Past Council Bulletins

Council Bulletins provide a summary of the key decisions made at Council meetings throughout the year.

2007

3 December 2007 (PDF*58 kb)

  • USQ Regional Forum
  • Senior Re-/Appointments
  • Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF)
  • Residential Colleges Accommodation Fees 2008
  • Realising Our Potential (ROP) Project
  • Draft 2008 Strategic Plan
  • Council Committee Reports
  • Academic Board Matters
  • Seasons Greetings

8 October 2007 (PDF* 24 kb)

  • Promotion of Research at USQ
  • International Women's Conference
  • Minute of Appreciation for Mr Steve Tanzer
  • Minutes of Appreciation for Ms A Story, Ms C Shannon and Ms C Tainton
  • Deputy Chancellor Appointment
  • Council Committee Reports
  • Academic Board Matters
  • Student Matters

25 June 2007 (PDF* 34.5 kb)

  • Impact of Federal Budget on USQ
  • Human Resource Policies
  • Schedule of International Fees
  • Council Committee Reports
  • Academic Board Matters
  • Student Matters
  • Tour of Research Facilities

2 May 2007 (PDF* 32 kb)

  • Visit to Fraser Coast Campus
  • Graduation ceremonies
  • USQ Strategic Plan Update: process and timing
  • Flexibility
  • Regional Campus Funding Level - electoral campaign
  • Council Committee reports
  • Academic Board matters
  • Student matters
  • USQ Community Driveway Project.

 

5 March 2007 (PDF 32 kb)

  • Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) Transition Funding
  • Casual vacancy on Council – student representative
  • Senior Leadership initiatives
  • Council Committee reports
  • Academic Board matters.

 

2006

4 December 2006 (PDF* 30 kb)

  • Carrick Awards
  • Policy - Appeals on Non-Appointment & Religious Services
  • Update of Campus Master Plan
  • Staffing
  • Strategic issues
  • Academic Board matters
  • Joint Council/Management Strategic Planning Workshop.

9 October 2006 (PDF 25 kb)

  • Strategic Alignment Report
  • 40th Anniversary Celebrations
  • Council Committee reports
  • Academic Board matters.

21 August 2006 (PDF 26 kb)

  • Official Opening of USQ Springfield Campus
  • Professional development for Council members
  • Divisional reports
  • Staff Success
  • Enrolment Status
  • Council Committee reports
  • Academic Board matters.

26 June 2006 (PDF 55 kb)

  • Strategic Planning Day
  • Honorary Awards
  • Renaming of USQ Wide Bay
  • Amendment to HR Policy D9
  • Student Contributions
  • Staffing
  • Council Committee reports
  • Academic Board matters
  • Student Guild Constitution.

3 May 2006 (PDF 29 kb)

  • Voluntary Student Unionism
  • Staffing
  • Strategic matters
  • Council Committee reports
  • Academic Board matters
  • Student Guild Annual Report.

6 March (PDF 51 kb)

  • Welcoming the new Chancellor and co-opted members
  • Staffing matters
  • Strategic matters
  • Academic Board matters.

2005

13 December 2005 (PDF 62 kb)

  • Appointment of additional member of Council
  • Staffing matters
  • Strategic matters
  • Council Committee reports.

24 October 2005 (PDF 63 kb)

  • First meeting of the USQ Seventh Council
  • Appointment of a Deputy Chancellor
  • Staffing matters
  • Strategic matters
  • Academic Board matters.

15 August 2005 (PDF 60 kb)

  • Last meeting of the USQ Sixth Council
  • Staffing
  • Strategic matters
  • Council Committee matters
  • Academic Board matters. 

20 June 2005 (PDF 60 kb)

  • Chancellorship
  • Voluntary Student Unionism
  • Staffing
  • Strategic matters
  • Emeritus Professorship
  • Academic Board matters and the University Legislation Amendment Act 2005 and Transnational Provisions of the Amendment Act.

26 April (PDF 58 kb)

  • Staffing
  • Strategic matters
  • Academic Board matters
  • Voluntary Student Unionism.

28 February 2005 (PDF 49 kb) 

  • First meeting of the USQ Sixth Council
  • Staffing
  • Strategic
  • Academic Board matters.

2004

6 December 2004 (PDF 53 kb)

  • Staffing
  • Strategic matters
  • Committee and Academic Board matters.

12 October 2004 (PDF 40 kb)

  • Wide Bay hosted its first meeting of USQ Sixth Council
  • Presentations by key staff from the Wide Bay Campus
  • Election of the Deputy Chancellor
  • Staffing
  • Council Committees
  • Academic Board.

17 August 2004 (PDF 52 kb)

  • First meeting of the USQ Sixth Council
  • Commonwealth Award for Excellence
  • Staffing
  • Statement of Responsibility
  • Academic Board matters
  • Approval of the 2005 Meeting Schedule.

21 June 2004 (PDF 53 kb)

  • Last meeting of the Fifth Council
  • Announcement of offer of the honorary award of Fellow of the University to long-serving Council member, Mr Ken Munro
  • Membership of the Sixth Council
  • Staffing matters
  • USQ Directions paper
  • 2004 Planning Conference
  • Naming of the Junior Academy of Music Auditorium
  • Nomination and skills audit processes
  • Academic Board matters.

27 April 2004 (PDF 46 kb)

  • Staffing
  • USQ Springfield Campus
  • Fee-paying Domestic Undergraduate students
  • 2004 Planning conference
  • Policy statement on Honorary Awards
  • Academic Board matters.

2 March 2004 (PDF 51 kb)

  • Staffing
  • Faculty of Education restructure
  • Variable HECS policy
  • Revised model for Council and Academic Board matters. 

2003

8 December 2003 (PDF 8 kb)

  • Divisional reports
  • Staffing
  • Establishment of the Alan Edwards Memorial Scholarship
  • Establishment of the position of Provost for the Wide Bay Campus
  • 2004 Budget
  • Amendment to Rules Pursuant to Statute No 5 (Election of Elected members of the Council, 1999
  • Academic Board matters.

13 October 2003 (PDF 6 kb)

  • Welcome of new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lovegrove to his first meeting of the Council
  • Staffing
  • Divisional reports
  • Student Affairs and Residential Colleges Committee.

18 August 2003 (PDF 12 kb)

  • Nelson Higher Education Reforms and Governing Bodies
  • USQ Open Day
  • Staffing
  • Divisional reports
  • Honorary Awards
  • 2004 Meeting Schedule
  • Academic dress
  • Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Policy
  • 2004 Student Fees
  • Academic Board matters
  • Last Council meeting for Vice-Chancellor, Professor Swannell - Council recorded its appreciation for all that Professor Swannell had done for the University during his seven-year term as Vice-Chancellor. 

23 June 2003 (PDF 9 kb)

  • Announced appointment of Professor Bill Lovegrove to the position of Vice-Chancellor
  • Staffing
  • Faculty reports
  • Wide Bay - Stage 2
  • Academic Board matters.

28 April 2003 (PDF 11 kb)

  • Staffing matters
  • Quarterly reports
  • Establishment of a Selection Committee for the Vice-Chancellorship
  • Academic Board matters.

3 March 2003 (PDF 10 kb)

  • Staffing
  • Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health
  • Vice-Chancellor's retreat
  • Amendments to the Schedule of Financial Delegations
  • Vice-Chancellorship
  • Academic Board matters.

2002

9 December 2002 (PDF 15 kb)

  • Mr Don Stevens declared duly elected to the position of Chancellor for a further term of three (3) years from 3 March 2003 to 3 March 2006
  • Vice-Chancellorship
  • Staffing
  • 2003 ORMP
  • Council's response to Memoranda from Faculty Assemblies
  • Amendments to regulations
  • Amendments to the Workplace Health and Safety Procedures
  • Academic Board matters.

28 October 2002 (PDF 15 kb)

  • Establishment of a Governance Committee
  • Staffing
  • Ongoing support from Russell Minerals Equipment Pty Ltd
  • AUQA
  • PeopleSoft and Web CT Systems
  • ARC Grants Success
  • TransACE
  • Children on Campus Policy
  • 2003 Student Guild fees
  • Academic Board matters.

19 August 2002 (PDF 14 kb)

  • Election of the Deputy Chancellor
  • Council representation on the Student Guild Board
  • Council membership matters
  • Performance review of Council
  • Chancellor's leave of absence
  • Establishment of a new honorary award known as Freedom of the University
  • Intellectual Property issues
  • PeopleSoft & WebCT Systems
  • Staffing
  • 2003 fees
  • Academic Board matters.

29 June 2002 (PDF 13 kb)

  • Consideration of the proposed merger of Faculties of Arts and Education
  • Staffing
  • Council membership
  • Student Guild
  • Academic Board matters
  • In response to the resolution of its Executive Committee to invite Professor Nerida Ellerton to accept an Honorary Professorship, Professor Ellerton had accepted the offer.

29 April 2002 (PDF 10 kb)

  • Senior appointments/renewable appointments
  • New name for the Department of Marketing
  • International initiatives
  • University's financial position
  • Review of Universities
  • Academic appeals regulations
  • Academic Board matters.

4 March 2002 (PDF 12 kb)

  • Council membership
  • Senior renewable appointments
  • Professor of Marketing position
  • AUQA Portfolio and Agency Visit on campus
  • Enrolments
  • Academic Board matters
  • Council also endorsed the resolutions of the Executive Committee to confer the following honorary awards and titles:
    • Mr William Robinson (Doctor of Letters)
    • Dr Hugh Avey (Fellow of the University)
    • Professor Roy Webb (Doctor of Letters).

 

Assistance

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