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    Correspondence & Programs of the Asia Skills Program of the Asia-Australia Institute
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    SERIES01449
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    This series consists of the correspondence & programs of the Asia Skills Program of the Asia-Australia Institute The material is typed and arranged in a manilla folder in chronological order. According to a 1992 brochure, the Asia Skills Program was a series of intensive short courses designed to provide the knowledge to understand why culture is the 'hard' challenge of working in an Asian country and the skills to handle the major cultural and social problems of working at what is familiar in an unfamiliar culture. The correspondence includes planning and invitations to speakers, as well as some programs for the courses. The Archives does not hold any material in this series for 1994 - 1995 or 1999 - 2001. ACCESSION0169 converted to SERIES01449, CONSIGNMENT00720
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    Related to: AGENCY316: The Asia-Australia Institute Related to: ACCESSION169: Records of the Asia-Australia Institute
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    Research Centre for the Study of Ageing & Retirement
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    AGENCY395
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    On 1 December 1998 the Academic Board recommended the establishment of the Research Centre for the Study of Ageing and Retirement: Social, Personal and Financial Transitions within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (resolution AB98/144). After a change in the name of the centre to simply the Research Centre for the Study of Ageing and Retirement, the Vice-Chancellor gave his approval to its establishment on 3 March 1999. Dr Diana Olsberg was the centre's inaugural director (file 980614). On 9 December 2005 the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Les Field gave his approval for the closure of the centre effective 1 January 2006, due to it being unsustainable in terms of the workload placed on the director (file 980614). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 03/03/1999-31/12/2005
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    Energy Research, Development and Information Centre (ERDIC)
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    AGENCY420
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    In November 1977 around 150 university staff were invited to a meeting by the Vice-Chancellor to consider steps which might be taken to enhance the university's contribution to the study of Australia's energy problems. As a result of that meeting, a working party was formed to advise the Vice-Chancellor on the steps that the university might take. On 9 March 1978 the working party provided its final report, which suggested that a new centre be formed to be named the Energy Research, Development and Information Centre (ERDIC). On 10 May 1978 the Vice-Chancellor approved the establishment of the centre, which was to have the following functions: 1. to identify and report to the Vice-Chancellor on new directions for energy research, including technological, economic, environmental, social, conservational and educational aspects (especially continuing education), with a view to meeting the needs of the Australian community; 2. to facilitate and to generate funding opportunities for energy research within the university, both in existing schools and in new multi-disciplinary areas; 3. to be a vehicle for the receipt by the university of inquiries on energy research and development and for the formulation and submission of multi-disciplinary proposals by the university; 4. to catalyse the flow of information on energy, both within and from the university; 5. to advise on how the university library might become a resource centre for information on energy in Australia; 6. to consider and report on possible methods of funding the Centre in the future; and 7. to prepare and submit to the Vice-Chancellor within three months of the close of each calendar year an annual report of university activities in the field of energy. Associate Professor G. D. Sergeant took up the position as the first Director of the Centre. The Centre also had a Management Committee, which held its first meeting on 20 July 1978 (file 00032678). During 1985 the Centre was restructured and an Advisory Committee was created (file 033835, V243). As the result of a review of the Centre during 1996, from January 1997 ERDIC became a part of the Faculty of Engineering (file 921049). On 10 March 2005 the Centre's Management Committee recommended its closure effective from 31 December 2005. On 22 September 2005 the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education & Quality Improvement) approved this decision (file 990227). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 10/05/1978-31/12/2005
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    Related to: SERIES537: Annual Reports of the Energy Research, Development and Information Centre (ERDIC) Related to: SERIES748: Booklet Leaflet Collection of the Energy Research, Development and Information Centre
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    Centre for Olympic Studies
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    AGENCY151
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    On 7 May 1996 the Academic Board gave its approval for the establishment of a Centre for Olympic Studies (resolution AB96/25). The first director was Associate Professor Richard Cashman. Although the faculties of Arts & Social Sciences, Built Environment, COFA, Commerce & Economics and Professional Studies had all given their support to the proposal, the centre appears to have been administratively primarily centred in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. The Centre for Olympic Studies (COS) was launched on 21 May, 1996 by the Vice-Chancellor. Its aims were: - To coordinate and publicise university research and teaching on the Olympics - To ascertain areas where the University can assist in the successful organisation of the Sydney Olympics - To create contacts with academic institutions and with industry and government in the area of the Olympics - To develop Centre projects and to support consultancies by University staff to enable the Centre to become self-funding - To project the University's involvement in the Olympics, and other similar international events, as a form of community service - To gather information about the organisation of the Sydney Olympics, and other major international events, which will provide a research data base to assist in the organisation of similar future events In 2003 UNSW introduced a new policy that no Centre can exist on a continuing and permanent basis. It was deemed by UNSW that having contributed to research on the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Centre should cease to operate effective 31 March, 2004. The School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) did, however, take over some of the work of the UNSW Centre, including the web site, library and archival collection. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 07/05/1996-31/03/2004
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    Related to: SERIES180: Office Files of the Centre for Olympic Studies Related to: SERIES181: Annual Reports of the Centre for Olympic Studies Related to: SERIES182: Booklet & Leaflet Collection of the Centre for Olympic Studies Related to: SERIES183: Visitors Book of the Centre for Olympic Studies Related to: SERIES996: Olympic Impact Magazine of the Centre for Olympic Studies
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    Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981)
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    AGENCY568
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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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    Related to: SERIES984: Calendar Handbook of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES985: Annual Reports of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES1935: Chimaera Student Newspaper of the Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES1963: Official Administrative Files of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES1965: Official Administrative Files of the City Art Institute (CAI) / College of Fine Arts (COFA) Related to: SERIES1994: Minutes, Agendas & Papers of the Diploma in Art Education Programme / Art Education Programme Committee of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES1995: Minutes, Agendas & Papers of the Board of Studies, School of Art / City Campus of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES1996: Mackie Notes News Sheet of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES2006: Staff Listings of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES2007: Report on Counselling at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES2008: Thoughts on Education Publication by Clive Monk, Chair of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) Related to: SERIES2607: Concert Programmes of the Music Society / Secondary Music Students' Association of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2608: Graduation Programmes of Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Related to: SERIES2610: Outlook Literary Magazine of the Writers' Group of Alexander Mackie College / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2611: Lumen Student Newspaper of the Student Representative Councils of Sydney, Balmain and Alexander Mackie Teachers' College Related to: SERIES2703: Exhibition Booklet / Leaflet Collection of the Ivan Dougherty Gallery Related to: SERIES2787: Sample Testamurs of the University of New South Wales, Alexander Mackie College, City Art Institute and St George Institute of Education Related to: SERIES2885: Agenda, Minutes & Papers of the College Community Committee, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2890: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Academic Board of Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2891: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Admissions, Progressions & Exclusions Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2892: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Higher Degree Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2893: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Academic Calendar and Timetable Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2895: Minutes of the Graduation Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2896: Draft Terms of Reference for the Discipline Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2901: Records of the College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2902: Staff Newsletters, Bulletins, Circulars - Alexander Mackie College / School of Teacher Education / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2903: Course Submissions / Proposals - Alexander Mackie College / Sydney College of Advanced Education / St George Institute of Education Related to: SERIES2906: Official Opening of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2908: Minutes of College Assemblies and Assembly Addresses, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2909: Land Title documents for Albion Avenue, site of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2911: Service Programs for Alexander Mackie College Christian Fellowship, Paddington Methodist Church Related to: SERIES2914: Programs of Inter-collegiate Sports and Athletics of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2923: Plans, Specifications and Drawings of Oatley Campus, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2924: Leases for Commonwealth Street and Flinders Street Campuses, Alexander Mackie College of Advanded Education Related to: SERIES2925: Albion Avenue Campus Site Planning Report of the Alexander Mackie College of Advance Education Related to: SERIES2926: Delegations of Authority of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2927: Student Services - Monthly Checklist of Activities / Student Services Branch of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2928: Handbook of Accounting Procedures of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2929: Portfolio of Documents of the Reconstituted College Council of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2930: File on the Level of Appointment of the Deans of the School of Teacher Education, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2938: An Illustrated Dictionary of Art Terms Compiled by B. Ed. Art Students of the School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2943: Students Representative Council - Orientation News, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2945: Art Collection Catalogue of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2948: Membership Lists of Committees of the School of Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2951: Programme/Course Information Booklet for the Diploma in Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2954: Southern Metropolitan Region Report, Prepared by Annette van den Bosch and Commissioned by the Principal, Dr Ralph W. Rawlinson, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2956: Information Booklet on Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Prepared in Connection with the Visit of Members of the Tertiary Education Commission / Advanced Education Council Related to: SERIES2957: Roll and Lists of Students - Office of the College Secretary, H. Roberts, Returning Officer of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2959: Material Relating to Staffing Matters of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2961: Course Outlines of the Alexander Mackie Teachers College Related to: SERIES2963: Letters of Offer sent by the Admissions Committee, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2964: Promotions and Accelerated Progression Papers of the Teaching Staff, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2967: Academic Record Statements of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2971: Minutes of Staff Meetings of the School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2972: Student Identification Card of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2977: Copies of the Colleges of Advanced Education Act, 1975 - Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education By-Law and the Sydney Teachers College By-Law Related to: SERIES2980: Orientation Programmes of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education and the St George Institute of Education Related to: SERIES2981: Welcome To AMC Programme, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2983: Logo Die of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2843: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the College Council of Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2883: Minutes & Papers of the Executive Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2884: Agenda, Minutes & Papers of the Education Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2886: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Personnel Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2887: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Building and Grounds Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2888: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Buildings, Grounds and Finance Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2889: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Finance Committee of College Council, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2894: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Publications and Public Relations Committee of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2897: Minutes of the School of Teacher Education Committee, Board of Studies of the Academic Board, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2898: Minutes of the Service and Structure Committee of the Division of General & Community Studies of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2899: Agenda, Minutes and Papers of the Special Projects Committee, Diploma in Art Education, School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2900: Minutes of the Special Projects Committee: Diploma in Art Education, Student Services and Extension Courses, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2904: Course Development and Proposal Working Files - Alexander Mackie College Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2905: Minutes of Staff Meetings of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2910: Correspondence on the origins of the emblem / insignia of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2912: Examination Files of Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2913: Records on the Establishment of Mackie Library, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2915: AM Newsletter, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2916: School of Art Prospectus, Alexander Mackie College Related to: SERIES2917: Student Guide, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2918: Going Places booklet, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2919: Course Programme / Course Information, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2920: Enrolment Forms, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2921: Lecture Notes of College Secretary of Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Harley Roberts(?) Related to: SERIES2922: Dramatic Performances Programmes, Student Theatre - Alexander Mackie College / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2931: By-Law and Proposed By-Law of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2932: Review of Support Services and Procedures of the School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2933: Material Relating to the Butland Committee Report - Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Response Related to: SERIES2935: Exhibition Catalogue of Students' Work, of the School of Art, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2936: Publications of the School and Community Mathematics Project of the School of Teacher Education, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2937: Selected Papers in Special Education - Occasional Papers No. 2 of the School of Teacher Education, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2939: Brochure of the Document Reproduction, Printing and Publications Centre, Located at the Commonwealth St. Campus of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2940: Oatley Fitness Centre Information Brochure, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2941: Teaching and Curriculum Resource Series of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, and St George Institute of Education (SGIE), Sydney College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2944: College Rules of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2946: Minutes and Agenda Papers of the Resources Centre Advisory Committee, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2947: Minutes of the Management Meetings of Senior Administrative Staff of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2949: Teaching Practice Resources of the School of Teacher Education, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2950: T.E.A.M. Newsletter of the Teacher Education Advisory Office of the NSW Dept. of Education, located at Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2952: Photographic Booklet About The Art School of Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2955: Manual on Programme Development of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2958: Maps Showing City Campus Locations of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2960: College Practice Teaching Reports and Records of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2962: File of the Student Committee of the School of Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2966: Examination and Classification Schedules and Results of the School of Art and School of Teacher Education, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2968: Auditor's Report for the Student Union of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2969: Information Leaflet for the School of Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2974: Manual of Procedures - Phillips P320 Payroll of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2976: Report to the Principal on Acquisition of Works of Art and other Working Papers - Advisory Committee on Works of Art, of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2978: Report: Plannning for Movement, of the Oatley Campus, Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES2979: Library Guide of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education Related to: SERIES1712: Subject Reference Files Relating to the Alexander Mackie College, City Art Institute and College of Fine Arts from the Office of the Director CAI and Dean of COFA, Ken Reinhard Related to: SERIES3047: Class Photographs of the Alexander Mackie College (AMC) (1958 - 1974) / Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (AMCAE) (1975 - 1981) Is superseded by: AGENCY569: St George Institute of Education (SGIE), Sydney College of Advanced Education Is superseded by: AGENCY570: City Art Institute (CAI), Sydney College of Advanced Education (1982-1987) / City Art Institute, New South Wales Institute of the Arts (NSWIA) (1987-1989)
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    Monomeeth Association
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    AGENCY559
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    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
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    Related to: SERIES794: Booklet Leaflet Collection of the Monomeeth Association
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    Faculty of Law
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    AGENCY11
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    The creation of the Faculty of Law was approved by Council on 13th July, 1964, under resolution 64/137. On 24 January 1966, the foundation chair of Law was created, with the apointee to also become dean of the faculty (resolution 66/15i). On 8 September 1969 Council appointed Professor John Halden Wootten to this position (resolution 69/155), with classes being offered from 1971. Originally the Faculty did not incorporate any Schools, but this was altered by Council on 24th January, 1972 (resolution 72/10) with the formation of the School of Law, which was co-extensive with the Faculty. The inaugural meeting of the Faculty took place on 9th February, 1971. In 2013, administered by Dean Professor David Dixon, the Faculty was comprised of the School of Law, the Australasian Legal Information Institute, the Diplomacy Training Program, the Social Justice Project and nine Centres. Subordinate agency: Board of Studies in Taxation (1990 - 2006) / Australian School of Taxation (ATAX) (2006 - 2010) - 25/08/1997 - 31/12/2010 Subordinate agency: Law Library Advisory Committee - 04/04/1978 Subordinate agency: School of Law - 24/01/1972 Subordinate agency: Teaching Committee of the School / Faculty of Law - 18/03/1975 - 06/04/1988 Subordinate agency: Curriculum Committee of the School / Faculty of Law - 18/03/1975 - 06/04/1988 Subordinate agency: Curriculum Review Committee of the Faculty of Law - 26/09/1978 Subordinate agency: Future Directions Task Force of the Faculty of Law - 17/08/1994 Subordinate agency: Planning Committee of the Faculty of Law - 13/08/1997 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Dean's Council of the Faculty of Law - 24/08/1998 Subordinate agency: Governance Working Party of the Faculty of Law - 29/07/1999 - 20/11/1999 Subordinate agency: Education Committee of the Faculty of Law - 10/02/2000 Subordinate agency: Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law - 01/01/2001 Subordinate agency: Kingsford Legal Centre - 20/07/1981 Subordinate agency: Communications Law Centre - 09/05/1988 - 30/06/2005 Subordinate agency: Centre for Refugee Research - 02/02/1999 Subordinate agency: Aboriginal Law Research Unit (1981 - 1986) / Aboriginal Law Centre (1986 - 1997) / Indigenous Law Centre (1997 - ) - 23/04/1981 Subordinate agency: Human Rights Centre - 13/08/1986 - 29/01/1997 Subordinate agency: Australian Human Rights Centre (AHRC) - 19/06/1996 Subordinate agency: National Children's & Youth Law Centre (NCYLC) - 01/01/1993 Subordinate agency: Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre - 06/06/2000 Subordinate agency: European Law Centre (1996 - 2008) / Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (2008 - c. 2011) / Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (c. 2011 - ) - 19/06/1996 Subordinate agency: Centre for the Study of Law and Technology - 29/02/1984 - 01/06/1992 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 13/07/1964-
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    The Asia-Australia Institute
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    AGENCY316
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    The Asia-Australia Institute was established as a major development linking Australia and its Asian neighbours at the 4 June 1990 meeting of Council (resolution CL90/47). Dr Stephen Fitzgerald was later appointed to the position of Director of the Institute and commenced work on 3 September 1990 (Council papers, 17 September 1990). Initially the Director reported to the Institute's Management Committee, which was accountable to the Vice-Chancellor for the operational running of the Institute. (file 892709). From the beginning of July 1992, however, the Institute was restructured and the Director position was renamed Director-General, became more strategic and reported directly to the Vice-Chancellor. At the same time the new operational position of Executive Director was created, which was to report to the newly formed Executive Board (previously the Management Committee). This position was subsequently filled by Larry Strange in January 1993. A more strategic Advisory Council, which met annually, was also established for the Institute. At the 27 July 1993 meeting of the Executive Board, the Executive Director's position was renamed Director and the Director-General's position was renamed Chair. During its time in existence the Institute organised a number of programs, including the Asia Leaders' Forum (1993 - 2001), the Coolum Forum (1999 - 2002), the Australia in Asia Series (1997 - 2003), The Asia Lectures (1991- c.2002), the Australia-Indonesia Young Leaders' Dialogue (2002 - 2003), the Asia Skills Program (1992 - 2003), the Axiss APEC Future Economic Leaders Think-Tank (2001 - 2003), the Asia Young Leaders' Program (1993 - 1999), the Malaysia-Australia Dialogue (1995 - 2000) and the Gwinganna Forum (1995 - 1998) (Report to the Reference Group on the Future of the AAI, 5 June 2002, file 2002/3420). Following Professor Fitzgerald's retirement at the end of 2003, the Asia-Australia Institute was absorbed into the International Advancement Program within the Division of Institutional Advancement from 1 January 2004 and thus effectively ceased to exist (file 2003/0294). Subordinate agency: Executive Board / Management Committee / Executive Board of the Asia-Australia Institute - 05/04/1991 - 31/12/2003 Subordinate agency: Advisory Council of the Asia-Australia Institute - 15/07/1992 - 21/04/2001 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 04/06/1990-31/12/2003
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    Centre for Interactive Cinema Research (iCinema)
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    AGENCY464
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    On 4 December 2001 the Academic Board endorsed the establishment of the Centre for Interactive Cinema Research within the College of Fine Arts (resolution AB01/106). This was approved by the Vice-Chancellor on 2 January 2002 (file 012714). The initial director was Professor Ian Howard. From the beginning the School of Computer Science & Engineering was a key partner in the work of the centre. During 2005 the Faculty of Engineering became involved at a wider level and the Centre evolved into a cross-faculty funded centre. In 2007 the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences also became a partner of the Centre (file 2007/0332). In 2008 the director of the Centre was Professor Jeffrey Shaw. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 02/01/2002-
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    Related to: SERIES1484: Booklet Leaflet Collection of the Centre for Interactive Cinema Research
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    Uni Start / My Guide International Student Guides of Student Development International
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    SERIES02599
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    This series contains the Uni Start / My Guide International Student Guides of Student Development International. Each item is a booklet of printed pages that provide information for international students coming to study at UNSW, including workshops and social events, immigration and contact details. The University Archives' holdings of this series are incomplete.
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    Related to: AGENCY657: Overseas Student Adviser (Student Services Branch) / International Student Centre / International Student Services / Student Development - International