Awards Committee

The function of the Academic Awards Committee was to consider the establishment and the terms and conditions for the award of prizes and scholarships.

A review of the Academic Board was carried out in 1995, with a Report of the Committee of Review, dated July 1995, submitted to Senate in October 1995. The report proposed that the Board of nearly 400 members be replaced by a two-tiered structure: an Academic Forum of about the same number and an Academic Board of 61 members. The Board would be supported by 6 committees instead of 12, the new committees to be Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Studies, Teaching and Learning, Research Policy, Library and Information, and Academic Staffing.

The new structure came into place in 1996 and the new Board held its inaugural meeting on 13 November 1996.

The Awards Committee was one of the committees in need of transitional continuation and continued its work as an interim working party of its new Committee (Teaching and Learning ), to be reviewed before 30 March 1997.