Academic Staffing Committee

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IdentifierAGN-00000675TypeBoard/Committee/CouncilDate1996 to Dec 2009CreationEstablished by Academic Board at its meeting 13 November 1996AbolitionAcademic Board meeting 11 November 2009Description

The Academic Staffing Committee was one of six committees supporting the Academic Board after its 1996 restructure.

A review of the Academic Board had been 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 new Academic Board would be supported by 6 committees instead of 12: Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Studies, Teaching and Learning, Research Policy, Library and Information, and Academic Staffing. The new Board held its inaugural meeting on 13 November 1996. With the establishment of the new Board all Committees of the previous Board lapsed.

The Terms of Reference for the Academic Staffing Committee were:

(a) recommend to the Academic Board on academic staffing policies which will attract, retain and promote outstanding academic staff;

(b) identify issues relating to academic staffing and make recommendations for new or amended policies;

(d) work with faculties, departments and schools on appointment, tenure and promotion matters and to seek their advice as appropriate;

(e) report regularly to the Academic Board and at least once a year to the Academic Forum.

Membership: Chair: the Chair/ Deputy Chair of the Academic Board; The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Staffing); up to eight (8) members appointed by the Academic Board on the advice of the Chair of the Committee, and chosen for their interest and expertise in academic staffing matters.

Following a review of Academic Board and Academic Forum in 2001, which included a review of the proposed terms of reference of the Academic Board Standing Committees and associated policies, a new structure and functions came into force on 1 January 2004. (See Senate 5 April 2004, Item 8B.2.1 Report of the Chair of the Academic Board). Standing Committees in 2004 were the Academic Staffing Committee, Graduate Studies Committee, Teaching and Learning Committee, Undergraduate Studies Committee and the Research Committee. The Library Committee became a Sub-Committee of the Teaching and Learning Committee.

In 2007 the purpose of the Staffing Committee was to advise the Academic Board about resolutions, policies and procedures relating to academic staffing at the University.

In 2009 the Academic Board reviewed its structure, partly in response to changes within senior management that created a complementary committee structure under the Senior Executive Group (SEG). As a result the Academic Board reduced the number of its Standing Committees from five to three. Under the new structure the Learning and Teaching Committee was replaced by the Academic Standards and Policy Committee, and the Research and Research Training Committee was abolished with research training matters being referred to the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Academic Staffing Committee held its last meeting as a committee of the Academic Board on 2 December 2009. It was noted in the minutes of that meeting that the Committee would continue as part of the SEG committee structure.

Series

Minutes, Agendas and Papers [Academic Staffing Committee] (Series 1279)

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Agency - Controlled ByAcademic Board

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