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At its annual meeting in Adelaide in 1955 the Australian Automobile Association passed a resolution calling for active steps to be taken in the training of traffic engineers. The Association also resolved to fund a Chair of Traffic Engineering to a sum of 25,000 pounds through an annual grant of 5,000 pounds for five years at a university to be nominated by the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies. Mr Menzies selected the New South Wales University of Technology as the site for the new program. (SRF - Highway and Traffic, Schools of) On 12 March 1956 Council approved the appointment of W. Ross Blunden, Scientific Adviser to the Australian Military Board, as Foundation Chair of Traffic Engineering. (resolution 687) Professor Blunden commenced his duties on 20 August 1956. He then spent approximately three months at the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering at the University of California - Berkeley and afterwards visited other universities in the United States as well as traffic agencies and research organisations in Washington DC. He also visited a number of city and state traffic departments and various automobile and traffic control equipment manufacturers. (BRF - Blunden; CN956/30 File: 5601071E) The School of Traffic Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering was approved by Council on 13 May 1957 (resolution 57/64). From the time of its inception the School was primarily postgraduate in character. It defined traffic engineering as the science of measuring traffic and travel, the study of the basic laws relating to traffic generation and flow and the application of this knowledge to the professional practice of planning, designing and operating traffic systems to achieve safe and efficient movement of persons and goods. The School's primary objectives were: (1) The evolution of a basic technical discipline for the phenomena of traffic and travel; (2) The application of this in the whole field of transportation, seeking integrated solutions to transport problems of all kinds. (The University of New South Wales, c.1961: 122) Each year the School offered a full-time course of 14 weeks duration in traffic planning and control. The course also included introductory material on statistics, the theory of traffic behaviour, town planning and road traffic law. By the early 1960s over 90 students had undertaken the course from Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and India. Extension courses were also taught in cities throughout Australia. (The University of New South Wales, c.1961: 122) In 1959 a Master of Technology degree program was introduced for students with undergraduate degrees in engineering or science. It consisted of formal lectures in the theory of statistics, the theory of traffic behaviour, the application and practice of traffic engineering, operational analysis, data reduction, road location and design, town planning, and traffic law. There was also a thesis component which consisted of a specific traffic study. (The University of New South Wales, c.1961: 122) On 13 November 1972 the name of the School was changed to the School of Transportation and Traffic Engineering to broaden the focus of the school. (resolution 72/225; SRF - Highway and Traffic, Schools of) At a meeting on 17 January 1977 Council resolved (resolution 77/4) that the School of Transportation and Traffic Engineering and the School of Highway Engineering would form a new School of Transport and Highways, effective from 25 July 1977. The School as a separate entity thus ceased to exist from this date. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 13/05/1957-25/07/1977

The Faculty of Business was established by Council on 3 July 2006 (resolution CL06/68), as a result of the proposed disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce of Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management. The inaugural meeting of the faculty took place on 23 November 2006, with Professor Alec Cameron as Dean. On 18 June 2007 Council noted the renaming of the Faculty of Business to the Australian School of Business at UNSW, as approved by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board (CL07/33). In 2007 the faculty was comprised of the Australian Graduate School of Management, School of Accounting, School of Banking & Finance, School of Business Law & Taxation, School of Economics, School of Information Systems, Technology & Management, School of Marketing, School of Organisation & Management, School of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, the Industrial Relations Research Centre and the Korea-Australasia Research Centre. On 2 July 2014 the Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee approved a change in name of the faculty to the UNSW Australia Business School, effective from 23 July 2014. Subordinate agency: School of Accountancy (1955 - 1988) / Accounting (1988 - ) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of Marketing (1966 - 1970) / School of Marketing (1970 - ) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Information Systems, Technology and Management - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Korea-Australasia Research Centre (KAREC) (2000 - 2011) / Korea Research Institute (2011 - ) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Organisation and Management (2004 - 2011) / School of Management (2012 - ) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Applied Marketing (CAM) - 23/11/2006 - 30/09/2007 Subordinate agency: School of Economics - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship - 19/03/2007 - 31/12/2011 Subordinate agency: Actuarial Studies Unit - 23/11/2006 - 31/12/2011 Subordinate agency: Centre for Pensions and Superannuation (CPS) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) - 09/12/2008 Subordinate agency: Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research (AIPAIR) - 04/01/2007 Subordinate agency: Centre for Corporate Change - 23/11/2006 - 30/06/2007 Subordinate agency: Australian School of Taxation and Business Law - 01/01/2011 Subordinate agency: School of Banking and Finance - 03/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Business Law and Taxation - 23/11/2006 - 31/12/2010 Subordinate agency: School of Risk & Actuarial Studies - 01/01/2012 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 03/07/2006-

The University Academic Staff Association of New South Wales (UASANSW) was created by resolution of the Staff Associations in the six universities of New South Wales at the end of 1976. Delegates at a meeting on 10 November 1976 formed the Interim Council of UASA to act until its first annual meeting held in March 1978. The first President of UASA was Ian Somervaille. UASA was formed as an industrial union representing academic staff employed by the six universities in the State of New South Wales (Macquarie University, the University of New England, The University of Newcastle, the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and Wollongong University). It was granted industrial registration on 9 March 1978. The application was lodged with the Industrial Registrar on 15 December 1976. Objections to the proposed registration were lodged by the Public Service Association of NSW, the Public Medical Officers' Association of NSW and the NSW Teachers' Federation. Mutually acceptable agreements were reached with those organisations and UASANSW was registered as a Trade Union in October 1977, and subsequently as an Industrial Organisation in March 1978. This gave the Association pre-eminent rights to represent academic staff in NSW universities. The position was protected by agreement with the Teachers Federation for a period of five years. (UASA Newsletter No. 1, 1978) From the outset UASA had three primary goals: 1. to prevent other registered unions from gaining coverage of academic staff in universities, and thereby gaining recognition by the Industrial Commission of their right to negotiate with employers on behalf of university academic staff. 2. To gain access to the arbitration machinery of the NSW Industrial Commission in matters relating to terms and conditions of employment of academic staff in universities. And 3. To provide a united approach in dealing with education issues at State level. From its conception, the formation of UASA was encouraged and supported by the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations (FAUSA). There was a Division of UASA in each of the six universities in the State of New South Wales and each Division Committee was comprised of members of the local Staff Association Executive. The aim was to reach complete congruence between the membership of the Staff Associations and membership of UASA. (UASA news June 1980, p.1) In 1989 UASA merged with the Federation of College Academics (NSW) to form the new Academics Union (AU) of NSW. To a great extend that merger was the product of the national trend towards the establishment of fewer and larger unions and much larger higher education institutions. As a result of state and federal politics there were no longer any colleges of advanced education. The first AGM was in mid-December 1989; full registration as a state union was expected to be gained by February 1990 (UNI magazine No.1, October 1989, p1). In June 1993 the Academic Union urged its members to vote for the formation of the NTEU. (Academic Union News 3, Special NTEU Amalgamation Edition, June 1993) It seems that the publication of the union's newsletter ceased after this special NTEU Bulletin and the union becamae inactive (see also 1994 Annual Report of the Executive, Newswatch No.7 November 1994). However as at 19 November 1996 the Academics Union of New South Wales was still registered in NSW as an employee organisation under the Industrial Relations Act with a membership of 5,034 academics. (http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/la/qala.nsf/ad22cc96ba50555dca257051007aa5c8/ca25708400173f67ca2570820028e7f6!OpenDocument accessed 17/6/2008)

Visiting Committees, including the one for the Department of Applied Physics, were constituted under Resolution 68/137 of Council as a means of establishing a close liaison between industry and appropriate schools of the university. A report by A.H. Willis to the Professorial Board in May 1968 had found that the advisory panel system, dating from March 1950, no longer held any benefits. The report also recommended the abolition of advisory panels by the end of 1968 and the panels to be replaced by Visiting Committees. Resolution 68/126 of the Professorial Board requested A.H. Willis to present more specific proposals on the membership and terms of reference of the proposed Visiting Committees. His following recommendations to the Professorial Board from 11 June 1968 were put to Council though the recommendations of the Academic Committee in their document from 17 June 1968. Council at its meeting on 8 July 1968 resolved 68/137- that Council adopts the terms of reference and membership of Visiting Committees as set out in the document presented dated 17th June 1968. The document recommended to Council that the Visiting Committees be established by Council on the recommendation of the Vice-Chancellor who consulted with deans and heads of school regarding the establishment of the committee and the chairmanship. The chairman, appointed by Council, was chosen from members external to the university. The terms of reference for Visiting Committees were 1. to appraise the educational programmes of the School in relation to the needs of industry and professional practice 2. to receive and discuss the Annual Report of the Head of the School 3. to report to the Council on the special problems facing the School 4. to aid the development of the School in any way possible The Committee met annually and held its first meeting on 15 September 1969. Dr G. de V Gipps was the initial Chair. The Committee was reconstituted every three years. On 23 November 1981 Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Golding advised Committee members that the Committee would not continue in its current form (file 00025405). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 15/09/1969-23/11/1981

The Faculty of Science & Technology was created by Council on 2nd December, 1996 effective from 1st July 1997 (resolution CL96/88/4a). The inaugural meeting of the Faculty was on 8th July, 1997 with Associate Professor A. H. Dooley as the Presiding Member. At this time, under Dean Colin Sutherland, the Faculty contained six schools, four departments, three Centres, the Universities' Surface Analysis Facility and the Cornea and Contact Lens Research Unit. The Faculty of Science & Technology was disestablished by Council on 18th June, 2001 effective from July 2001 (resolution CL001/49). The final meeting of the Faculty Board was held on 26th April, 2001. Subordinate agency: Department (1949 - 51) / School of Applied Chemistry (1951 - 1957) / Chemistry (1) (1957 - 2001) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Department (1949 - 51) / School of Applied Physics (1951 - 60) / Physics (1960 - ) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Department (1949 - 51) / School of Mathematics (1951 - 2006) / Mathematics & Statistics (2006 - ) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Geography - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Metallurgy (1952 - 1985) / Materials Science & Engineering (1986 - ) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Safety Science (1998 - 2008) / Risk & Safety Sciences (2008 - 2010) - 06/07/1998 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Optometry (1977 - 2001) / Optometry & Vision Science (2001 - ) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Department of Aviation - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Advanced Numerical Computation in Engineering & Science (CANCES) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Environmental Modelling & Prediction (CEMAP) - 10/11/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Universities' Surface Analysis Facility - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Groundwater Management and Hydrogeology (1987 - 1993) / UNSW Groundwater Centre (1993 - 2002) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Membrane and Separation Technology (1987 - 1992) / UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology (1992 - ) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Remote Sensing (1981 - 1992) / Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (1992 - c. 2005) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Chemosensory Research (CCR) - 01/07/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Electron Microscope Unit (2) - 14/11/1997 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Computer Simulation and Modelling of Particulate Systems (SIMPAS) - 01/05/2000 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Department of Applied Geology - 01/07/1997 - 06/07/1998 Subordinate agency: School of Geology - 06/07/1998 - 30/06/2001 Subordinate agency: Department of Safety Science - 01/07/1997 - 06/07/1998 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/07/1997-30/06/2001

The first mention of the creation of a university Parents' Group appears to have been in a November 1962 public relations report on fundraising. The then thirteen year old university had only a small body of alumni and so the introduction of a different type of sympathetic group was seen as a way of furthering the university's interests. It was believed that with this group in place the university would obtain the active support of a group in the community, the members of which would be in a position to accept obligations for supporting organising fund-raising in aid of the university and their particular faculty (CN366/Box 1). Little progress, however, was made in forming the group until September 1963. At this time Vice-Chancellor Professor Philip Baxter, Mr Harold Dickinson and the UNSW Appeals Liaison Officer Mrs Joyce Dent met to discuss the group in more detail. As a result, Mrs Dent invited a small group of twenty parents of students representing a range of faculties to an initial meeting on 18 October 1963. Chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, the meeting's aim was to inaugurate a group within the university provisionally known as the 'Friends of the University of New South Wales'. At the meeting a steering sub-committee under the chairmanship of Mr H. H. Dickinson was appointed with the task of developing a draft constitution for the group that was to include the following objectives: 1. to promote the interests of the university 2. to provide a means of liaison between the university and the public 3. to raise funds for the university 4. to promote the formation of branches of the group, having similar objectives to those set out herein. The first three of these goals were to remain central to the association throughout its existence. The second general meeting of the group was held in November 1963 with Mr Dickinson as the chair. At this meeting the constitution was adopted and the office bearers appointed. Mr Dickinson was named as president, Mrs J. Knight as vice-president, Mrs Elizabeth Daly as secretary and Mr S. Grill as treasurer, with Mrs Dent as the university liaison officer. Mrs Dent later recalled that As most of the people present were strangers to each other, Sir Harold appealed to them, if nominated for office, to accept. When he called for nominations for president of the Association he was nominated and had to accept his own advice. He thereafter became the first president and this is the reason that a non-parent came to be the first president of the Association (SRF - Monomeeth). The November meeting had also determined that the name of the association would be The University of New South Wales Liaison Group. This title was, however, rather unpopular amongst members and so Mrs Dent set to work to discover a more acceptable alternative. With Tharunka as the university's student newspaper, it was considered that an Aboriginal word might also be an appropriate name for the association. Through discussions with the Mitchell Library, Mrs Dent located the word monomeeth, which in some Aboriginal languages means friend or friendship, in others beauty. The first meeting of the group for 1964 thus included the proposal for a new name - the Monomeeth Association of the University of New South Wales - which was passed unanimously (CN366/Box 1). This meeting was also to be the first to have a guest speaker, with Professor Morven Brown, inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Arts, addressing the group. This was to become a regular feature of the Association's general meetings, which were initially held bi-monthly and later at least 3 times a year. The first non-meeting event on the Association's calendar was a Musical Society evening, with the Eastwood Musical Comedy Society providing a performance of Rio-Rita for the Association on 2 May 1964 in the main administration building theatre. Over the years such events as open faculty nights and university campus tours, as well as other social occasions such as dinners, theatre parties, Christmas functions and pool parties were all organised by the Association (CN366/Box 1, file 00370550). Fundraising was commenced by the Association almost immediately. At the 17 April 1964 general meeting the first project of contributing to the construction of entrance gates on Anzac Parade was proposed. By the time the gates were formally opened on 2 August 1967, the Association had made a donation of $2,000 towards their cost. The gates were later removed as part of the re-development of the main walkway during the 1990s, but the Association's next fundraising project of the four distinctive campus clocks that adorned the Applied Sciences, Biological Sciences and Newton buildings still remain. Other contributions made by the Association were the purchase of the Steinway grand piano for the Sir John Clancy Auditorium, the John Coburn Garden of Knowledge tapestry for the Science Theatre, The Bridge sculpture located on the pool lawn, a Kawai upright piano for the UNSW Ensemble, the refurbishment of Chancellery Committee Room 1 (accordingly renamed the Monomeeth Room) and $10,000 for the Library to equip its first electronic classroom (files 00370550, 017306). The Association's organisation of the annual lost property sale was a main source of its fundraising income. Held initially in 1968 - when the Vice-Chancellor Philip Baxter asked the Association to dispose of the lost property which has been found around the university and accumulated for some ten years - the sale was planned by the Association on a yearly basis, usually being held in or shortly after Orientation Week and became synonymous with much of the Association's work. In fact, when the Association eventually ceased its activities in 1994, it was noted in Uniken that fittingly the Association's last task will be to assist in organising the 1994 sale in the Roundhouse on 7 and 8 March. The lost property sale has continued into the present day - with the U Committee now co-ordinating its operation in August of each year (SRF-Monomeeth, U Committee, file00370550). Despite its achievements, the Association often found it difficult to attract members. Some found it difficult to appreciate the spirit of the Association, with one of the university's associate professors suggesting in 1964 that the Society sounds like a university P and C and I should have thought that such a body was quite foreign to the spirit of a university (CN366/Box 1). As more women returned to the workforce, it became harder for the Association to obtain assistance for its projects. And some internal tensions within the Association in the mid-1970s did not help the membership drive. Those who did become members of the Association, however, reported benefits that were greater than simply providing assistance to their child's university. In a 1966 letter to the then Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Rupert Myers the Association's secretary Mrs Daly wrote as the majority of our members did not have the opportunity to attend any university, they are always most grateful for the privilege of meeting the staff and learning about education as it is presented at this level to the very fortunate young people of today (CN366/Box 1). And in 1975 Vice-Chancellor Myers was to comment that the Association has been instrumental in bringing parents and their friends into the orbit of the university and it has, I think, played a very important role in breaking down the barriers which can exist between parents and their student children (file 0037055). Although the Association ceased work in 1994, the final dispersal of its funds was in 6 May 1996. Monomeeth President Mr Carl Elliott wrote to Vice-Chancellor John Niland enclosing a cheque for $3,830.17. The money was put towards the celebration of UNSW's fiftieth anniversary in 1999 - an appropriate place for the remaining earnings of an association that had contributed much to the university over thirty years of its history (file 017306). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 18/10/1963-c. 08/03/1994

On 12 April 1965 the Vice-Chancellor Professor J. P. Baxter wrote to the Minister for Lands, the Hon K. C. Compton, to enquire whether the Fowler's Gap Reserve in the neighbourhood of Broken Hill, which has been used recently by the Conservation Commission...[could] be made available to the University of New South Wales. It was also noted that the reserve has about 90,000 acres and is approximately 60 miles from Broken Hill and that the university has for some time been considering the desirability of establishing an experimental area in arid zone country...aris[ing] from the work of several different university departments. On 17 August 1965 the Minister for Lands the Hon T. L. Lewis approved a lease to the university for an initial term of ten years, commencing from 1 January 1966. Mr T. K. Hogan, Director of the Broken Hill Division of the university, was initially appointed Executive Director of the Station (file 00370994). On 8 November 1965 Council adopted the resolutions ii) that Council accepts the property known as Fowler's Gap upon the terms and conditions set out in a letter from the Minister for Lands to the university and iii) that Fowler's Gap be administered as part of the Broken Hill Division (resolution 65/163). On 6 July 1966 the Associate Bursar provided a file note indicating that all university research stations should be called 'field stations', prefaced in each case by the locality name. Thus the station at Fowler's Gap officially became known as Fowler's Gap Field Station (file 00014498). On 29 September 1966 the Vice-Chancellor wrote to the Minister for Lands advising that a Fowler's Gap Consultative Committee was to be established to furnish advice to the Council of the university on matters relating to the activities and development of the Fowler's Gap arid zone research station. The inaugural Chairman of the Committee was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor J. F. Clark and the first meeting was held on 13 April 1967 (file 00020449). On 26 October 1971 the Vice-Chancellor Professor R. H. Myers wrote to the Minister for Lands, Mr T. L. Lewis to ask for an extension of the Fowler's Gap lease to a lease in perpetuity as the development of the research station and of research programmes would be assisted if the university knew that its future occupation was assured. On 24 January 1972 Council resolved that it approves the conditions proposed by the Minister for Lands for acceptance of the lease in perpetuity of Fowler's Gap Field Station to the university (resolution 72/9i). On 24 March 1972 Mr G. R. Woods, the Western Lands Commissioner, wrote to the Vice-Chancellor to inform him that the university's application for a lease in perpetuity had been successful (file 00370994). In 1980 the management structure of the Station was reviewed. A report was released by Pro-Vice-Chancellor R. M. Golding on 4 December 1980 and approved by the Vice-Chancellor on 19 December 1980. As a result from this date the management of the Station was via a Management Committee, although an officer-in-charge remained on site at the Station. Responsible to the Vice-Chancellor and chaired by a Pro-Vice-Chancellor, the main aim of the committee was to determine the utilisation of resources to maintain an adequate level of income and to meet the needs of the university in carrying out its teaching and research programmes at the field station. From December 1981 this structure was altered slightly, as although the Pro-Vice-Chancellor continued to serve on the Committee and be responsible for reporting to the Vice-Chancellor, the Chairman position was taken by A/Professor J. P. Kennedy (file 911521). During 1991 the Station organisation was restructured and the Officer-in-Charge position replaced by a Station Supervisor (file 971929). From 1 July 1992 senior management responsibility for the Station was changed to the Bursar (S329). In January 2003, following a staff restructure, Dr David Croft took up the position of on-site Director at the Station, while also holding a fractional position in the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences. The Director reports to the Management Committee, which continues to administer the Station (file 2002/2855). The status of Fowlers Gap Station in 2012 was located 112 km north of Broken Hill, New South Wales (latitude 31.09° S, longitude 142.70°E) in the Parish of Hume, County Mootwingee (Mutawintji). The Station occupies Western Lands Lease No. 10194, an area of 38,888 hectares., and is held by the University of New South Wales as a 'lease in perpetuity' for the purpose of research, grazing and tourism. The mission of the Station is to further understanding of the functioning of the arid zone of NSW through research, teaching, interpretation and knowledge diffusion in a pastoral context. It is the only research station in the arid zone of New South Wales and the winter rainfall area of arid Australia. Areas have been monitored and data collected continuously, in some cases for over 30 years. The Station and its records form a unique facility for research and education. The University of New South Wales, in taking over the lease, undertook to carry out research and provide facilities for relevant research programs that might be proposed by other universities and government organisations. Research or other academic endeavour has been conducted Schools/units of the University of New South Wales including: Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Built Environment, the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering and the Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS. Other tertiary institutions have also conducted research, chiefly, Macquarie University, University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, University of New England, the University of Adelaide, the Australian National University, Monash University, Melbourne University and La Trobe University. Two Cooperative Research Centres, Sustainable Tourism and Landscape Evolution & Mineral Exploration, have conducted research. Government organisations that have utilised the facilities include: the former Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales (now part of the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources), NSW Agriculture (now part of the Department of Primary Industries), Queensland DPI, SA Department of Agriculture, NSW Department of Environment and Conservation and several Divisions of CSIRO. Funding to support research has been provided by the University of New South Wales, Australian Research Council, Wool Research Trust Fund, Australian Wool Innovation, Meat and Livestock Australia, Rural Credits Development Fund, Water Research Foundation of Australia, Australian Housing Research Council, Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism and a number of overseas governments and universities. In addition to its research function, Fowlers Gap is used extensively for teaching, largely by way of student field excursions. Regular users from UNSW include staff and students from the College of Fine Arts and the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences. Field training is conducted for students from several other educational institutions such as ANU and Adelaide University (CRC Landscape Evolution & Mineral Exploration training program), and Monash University (School of Geography and Environmental Science). The Station also attracts visitors from overseas and within Australia and has been the subject/site of numerous television documentaries, newspaper articles and local and national radio reports. The Field Station is administered by the Management Committee, consisting of representatives from those Schools of the University of New South Wales that use the Field Station. The Committee is assisted by two advisory groups - the Graziers' Committee, a small group of pastoralists who supply support and advice at an informal level, and the Consultative Committee, an advisory group representing organisations associated with the pastoral industry, land and wildlife conservation and other stakeholders in the West Darling region. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/01/1966-

On 9 September 1957 Council approved the introduction of degree courses in Industrial Arts and at the same time appointed Associate Professor L. M. Haynes to take on this responsibility (resolutions 57/106 & 57/108). When he entered on duty on 26 September 1957, the Department of Industrial Arts thus came into existence within the Faculty of Technology with Associate Professor Haynes at its head. The first students in industrial arts were admitted at the beginning of the 1958 academic year (Industrial Arts Advisory Panel, CN913). On 9 May, 1960, Council changed the name of the faculty to the Faculty of Applied Science (resolution 60/55). At the 12 September, 1960 meeting of Council the Board of Vocational Studies was formed (resolution 60/132). Under Council resolution 60/132iii it was determined that the Board should supervise teaching, provide assistance to examiners and conduct research in those subjects that were nominated as coming under its auspices. As this included the Department of Industrial Arts, the new Board was academically responsible for the department from this date. As the Board was not initially given all powers of a faculty, however, the department remained administratively responsible to the Dean of Applied Science (CN958/13). This was not changed until the meeting of Council on 11th May, 1970 (resolution 70/74i), when resolution 60/132 was rescinded and the Board re-constituted. Under Council resolution 70/74ii the Board was given the power to act as a faculty in regard to all its courses, including those from the Department of Industrial Arts. On 12 November, 1973 Council changed the name of the Board to the Board of Professional Studies (resolution 73/231). A year later, on 11 November, 1974, Council approved the reconstitution of the Board into the Faculty of Professional Studies from 20th January 1975 (resolution 74/227). On 16 January 1978 Council approved the transfer of the Department of Industrial Arts to the Faculty of Architecture, effective from 24 July 1978 (resolution 78/22). It was initially also planned that the department would eventually become a School of Industrial Arts & Design with the appointment of a chair. Due to falling student numbers this did not occur and instead on 1 January 1981 the department became part of the School of Architecture (17 December 1980 Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee meeting). On 12 August 1982 the Committee of Review for the Academic Programmes in Industrial Arts gave its recommendation that the courses and department be abolished and its staff transferred to the appropriate school(s) of the Faculty of Architecture (file 820500). At the Faculty of Architecture meeting on 30 September 1982, however, while the faculty reluctantly accepted that it was too late to continue industrial arts courses into 1983, it advocated that the Department of Industrial Arts be not abolished with a view to that department offering a revised program for 1984, which would be of value to a wider group of prospective applicants (resolution 82/21). Although the plans to resurrect the course in 1984 do not appear to have eventuated, the department remained in existence and in the Faculty of Architecture Corporate Plan 1989 - 1994 (released May 1988), it was noted that The Department of Industrial Arts no longer offers separate courses and its future status is under review. The two staff members' skills and knowledge are being re-directed into the core activities of the school (file 028020). From the 1991 Calendar the department was no longer listed separately and the department's staff appear to have been absorbed within the School of Architecture. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 09/09/1957-by 31/12/1990

The Re-enrolment Committee was established by the Professorial Board on 8th August, 1961 (resolution 61/185lii). Its aim was to make recommendations to the Board concerning a) the application of the rules governing restriction upon students re-enrolling, and b) the consideration of 'show cause' applications. The first meeting was held on 29th September, 1961 with Professor R. E. Vowels as Chairman. The Committee remained in existence until the Professorial Board was replaced by the Academic Board in July 1988. The final meeting of the Committee occurred on 28th July, 1988. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 08/08/1961-28/07/1988

The Centre for Safety Science was established in 1986. Its operations were reviewed in 1990 and as a result the Centre was transferred from the Faculty of Engineering to the Faculty of Applied Science where it became an independent Department within that Faculty. On 10 December 1990 Council approved the creation of an independent department of Safety Science in the Faculty of Applied Science, effective from 1 January 1991. The department was based on the previous Centre for Safety Science, which was disestablished at the same time (resolution CL90/113). Subordinate agency: Centre for Safety Science Advisory Committee - 10/04/1986 - 31/12/1990 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - ?01/01/1986-31/12/1990