Faculty Boards

Purpose and Terms of Reference

In accordance with Statute 2.6 - Governing Bodies: The Faculties, the Faculty Board shall, on behalf of the Faculty, carry out and discharge the functions specified in clauses 3 and 10 of Statute 2.6.

Faculty Boards shall be responsible to the Academic Board:

• to exercise all Delegations provided to it by Senate or responsibilities imparted to it by the Academic Board.
• to provide strategic advice on Faculty directions for new courses, programs and research agenda.
• to report on the Faculty's Strategic, Organisational and Operational Plans (as appropriate).
• to set data-driven Faculty benchmarks where required for academic activities, and to monitor, analyse and initiate action to improve performance against internal and external benchmarks.
• to monitor and contribute to the identification and remediation of academic risk at the Faculty level.
• to monitor Faculty performance, education and remediation in the areas of academic and research integrity.
• to promote excellence and innovation in and monitor and oversee quality of teaching and learning, research and research training, scholarship, community engagement and internationalisation for the Faculty.
• to provide advice on and implement academic policy and regulations throughout the Faculty.
• to oversee the development and implementation of new and revised courses of study aligned with the Faculty and University Strategic Plans.
• as part of the process of internal accreditation of courses of study, to monitor and systematically review all existing courses of study offered by the Faculty.
• to monitor and support activity to maintain professional accreditation of relevant courses of study.
• to approve the establishment, disestablishment or changes to microcredentials or short courses offered by the Faculty.
• to make recommendations to the Academic Board or Standing Committee(s) of Academic Board (where appropriate) on award regulations, course development and course changes.
• to oversee and monitor the teaching, examining and assessment in units for Faculty awards.
• to oversee quality assurance, improvement and evaluation in relation to the academic work of the Faculty.
• to submit to the Academic Board, recommendations on any matters concerning teaching, scholarship and research within the Faculty.
• to oversee monitoring and exception reporting in relation to Faculty-based third party arrangements.
• to provide the Academic Board with an annual self-assessment report on the business of the Faculty Board, including any changes to governance personnel and structures (including sub-committee membership and Terms of Reference) operating in the Faculty.
• to refer matters to Schools, Centres, Academies, Research Institutes and Standing Committees for consideration and report, and consider and take action on reports from Schools, Centres, Academies, Research Institutes and Standing Committees.
• to consider and report on any matter referred to it by the Academic Board.
• to facilitate and support the work of Schools, Centres, Academies and Research Institutes.
• to promote discussion and debate on matters of relevance to higher education and the Faculty's educational plans and strategies, and
• to provide advice on relevant recommendations of internal and external reviews of the University's organisational units.

Meeting Schedule: Please contact the relevant Faculty Executive Officer.

Committee Templates: See Governance Committee Templates.

Chair: Executive Dean of the relevant Faculty.

Governance Support: Faculty Executive Officer of the relevant Faculty.

For general Faculty Board enquiries, please contact the relevant Faculty Executive Officer.

Composition

Upon recommendation of the Provost to the Vice-Chancellor and President, following consultation with the respective Faculty Executive Deans, one member of the Academic Staff of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy shall be appointed to each Faculty Board other than that of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy and shall hold office for a period of three years. In the case of the Faculty of Education and Arts, the appointee is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy.

Quorum for Faculty Board meetings is one half plus one of the members of the Faculty Board and the board may function notwithstanding a vacancy in its membership so long as a quorum remains.