University Language Board

The University Language Board was established by the Academic Board in September 1992, with amendments in November 1992 and May 1994.

Terms of reference:

1. to promote language studies across the University;

2. to provide a basis for liaison with a joint Language Co-operation and Co-ordination Committee of Universities within the Sydney metropolitan area (to be established in keeping with a recommendation of the Leal Review of the Teaching of Modern Languages in Higher Education;

3. to provide a basis for liaison with Government , the Department of School Education and other relevant bodies and to be responsible for organising quickly and effectively a University-wide response to major inquiries relating to language studies.

The Chair will have a specific responsibility to report to the Vice-Chancellor on any external academic liaison aspects of language policy.

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.