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This series comprises the agendas, papers and minutes of meetings of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Remote Sensing. Related to Reports to the Vising Committee of the Centre for Remote Sensing from 28/10/1981 Related to Booklet Leaflet Collection of the Centre for Remote Sensing (1981 - 1992) / Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (1992 - c. 2005) from 28/10/1981 Related to Annual Reports of the Centre for Remote Sensing from 28/10/1981

This series consists of the Biennial Reports on Achievements & Activities of the Quality System Development Group. The report is a typed, paper-bound volume containing information on current work within the group throughout the preceeding two-yearly period. Only one report ever appears to have been published.

The Department of Computer Science became the School of Computer Science and Engineering on 1/1/1991 with Professor John Hiller becoming the first head of school. Council at its meeting on 10 December 1990 resolved by CL90/108 (v) Proposed division of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science into two schools: 1. That a School of Computer Science and Engineering be established in the Faculty of Engineering from 1 January 1991; and 2. That the School of Computer Science and Engineering be based upon the present Department of Computer Science in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; 3. That the balance of the existing School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science be renamed the School of Electrical Engineering. Computer Science was established as its own school to give the Department greater academic, financial and management autonomy in order to pursue its range of academic interests and enterprises. Computer Science was by far the largest department within the School of Electrical Engineering and was teaching over half of the student load. Its student body was comprised not only of students of the Faculty of Engineering but also of the Board of Studies in Science of Mathematics. Staff of the Department of Computer Science felt the need for greater autonomy and thought that other departments of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science could feel stifled and constrained by the needs of the Department. Growth in computer engineering and the graduate teaching and research areas of the Department was certain and the Department would be larger than many schools in the university. The range of its activities and interests and the discipline of computer science had grown rapidly and the Department also was active in areas not especially closely related to electrical engineering, eg psychology, philosophy, computer literacy, and other areas of cognitive science. One of the largest schools of its kind, in 2004 research was grouped in the following areas: algorithms, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computer architecture, computer systems, database systems, networks, and software engineering. That year the school attracted over $4.5 million in research funding including Australian Research Council grants and grants from industry, both local and international. The school at that time was also partner in a number of external research centres including the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre, and the national ICT Australia (NICTA), a research Centre of Excellence in Information and Communications Technologies. In 2008 the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications had joint responsibility for the curriculum of the Computer Engineering program. Staff of the school was grouped into research groups of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Systems and Software Engineering. Courses in these areas were offered to students taking major studies in computer science or computer engineering, while introductory-level computing courses were available more generally to students studying Science, Arts or Engineering. Computer science had links with discrete mathematics, which furnished the theory behind the algorithms that computer software implemented, and electrical engineering, which supplied the then present technology underlying physical computing devices. Graduate employability was enhanced by CSE's strong and growing industry links. The Computer Science degree had a Co-op Scholarship program that gave students extensive industry experience from their second year; all Engineering degrees required industrial training experience. The School ran an Industry Liaison Office whose primary aim was to link students and employers both for in-course experience and for graduate employment. The head of school in January 2008 was Professor Paul Compton. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/01/1991-

Copies of agendas, minutes, and papers of CITI meetings. The papers contain copies of the scoping document of the project called RFI (Request for Tender), copies of the tender documents, position papers for system requirements, circulars to committee members, progress and status reports. Also included up to October 2001are copies of monthly Status Reports on the project prepared for the business managers of the units sponsible for the different administrative system modules (HR, Finance, Students) and for the Chair of CITI, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and International), then Professor Mark Wainwright, who could refer the reports to the Executive Group if required. Attached to the papers of the last meeting is a folder containing 5 3 1/4 inch floppy disks labelled CITI 5/2/01, CITI notes disk 1 and 2, and CITI 5/3/01. Copies of the successful tender documents for stage one of the project, the selection of a partner (Ernst & Young) to assist in selecting the software, the successful tender for the software (PeopleSoft) and the successful tender (Andersen Consulting) for a partner to implement the project were kept separately and are located at the end of the series in box number 4.

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-

On 14 September 1964 the Department of Surveying was officially created by Council within the School of Civil Engineering (resolution 64/180). The first head of department was Professor P. V. Angus-Leppan. There had, however, been surveying courses and activities under way within Civil Engineering since the university began. On 11 May 1970 Council reformed the department into an independent School of Surveying within the Faculty of Engineering (resolution 70/73) and the department ceased to exist from this time. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 14/09/1964-11/05/1970

Section 34 of the Technical Education and New South Wales University of Technology Act, proclaimed on 1 July 1949, authorised the university to make use of the services of any officers and employees of any government department so long as the arrangements were approved by the minister of the department concerned or the Public Service Board. (Act No. 11, 1949) The Correspondence and Records Branch of the Department of Technical Education continued to manage the recordkeeping function for the university. In 1951 it was responsible for the preparation of special correspondence, reports and submissions, acknowledgement of communications, receipt and distribution of official and personal mail, opening and sorting and direction of official correspondence, registration and cross-indexing of correspondence, location and attachment of former papers, recording location of files, despatch of departmental mail, collection and delivery of official correspondence, filing of correspondence, provision of messenger service, duplicating, sorting and stapling of circulars, reports, syllabuses and class aids (V533 Manual for General Information for Officers 1951: 138, 269-273) Following the proclamation of the Appointed Day on 1 July 1954 and the physical development of the Kensington campus, administrative functions were steadily moved to the Kensington campus. The Division of the Bursar had been established through Resolution 427 of 10 May 1954 and the staffing of the division was to include a Record Attendant - Grade 1. By 1957 a Records Section within the Division of the Bursar had been established and a registry was located within the Main Building. (CN1160/120 File: 00025827) In 1967 the section became known as the Registry. (UNSW Calendar 1967: A114) The purpose of the unit was later described as to store and co-ordinate the paper record of the administrative work of the University and to assemble it in a fashion accessible to all staff authorised to use it. (V533 Guide to Effective Utilization, March 1982: 1) During 1984 as part of a reorganisation of the central administration of the university the Registry was incorporated within the Division of the Deputy Principal (Administration) and became part of the Administrative Services Branch. (UNSW Annual Report 1985: 9, 66-67) In 1987, in recognition of the adoption of records management procedures and computer assisted retrieval, the Registry was renamed the Records Administration Section (V533 Records Management News, Issue 1/87, December 1987) with Hazel Bowley as the Officer-in-Charge (UNSW Calendar 1988: 84), soon afterwards succeeded by Debbie Osborn. (UNSW Calendar 1989: 83) In 1998 the functions of the Records Administration Section were described as providing an effective records management system to facilitate access to administrative and policy information for decision making, to provide evidence of those decisions, and to ensure that statutory record keeping requirements were met and also to provide user education programs in records management. (04/17/1 Administration Manual [Master Copy - amendments entered up to 31 March 2000] Amendment: Issued 7/98) At this time the Section came under the Policy Management Unit within the Division of the Registrar and Deputy Principal. (UNSW Calendar 1999: 130) In 2003 the Records Administration Section as part of the Policy Management Unit was incorporated within the Division of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) (UNSW Calendar 2004: 86). In 2006 its role was described as providing advice to the University on the implementation of an effective recordkeeping program; managing the corporate recordkeeping system which facilitates access to administrative and policy information for decision making and provides evidence of those decisions; and monitoring compliance with the State Records Act 1998. (http://www.infonet.unsw.edu.au/ras/index.htm Accessed: 23 June 2006) In May 2006 the Records Administration Section and the University Archives were merged into a new Records and Archives Office. Paul Macpherson was appointed as Manager of the unit and reported to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). (Origins 2006: 6) Subordinate agency: Duplicating Section (c.1960 - 1972) / Printing & Duplication Unit (1972 - 1974) / Printing Unit (1974 - 1981) / Printing Section (1981 - 1998) / Printing Services (1998 - ) - 01/01/1960 - 23/09/1975 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 10/05/1954-c. 31/05/2006

This series consists of staff listings of the Alexander Mackie College. The material comes in the form of printed sheets and hand-written booklets, which include lists of staff, positions, occasional phone numbers and some organisational chart information. CONSIGNMENT4948 contains: Item no. 86/028 from the Alexander Mackie College original filing system, known as SG 029. Item nos. 86/041, 86/042, 87/178 from the Alexander Mackie College original filing system, known as SG 038.

The Administrative Computing Sub-Committee was formed by the Computer Committee of the Professorial Board on 8th February, 1985 (resolution 85/1iii). At the Computer Committee's 22nd March, 1985 meeting the following duties were determined for the Sub-Committee: 1.Seek information from Faculties, Boards of Studies, Schools and independent Departments concerning the perceived needs in computing for administrative purposes relating to the functions of those Faculties, Boards of Studies, Schools and Departments; 2.Obtain descriptions of the existing administrative computing systems which are used by the academic community; 3.Seek opinions from academics concerning any operational difficulties associated with existing systems, and views concerning desirable changes; 4.Identify expertise, equipment and software within the University which may be available for the development of administrative computing; and 5.Make recommendations to the Computer Committee on possible developments for the improvement of administrative computing. The inaugural meeting of the Sub-Committee was held on 30th April, 1985 with Professor F.W.D. Rost as Chairman. The Sub-Committee remained in existence until the Professorial Board was replaced by the Academic Board in July 1988. It did, however, continue to meet until the Committees of the Academic Board were finalised. The last meeting of the Sub-Committee therefore took place on the 15th September, 1988. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 08/02/1985-15/09/1988

The Cross Faculty Standing Committee for Science was created at the Council meeting on 10th April, 2000 (resolution CL000/15d). The Committee was assigned the delegated authority for the following programs: Science (3970), Advanced Science (3973, 3985, 3986, 3990), Environmental Science (3988, 3976), Medical Science (3991), Science - Communication (3932), Science - Media & Communications (3933), Combined Science/Arts (3930) and Advanced Science/Arts (3931), Combined Science/Social Science (3935) and Combined Advanced Science/Social Science (3936), Combined Science/Education (4075), the Science components of other combined degrees, Aviation (3980), Computer Science (3978), Information Systems (3979), Business Information Technology (3971), Geography (3010), Applied Geology (3000), Optometry (3950, 3951) and Safety Science (3877). With the establishment of a single Faculty of Science by Council on 18th June, 2001 effective 1st July 2001 (resolution CL001/49), the need for a Cross Faculty Standing Committee for Science came to a close. The last meeting of the Committee was on 13th June, 2001. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 10/04/2000-by 30/06/2001