SCMP News: August 2005

Issues in Recruitment and Selection for Experienced Members

Date: Tuesday 6 September, 9.30am-5.00pm

This module is offered for all members of Selection, Promotion or Probation Committees who have extensive recent experience in the area of recruitment and selection.

To apply to attend this shortened program, staff will be required to submit to CPD a one-page application which addresses certain selection criteria. Please contact CPD to obtain the guidelines for these selection criteria.

Applications will be administered by the Director of CPD and approval will be given by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). Applications for attendance at this program will close a fortnight before the start of the program, i.e. 24 August 2005.

Please forward your one-page application to Kathryn Bown [Email: kathryn.bown@vc.mq.edu.au | Fax: x9778]

The workshop will examine current issues regarding recruitment and selection in discussion with the participants, based on case study examples.

The number of participants for this workshop is limited to 16. As the workshop is expected to be in high demand, early enrolment is advised.

Please note that as of 1 January 2004, all members of Selection Committees are required to have attended a Macquarie University Recruitment and Selection training program.

Lunch will be provided. [Room, Mezzanine Level, C4B | Facilitator: Amanda Phillips ]

Macquarie University Open Day

Date: Saturday 10th September

The Open Day website is live at: www.mq.edu.au/openday

The Open Day program will be inserted in The Sun Herald on Sunday 4 September.

Staff who are working on the day and require black Macquarie t-shirts can contact Dina Mura on x6079 or dina.mura@mq.edu.au to organise what you need. T-shirts are to be collected from PR and Marketing (Ground Floor, Goodman Fielder Building) before Open Day. Sizes available are S, M, L, XL and XXL.

Staff giving lectures on Open Day can contact AV on x7571 if you have anything you want to discuss in advance of the day. On Open Day AV can be contacted from the internal phones in each theatre on extension x7571 or #6231 to reach the mobile. These numbers will also be posted in each theatre.

This year we will again be holding a lucky draw for staff working on Open Day. Thanks go to our sponsors including: Simbiosi, Nova 969, Stamford North Ryde, The Ranch Hotel Motel, Desktop Promotions, Co-op Bookshop, the Remedial Relief Massage Therapy Clinic. Prizes, and how to enter, can be found at the website www.mq.edu.au/openday/staffdraw

Outstanding Teachers Awards and Excellence in Education Awards 2005

Closing date for both awards is 23 September 2005.

Outstanding Teacher Award

The Outstanding Teacher Awards have been expanded in 2005 in anticipation of changes in the National Teaching Awards. As well as Outstanding Teacher awards to recognize our outstanding teachers there will be new Excellence in Education Awards open to both academic and general staff to recognize important contributions to education through teaching and student services.

Outstanding Teaching Awards are awarded annually to encourage and reward outstanding teachers of both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Between five and ten awards are made each year. In 2005, the recipients will receive a plaque and a grant of $3,000 to be used for teaching development on a project of their choice. The best three or four of our award winners, with their permission, will be put forward for National Teaching Awards in 2006. Deans are invited to nominate up to two members of the academic staff of their Division for these awards. The criteria for the awards can be found at www.cpd.mq.edu.au/lern_tch/lt_tawrd.htm

They are a simplified version of the National Teaching Awards to ensure that our nominees are primed for the next stage.

Excellence in Education Awards

These awards recognise the outstanding contributions of academic and general staff to the education of students. In 2005, the recipients will receive a certificate and a prize of $200. Deans and senior officers are invited to nominate up to five members of staff for these awards. We expect that the University will be asked to nominate 10 staff for national awards of this type in 2006. Since criteria and procedures are not yet announced, we have deliberately chosen some discretion in the process.

With the 2005 rules we have modified the rules to allow winners of Outstanding Teacher Awards in previous years to participate again. A winner of an Excellence in Education Award cannot be nominated for another award in this scheme for three years; a winner of an Outstanding Teacher Award cannot be nominated for another award in another scheme for three years. Where a previous winner is renominated, their case should emphasise their recent work and, where appropriate, what they have achieved as a result of their award.

Further information can be obtained from: Professor John Loxton x7442 or Dr Anna Reid x9780

The closing date for both awards is 23 September 2005.

Professor John Loxton
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

SCMP Graduation Ceremony

2.30pm 27th September

The SCMP Graduation Ceremony will be held at 2.30 pm on Tuesday, 27 September, 2005. This year SCMP students will be graduating with graduands from the Division of Environmental & Life Sciences.

Could all Departments and Centres ensure that at least one member of your teaching staff participate in each ceremony.

Please forward the names of your attendees to be included in the Academic Procession to Catherine McMahon no later than 5pm on Wednesday, 23rd August, 2005.

Admission cards, details of arrangements for the assembly of the Academic Procession and Academic Staff Dress Hire forms will be issued to staff who will be attending the ceremony.

If you have any questions please contact Catherine on ext. 8831 or e-mail Catherine.mcmahon@scmp.mq.edu.au.

STAFF

Senate Nominations

The terms of the two Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy representatives to Academic Senate will expire on 31 December 2005.

Nominations are hereby called for two new Divisional representatives to Academic Senate.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE AT 5PM ON WEDNESDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER, 2005.

Please submit nominations to Catherine McMahon in writing on or before 5pm Wednesday, 21 September. Late nominations will not be accepted.

Please note the following Academic Senate Rules and if you have any further enquiries contact me at catherine.mcmahon@scmp.mq.edu.au or on ext 8831.

Academic Senate Rules state:

• 1.The Academic Senate shall consist of: the Deans of Divisions constituted within the University by the Council; two members from each Division elected by and from the continuing academic staff of the Division, provided that in each Division: the two elected members shall not be from the same Department; at least one shall be a Head of Department or a Professor; ..
• 2. The elections provided for in sub-rule (1)(ii) of this Rule shall be held triennially, and the term of office of a member elected at any such election shall commence on the first day of January next following the member's election and shall expire three years thereafter. ...
• 12. A person elected under sub-rule (1)(ii) of Rule 2 shall not be eligible for election to Academic Senate for more than two consecutive periods of three years..."