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This series consists of the signed minutes, agendas and papers of the Languages Advisory Committee of the Undergraduate Studies Committee/Teaching & Learning Committee of the Academic Board. The Committee's reporting responsibilities were transferred from the Undergraduate Studies Committee to the Teaching & Learning Committee in 1995, thereby creating a change of name. The material is typed and arranged chronologically in folders. The minutes are presented first, followed by the agenda and any papers circulated prior to the meeting. The minutes indicate meeting date, time and place; those present and apologies; matters discussed and resolutions passed by the Committee. The minutes for each meeting have been signed as approved by the Committee's Chairman at a subsequent Committee meeting. The agendas show the issues that were to be addressed, while the papers, usually circulated with the agenda prior to each meeting, consist of reports or other submissions that were to be discussed by the Committee. The University Archives does not hold any minutes for the Committee's meetings from June to December 1991 or from 1996 - 1998. The reports produced by the Committee during 1991 are, however, held in file 912141.

On 27 June 1994 Council gave its approval for a Bachelor of Aviation degree to be offered jointly by the faculties of Professional Studies and Engineering, as well as the Board of Studies in Science & Mathematics (resolution CL94/52c), with the course to begin operations from 1995 (file 940529). On 31 October 1994 Council established the Department of Aviation within the Board of Studies in Science & Mathematics (resolution CL94/86b). The inaugural Head of Department was Professor Jason Middleton. At the 2 December, 1996 meeting of Council the Department of Aviation was transferred to the newly created Faculty of Science & Technology effective from 1 July 1997 (resolution CL96/88/4). On 18 June, 2001 Council resolved to disestablish the Faculty of Science & Technology and create a new single model Faculty of Science effective from 1 July, 2001 - including the Department of Aviation (resolution CL001/49). On 2 November 2010 the Academic Board recommended that the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and President of Academic Board approve the proposal to establish a School of Aviation, (replacing the Department of Aviation) effective 1 January 2011 (resolution AB10/112). This was approved on 22 November 2010. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 31/10/1994-31/12/2010

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 Secretariat of the Department of Technical Education continued to undertake secretarial and administrative work on behalf of the Council and its sub-committees and among other duties maintained registers of University students, managed publicity for the University and prepared the Director's report to the Council of the University. (S805 Manual for General Information for Officers 1951: 139) Mr John Fraser was Assistant Registrar and Secretary to the Council of the NSW University of Technology. His work was supported by clerical officers of the Department. (S805 Manual for General Information for Officers 1951: 153). The Division of the Registrar was established by Resolution 427 (Council Meeting, 10 May 1954) under Section 27 of the Technical Education and New South Wales University of Technology Act, 1949. (Act No. 11, 1949) With the proclamation of Appointed Day on 1 July 1954 it assumed secretariat work originally undertaken by the Department of Technical Education. By 1959 staff in the 'General Division' undertaking secretariat work had risen to four clerks, five shorthand typists and one attendant. (File 77005, CN980/9) That year the Calendar first listed a Senior Faculty Clerk, Mr K Barry, under the Division of the Registrar. The Secretariat as a unit of the Registrar's Division was first listed in the 1962 Calendar. Head of the unit was Senior Faculty Clerk Mr Barry. The Secretariat was listed alongside the Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council not under it. It continued to do so until 1975. In 1976 for the first time only the Secretariat was listed in the Calendar headed by Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mr R. A. Nicol. Mr Fraser, the first Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council, had been appointed General Manager of Unisearch in 1959. His workload had risen steadily and from 20 November 1961 Fraser was seconded to Unisearch Limited (CN956/8 File: 3201001E) as full time secretary. He was succeeded in his position as Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council by Mr L.M. Stewart. The Registrar at the time was Mr Macauley. Mr Macauley retired in 1974 and was succeeded by Mr C Plowman. Early in 1975 Mr Plowman and his senior staff met to assess the established patterns of administration and procedure. (Uniken, No. 6, 12-25 May 1975, p.2) Mr. Plowman left the university in February 1976. Mr Stewart is last listed as Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council in the 1975 Calendar. It seems a restructure followed his departure from the university by placing the Assistant Registrar and Secretary to Council in charge of the Secretariat and combining the functions of his position and 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) The secretariat's primary role was now described as serving the Academic Board, the faculties and boards of studies, their standing committees and some of their sub-committees. (04/17/1 Administration Manual [Master Copy, amendments entered up to 31 March 2000] Amendment: Issued 7/98) 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) On taking up the position of vice-chancellor in June 2006, Professor Fred Hilmer announced that in future Secretarial Services would report to a new senior portfolio known as the Chief Operating Officer. (Email to UNSW staff re Organisational Structure, 21 June 2006) 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). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/07/1954-by 10/12/2009

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

On 21 June 2004 Council resolved to disestablish the schools of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour and International Business within the Faculty of Commerce and Economics and established a new school - thus the School of Organisation and Management was created (resolution CL04/81). The first head of school was Associate Professor Lucy Taksa. The new school's research and teaching expertise would encompass the fields of business strategy, employment relations, international business, management (including human resource management, cross-cultural and diversity management, and management consulting) and organisational behaviour (http://www.orgmanagement.unsw.edu.au/) Accessed 11 September 2006). On 3 July 2006 Council approved the disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce of Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management to form the Faculty of Business (resolution CL06/68), with the inaugural meeting of the faculty taking place on 23 November 2006. The School of Organisation and Management thus became a part of this new faculty. On 18 June 2007 Council noted the renaming of the Faculty of Business as the Australian School of Business at UNSW, as approved by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board (CL07/33). At its meeting on 6 December 2011, the Academic Board resolved (resolution AB11/152) that it be recommended that the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of Academic Board approve the integration of the School of Strategy & Entrepreneurship into the School of Organisation & Management, and, as a concomitant action, the disestablishment of the School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and the change of name of the School of Organisation and Management to the School of Management, effective 1 January 2012. This was approved on 20 December 2011 (file 2011/06825). 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: Industrial Relations Research Centre - 21/06/2004 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 21/06/2004-

The Faculty of Commerce was formed in principle by Council at its meeting on 12 July 1954 (resolution 431i). The Faculty was then officially launched at the 11th March, 1957 meeting of Council (resolution 57/37). Professor David Culloden Rowan was the first Dean of the Faculty, with the initial schools being Accountancy, Economics and Hospital Administration. The inaugural meeting of the Faculty occurred on 5th June, 1957. In 1986 - 1987 a Committee organised by the Vice-Chancellor conducted a review of the Faculty. As a result, at the Council meeting on 11th July, 1988 the name of the Faculty was altered to the Faculty of Commerce & Economics effective 1 August 1988 (resolution 88/90). On 3 July 2006 Council approved the disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce & Economics, subject to the approval of the Academic Board. The Faculty was to be amalgamated with the Australian Graduate School of Management to form the new Faculty of Business. The Board approved this on 1 August 2006 (resolution AB06/91) and at the Board's 7 November 2006 meeting, it noted that the Faculty of Commerce & Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management should be considered to have ceased to have the functions and powers of faculties after [the first Faculty Board meeting of the Faculty of Business on Thursday 23 November 2006]' (resolution AB06/139). Subordinate agency: Graduate Studies Program Sub-Committee of the Higher Degree Committee of the Faculty of Commerce - 15/07/1980 - 31/12/1986 Subordinate agency: Dean's Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Commerce (? - 1988) / Commerce & Economics (1988 - ) - 26/01/1977 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Hospital Administration (1956 - 1969) / School of Health Administration (1969 - 1989) / School of Health Services Management (1989 - 2000) - 12/03/1956 - 31/08/1967 Subordinate agency: School of Accountancy (1955 - 1988) / Accounting (1988 - ) - 11/03/1957 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Librarianship (1959 - 1992) / School of Information, Library and Archive Studies (1992 - 1999) - 01/01/1997 - 07/06/1999 Subordinate agency: School of Information Systems - 01/08/1988 - 07/06/1999 Subordinate agency: School of Business Administration - 14/07/1958 - 11/11/1968 Subordinate agency: Graduate School of Business - 11/11/1968 - 31/01/1978 Subordinate agency: School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour - 01/08/1988 - 21/06/2004 Subordinate agency: Department of Marketing (1966 - 1970) / School of Marketing (1970 - ) - 09/05/1966 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of Finance - 01/05/1968 - 13/09/1971 Subordinate agency: School of Information Systems, Technology and Management - 07/06/1999 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Korea-Australasia Research Centre (KAREC) (2000 - 2011) / Korea Research Institute (2011 - ) - 20/06/2000 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Australian Centre for International Business - 12/02/1998 - 01/06/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Banking and Finance (1988 - 1991) / National Centre for Banking and Capital Markets (1991 - 1997) (NCBC) / Asia Pacific Financial Research Centre (ASPAC) (1997 - 2003) - 21/09/1988 - 13/01/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Advanced Empirical Software Research (CAESAR) (1995 - 2001) / Advanced Software Engineering Research (CAESER) (2001 - 2002) - 06/09/1995 - 02/12/2002 Subordinate agency: School of Organisation and Management (2004 - 2011) / School of Management (2012 - ) - 21/06/2004 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Asian Business and Language Studies (1995 - 1998) / International Business (1998 - 2004) - 05/06/1995 - 21/06/2004 Subordinate agency: Centre for Business Information Technology (CBIT) (1988 - c. 1990) / Information Technology Research Centre (ITRC) (c. 1990 - 1997) - 07/09/1988 - 01/10/1997 Subordinate agency: Japanese Economic and Management Studies Centre - 01/08/1979 - 31/12/1997 Subordinate agency: Department of Legal Studies and Taxation - 01/08/1988 - 05/06/1995 Subordinate agency: Centre for Applied Marketing (CAM) - 01/01/1998 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Economics - 01/06/1956 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of Behavioural Science (1970 - 1978) / Organisational Behaviour (1979 - 1983) / Organisational Behaviour Unit (1983 - 1988) - 14/07/1976 - 12/09/1983 Subordinate agency: Centre for Pensions and Superannuation (CPS) - 14/12/2001 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Tourism Policy Studies - 19/10/1998 - 13/02/2004 Subordinate agency: School of Banking and Finance - 01/08/1988 - 03/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Asian Studies Unit - 01/08/1990 - 05/06/1995 Subordinate agency: School of Business Law and Taxation - 05/06/1995 - 23/11/2006 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 12/07/1954-23/11/2006

On 16 February 1990 the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) Board of Management noted the initiative to establish the Centre for Research into the Implementation of Corporate Change within the AGSM. On 1 August 1990 the Minister for Higher Education and Employment Services, Mr Peter Baldwin, announced that the Centre would receive funding as a special research centre from the Australian Research Council (ARC), effective from the beginning of 1991. At the AGSM Board Meeting on 17 August 1990 it was noted that the Centre would be known as the Centre for Corporate Change (file 890794). The main focus of the Centre was how large-scale organisational change can be managed and implemented effectively in Australia. Professor Dexter Dunphy was the first Executive Director of the Centre (file 901658-01). On 31 October 1996 Professor Dunphy wrote to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) advising that from the beginning of 1997 until the end of 1999, the Centre for Corporate Change will be known as the Special Research Centre for Corporate Change. This change is in accordance with Australian Research Council requirements and is necessary for the Centre to receive continued ARC funding for the 1997-99 (final) triennium. At the same time, the title of the head of the Centre was changed from Executive Director to Director (file 901658-01). After the conclusion of this funding at the end of 1999, however, the Centre appears to have reverted back to being known the Centre for Corporate Change (file 970064-02). On 3 July 2006 Council approved the disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce of Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management to form the Faculty of Business (resolution CL06/68), with the inaugural meeting of the faculty taking place on 23 November 2006. The Centre thus became a part of this new faculty. On 18 June 2007 Council noted the renaming of the Faculty of Business as the Australian School of Business at UNSW, as approved by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board (CL07/33). On 19 June 2007 the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) approved the closure of the Centre for Corporate Change effective from 30 June 2007 (file 970064-02). On 7 August 2007 the Academic Board noted this closure (resolution AB07/70). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/01/1991-30/06/2007

The Planning Committee was created by Council at its 4th June, 1990 meeting, to be effective from 1st July, 1990 (resolution CL 90/45). Its membership included the Vice-Chancellor (Presiding Member), Pro-Vice-Chancellor, President & Deputy President of the Academic Board and five Council members (the non-academic staff, student, academic staff and two external members). The Committee's Terms of Reference dictated that it would receive submissions from the academic and administrative units of the University and prepare, and update regularly, a sexennial corporate plan for endorsement by the Council. In preparing this plan, it was essential that the Committee take into account the University's mission and goals, as well as the development plans of the budget units. The Committee would also provide recommendations to the Vice-Chancellor about any possible developments or major areas of activity. The first meeting of the Planning Committee took place on 3rd August, 1990. As a result of a review of the Council's Standing Committees at the Council meeting on 26th August, 2002, the Planning Committee was disestablished (resolution CL002/74ai). The final meeting of the Planning Committee was therefore on 24th July, 2002. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/07/1990-26/08/2002

The Ad Hoc Committee to Consider the Future of Graduate Studies in Industrial Design was established at the 4th March, 1975 meeting of the Professorial Board (resolution 75/18). The Committee's terms of reference were: i) to consider whether a course at postgraduate level should be offered for an award; ii) if such a course is recommended, to consider, and advise on, the general nature of the course and the appropriate award; iii) to make recommendations on the academic governance of the course. The initial meeting of the Committee was held on 8th April, 1975 with Professor R. M. Golding as Chairman. The Ad Hoc Committee's report was received by the Professorial Board on 4th May, 1976 (resolution 76/68). The final meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee occurred on 29 March, 1976. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 04/03/1975-c. 04/05/1976

A proposal to establish a diploma in Librarianship at the university was first submitted for consideration to the NSW University of Technology by John Metcalfe, Principal Librarian at the Public Library of NSW in 1954. [SRF - SILAS etc] Other requests were received from the Library Association of Australia, the Library Board of NSW, and the Trustees of the Public Library of NSW. (The University of New South Wales c. 1961: 84) At the time qualifications in librarianship were obtained by completing the Library Association of Australia's examination by correspondence [Clinch, M, S Wilson and P Wood. Administrative History of the School of Librarianship University of New South Wales 1960 - 1975: 2 99A103/Box 17] At a Council meeting on 10 Nov 1958 John Metcalfe was invited to accept the position of University Librarian at the University of NSW. (resolution 58/149) His duties would involve being responsible for the organisation and management of the University's library services and the establishment and supervision of such courses in library training as may be approved by the university. Metcalfe was also made a member of the Professorial Board. Metcalfe commenced duty on 2 February 1959. (BRF - Metcalfe) Immediately after taking up his appointment as University Librarian, Metcalfe made submissions regarding library education at the university to the Professorial Board. At the Council meeting of 13 July 1959 approval was given for a graduate diploma course in Librarianship (resolution 59/123). Metcalfe was appointed as Director of the School as well as continuing his role as University Librarian. The School of Librarianship was located within the Faculty of Arts and offered courses leading to the Diploma in Librarianship for the first time in March 1960. This made it the first school of librarianship in a tertiary institution in Australia. [SRF - UNSW - School of Information, Library & Archive Studies (SILAS)] John Metcalfe retired as University Librarian in May 1966 but remained as Director of the School of Librarianship until 1968. On his retirement he was succeeded by Wilma Radford who was appointed foundation professor of librarianship and head of school. [SRF - UNSW - SILAS] Administratively the School was placed with the Board of Vocational Studies from 1971 until 1974, with the Board of Professional Studies during 1974, and with the Faculty of Professional Studies from 1975. New programs were introduced in 1964 (Master of Librarianship by research), 1972 (Master of Librarianship by coursework) 1973 (Diploma in Archives Administration) and 1980 (Master of Archives Administration by research). [SRF - UNSW - SILAS] The Diploma in Archives Administration was designed to provide education in the principles and methods of the administration of archives and manuscripts, and various aspects of current records management. A major course revision in 1981, which introduced a common core of subjects for both the librarianship and archives diploma students, saw the diplomas renamed Diploma in Information Management - Librarianship and Diploma in Information Management - Archives Administration. (Clinch et al: 2) At a meeting on 23 March 1992 Council approved the change of name of the School of Librarianship to the School of Information, Library and Archive Studies. [resolution CL92/16] On 2 December 1996 Council resolved to dissolve the Faculty of Professional Studies from 1 January 1997 with the School of Information, Library and Archive Studies being transferred to the Faculty of Commerce and Economics. [resolution CL96/88/3; Uniken 6 Dec 1996: 4] In 1997 approval was given for a third academic stream within the School, this time in audiovisual management. This was primarily an internet-based program which was developed through a partnership between the university and the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. [SRF - UNSW - SILAS] During 1998 as part of the UNSW 2000 planning exercise discussions were held with the School of Information Systems about the feasibility of a merger. Following the receipt of a report by a working party headed by Professor W Boyd Rayward, members of staff of the School of Information, Library and Archive Studies voted to pursue a merger. [SRF - UNSW - SILAS] At a Council meeting on 7 June 1999 the School of Information Systems and the School of Information, Library and Archive Studies were formally disestablished and a new school to be known as the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management was established. The new school was to be located within the Faculty of Commerce and Economics. [resolution CL99/33 (c)] Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 13/07/1959-07/06/1999