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Review of Academic Structure

• Background
• Project Documentation
• Steering Committee
• Advisory Committee
• Consultants
• Project Archive

Background

For a university, the academic structure is central to the way it goes about its business, and determines how it interacts with its environment. A review of the academic structure is therefore an important part of the continuous review process used by any university to ensure it is still capable of functioning well and achieving its aims as its environment changes.

For Macquarie University, embarking on the ambitious path set out in Macquarie@50, it is then vitally important to ensure that our structure is capable of facilitating our ambitions for achieving excellence in research and teaching.

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Project Documentation

• Academic Four Faculty Structure for 2009 as at 17 September 2008 (PDF - 24k)
• Academic Restructure Update, 29 August 2008 (Word - 60k)
• Organisation Chart, Four Faculty Option as at 22 August 2008 (PDF - 24k) If you are having problems accessing this document or any other PDFs on this page please contact the Office of the Provost.
• Centralised IT Services
• Faculty Organisation Charts, 5 August 2008 (PDF - 135k)
• Faculty General Staff Structure
• Academic Restructure - Appointment of Heads of Department
• General Staff Transition: Faculty of Human Sciences, 26 June 2008, (PDF - 24k)
• Faculty Management Roles: proposed functional responsibilities, (Word - 12k)
• Faculty General Staff Proposal: Staff Consultation Session, amended 26 June 2008, (PowerPoint - 180k)
• Change Proposal: faculty General Staff structure, 4th June 2008 (Word - 132k)
• Guidelines for use in future Reviews to consider whether an academic unit constitutes a viable department
• Roles and Responsibilities for Executive Deans, Heads of Department and Discipline Leaders & University Centre Directors
• Staff Forum to address the Change Proposal, October 2007 (PowerPoint 196k).
• Review of Academic Structure - Report to Council (PDF - modified on 29 October 2007).

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Steering Committee

The Steering committee is responsible for oversight of the Review. It ensures that data is available to inform the review process, participates in the development of models and will present the recommendations to the Senior Executive. Membership includes:

• Prof Judyth Sachs, DVC (Provost) (Chair)
• Ms Maxine Brodie, University Librarian
• Prof Michael Johnson, Deputy President, Academic Senate
• Mr Tim Sprague, Director HR
• Prof Bill Thompson, Professor of Psychology

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Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee collects and discusses staff input and discusses models developed by the Steering Committee. Membership includes:

• Prof Judyth Sachs, DVC (Provost) (Chair)
• Mr Paul Bowler, DVC (COO)
• Prof John Hooper, Dean Higher Degree Research
• Prof Michael Johnson, Deputy President, Academic Senate
• Ms Carolyn Kennett, Chair Staff Consultative Group
• Prof Robyn Kramar, MGSM
• A/Prof Kevin McCracken, Assoc Dean (L&T), ELS
• Prof Stephen Marshall, Director LTC
• Ms Jenny Peasley, Deputy University Librarian
• Ms Tim Sprague, Director HR
• A/Prof John Sutton, HoD

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Consultants

The Academic Review process will be facilitated by the consulting group Campus Consulting:

• Ms Alison Crook, AO
• Mr Steve Robertson
• Ms Annie Talve

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Project Archive

• Organisation Chart, Four Faculty Option as at 14 July 2008, (PDF - 24k)
• Faculty General Staff Proposal: Staff Consultation Session, 19 June 2008, (PowerPoint - 180k)
• Four Faculty Option, revised 17 June '08 (PDF - 23k)
• Four Faculty Option, revised 12 June '08 (PDF - 23k)
• Review of Academic Structure: proposed General Staff Structure, presentation June 2008 (PowerPoint - 327k)
• Appendix 1: Faculty of Arts
• Appendix 2: Faculty of Business and Economics (PDF - 24k)
• Appendix 3: Faculty of Human Sciences (PDF - 24k)
• Appendix 4: Faculty of Science (PDF - 24k)
• Four Faculty Option, revised on 2 May '08 (PDF - 28k)
• Four Faculty Option, revised on 16 Apr '08 (PDF - 24k)
• Four Faculty Option, revised on 18 Feb'08 (PDF - 94k)
• Decision to proceed with the Academic Restructure, 5th Dec. 2007
• Four Faculty Option, revised 3rd Dec 2007 (PDF - 112k) Accessible HTML version
• Roles of Associate Deans and Directors, 29th Nov. 2007
• Four Faculty Option, 22nd Nov. 2007 (PDF - 112k)
• Staff FTE by category, work contract, appointment term and department in 2007 (Excel spreadsheet).
• Quantitative data (Word document).
  Amended September 2007. Please note, these figures are being verified in the Divisions and some further changes may occur.
• Progress Report on Review of Academic Structure 19.7.07
• Analysis of Focus Group Discussions (full report)
• Executive Summary – Findings from Focus Groups 1-17
• Summary analysis of 3 latest MUSEQ reports
• Frequently Asked Questions

 

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