Murdoch University Senate

A special meeting of Senate will be held on Monday 28 June at 4.30pm, in the Senate room.

Afternoon tea will be available in the Senate foyer from 4pm. You are asked to wear your Murdoch University name badge. As this is a special meeting, there will not be a dinner afterwards. The meeting will instead be followed by drinks and substantial finger food in the Senate foyer.

The Chancellor has asked that if you plan to move any amendments to the recommendations, that notice of the wording of the amendment(s) be provided to the University Secretary by Wednesday 23 June. This will enable the Consultative Working Party on the Murdoch Funding Model to consider the proposal and report to Senate on it.

Andrew Bain
University Secretary
21 June 2004

1.       MEMBERSHIP

Attached is the list of current members of Senate. The Governor has made two appointments to Senate:

• Mr Terry Budge, former CEO of BankWest. Appointed on the nomination of the Premier, for a term expiring on 31 May 2007.

• Mr Garry Hunt, former CEO of the City of Perth. Appointed on the nomination of the Leader of the Opposition, for a term expiring on 26 May 2007.

This is the first meeting for Mr Hunt. He has provided the following background information:

Chief Executive Officer of the City of Perth from 1994-2002. Prior to that he was City Manager of the City of Melville from 1986-94. A graduate in business and local government, Garry is a Fellow of the Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA) and of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM). He is a former President of the Western Australian Institute of Municipal Management (now LGMA) and has served on the National Board of the Institute of Municipal Management (IMM). In 1998 Garry received a Public Service Medal in the Australia Day Awards for his contribution to Local Government Management. He has serviced on numerous State Ministerial Advisory groups within WA, dealing with local government matters including the Structural Reform Advisory Committee and the Local Government Advisory Board. Garry was the International Vice President (International) of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) based in Washington DC, from 1997-2000. Since 2002 he has specialised in overseas consulting, and has completed assignments in South Africa and Malaysia in the last twelve months. His consulting projects include capacity building, skills development, coaching and mentoring, re-engineering government systems and procedures, and assisting companies to work their way through the myriad of government processes impacting on major developments. He is currently Chairman of Rally Australia, Governance Systems Management Pty Ltd and Managing Director of the Garry Hunt Consulting Group.

2.       APOLOGIES

Mr Budge and Dr McCall have recorded their apologies for this meeting. Any apologies received after circulation of the agenda will be reported to the meeting.

3.       DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST 

In accordance with Senate Standing Order 22, Senators must declare the nature, character and extent of any conflict of interest. The Chancellor will ask if any member has an interest to declare.

4.       HECS FEES 

The April meeting of Academic Council recommended that the University implement HECS top-up fees as permitted under the Higher Education Support Act 2003. It also deferred further consideration of implementation principles for top-up HECS fees until Council received data and recommendations from the Consultative Committee on the Murdoch Funding Model, on issues identified by Council.

The May meeting of Senate gave preliminary consideration to the matter, identifying additional issues it wishes to see considered and any matters on which it wishes to receive further information. Senate

Resolved: S/39/2004	(a)	that the issues identified in this debate be summarised in an email and sent to all Senators within 24 hours of this meeting, with a request that they email the University Secretary by close of business on Tuesday 25 May if there are any further issues any Senator wants to be considered;
	(b)	that this feedback be forwarded to the Academic Council Consultative Committee on the Murdoch Funding Model;
	(c)	that the report of the Consultative Committee, and the minutes of the Academic Council debate on that report at its meeting on 16 June, be circulated to all Senators by 23 June.

The Working Party’s report has been considered by Academic Council. Attached are:

v       A cover sheet summarising the salient information.

v       The minute of the discussion of the report by Academic Council, at its meeting on 16 June.

v       The report of the Working Party, Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) Top-Up Fees.

v       A background paper on the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS).

v       A paper from the Guild of Students. This includes a foreshadowed motion on page 7.

The report will be introduced by the President of Academic Council (Assoc Prof Michael Borowitzka).

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Senate meetings will be held at 4.30 pm on the following dates: