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    <import_note> The imported title was longer than allowed. Full title from import file: Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) (1991) / Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) (1991 - 2000) / Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Planning & Resources) (2000 - 2001) / (Education & Enterprise) (2001 - 2003) / (International & Education) (2003 - 2004) / (International) (2004) / (International & Development) (2004 - 2006) </import_note> The first Pro-Vice-Chancellor was Professor D. W. Phillips, who was appointed at Council's 14 November 1955 meeting (resolution 652). At the 12 March 1956 meeting of Council it was determined that the Pro-Vice-Chancellor's responsibilities were to: a) generally assist the Vice-Chancellor in the discharge of his duties as the Vice-Chancellor may from time to time arrange and act for the Vice-Chancellor in his absence b) in particular, deputise for the Vice-Chancellor at the latter's request in chairing meetings of Advisory Panels and Selection Committees and on public occasions within the university c) exercise the following financial delegations (resolution 720). On 8 May 1961 a second Pro-Vice-Chancellor position was established by Council with Professor R. H. Myers being appointed to the position (resolution 61/59). Up until 1991, the two Pro-Vice-Chancellor positions appear to have been only distinguished as either being the first Pro-Vice-Chancellor and second Pro-Vice-Chancellor position. From 16 September 1991, however, one position became known as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Development) and the other as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) (Focus 23 August 1991). The title of both Pro-Vice-Chancellor positions was changed to Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Council meeting on 4 November 1991. As part of a restructure following the departure of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development) on 31 January 2000, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) position was re-named Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Planning & Resources) effective from 1 February 2000 (file 990894). At the 4 April 2001 Executive Group meeting the name of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Planning & Resources) was changed to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education & Enterprise). On 16 April 2003 the name of this position was changed to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International & Education) (file 2003/0773). From 7 January 2004 the name of this position was altered again to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) (SRF - Organisation & Management). When the Division of Institutional Advancement was disestablished at the 11 October 2004 Council meeting (resolution CL04/154), all staff from this division were transferred to the portfolio of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International). Consequently the position was re-named the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International & Development) (news@unsw 2 November 2004).\r\nOn 21 June 2006 Vice-Chancellor Fred Hilmer outlined a new Senior Management Group structure, which made the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International & Development) position redundant. With the new group in place on 29 September 2006, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International & Development) position effectively ceased to exist from this date (SRF - Organisation & Management). Subordinate agency: Equity Unit (1996-1997) / Equity and Diversity Unit (1997- c.2006) - 01/01/1996 - 01/07/2004 Subordinate agency: Risk Management Unit (RMU) - 01/01/1998 - 07/07/2004 Subordinate agency: Test Scoring Service (1964 - 1967) / Educational Testing Centre (1967 - 2004) / Educational Assessment Australia (2004 - ) - 16/05/1991 - 06/07/1992 Subordinate agency: Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Unit (1962 - 1982) / Audio Visual Unit (1982 - 1998) / Media & Educational Technology Support Unit (METS) (1998 - 2000) - 03/03/1982 - 06/07/1992 Subordinate agency: Professional Development Centre - 01/09/1990 - 14/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Educational Development & Technology Unit (EDTU) (1998 - 2000) / Centre (EDTeC) (2000 - ) - 14/12/1998 - 31/01/2000 Subordinate agency: Office of Postgraduate Studies - 01/09/1990 - 06/07/1992 Subordinate agency: Statistics Section (1960 - 1985) / Planning Services Department (1985 - 1990) / Planning Services Office (1990 - 1997) / Planning Office (1997 - 2004) / Institutional Analysis & Reporting Office (2004 - ) - 01/09/1990 - 08/10/1997 Subordinate agency: Statistics Section (1960 - 1985) / Planning Services Department (1985 - 1990) / Planning Services Office (1990 - 1997) / Planning Office (1997 - 2004) / Institutional Analysis & Reporting Office (2004 - ) - 01/02/2000 - 21/10/2004 Subordinate agency: International Programs Office (1987 - 1994) / International Office (1994 - ) - 16/04/2003 - 29/09/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of General Studies - 13/03/1972 - 31/12/1987 Subordinate agency: Centre for Liberal and General Studies - 01/09/1988 - 31/12/1993 Subordinate agency: Aboriginal Research and Resource Centre (ARRC) - 29/09/1992 - 31/12/1994 Subordinate agency: Aboriginal Student Support Program (1987 - c. 1988) / Aboriginal Education Program (c. 1988 - 2003) - 01/01/1995 - 31/01/2000 Subordinate agency: Institute of Administration - 03/12/1962 - 31/08/1988 Subordinate agency: The Learning Centre - 01/05/1993 - 31/12/1993 Subordinate agency: Institute of Environmental Studies - 22/07/1992 - 31/10/1995 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 14/11/1955-29/09/2006
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    The Secretariat of the Department of Technical Education undertook secretarial and administrative work on behalf of the Developmental Council and Council of the University and their sub-committees. The Secretariat's Officer in Charge, Mr John Fraser, was Secretary to the Developmental Council and its Committees and following the incorporation of the New South Wales University of Technology became the Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council and its Committees. When Unisearch was established in 1959 Fraser was appointed General Manager of Unisearch and Secretary while he also continued in his position of Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council. From 20 November 1962 Fraser was seconded as fulltime Secretary to Unisearch (Executive Committee Meeting of Council, 25 September 1961 and CN956/8 File: 3201001E). He was succeeded in his position as Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council by Mr LM Stewart. Mr Stewart stayed in this position until 1975. A restructure seems to have occurred after his retirement from the university and from 1976 onwards the Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council is part of and in charge of the Secretariat. In 1988 the Secretariat was part of the Administrative Services Branch of the Registrar's Division and its role was defined as providing secretarial services for the University Council, the Academic Board, the faculties and boards of studies, and their standing committees. (04/17/1 Administration Manual [15 August 1988] Amendment: Issued 8/88). In 1993 the Office of the Secretary to Council while remaining within the Division of the Registrar and Deputy Principal was separated from the Secretariat. (UNSW Calendar 1994: 104) By 1995 the Secretary to Council's Office was reporting directly to the Registrar while the Secretariat had been transferred from the Administrative Services Department to the Student Services Department. The two offices were merged again in 2003 within the Division of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and the unit was renamed Secretariat Services. (UNSW Calendar 2004: 86). The Head of Secretariat Services undertook the duties of the Secretary to Council. In 2009 Secretariat Services was merged with the Policy Management Unit to form the new Governance Support Unit. The Secretariat as a separate section thus ceased to exist from this time (news@unsw 10 December 2009 issue). The duties of the Secretary to Council were now carried out by the Legal Officer, Mrs Carol Kirby. Controlling Organisation: UNSW -
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    On 3 February 1966 the Acting Bursar, E. H. Davis, wrote to the District Surveyor of the Land Board Office, Hay, noting that as in the near future a substantial part of the town common at Hay will become available for other use...I should be grateful if you would consider making this land available to the university on a permissive occupancy basis. On 13 April 1966 the Under Secretary for the Department of Lands, W. J. Broadfoot, wrote to Mr Davis advising that it has been approved that an area of about 1800 acres be revoked from Hay Common. Following revocation, a Permissive Occupancy will be offered to the university over the area, for research purposes associated with Wool Technology. In the Government Gazette published on 21 October 1966, it was notified that these 1800 acres had been revoked from Hay Common. On 16 December 1966 a Permissive Occupancy (66/12) for this site was offered to the university for the purposes of a research station to be effective from 1 January 1967. Hay Field Station was administratively placed under the School of Wool & Pastoral Sciences (file 00014498). On 12 May 1970 the Officer-in-Charge of the Hay Land Board Office wrote to Mr Davis to indicate that the residue of Hay Common has recently been revoked and the university's permissive occupancy is being amended to include the area. On 29 May 1970, Mr Davis accepted this offer on behalf of the university. On the same date Mr Davis also wrote to the Under Secretary for the Department of Lands, Mr R. Sinclair, suggesting that it seems appropriate that the [Hay] land should be held on a more secure basis than a Permissive Occupancy which is, in effect, a tenancy at will. On 14 August 1970, Mr Sinclair responded to this request indicating that there are no objections to the university gaining a more secure title and following completion of the investigations into the needs of the local vegetable farmers action will be taken towards dedication of an area for 'experimental farm' (file 00370941). The Government Gazette No. 90 of 6 July 1973 announced that this plan to dedicate the area as an experimental farm had been approved (file 00370942). On 16 September 1991 the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs), Professor A. J. Wicken, wrote to Professor Euan Roberts indicating that in future Hay, Deniliquin, Wellington and Burraduc (until sold) Field Stations should be looked after by a Management Committee in much the same way as Fowlers Gap Field Station. The first Chair of the Committee was Professor Ross Griffiths, as head of the School of Fibre Science & Technology (file 911523). On 2 December 1996 Council resolved to later approve timetable and administrative arrangements for the disestablishment of the School of Fibre Science & Technology (resolution CL96/88/4). At Council's 3 February 1997 meeting, it was resolved that this would be effective 1 July 1997 (resolution CL97/5). As a result, on 1 December 1997 Council passed a resolution to approve the disposal of the Hay Field Station and agree that, following consent from the Minister of Education, arrangements will be made for the sale of the Hay property (resolution CL97/88). However, on 30 April 1999 the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Bruce Dowton, wrote to the Executive Director of the Division of Business & Finance, Chris Lidbury, proposing that on 15 May 1999 operational and financial responsibility for the Hay Field Station [be transferred] from the Chancellery to the Faculty of Medicine. This was agreed to by Chris Lidbury on 5 May 1999 and so the station remained with the university (file 971170). On 19 July 2004 the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Elspeth McLachlan, wrote a proposal to the Budget Advisory Group (BAG) recommending that the Hay Field Station be retained to provide a secure supply of healthy sheep for research at UNSW [and] that the Hay Field Station become part of the Biological Resources Centre with an effective date retrospective to 1 January 2003 (file 2004/1850). Although these recommendations were initially not accepted by BAG at its 18 August 2004 meeting, at the following BAG meeting on 20 October 2004 it was determined that UNSW had an obligation to continue activities at Hay Field Station in the meantime (file 2005/0446). It is unclear as to whether this also resulted in the approval of the move of the station to the Biological Resources Centre. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/01/1967-
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    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-
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    Alexander Mackie College (AMC) began life in 1958 at Paddington in the eastern suburbs of Sydney in very cramped and unsuitable teaching conditions and facilities. It trained primary and high school teachers in art, music, science and social science (Byrnes and Conners in Koder, 1989, p.213). As student numbers grew, it had to conduct classes at five different sites in inner-Sydney. The main campus was in Albion Avenue whose buildings were extensively refurbished and remodelled while the Administrative campus was in Commonwealth Street. Others still were in Flinders Street. Mr. W. E. Hart was its first principal. Although the first intake was in September 1958, it was not until 9 September, 1959 that the first term began (AMC Handbook 1959-60, p.6). It was officially opened on 20 November 1961. As from 1 September 1971, under the terms of the Higher Education Act, 1969, no. 29, AMC was declared a college of advanced education within the Department of Education, NSW (NSW Government Gazette, no. 95, 37 August 1971; AMC Calendar, 1972, p 5; SACE, Annual Report, 1982, p.1). This, however, did not alter its main function as a single purpose teacher education college. Following the proclamation of the Higher Education Act, 1975, No. 40, AMC became the multi-disciplinary AMCAE. It was 'declared on 1 August 1974 within the Ministry of Education and incorporated on 1 December, 1974' (SCAE, Annual Report 1982, p.1; AMCAE, Handbook 1981, p.1-2). In 1975 the multi-disciplinary Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) had in place two major schools, Art and Education, offering several degree and award courses. Towards the end of the 1970s, new courses in the field of General and Community Studies were introduced. These changes led to two very important and significant developments in the evolution of what was to become SGIE and CAI of the SCAE. First, it gave impetus to the development of award courses in visual arts and higher award courses in art education. Second, it led to the teaching facilities crisis which prompted the establishment of the Oatley campus which became home to the School of Teacher Education and later the St George Institute of Education (Byrnes and Conners in Koder, 1989, p.213-4). College Council was its governing body. The Act authorised Council to delegate its powers to individuals or committees within the College. It constituted the following committees: Executive Committee of Council Buildings, Grounds and Finance Committee Education Committee Personnel Committee College-Community Committee Appeals Committee Academic Board College Council also authorised its various committees to delegate their functions and authorities to sub-committees. Thus, the Academic Board had the following sub-committees: Board of Studies - Teacher Education - Art Education Admissions, Progressions & Exclusions Student Welfare (SG 009 or 86/021 & 87/120) In 1981, the Oatley campus, in the southwestern region of Sydney called St George, became fully functional and operational. It functioned wholly as the teacher education campus while the Paddington campus became the home of the art education and evolved into the City Art Institute (CAI) in 1982 encompassing both Visual Arts and Art Education. This physical and discipline-based split of the AMCAE into the 'education' campus and the 'arts' campus was somehow prescient of the respective fates of the two colleges, later institutes of the SCAE. On 11th September 1981, the chairman of the NSW Higher Education Board, Mr. R. E. Parry, wrote to the chairman of AMCAE College Council, Dr Clement W. Semmler informing the latter that on 24 July 1981, the Minister for Education, Hon. Paul Landa, established the Sydney College of Advanced Education and constituted its First Council, (Minutes of the Executive Committee of College Council, 9 November, 1981, SG 002 or Item no. 86/001 & 87/116). Sydney College of Advanced Education Regulation, 1981 was the delegated legislation to the Higher Education Act, 1975, no. 40, which created the corporate entity known as the Sydney College of Advanced Education. Under the terms of the Regulation, AMCAE was reconstituted into two separate institutes, St George Institute of Education and City Art Institute and incorporated into the new Sydney College of Advanced Education. The new structure came into effect from 1 January 1982 and so AMCAE ceased to exist from this date.
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    By at least January 2014, the Institutional Analysis and Reporting Office and Data Governance Unit were merged to form the new Business Reporting and Intelligence and Data Governance Unit (BRIDG) within the Division of Finance and Operations. The Director of BRIDG was Barbara Chmielewski. In February 2017 BRIDG was merged with OneUNSW to form UNSW Planning and Performance. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 1/1/2014-31/1/2017
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    In a memorandum dated 7th January 1990 the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. A.D. Gilbert, made a request to the Vice-Chancellor to establish a Committee to Review the Centre for Safety Science. The committee comprised Prof. D.J. Anderson (president, academic board), Prof. D. StC. Black (head, School of Chemistry), Prof. C.J.D. Fell (dean, Faculty of Engineering), Prof. E.F. Lumbers (School of Physiology and Pharmacology), and Prof. P.A. Vinson (dean, Faculty of Professional Studies). The committee was to carry out the following tasks: (1) to evaluate the success of the Centre for Safety Science in fulfilling its aim to become 'the centre for teaching and research into matters related to health and safety in Australasia'; (2) to examine the staffing profile of the centre and make recommendations about filling the vacant positions; (3) to examine current strategies and administrative arrangements relating to teaching, and make recommendations; (4) to consider the management and advisory structures of the centre, its external links and its role and functions within the Faculty of Engineering; (5) to evaluate the option of creating a School of Safety Science in place of or in addition to the centre; (6) to make general recommendations about the future of the centre taking into account its prospective financial viability, the quality and importance of its contribution to the mission and goals of the university and the needs of the community In its report, completed in September 1990, the committee recommended the disestablishment of the Centre for Safety Science and the establishment of the Department of Safety Science within the School of Applied Science.
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    The New South Wales Institute of the Arts (NSWIA) was established by the Institute of the Arts Act (No.124), 1987 which was gazetted on 16 July 1987. The First Board of Governors was duly constituted on 31 July 1987 and held its inaugural meeting on 19 August 1987. The objects of the institute were a) to strive for the achievement of excellence in the teaching of the arts; b) to provide practical and academic education in the various branches of the arts at the highest attainable level for those persons who have exceptional talent in any of those branches; and c) to promote and encourage within the community an appreciation of, and achievement in, the arts. On 1 January 1988 the City Art Institute (CAI), formerly an institute of the Sydney College of Advanced Education, and the National Art School, formerly the Department of Technical and Further Education's East Sydney Art School, were created constituent schools of the Institute. On 25 January 1988 they were joined by the School of Art of the Sydney College of the Arts which retained the name of the former college. The Institute was destined to be short-lived. In late 1987 the Federal Government had released the Dawkins Green Paper which set out changes in policies on higher education. The ensuing White Paper, published in July 1988, set in train changes for the newly established Institute which was invited to become part of the unified national education system. In late 1988 negotiations began between the then two higher education units of NSWIA and Sydney metropolitan universities with the aim of amalgamation which would allow the NSWIA schools to become part of the new unified national sytem of higher education. Part 6 of the Higher Education Amalgamation Act 1989, No.65, which came into effect on 1 January 1990, abolished NSWIA and amalgamated the NSWIA schools with the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. The CAI became a faculty of the University of New South Wales known as College of Fine Arts and the Sydney College of the Arts joined the University of Sydney where it was given status equal to that of a university faculty. Subordinate agency: City Art Institute (CAI), Sydney College of Advanced Education (1982-1987) / City Art Institute, New South Wales Institute of the Arts (NSWIA) (1987-1989) - 01/01/1988 - 31/12/1989
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    The university's Art Collection has been in existence since the establishment of the Applied Arts Fund for the 1953/54 financial year, however, the Art Collection has only become an administrative unit in fairly recent times. Initially, the collection was managed by the Applied Arts Sub-Committee of the Buildings & Equipment Committee, which was created by Council on 11th May, 1953 (resolution 316vii), although the Committee had already held its first meeting on 20th April, 1953. The aim of the Sub-Committee was to report and review the Applied Arts cumulative fund of 1,500 pounds p.a. that was instituted initially for five years for expenditure on applied arts, such as portraitures, murals, house flags and for prizes for the design of commemorative tables, fountains and the like (resolution 316vi). At the second meeting on 15 October 1953, the committee approved the commission of the first two items that were to form the foundations of the art collection - a portrait of the first President of the University and for Mr Tom Bass, Sculptor...to complete a sculptural mural on the wall surface of the stone fin at the entrance to the first major university building at Kensington. At the 12 May 1975 meeting of Council the Applied Arts Sub-Committee of the Building and Equipment Committee of Council was reformed and retitled the Fine Arts Committee. At the same time the sub-committee was given the responsibility to: i) be authorised to determine a policy for the building of an art collection and to implement procedures designed to facilitate the acquisition of art works; ii) be charged with the responsibility of advising on the exhibition of the collection and on the oversight of the storage, display, conservation and restoration of the works (resolution 75/81). On 25 March 1989 the university produced an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian newspapers advising that the University of New South Wales owns a collection of approximately 450 works of art, principally contemporary Australian paintings. The university wishes to appoint a consultant to review and make recommendations on the curatorial and conservation requirements of the collection. Ms Katrina Rumley was appointed to this position and she took up duty in mid 1989, reporting to the vice-chancellor (file 891154). In 1993 a full-time permanent art curator position was created and Ms Belinda Allen was appointed to this position (http://www.artcollection.unsw.edu.au accessed 18 January 2010). During 1997 the Art Collection was moved to the portfolio of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development) (file 952195). On 1 February 2000, the Art Collection was moved to the responsibility of the newly established Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education). From 4 August 2003, this position became known as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education & Quality Improvement). On 27 September 2006, following organisational arrangements within the university, the Centre began reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (SRF-Organisation & Management). Following the departure of the Chief Operating Officer in September 2008, the Art Collection was moved to the division of the Executive Director, University Services. In 2010 the curator of the Art Collection was Ms Belinda Webb. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 20/04/1953-
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    The Central West Field Station Complex consisted of three properties: Wellington, Manildra, and Stuart Town. The first property to be acquired was Wellington (1966) [AGENCY681] followed by Manildra (March 1969) and then Stuart Town (June 1973). It was the purchase of the 1100 acres at Stuart Town that brought about a change in the management, influencing staff to now consider these properties to be part of a regional Field Station Complex [A Resume of Activities at Manildra 03/11/75, S2848]. These properties were used for research and teaching primarily by the School of Wool and Pastoral Sciences, although other Schools used field facilities from time to time. They also held open days, attracting visitors from the industry and the local community. The Institute of Rural Technology was responsible for the development of field stations, and managed them under the leadership of the Director of Field Stations, Professor I L Johnstone, and the Technical Secretary. On 17 November 1975 the Management Committee of the Institute of Rural Technology resolved a new managerial structure for the newly created Central West Field Station Complex, comprised of members from both the School of Wool and Pastoral Sciences and the Institute. The Management Committee of the Central West Field Stations, however, held their inaugural meeting prior to this, on 7 November 1975. The first annual report of the Field Station Complex was 1975. The Institute of Rural Technology resolved that there would be no Consultative or Advisory Committees related to Wellington or Stuart Town properties, but following local community disappointment in the progress of the Manildra Field Station, a Manildra Field Station Research Advisory Committee and an Operational Sub-Committee were established by the Vice-Chancellor on 2 April 1976. These two bodies were included members from UNSW, the Department of Agriculture, and representatives from the local community. [ID112796] While Wellington and Stuart Town had combined interests in livestock and pastures, Manildra was crop based. Wellington and Stuart Town saw substantial land clearing, construction and land improvement in their early years, but Manildra was relatively stagnant, relying on crop-sharing by locals and having no equipment and no buildings onsite until 1973. It is unclear what happened to Manildra, but it last appears in the UNSW Annual Report in 1982 and the UNSW Calendar in 1983. Similarly, it is unclear what happened to Stuart Town. It continues to appear as part of the Complex alongside Wellington, but it last appears in the Calendar in 1989. In the 1990 Calendar, the Central West Field Station Complex name does not appear, and Wellington is referred to as a standalone station. Refer to AGENCY681. Controlling organisation: UNSW - 17/11/75 - c. 1989 Controlling agency: Institute of Rural Technology - 17/11/75 - 31/12/1985 Controlling agency: School of Wool and Pastoral Science - 1/1/1985 - 31/12/1985 Controlling agency: School of Fibre Science & Technology - 1/1/1986 - c. 1989 Subordinate agency: Wellington Field Station - 17/11/75 - c. 1989 Continues as standalone field station under AGENCY681 Subordinate agency: Manildra Field Station - 17/11/75 - c. 1984 Subordinate agency: Manildra Field Station Research Advisory Committee - 19/3/1976 - Subordinate agency: Manildra Field Station Operational Sub-Committee - 19/3/1976 - Subordinate agency: Stuart Town Field Station - 17/11/1975 - c. 1989