6. Observers may speak at meetings 111 7. Terms of office 111 8. Chair of the Academic Board 111 9. Deputy Chairs 112 10. Meetings 112 11. Meeting procedures 112 12. Report to Senate 112 iii 13-19. Standing Committees 112 20-42. Elections 114 Rules relating to the Academic Forum, 1996 (as amended) 119 1. Citation and commencement 120 2. Purpose 120 3. Dictionary 120 4. Functions 120 5. Constitution of the Academic Forum 120 6. Terms of Office of members 121 7. Chair of the Forum 121 8. Meetings 121 9. Reports 121 10-30. Election of Forum members 121 Resolutions of the Senate and the Academic Board 125 Academic dress 126 Admissions and enrolment 132 Appointment of Vice-Chancellor: Procedures for consultation between the Senate and the Academic Board 135 Centre for Continuing Education 136 Dean, Director or College Principal: Appointment 137 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 138 Endowment of academic positions 145 Faculties, Colleges, College Boards, Boards of Studies, Departments, Schools and Committees: Academic Governance 146 Honorary awards 157 Law Extension Committee 158 Prizes and scholarships 158 Semester and vacation dates 159 Senate committees 159 Senate: 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 161 Sports unions, SRC and faculty societies, SUPRA, Union, Cumberland Student Guild and SASCA 163 Student appeals against academic decisions 165 Student Proctorial Board and Student Proctorial Panel 169 Traffic: control of traffic within the University 170 University Governance 174 University of Sydney Library 178 Resolutions relating to faculties, colleges and boards of studies 181 Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources 182 Faculty of Architecture 187 Faculty of Arts 197 Faculty of Dentistry 225 Faculty of Economics and Business 231 Faculty of Education and Social Work 261 Faculty of Engineering 285 Faculty of Health Sciences 303 Faculty of Law 319 Faculty of Medicine 333 Faculty of Nursing 355 Faculty of Pharmacy 361 Faculty of Rural Management 369 Faculty of Science 373 Faculty of Veterinary Science 391 iv Sydney College of the Arts 399 Sydney Conservatorium of Music 407 Australian Graduate School of Management Ltd 413 Board of Studies in Indigenous Studies 415 Board of Studies in Music 417 Abbreviations 421 Index 425 v 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 primary academic advisory body, include advising the Senate and the Vice-Chancellor on all 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 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 (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 Work from January 2003), Nursing, Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Rural Management. The Graduate School of Business at the University of Sydney The University of Sydney was incorporated by an Act of and the Australian Graduate School of Management at the the Legislature of New South Wales on 1 October 1850, and University of New South Wales merged to become the was the first university to be established in Australasia. The Australian Graduate School of Management (at the Act of incorporation was amended by subsequent Acts University of Sydney and the University of New South enlarging the scope of the University and the whole were Wales) as of 1 January 1999. There are also boards of consolidated in the University and University Colleges Act studies that supervise the award of degrees: Indigenous 1900, as amended. This was then replaced by the University Studies, Music and Social Work (the latter merging with the of Sydney Act 1989, as amended. Faculty of Education from January 2003). By a Royal Charter issued 27 February 1858, the degrees In 1989, the New South Wales government legislated for of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, the amalgamation within the University of Sydney of the Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of Cumberland College of Health Sciences, the Sydney Medicine granted by the University of Sydney are entitled to College of the Arts and the Sydney Conservatorium of rank, precedence and consideration as if the degrees had Music as academic colleges of the University. Two members been granted by any university of the United Kingdom. of the Sydney College of Advanced Education, the Institute At the time of its inauguration on 11 October 1852 in the of Nursing Studies and the Sydney Institute of Education, Sydney College Building—now the Sydney Grammar also became part of the University. These consolidations School near Hyde Park—the University had a staff of three came into effect on 1 January 1990. Nursing became a professors and a total enrolment of 24 students. Faculty on 1 January 1991; the Faculty of Health Sciences Women were admitted to membership of the University was established on 28 October 1991; and Education merged in 1881, the degree of Bachelor of Arts being conferred on with the Faculty of Education on 1 January 1992. Orange the first two women graduates in 1885. Agricultural College, formerly an academic college of the By the University of Sydney Act 1989, as amended, the University of New England, was established as a college of University is a body corporate consisting of a Senate the University of Sydney, with effect from 1 January 1994, constituted of parliamentary, official, appointed and elected and from 1 January 2000, became the Faculty of Rural members. The parliamentary members comprise two Management. members, one elected by and from the Legislative Council There are over 60 departments and schools in the and one elected by and from the Legislative Assembly; the University, spanning a wide range of interests. In all of them official members comprise the Chancellor (if the Chancellor active research and other scholarly activities are carried out is not otherwise a member of the Senate), the Vice- aimed at advancing the fund of human knowledge. The Chancellor and the presiding member of the Academic University of Sydney Library has the largest university Board; the appointed members comprise four persons collection in Australia.