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Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2017Friday, 17th March 2017at 6.00pm for a 6.30pm startat the Banquet Hall, University Club of Western Australia

Welcomes all graduates and other members of Convocation to the Autumn Ordinary Meeting

Guest Speaker: The Hon. Robert French AC CitWA will give a talk on ‘Convocation and the University as a Community of Scholars.’

AgendaThe Autumn Ordinary Meeting of the Convocation of The University of Western Australia 6.30pm, Friday 17 March 2017 in The University Club of Western Australia

1. Minutes of the Spring Ordinary Meeting held on Friday 16th September 2016

2. Amendments and motion of acceptance of minutes

3. Business arising from the minutes

4. Correspondence

5. Results of Convocation Elections for Warden, Deputy Warden, Members of the Council of Convocation.

6. Vice-Chancellor’s Report

7. Guild President’s Report

8. Warden’s Report

9. Convocation Officer’s Report

10. Keynote Speaker - The Hon. Robert French AC CitWA will give a talk on 'Convocation and the University as a Community of Scholars'

11. Other Business

12. Q & A session

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Jegasothy, Phil Jennings, Francis Johnson, Rob Johnson, Hamish Johnston, Stephanie Johnston, Tim Johnston, Lois Joll, Patricia Jones, Joanne Jones, Kath Jordan, Ashley Joyce, Patrick Joyce, Sandra Joyce, Wally Kaczmarczyk, Jansje Karajas, Grant Keady, Bill Kean, Anne Keith-Fraser, Christopher Kelley, Eric Kelly, Roger Kelly, Richard Kempton, Ashley Kendall, Mitchell Keys, Isabelle Khoo, Kay Khoo, Susan King, George Kingsley, Jan Knight, Kee Fatt Kok, Julia Kovesi, Joshua Kraan, Vijay Kumar, Graham Ladyman, Rona Landquist, Bruce Langford, Ross Lantzke, Jenny Larner, Paul Latham, Brian Lauri, Brian Law, Graham Leake, Simon Leake, Justine Leavy, Edna Lee, Ian Lee, June Lee, Steven Lee, Wei Liang Lee, Edwina Lefroy, Jennifer Lefroy, David Leigh, John Leishman, Sabina Leitmann, Christian Lemnell, Helen Leonard, Liliana Leonello, Bob Leschen, Jin Liew, Leighton Lilford, Joanna Lim, Pei Yoong Lim, Rachel Lim, Rukmal Lim, Simin Lin, Ian Lindsay, Kendrick Ling, Courtney Logue, Jillien Loh, Theng-Wei Loke, Silvana Lombardini, Bruce Long, Virginia Longley, Adriaan Loosjes, Neville Loudon, Linda Low, Whye Low, Dorothy Lucks, Jong Xin Ly, Merilyn Ma, Catherine MacDonald, Amos Machlin, Elizabeth MacKinnon, Jocelyn Maddock, Maureen Maher, Kelvin Mahuka, Bruce Makin, Irek Malecki, Jasmina Malkoc, John Malone, Bala Manicassamy, Chloe Manzinger, Clive Mariano, Joshua Marinoni, Bill Marmion, Trevor Marshall, Margaret Martin, Patty Martinez, Glenda Martinick, Gene Matthews, Lydia Maurice, Roger May, Brenda Mazzucchelli, Richard Mazzucchelli, Trevor Mazzucchelli, Tobias McAllister, Terence McAuliffe, Ian McCall, Jack McCallum, Ross McCallum, Ian McCulloch, Britt McGowan, Peter McGowan, Hayden McGrath, Michael McGuire, Carmelina McQueen, Brendan McQuillan, Shirley McWhirter, Rebecca Meakin, Edward Medina, Toby Metcalfe, Phil Meyerkort, Shannon Meyerkort, Con Michael, Ken Michael, Katherine Mills, Mark Minissale, Adam Miotti, Alina Miranda, Alice Moala, Ali Mohammadi, Holly Moir, Benedict Moleta, Nicola Monzu, Felicity Morel-EdnieBrown, Lorraine Morlin, John Mortimer, Magdaline Mortimer, Esme Moulds, Ashleigh Murch, Natalie Murdock, Jose Narvaez, Antonio Natale, Hemalakshmi Nathoo, Mark Newman, Ian Newnham, Andre Ng, Andrew Ng, Joshua Ngai Mun Ng, My-Hanh Nguyen, Thuyen Nguyen, Emma Nicoletti, Lloyd Nixon, Margaret Nixon, Emily Norburn, Robert Nunn, Christine O'Brien, Rick O'Brien, Maxwell O'Dea, Jeanne Jin-Hui Ong, Natania Ong, Wilson Ong, Emma O'Shaughnessy, Lizzy O'Shea, Roger Overmeire, Steven Overmeire, Sean Ow, Marjan Oxley, David Pack, Susannah Packer, Michael Pal, Amrik Pala, Lance Palmer, Stacey Papa, Peter Papanaoum, Alan Parker, Paull Parker, Jim Parry, Leigh Patterson, Neil Patterson, Megan Paull, Stephen Paull, Sandra Pawlusiewicz, Judith Paxman, Lynette Payne, Ian Peacock, Jane Peacock, Jennifer Pedler, John Peirce, Paul Peos, Sandra Peruc, Rayma Pervan, Tony Pesich, Evelyn Phan, Kim Phan, Peter Phillips, April Pickard, Haydn Pickersgill, Graham Pidco, David Pilbeam, Liam Pilgrim, Bill Plozza, Raymond Pontague, Natasha Porter, Tjeerd Poutsma, Deidre Powell, Mark Pownall, Christina Pranata, Daryl Pranata, Neville Pringle, Belinda

Michael Collins, Paul Collins, Gary Collinson, Cran Collis, Gary Congdon, Ryan Constantine, Danica Cook, Diane Cook, Philip Cooke, Ron Coombs, John Cooper, Roderick Cooper, Tony Cooper, Ian Copeland, Callum Corkill, Phyllis Costello, Geoffrey Cover, Margot Cox, Lisa Craft, Terry Craig, Jane Crawford, John Cripps, Cristian Crisan, William Crisp, Keith Croker, Malcolm Crosbie, Joanne Cruickshank, Hayley Cull, Brendan Cullen, Rohan Cutten, Shirley Daffen, Tegan Dare, Matthew Davey, Richard Davies, Ronnie Davies, Amy Davis, Gary Davis, Judith Davis, Neal Davis, Christine Davy, Anne Dawson, Ian Dawson, Jacinta Dawson, Alan Day, Debra de Groot, Julie de Jong, Sonja de Munck, Anita de Villiers, Celeste de Villiers, John Deacon, John Dean, Reney Dender, Bernice Dent, Mick Devine, Natasha Dewani, Mollie Dinham, Amelia Dixon-Pugh, Vina Djoko, Christine Donis, Carolyn Jane Dowley, Michael Down, Sandra Downes, Conrad Drake, Paul Duncan, Lachlan Dunjey, Anne Dunne, Crystal Durell, Sabrina Durham, Peter Eastlake, Hartley Edwards, Petra Elias, Helen Ellery, Sue Ellery, David Elliott, Jane Emberson, David Emby, Laura Emery, Terri Emslie, Ben Evans, Jim Everett, Jocelyn Everett, Tony Ewing, David Falconer, Adele Farina, Richard Farrar, Joanne Farrell, Leonie Feddema, Janie Feng, John Ferreirinho, John Ffarrington, Gavin Fielding, Shane Fillipos, Michael Firth, Franz Fischer, Brian Fitzgerald, Sarah Flannery, Monica Flattery, Joe Fleming, Margaret Floyd, Regina Flugge, Andrew Forrest, Robin Foulds, Brian Fowlie, Lindsay France, Nathan Francis, Valerie Frank, Irene Froyland, Elmer Frugtneit, Shih Ching Fu, Kathy Fuller, Mary Fung, Duncan Furphy, Margaret Furphy, Jose Furtado, Joe Galvans, Michael Ganon, Brent Gardner, Carrie Gardner, Jane Gardner, John Gardner, Lynn Gattorna, John Geary, Kathy Gecan, Rohan Gengatharen, Khanh Giang, David Gibson, Jacqueline Gillespie, Robert Ginbey, John Gladstones, Vivienne Glance, Donald Glassford, Jennifer Gmeiner, Jean-Marie Gobet, Brian Goddard, John Godfrey, Mayford Godfrey, Martin Gole, Christian Grainger, Ruth Greble, Helen Green, David Greenhill, Pamela Gregor, Martin Griffith, Wayne Griffiths, Claire Grose, Margaret Grover, Bob Groves, Julius Gsodam, Tony Gummer, Larissa Guzzomi, Michael Hallam, Barbara Hamilton, Jean Hamory, Helen Hankey, Khadija Hansia, Mireille Hardie, Joan Harlow, Fiona Harris, Keely Harris-Adams, Reinhold Hart, Nicholas Hasluck, Scott Hawkins, Kerry Hawley, Ken Hay, Barrie Heald, Gary Heighton, David Hendry, Pauline Hendry, Ricardo Herrera Ayala, Leanne Hew, Gary Hewett, Simone Hewett, Marcia Hewitt, Mark Hewitt, Anne Hicks, William Higham, Murray Hill, Marguerite Hinwood, John Hobday, Suzanne Hofmann, Jennifer Hole, Peter Hollingsworth, Janet Holmes à Court, Reza Honarmand, Betty Hooper, James Hopkins, Peter Hopwood, Wanda Horky, Tao Hou, John Hsu, Aaron Hurst, Syed Hussain, Margaret Hutchinson, Stewart Hutchinson-Blue, Peter Hyman, Jessica Ilich, Alan Imerito, Anne Ismail, Ungku Ismail, Benjamin Jackson, Scott Jackson, Valerie Jackson, Leanne Jackson, Deborah Jackson-Porteous, Richard Jahn, Katie James, Ian Janes, Dianne Jarvis, Laksiri Jayasuriya, Jegaluckshumy

Juanita Perez, Maree Pickens, Andrew Pickford, Roderic Pitty, Joan Pope, Cameron Power, Dennis Power, Leslie Pyke, Tony Quinlan, Alex Reid, Desmond Reid, Nate Reinertsen, Peter Robinson, Heather Rogers, Nigel Rogers, Kerry Ross, Jim Rowlands, Vanessa Russ, Mona Salim, Johan Salim, Taiwo Sanusi, Richard Schiefler, Jackie Scurlock, Jennifer Searcy, Enid Sedgwick, Elizabeth Shaw, Mark Shelton, Philip Shields, Hilary Silbert, Cornelia Staats, Priscilla Stack, Sutomo Suhana, Paulus Sui, Denise Sullivan, Penny Sutherland, Gae Synnott, Teresa Szunejko, Yola Szymakowski, Cathy Tang, Ray Tauss, Christopher Theunissen, Alan Tough, Brenda Tournier, Pauline Tremlett, Fiona Tremlett, Charles Tucak, Gillian Tucak, Paula Tunley, David Tunley, Jonathan Utting, Sheila Walker, Ian Warner, Jim Williams, Anne Willox, Roslyn Wilson, Christina Wilson, Anna Wilson, Mary Maude Winter, Mary Winter Ivanoff, Shirley Withers, Ellen Wong, Edit Wood, Terry Woodings, Jean Woodings, Lorna Woods, Allen Yeow and Joanna Zaliki Knowles

The following members of Convocation asked that their apologies be recorded.Con Abbott, Hugo Acosta Martinez, Tunde Adekoya, Diana Adler, Kenneth Ahmat, Mohamed Ahmed, Jeanne Ainley, Fiona Allan, Samantha Allsopp, Lyneve Amoore, Daniel Anderson, John Anderson, Maxwell Anderson, Rodney Anderson, Ramon Andinach, Jim Andrusiak, Shirley Andrusiak, Christie-Rochelle Annice, Amrith Anthony, Tania Anthony, Jennifer Antulov, Anne Appleton, Susan Appleyard, Ashley Arbuckle, Maria Arevalo-Vigne, Pooya Arjomandnia, Catherine Arrese, Jennifer Atherton, Sophie Attwater, Koya Ayonrinde, Azrie Azman -Arshad, Matthew Azzalin, Liz Bailey, Jennifer Bamber-Mayes, Neil Bardsley, Shelley Barker, Michael Bartosiak, Mary Basley, Terry Bayliss, Jason Beard, Gabor Bedo, Robin Beech, Janice Bell, Val Bennett, Enzo Biagioni-Froudist, Suzanne Biddles, Rowena Birrell, Emily Birt, Matthew Birt, Roger Blackett, Tracie Blair, Peter Blake, Arthur Bogoias, Luke Bone, Ern Bong, Angelo Boni, Emma Boogaerdt, Jean-Paul Bout, Deborah Bowen-Smith, Diana Bradbury, Ross Bradshaw, Fabio Brandao, Lesley Brands, Ted Brindal, Mark Brogan, Ellena Bromwell, Peter Buck, Michael Buckmaster, Mel Bungey, Paul Buralli, Joan Burfitt, Alex Burt, Josephus Buters, Joe Butorac, Gregg Button, Ildy Button, Andy Cahyono, Marion Cambridge, Krystie Camisa, Bruce Campbell, Colin Campbell-Fraser, David Carlson, Joan Carney, John Carrigg, Edna Carruthers, Anne Carter, Justin Casella, Tara Celenza, Francis Chai, Eileen Chan, Karyn Chan, John Chapman, Mun Cheang, Frederick Chee, Philip Chegwidden, Toriko Chen, Michael Chester, Graeme Chinnery, Andrew Chong, Ace Choo, Waldon Chow, Wendy Chow, Jonathan Chua, Kong Loong Chung, Curtis Clark, Eldred Clark, Sharon Clark, Philip Clifford, Harold Clough, Ryan Cohen,

Spring Ordinary Meeting16 September 2016

The Spring Ordinary Meeting of Convocation was held on Friday 16th September 2016 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in University Club of WA.

The meeting was attended by the following graduates and guests. Ian Abbott, Michael Acquarola, Yanti Adiyanti, Jo Agnew, Ian Anderson, Kent Anderson, Mikaela Andrews, Mark Andrich, Paul Appleton, Helen Appleton, Ruth Arnel, Brian Atwell, Ahmad Bagbag, Rachima Bannerman, Bruce Barblett, Lynette Barker, Marilyn Bennet-Chambers, Wendy Birman, Astrid Boggs, Robert Boggs, Bernard Bowen, Jane Boxall, Don Boyer, Gerry Brennan, Jean Brodie-Hall, Ross Bryant, Brenda Buchanan, Stuart Bunt, Lesley Cala, Maria Calabro, John Carruthers, Maria Carvalho, Renate Chandler, Michael Chaney, Margrete Chaney, Kok-Foo Chang, Tshung Hui Chang, Terence Chia, Tat Meng Chow, Alex Cohen, Julian Coleman, Helena Coleman, Dorothy Collin, Mary Conroy, Rochelle Cornell, Dale Cornell, Judith Cresp, Judith Cullity, Ray da Silva Rosa, Dan D'Annunzio, David Davidson, Brett Davies, Timothy Dawe, Simon Dawkins, Ema Denby de Braganza, Raymond Dingle, Neil Donaldson, Johanne Eldridge, Wendy Erber, Kerry Evans, Steve Fargo, Peter Farr, Kathleen Faulkner, Kingsley Faulkner, Arthur Ferres, Elizabeth Feutrill, Dawn Freshwater, Elizabeth Frith, Dick Frith, Michaele Gardiner, Chantelle Gaskell, Agi Gedeon, John Gillett, Tony Goodman, Alison Gregg, James Gregg, Douglas Hall, Collene Hansen, Chris Harkness, Richard Harper, Roz Hart, Patricia Hatch, Garry Hawkes, Frank Hedges, Kim Heitman, Lynley Hewett, Ricki Hewitt, Bethany Hiatt, Jo Hiller, Wendy Hillier, Neville Hills, Rick Hoad, Steve Hoath, Susan Hoddinott, Gary Hoffman, Maureen Humpage, Du Huynh, John Janes, Julia Johnson, Paul Johnson, June Jones, Ron Jones, Jacqui Joseph-Bowen, Boris Jurisic, Patricia Kailis, Bob Kelliher, Phillip Kemp, Kevin Kenneally, Warren Kerr, Chneoh Khor, Hwee Ping Koh, Rodney Laslett, Louisa Lawrance, Brian Leach, Cecile Leach, Freda Livingston, Quang Ly, Richard Lyon, Gary Mack, Robert MacMath, Raphael Mannel, Jude Marinoni, Wayne Marron, Simon Marshall, Graeme Martin, Natalie Mast, Rose McAleer, Paul McCann, Doug McGhie, Lidia McMullan, Roz Melville-Buck, John Melville-Jones, Pip Micalizzi, Barbara Miller, Nikolaos Millios, Hugo Morandini, Kevin Morgan, Maddie Mulholland, Ian Mulholland, Diva Muni, Ainalem Nega, Chern Ng, Kim Guan Ng, Trevor Nicholls, David Nicholson, Jennifer Nicolao, Ben Nilsson, Kathryn Norris, Susan O'Byrne, Angeline Ong, Chuan Ong, Nee Nee Ong, Jamie O'Shea, Fiona O'Shea, Bianca Panizza, Jim Paparo, Neta Parker, Lawrence Peh,

Minutes

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QuestionnaireThe Warden indicated that at the last Ordinary Meeting, a one-page questionnaire was included with the Agenda booklet. That survey addressed 3 questions.

The first question sought members' views on the preferred commencement time for the Meeting. He reported that 65% of those responding to this question favoured a 6.00 pm start so the Convocation Council will try and implement this for future meetings. However, this evening there was a prior booking for this space which meant that it was not available until after 6.00 pm.

The second question asked whether members wished to have a musical interlude prior to the meeting. As 60% favoured having music prior to the commencement of the meeting, Convocation Council has therefore arranged for the Zimmer Quartet to be present this evening.

The third question sought members’ interest in Convocation establishing clubs for members interested in cultural and social pursuits. This resulted in very positive feedback for quite a range of clubs and interests. (e.g. Choir, jazz, singles, chess, fitness, yoga, food/wine appreciation, book clubs, tennis, bicycle). As a result, Convocation Council is now considering how best to establish these clubs for UWA graduates.

Q&A SessionFollowing the last Ordinary Meeting, the Convocation Council also received many positive comments regarding the Q&A session at the end of the meeting. Consequently, another Q&A session has been included in the agenda for this meeting.

5. Correspondence

The Warden reported that the largest number of emails and letters received since the last Ordinary Meeting have related to the Renewal Project for UWA. As a consequence, the Warden has arranged for Professor Dawn Freshwater to give a presentation outlining the background and objectives of the Renewal Project.

6. Vice-Chancellor’s report

The Warden next invited the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson, to present his last report to Convocation. A copy of the text of the Vice-Chancellor’s report appeared at Attachment B of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2016 Booklet.

The Vice-Chancellor began with some breaking news of particular importance to members of Convocation. The Vice-Chancellor reported that on the day before the meeting, the Universities Legislation Amendment Bill was passed in the Legislative Assembly and will therefore now be debated in

1. Welcome

In opening the Spring Ordinary Meeting for 2016, the Warden of Convocation, Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM, welcomed the following guests:

• Chancellor Dr Michael Chaney AO CitWA• Former Chancellor, Clinical Professor Alex Cohen AO • Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson • Guild President, Miss Maddie Mulholland• Deputy Warden of Convocation, Dr Joan Pope OAM • Our guest speaker, the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Professor Dawn Freshwater• Professor Kent Anderson (the Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Community and Engagement)• Members of the UWA Senate and the Council of

Convocation, and • all the life-long members of Convocation,

their guest and friendsThe Warden then declared the meeting open at 6.32pm.

2. Apologies

The Warden noted apologies from Former Chancellor and Governor, Dr Ken Michael AC CitWA and over 700 other members of Convocation.

3. Minutes of the Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2016

A copy of the minutes of the Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2016 held on Friday, the 1st April 2016 appeared at Attachment A of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2016 booklet.

A motion to accept the minutes of the Autumn Ordinary Meeting 2016 held on Friday, the 1st April 2016 was proposed by Dr Joan Pope OAM and seconded by Mr Jim Paparo. The motion was carried.

4. Business arising

The Warden reported that last year, feedback was received from a number of members indicating that they would like to have the opportunity to view the Agenda papers prior the meeting.

Because of the cost involved with posting a printed copy to all members, it was decided to make the agenda papers available online and a link to this documentation was provided in the email reminder sent out earlier this week.

He reported that Convocation Council will now ensure that these arrangements are in place for all future meetings so that everyone can access these papers prior to the meeting via the Convocation website.

Provis, Chi Pun, Ray Purdy, Barrie Purser, Lara Pynes, Aylene Quartermaine, John Quealy, James Quinn, Noele Radford, Dipak Raghvani, Ike Raiter, Priyadharsini Rajabather, Dexter Ramsay, Donalda Ramsden, Liam Randell, Richard Raphael, Karen Read, Terry Redman, Alan Reith, Andrew Rhodes, John Rhodes, Julie Rick, Shaun Ridley, Geoff Riley, Noreen Riordan, Joan Robins, Megan Robins, Frank Rochelle, Jesse Rogers-Uff, Melanie Roosendaal, Mary Rose, Simon Rose, Robin Routley, Paul Ruse, Jeffrey Russell, Sharnee Rutherford, David Ryan, Nancy Ryan, Diana Salvaris, Siti Satyawati, Douglas Sawkins, Lida Sayadelmi, Denisse Scasserra, Sofie Schoonens, Deryck Schreuder, Jon Schupp, Michelle Schwager, Pamela Seaman, Peter Seet Pee Heng, Peter Sharpe, Susan Sharpe, Ruth Shean, Duncan Shearwood, Brian Shegar, Helen Shilkin-Reinhold, Judith Siddins, David Sim, Su Sirr, Stephanie Slanzi, Marielle Sloss, Patricia Smith, Peter Smith, Richard Smith, Diane Smith-Gander, Simon Snook, Alberta So, Dominic Soh, Tamas Somosy, Sachiko Sone, Maurie Sparkman, Beryl Stacey, Conway Stacey, Karl Staer, Lisa Staer, Myra Stanbury, Sean Stankowski, Christopher Stansbury, Diana Starac, Rodney Steed, Ilarion Stepatschuk, June Stephenson, Ric Stern, Trevor Still, ELIZABETH Stirling, Libby Stone, Pauline Stone, Jonathan Strauss, Peter Strickland, Jan Stuart, Jack Sumich, Jingbo Sun, Murray Swain, Rina Sweeney, Kathryn Sydney-Smith, Melissa Symonds, Ferziene Talati, James Tan, Kee-Lee Tan, Michelle Tan, Tangea Tansley, Meagan Taylor, Roger Taylor, Tony Taylor, Barbara Temperton, Ken Teoh, Diana Teplyj, Liz Terracini, Daniel Terriaca, Sally Thomas, Ray Thompson, Roger Thompson, Sophie Thorn, Timothy Threlfall, Challis Tilbrook, Clarrie Tilbrook, Stephen Tilinger, Geoff Totterdell, Sandy Toussaint, Mary Townsend, Dana Trtica, Quyen Truong, Sonia Tsesmelis, Xianhua Tu, Simon Tuck, Leisa Turner, Shane Tyler, Chumith Ukwattage Don Siriwardana, Morly Uttam, Micheline Van Der Beken, Evelyn van der Lecq, Richard Vaughan, Michael Owen Venter, Pauline Von Karlowitz, Fabienne Vonarburg, Michael Wade, Diana Wald, Elizabeth Waller, Brian Walsh, Lisa Ward, Meg Warner, Robin Warren, Graeme Washbourne, Dennis Watkins, John Watson, Judith Watson, Ken Watson, Meryl Watts, Maxwell Weedon, Roy Weerasekera, Greg Wells, Martin West, Patricia Weston, Gareth Widger, Christopher Wijns, Janet Williams, Ken Williams, Rodney Willox, Steve Wilson, Henry Winata, Noni Winata, Graeme Windsor, Laura Wisniewski, Peter Wittkuhn, Wieslaw Wojtowicz, Eva Wei Wei Wong, Petrina Wei-Lin Wong, Rina Wong, Zo Ee Wong, Graham Wood, Sharren Wood, Guojing Xu, Samantha Yardley, Anne Yates, Erica Yates, Samuel Yates, Fong Tieng Fiona Yee, Yong Yeo, Jaime Yong, Ho Yoo, Michael Yoo, Grace Yu, Santino Zanotti, Katrina Zeehandelaar-Adams, Mary Zingross and Michael Znidarich

Ms Juanita PerezConvocation Officer as Secretary


He believes the University is now very well positioned for that because of some of the changes implemented over recent years. But the Vice-Chancellor also said there was no certainty; change has to continue. If any organisation changes less rapidly than the environment in which it is operating it will tend to go backwards and the environment in which universities are operating is changing very rapidly. These changes are driven by government, by government policy, by technology, by changes in the expectations of today's students and today’s employers, by market competition, by globalisation; forces that are impacting on every higher education institution around the world.

At the conclusion of his address, the Warden thanked the Vice-Chancellor for his report and noted that the Vice-Chancellor would take questions on his report during the Q&A session later in the meeting.

7. Guild President’s report

The Warden then invited the Guild President, Ms Maddie Mulholland, to present her final report to Convocation. Miss Mulholland spoke to her report, a copy of which was provided at Attachment C of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2016 agenda booklet.

Ms Mulholland commenced by saying that she has really enjoyed the close relationship that the Guild and Convocation had developed over the past this year and that she really appreciated all the support and encouragement that the members of the Convocation Council has provided to her. And she would like to especially thank the Warden, Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr, for his advice and unwavering support.

Ms Mulholland reported that it had been a challenging, rewarding and very impactful year for the Guild and for students. The Guild has been working towards three key goals, strong representation, operational excellence and value-adding and engagement with students. She presented some highlights of the year through slides which covered the following topics:

• The Guild Council engaging with the National Union of Students in two Australia-wide protests against many of the changes proposed to higher education, such as partial fee deregulation and cuts to the Higher Education Participation Program. She indicated that these conversations will continue beyond the end of her term, and she anticipates the Guild will continue its advocacy to support students accessing higher education.

• Ribbon-cutting at the new Westpac branch in Guild Village. The Guild has carried out many different capital projects including the opening of this branch, which sets the scene for future plans in the Guild Village in 2018

the Legislative Council. The detail of the Bill as passed by the Legislative Assembly was as outlined in the meeting booklet except for one amendment that was accepted during debate and that was in relation to the distribution of the student services and amenities fee to the Guild.

The Universities Legislation Amendment Bill will lead to a reduction in the size of the University Senate from 21 to 17 members. Of those 17 members two of them will now be elected by Convocation, two by members of staff of the University and two by students. The Vice-Chancellor added that the same provisions will apply to the other three public universities: Curtin, Edith Cowan University and Murdoch University. He stated that the Bill has not yet been passed, and that it may not be approved by the Legislative Council in its current form, but it was his expectation that it will be approved because it has gone through the Legislative Assembly with extensive debate and with the support of both the major parties so he expected the Bill to be enacted in due course.

The Vice-Chancellor then said that he had announced to the University community that he would not accept the offer from Senate to extend his term as Vice Chancellor. He has decided for personal reasons that he will not continue with this position as he wanted to spend more time with his young children.

The Vice-Chancellor then moved on to say that by the end of the year, this University will have been restructured in its academic framework and the faculty structure; it will have been restructured in terms of its administration and its administrative systems to become a leaner, more effective, more efficient university. The Vice-Chancellor said that the world is changing, the world for universities is changing, the world for our graduates is changing and the University has to keep up-to-date. That is why it was necessary to undertake a huge amount of change at UWA.

The Vice-Chancellor said the changes made over the last five years, and particularly over the last two years, was to provide the University with the opportunity to respond to change. He believes that half of Australia’s universities will not exist in their current form within 10 years. He thinks the changes will be dramatic and profound. He wants to make sure that UWA has the financial and intellectual resources to operate in a way so that it can take advantage of the opportunities that will emerge over the few years to work in new ways and to do new things. And to try to make sure therefore that the University will not be a victim of circumstance, will not be buffeted by changes in the external environment, but can actually take control of its own future.

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walls and ceiling and fans, wood features, new furniture and plants, new audio-visual facilities including new screens, and a totally new menu. She reported that the feedback has been really positive from students and the Tavern is very quickly becoming one of the most popular venues on the campus.

Ms Mulholland also stated that she was really proud of the support that the Guild have provided to the University and the projects that they have worked together in partnership.

Ms Mulholland concluded her talk by thanking her dedicated and hardworking team of students and staff at the Guild for trying out new things, supporting her in some of the difficult decisions she has had to make, and always keeping the Guild fun, focused and fresh.

8. Warden’s report

The Warden, Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM, then addressed his report. A copy of the Warden’s Report appeared at Attachment D of the Spring Ordinary Meeting agenda booklet.

Rather than going through his report in detail, the Warden briefly reported on five issues that the Council of Convocation are currently addressing.

Universities Legislation Amendment BillThe Warden provided the details of the changes proposed by the Government to the UWA Act as part of the Universities Legislation Amendment Bill introduced into State Parliament during May.

As this legislation was, at the time of the meeting being debated in State Parliament, he could only draw members’ of Convocation attention to the detail in his report. The Warden promised that he would inform all members of Convocation of the outcome once this was known.

Convocation Work RoomThe Warden thanked the university for their assistance in the establishment of a Convocation Workroom on the ground floor of the East Administration Building.

This room has been equipped with two of the workstations owned by Convocation and is available for use by members of Convocation Council and any member of Convocation who may need a place to work while on the UWA campus.

The room is located next to the Orchid Meeting Room on the ground floor of the East Administration Room and is clearly marked by signage containing the Convocation logo. The Warden invited all members to use this new facility

and the amenities that the Guild would like to be able to provide for students. She noted that the second-hand book shop has been relocated, that the Guild had worked with the University on renovating a new café in the Reid Library and that there are a number of other projects now underway.

• Orientation Commencement Ceremony. 18,000 students have come through the Guild Student Centre so far this year engaging through clubs, volunteering and catering with students. The Guild has held almost 500 events this year. Through thousands of students involved in clubs and volunteering, the Guild has raised $50,000 for the charities through Prosh.

• The Guild President’s attendance at Conferences. Ms Mulholland reported that she has had the incredible opportunity of attending many conferences this year that have improved her knowledge of the higher education sector and understanding different student demographics and how best to represent them. She has been to the National Union of Students’ President Summit, Education Conference, Women’s Conference, the Universities Australia Conference and the Office of Learning and Teaching Symposium Student Voice.

• Ribbon-cutting at the new Guild Club Collaborative Zone. The Guild President reported that she had the opportunity to co-open the Guild’s Club Collaborative Zone with Janet Holmes a Court AO, a former Guild Vice President. The Guild’s Club Collaborative Zone is the leading facility of its type in Australia and it provides a home to 138 clubs and societies supporting them to give back and to enhance the culture of the campus.

• Convocation Day Ms Mulholland also commended the Warden of Convocation for initiating an annual ritual to celebrate Convocation Day by inviting the Guild President to plant a tree on the campus each year. This year the first tree planting ceremony was held on Friday 4th March (Convocation Day) to recognise the strong and important relationship between the Guild and Convocation.

• The Guild and the WA Student Aboriginal Corporation (WASAC). Ms Mulholland reported that during the year, the Guild was gifted with a beautiful painting by WASAC as part of MARNDA Week which is a week that is focused on reconciliation. The painting was done by one of their very talented members, and this year the Guild recognised WASAC as the peak representative body for indigenous students at UWA.

• Guild Sport celebrated by a picture of the Guild President’s student team versus the Vice Chancellor’s 11’s cricket match.

• Renovation of the Guild Tavern Ms Mulholland reported that one of the Guild’s proudest achievements this year was the total renovation of the Tavern which is a very popular space for students to have events, drink a lot and eat a lot of food. The renovation of the Tavern was funded with the student services amenities fee; it involved entirely new


10. Audit report

The independent Audit Report appeared as Attachment F of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2016 booklet. The Audit Report has been considered and endorsed by Convocation Council on behalf of the members of Convocation. The audit report is without any qualifications and demonstrates that Convocation is in a healthy financial state and able to pay their debts when they fall due.

On behalf of the members of Convocation, the Warden commended the work of the Honorary Treasurer, Dr Doug McGhie, Convocation Councillor, Con Abbott, and the Convocation Officer, Juanita Perez for their contribution to this excellent outcome.

11. Other business

Convocation MedalThe Convocation Medal is periodically awarded by the Convocation Council to individuals who have distinguished themselves by their service to UWA.

The Warden, Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM invited the Honorary Treasurer of Convocation, Dr Doug McGhie to present the Convocation Medal to Mr Neil Donaldson OAM who has committed his service to the University Football Club, and the many students and graduates he has coached, mentored and supported over the past 62 years.

Following the reading of his citation, those present endorsed the decision of Convocation Council to award the Convocation Medal to Mr Neil Donaldson OAM by acclamation.

50th ReunionThe Warden reminded all members that the annual 50 Year Reunion luncheon this year for the graduates 1966, will be held in the Old Ref in Hackett Hall on Saturday 8th October. All graduates of 1966 and those who were at UWA at this time were all invited to attend.

The 50 Year Reunion of UWA Graduates is an annual initiative undertaken by Convocation Council.

On behalf of the Council of Convocation, the Warden thanked both Mrs Pauline Tremlett and Dr Joan Pope OAM for all their efforts in once again forming the committee for this year’s 50th Reunion celebrations.

Keynote SpeakerThe Warden then introduced the guest speaker for the evening, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater, who delivered an update on the UWA Renewal Project.

and indicated that the feedback already received had been very positive.

UWA Magazines Review At the Autumn Ordinary Meeting for 2016, the Warden reported that the University had conducted a review of the magazines that it produces, including the Uniview magazine that is distributed to all graduates. At that meeting, Convocation farewelled Trea Wiltshire the Editor of Uniview who had decided to retire from UWA.

The Warden was then pleased to report that since the last meeting, Liz McGrath had been appointed as the new Editor and she had now completed her first edition of Uniview which was published in August.

HonoursThe Warden’s report also included the list of those members of Convocation who have been recognised for their achievements in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

This list for the first time included successful nominations prepared on behalf of the Convocation Honours Committee, which is now resulting in an increasing number of nominations for UWA graduates thought worthy of recognition being sent through to the Honours Secretariat in Canberra.

Given that the evaluation process conducted by the Honours Office normally takes 18-24 months, the Warden indicated he is hopeful that an increasing number of UWA graduates will continue to be included in future Honours announcements.

Convocation ElectionsPreparations for the Convocation annual elections will commence in October, with nominations being called in November. The Warden encouraged any Convocation members who would like to become more involved, to please consider nominating for a position on Convocation Council, or to become the next Warden or Deputy Warden.

He indicated that he will be completing his term as Warden when the elections are held in March 2017. The Warden encourage everyone with the interest, to become actively involved in contributing to their University.

9. ConvocationOfficer’sreport

The Convocation Officer’s report appeared as Attachment E of the Spring Ordinary Meeting 2016 booklet. This report contains a list of graduates whose whereabouts have become unknown since the last Ordinary Meeting. Those attending the meeting were asked to review the list and to notify the Convocation Officer, Ms Juanita Perez, if the contacts details of any graduates listed in this report were known to them.

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connection with being a university for West Australians.

Response:Sr Deputy-Vice Chancellor: Thank you Felicity. Your question was how can we make sure that there is a balance of place retaining the uniqueness that the University has, but in the context of targeted growth in international students, which is critical for this university to facilitate as I am sure you are aware.

I think what I would say in response is that it is really important for international students to come, when they come to the University, to have an Australian experience and to have an understanding of what it is like to be in Australia, on the campus, and to be in Western Australia. And so it would be important not to provide an experience that is just like being on any other university campus, or any other program in another capital city as part of their experience of being in Australia. An important aspect is to make sure that they do have a unique experience when they are on campus with us. And that we also, when we go over to other universities as part of our outreach and the teaching (as we do at the moment into China through our business school and through engineering), that we also take that experience with us and offer something that is adding value to the students’ experience and to them as a person so that they can grow and develop through their experience into their future employment.

Ms Farrelly then repeated her question - are we going to lose the connection with being the university also of place?

Chancellor: I don’t think there is any danger of that. I think that everything that is being done now is designed to enhance the likelihood of that being preserved. You know this university was established to provide great research and education and community support as was outlined today, and it has traditionally drawn students from the local area. You know 30 years ago there were almost no international students, today they’re about 21% but I don’t have any doubt we will continue to draw a significant proportion of our student body from Western Australia. You’ve got to accept however the changes that the Vice Chancellor described. I mean in Australia for example, we now have ANU going to the competition authorities complaining about the TISC arrangements that exist here in Western Australia.

The aim of ANU is to draw students from Western Australia to Canberra. Melbourne University has been doing that quite significantly in recent years, and the reality is that university education is going to become more national and less local as we go forward because of competition. We are going to be jealously protecting our local market share; and you know we have got programs in schools and so on to make sure that people understand the value of a UWA education, but you

Q & A session

The Warden opened the Q&A session by inviting all those who wished to ask questions to wait for the microphone (as the session was being recorded), to stand and state their name for attribution in the minutes, and to keep their questions brief and to the point so that in the time available as many members of Convocation as possible could have the opportunity to ask questions.

Question 1: Anna Marie Wilson: We have wonderful academics at our institution such as Professor Hopper who was held in the position of the CEO at Kew Gardens in their 200 year celebration and Professor Richard Hobbs, specialising in the restoration of ecology just to name a few. We know that we have created the Biodiversity Science Institute of WA here at UWA and very proud to be a member of UWA. We also own the Underwood Bushland amongst us and we know that the biodiversity and its specialty in WA is a hotspot and it’s going fast because of all of the climate change, we know we don’t have much bushland left here. So given our vision and our mission and what UWA values I’m asking that perhaps we re-think how we use this land. Rather than bulldoze half of it that we look at combining these world-class assets that we have and that we make a research park where we can combine biodiversity and restoration going forward. I would ask that we do this in the name of our values. Thank you.

Response:Vice-Chancellor: I think that there is a specific element to that comment which is about the land at Underwood Avenue and the members of Convocation may be aware that the University has not done anything about that land and indeed cannot do anything about that land because any issue to do with development of that land is currently sitting with the Environmental Protection Agency. It has been sitting there for over 12 months without any response and I believe it will be sitting there for another 12 months without any response so at present it is in limbo. Regardless of what we would like to do we cannot do anything, it is just waiting on government.

Question 2:Felicity Farrelly: Professor Freshwater, I was very interested to see your precis of the changes that you have made and the changes that are intended to be made. I have some concerns because a number of people have come into the University recently doing quite major changes, and it reminds me of the reason why the University of Western Australia was established and that was to be inclusive - for all West Australians to be able to gain an education at the University. My concern is that we might lose the balance that we have achieved over the past hundred years and that we may in our endeavours to become the international university, lose the


something because then they own it and so it’s important that we’re creating it together.

In terms of the external communication we can always do more of that. We’ve been doing some of course across a range of stakeholders. The Vice Chancellor is going out and communicating and meeting across industry, we’ve been doing that a bit and actually not just in Western Australia but also across to the eastern states. I know that the Chancellor has been doing some of that and the Student Guild are also engaged in communicating with their external stakeholders. In order to make sure that we really do get the messages out there and the exciting messages which are important we’re going to have to think about the campaign next year, not just for the recruitment of the new staff, and this does have to be treated like a campaign, and it can be part of, dare I say it, branding and marketing because of course it doesn’t just raise the profile in terms of the recruitment, it raises the profile of the University much more broadly so that will be one campaign we’re working on.

In fact UNSW have just launched their campaign and they’re recruiting 300 new minds, they’re calling it. So all of that will be happening and we’ve started this week with a program of champions for change and they’re each going to have key stakeholders that they’re going to work with over the next year to engage with in terms of communication around the changes, the implementation and how we’re managing this and the exciting things that are happening. So we’ve put a number of things in place, a couple of innovative things, getting these champions for change now ready to do the communications beyond the end of the year. I know through the work that we’re doing with Kent Anderson, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, there’ll be an opportunity to do much more of that. Maybe other members of the panel may wish to have an opportunity to address this question.

Vice-Chancellor: I would just add, June, that we are also doing a lot with schools because of course they are absolutely fundamental to our continued success in recruiting the very brightest students from Western Australia and indeed we’ve been very successful at that. As you would know we changed the curriculum structure very substantially in 2012 and you might be interested to learn that in terms of the quality of the domestic students who are coming in, at least as measured by their high school results, the ATAR score, the median ATAR of students coming in to UWA in 2011 was 92.1 and the median ATAR of students who came in this year, at the beginning of 2016 was 92.9. So, not only have we maintained but we slightly increased by that measure, the quality of the students. But over the last few months, I’ve been quite consciously out meeting with schools, with school principals and other senior teachers in schools both across some of the perhaps more familiar schools of our catchment area in the western suburbs,

can’t get away from the fact that the world is changing and students are changing, students’ demands are changing. We would all love them to have the experience we had when we were here from 8 ‘til 6 every day, but it’s not happening and it’s not happening nationally and it won’t happen here. But I don’t think you should have any concern about us abandoning our position as a strong West Australian university with a West Australian focus.

When Alan Robson came up with the proposal that we should aim to be in the top hundred and the top 50 it wasn’t because of any desire to depart from a tradition of being a West Australian university, it was prescient, it understood that in a changing world if we didn’t do that we may be one of the 50% of universities the Vice Chancellor thinks won’t exist in 10 years’ time.

Question 3:June Jones: I’d like to just begin with a congratulations, first of all for Convocation for a much smarter presentation of the annual meeting; it really was a pleasure to see how that happened tonight and to the speakers earlier who were excellent and so congratulations to all.

My question is to do with communication. I think that what has been revealed to us tonight is very exciting, very interesting and is actually very thoughtful. That analysis of course won’t come to fruition without the communication which reduces the anxiety, the defensiveness that is apparent always when changes are proposed so may I ask apart from all the normal ways of communication which I’m sure you have a battery, can you tell me what you’re going to do which is really creative to make sure that not only your domestic audience, that is, your past, present and future students, but the wider population of Western Australia understands and can clearly come to a clear acceptance (which is not there yet) of what it is that is proposed? And thank you for what you’ve done so far.

Response:Sr Deputy Vice-Chancellor: I’ll have a go first and then maybe we can all chip in so thank you, June, and thank you for those affirmations, they’re actually really important to hear.

There’s several things that have been happening and then I’d like to talk about a few things that are planned and as you will understand lots of internal communication with staff and engaging staff in numerous workshops and communication strategies, whether they are large-scale, and in fact today I’ve been already to four schools as I have already indicated to have small-scale meetings with staff, so lots happening internally. And important that we do do that because we’re building the change and it’s my experience of implementing change in three institutions in the past is that you really can only achieve success if all the staff feel that they have created

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that the way that we’ve been involved has been much better than the way students have been involved in similar processes at other universities. We know that at Melbourne University the students were not engaged nearly as well as they've been engaged here so I think to answer your question, I think the way that we’ve been engaged has been positive, we would always love more engagement though, and we’d always love to sit on all the committees and have a say right at the table with every decision that’s made, but we do have to be a little bit realistic about how we should be engaged in processes.

In terms of the Good University guide, that is obviously a big concern for students and for me as the voice of the students. We would really like to see a five-star teaching quality; and it is disappointing to see a one-star teaching quality in the Good Universities guide. But I’ve been working quite closely with Alec Cameron who has just left the University, the former Deputy Vice Chancellor, Education, on how we identify areas of the University that are underperforming, and how we give effective and productive student feedback on how we would like to see that improved. And with the portfolio now moving over to Dawn, she’s indicated an interest in re-looking at how we address teaching quality, and that is something that I am really excited about, and she has indicated that she would like it to be partnership between the University and the students in how they want to see their education delivered, and what expectations they have of quality. So I am hoping that together with better discussion, and also potentially through the renewal project, better investment into that area, we will see some improvement. But I do have to say as a student at this university, I am having a very good experience, so I wouldn’t say that the teaching quality is dire but there is always room for improvement.

Question 5:Peter Robinson: Peter Robinson, member of Convocation Council. My question is directed to the Chancellor. Obviously Senate plays a pivotal role in the governance of the University and my belief is that with the restructure, particularly with the development of the service delivery centres, it is going to change the University in a major way, particularly given I think we would recognise that the University hasn’t got fit for purpose IT systems, and we are looking at trying to roll that out at the same time. So given that Senate plays such an important role and Statute 1 indicates that due diligence has to be exercised by the Senate in the deliberations it makes, what sort of documentation has been presented to Senate so far, particularly in terms of a business case on the renewal project? I am not convinced with the material that I have seen in the public domain, which is no more than rhetoric if you like, I cannot see the reality behind that, and of course, we do know that past models of shared services have been very poor, particularly when they are not supported by an adequate business case. Thank you.

MLC, PLC, St Hilda’s, Scotch, Christchurch and so on but also Willetton Senior High School, Rossmoyne, Trinity, yesterday I was at Chisholm Catholic College and I will be going to various others.

Those connections are very important and in fact, enormously illuminating because the principals of those schools are struggling with the very same challenges that we are struggling with, how do we prepare young people today for the world that they will enter as workers in some years’ time when we just don’t know what that world will be other than we know it will be different from the world today? It is estimated that by 2025 up to 40% of the jobs that graduates will be entering in 2025 have not yet been invented, so what do we say to young people today about how to choose their careers, how to prepare for those careers? Those are the sorts of things that the senior high schools and colleges are struggling with, and we are trying to help them with that and work collaboratively so the changes that we’re taking through the University, we’re very much sharing with the senior high school system to give them, I suppose, both support, but also confidence that if their best students come to UWA they will continue to get the very best education to fit them for all the opportunities that will emerge in the future.

Question 4:Dorothy Collin: My name is Dorothy Collin and I’m a retired academic. Thank you for the opportunity. I would like to put a question to the President of the Guild. I notice that among the partnerships your report lists between the Guild and the University, you mention the renewal project. What I would like to ask is whether you are thoroughly satisfied with the consultation that has been undertaken by the University administration with regard to the renewal project? Have your representations on behalf of students have been heeded? As a pointer to the wider situation, I will mention what you will certainly know, and that is that for two years at least, the Australian Good Universities guide records the overall student experience at UWA as abysmal.

Response:Guild President: So do students feel comfortable with the renewal project? Some yes, some no, some don’t really understand it. Our engagement at the start of the renewal project being announced was trying to figure out how to communicate it to students so that students could understand how it might impact them, how it might affect their education, how it might affect their experience, whether their favourite lecturer was going to leave and that was a big fear in the first part.

In terms of the way that the students have then been involved in the process, I think students will always want to be involved more than they ever get the chance to be involved. I do think


to trust the authorities who are experts in the field, in making a decision.

So let me be clear, we would like to develop the land, it will not be the whole area to be developed, it’ll probably be 50% of it or so, but it will be done in a responsible way, and we certainly wish to do it. It’s probably $100m worth of land and anyone who has the interests of the University at heart and understands the financial constraints facing all universities and wishes this university to be a champion in research and in teaching should support a responsible development.

Question 7:Ian Warner: Ian Warner, non-retired lawyer. We have heard some very interesting concepts put forward by Professor Freshwater and also by the Vice Chancellor, but I do wonder what inspiration or leadership you have really gained from the top 10 universities. For instance, is Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford etc going in the same direction? My own particular concern is merging the law school with these other faculties. However, are similar moves being made by the other great universities of the world? I’d be very interested to know whether you have researched the administrative arrangements of the top universities.

Response:Vice-Chancellor: So, yes, absolutely we have. Indeed one of the stimuli for undertaking a detailed review of how we ran our back office services in the University, was to look at the University of California, Berkeley, which did exactly this work a number of years ago. If you are interested, you can find it on the web. There is a very extensive discussion and detailed analysis of the challenges that Berkeley face, which are very similar to ours, and some of the proposals that were put forward, and then the changes that they’ve implemented. When we look at Harvard University, Harvard is absolutely addressing the challenges around teaching and indeed the University Senate received from one of the Senate members an extremely interesting and stimulating and also to some extent quite alarming representation about how Harvard Business School is addressing the changes to the world of work and the world of learning by developing a whole range of online material, not instead of face-to-face tuition but as a supplement to face-to-face tuition, and as clear market positioning. So yes, we do track what is happening in other major universities, both here in Australia and internationally.

And we recognise that some universities have gone down paths that we would not wish to follow, in particular we do not wish to forego or forsake what I think everyone in this room would say is a core part of UWA, that is having students here on campus and delivering to them the very best education that we can deliver. And encouraging students and supporting students to have a broad-based educational experience and

Response:Vice-Chancellor: Thanks, Peter. Senate has been kept up-to-date as this whole process has been developed, and as Dawn mentioned, there is still three weeks to go, I think, we said in this next stage (in working out shared services and so on), that this will all come to the Senate. The IT project which has the potential to cost a few hundred million dollars (as it is an absolutely enormous project); was discussed at the last Senate meeting. The Senate has not given any approval to proceed with the IT project. It is really early days and we were talking about the basic principles. And one of them is you should never try and reinvent the wheel if you do not need to in IT, that other universities have put in IT systems and there may be things we can learn there, so we are taking this very much on a step-by-step basis, and the Senate will be involved at every stage of the process in evaluating what comes forward and expressing a view on it.

You are right about the Senate’s fiduciary duties. The duties of the Senate members are the same as the duties of the directors of a public company, they have a duty to protect the interests of the University and that obviously involves proper monitoring of things like major changes and expenditures.

Question 6:Ray Tauss: Renewal of the University as a good corporate citizen can lead to a new treasure of UWA for data-intensive discovery and digital videos for citizens of the future. Vice Chancellor, I believe the University in leaving a decision to the EPA in respect of the Underwood Avenue bushland is retrograde, not renewal, and surely the University of Western Australia should not be lacking moral culpability by letting someone else decide whether the oldest part of the University's heritage, presumably at least 7,000 years old, should even be considered for sacrifice.

Response:Vice-Chancellor: I think I’ve answered that earlier. Chancellor: Can I just say I think it is a pity that people with a particular interest like that come along and in a sense endeavour to hijack the meeting? You are entitled to come and ask a question.

My view on this by the way is that the University would not do anything which was not environmentally responsible. That land is extremely valuable land and the University, and certainly the Senate and the executive, wishes to develop the land. It will be developed in a very responsible way if it is developed in due course. In order to ensure that we are meeting all environmental requirements and that we are protecting the environment, and not destroying diversity and so on, we apply to state and federal authorities for permission to do the development, and it surprises me that people (like frankly the two that have asked questions), are not prepared

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As part of the academic methodology, it has been really important, and this goes to the Good Universities guide question, Dorothy, and it goes to a number of things that people have said. It has been really important to identify that we have to have teaching as equally valued in this institution as research. They live side-by-side, they work side-by-side. If they are both equally credible activities for our academics to be engaged in, and we are recruiting to that, and we are enabling our academics to be able to do both of those things in the majority. We will have some of course research only staff and some teaching fellows, but Harvard has a very interesting approach which I am sure some of you will be familiar with. You actually do not get tenure and neither do you get promoted unless your teaching quality and your teaching scores are above a certain threshold, and it does not matter whether you have all the grants in the world or whether you actually have great industry connections, if your teaching is not at the right level, you are out, and that is actually a really important signal that they give to all of their staff. And of course we are not Harvard, but we have aspirations and ambitions to be able to provide that sort of quality to our students, whether they are undergraduate level or in a PhD program.

Question 8:Yola Szymakowski: Just a quick question to Dawn. Your champions of change, are they mostly junior staff? My concern is that junior staff will jump on board something like that because it is seen as a promotional activity whereas the senior staff who have got more situational power tend not to engage.

Response:Sr Deputy Vice-Chancellor: It is a really good question. Thank you. We are still working through this whole program. What we did in the University was rather than bring lots of external consultants in as part of this process, we enabled our own staff to be part of a program where they were developed through the program in terms of understanding, leading change and acting as the advocates and the ambassadors for this process. So we have some highly skilled staff now who have really benefited from being part of the program. They are also mentoring other staff in the University, of course, we are setting this up as a cascade and what we are doing is trying to get a blend of both academic and professional staff and that is across a whole range of areas, not just across disciplines but actually thinking about technical staff who have a very different perspective to bring, for example, on some of the work we are doing, to some of the people who are working in finance and accounting. So we are actually using this as an opportunity to build on the experience that some staff have already gained, and then also to provide mentorship to other staff who would like to be involved in this program, and importantly, we need to have some external people engaged in this with us because as I am sure you would understand, it

the broad base means that educational experience happens as much outside of the classroom and the lecture room as it does inside.

Let me just give a couple of examples of what that broad-based educational experience involves and it involves a lot with the Guild, and the Guild has been doing fantastic work but you know, if you come to the campus on just about every evening you will find hundreds of students, they will be playing five aside soccer out on Riley Oval. Indeed Riley Oval had to be re-turfed at the beginning of the year and it needed it again because we’ve had so much rain that the grass has been dug up. You will find hundreds of students playing netball or basketball. We have hundreds of students now engaged in music, music performance, the number of choirs, instrumental and songs, orchestras and so on has increased enormously over the last three years, so we are focused very much on trying to provide the right environment for students to maximise the opportunities that they get from a UWA education both in terms of their academic work, and in terms of that broader opportunity for personal development. And we also recognised that the great universities of the world, the Oxfords and Cambridge and Harvard and Stanford are doing exactly the same too.

Chancellor: Ian, it is probably worth clarifying a point too. The law school is not being absorbed into and merged with other schools in a sense that I think you are concerned about. Really there is a faculty which includes humanities as law, music, arts and so on, but there will still be a Dean of Law and a Dean of the Graduate School of Education and so on. The Executive Dean of the whole faculty will sit on the UWA Executive which the current deans do not sit on. So in terms of the status of the individual faculties, it is not as major a change as you may have been concerned about.

Sr Deputy Vice-Chancellor: I do not want to repeat what the Vice Chancellor has already said, but I do think it is important to recognise that the analysis that is underpinning both the academic restructure and the service delivery centre work is benchmarked internationally with the top 50 and our peers and so not all of them of course but you talked about the top 10. We have benchmarked services across the GO8 and internationally using access to three years of data through UniForum and we actually can see very clearly where we sit in terms of those average, the sector averages, and where we are above a sector average, in terms of our professional staff to academic staff ratio. We have done that across UK Russell Group institutions and across some of the US institutions in the top 10. In the academic restructure project we have of course done that but I wanted just to return to the comment that the Vice Chancellor made about Harvard and teaching.


that we have as a university with our internet provider which is a company wholly owned by CSIRO, the government and the University, it’s called ARNET. I would like anyone who walks onto campus to have absolutely open and free wifi access. This university was established in 1911 as the only free university in what was then the British Empire. We cannot replicate it being a free university now but I would dearly love the University to give completely free wifi access to anyone who comes onto campus. At present we are constrained by the access agreements with ARNET but there are some discussions being taken forward around that, and I certainly think that we have a good case to make with ARNET and I know the Warden has been also engaged with this. In terms of members of Convocation as being members of the University and therefore of being included within the trading terms that we have with ARNET so that is something to be looked at.

Question 11:Tshung Chang: Hi, Tshung Chang is my name. Thank you for the renewal presentation. I have some grave concerns that the speed of change is not actually quick enough. You have talked about students of today and tomorrow not paying for their content anymore, but what they will pay for is the experience - which does not sound that great from the latest ratings. But more importantly they want the leading minds, the top leaders of the world, the top teachers, the Nobel Laureates, that is what they will pay for, and if we are waiting for a year’s time or so, this valuable talent is going to be snapped up way before we get a chance, so I would like to know what efforts are being made to retain our leading talent, we have Nobel Laureates at UWA and what efforts are being made to attract this leading talent?

Response:Vice-Chancellor: We are working hard to attract and retain leading talent and one of the things we are doing, and it touches on what Dawn said in response to Dennis’ question, we are trying to ensure that our leading researchers do not just spend their time in the laboratory or in their office or in the library, that they do research because one of the things that we can do, which many universities will not be able to do, is that students who come here can get access to the brightest minds, can get access to the most up-to-date research, and that will not be possible in the much more generic, possibly largely online universities that will be established - some of them already exist and will be established, in the future. So the educational, the intellectual experience that we can offer at UWA is one of the great strengths and I think we perhaps have not done as much in the past to activate that intellectual experience as we might have.

In just a few weeks’ time, we will be launching a book which marks 10 years of the Office of the Nobel Laureates, 10 years of the work that Barry Marshall and Robin Warren have done

is okay for us to spruik ourselves in all of this, but actually it is much better if people like you are our ambassadors and can actually do that communication for us in a much more explicit way than perhaps we could for ourselves.

Question 9:Dennis Haskell: My question is prompted by your answer, Professor Freshwater, to the question before last about teaching research. It is just that one of the traditional core beliefs at the University has been a belief in the teaching research nexus which we have upheld more strongly than I think at a lot of other universities, and I just would ask whether that changes under the new structure in your comment about some teaching only staff.

Response:Sr Deputy Vice-Chancellor: We do already have some teaching only staff. We also have a lot of research only staff. The real issue is the interaction between those two, so at the moment, we have quite a lot of staff who are engaged in research and not necessarily engaged in a lot of teaching, or teaching at the undergraduate level. And we have teaching staff who are not necessarily engaged in research, and importantly, there is research that should be informing our teaching in the classroom to ensure that the students have access, as I said, to the brightest mind and the most recent research. And of course, for the academics, the questions that come from our bright students in the classroom informs their research, so there is a really wonderful interaction that can take place when you have research-inspired teaching. We have ended up where a lot of universities have ended up who are research-intensive, where there tends to be a bit of a binary between teaching and research, so will it change under the new direction? Absolutely, because we have to see them as interactive, integrated and absolutely integral to what we are providing to the students.

Question 10:Peter Farr: I was just wondering if the administration could take into account that as far as wifi goes this room has four wifi access points. Our guests like us cannot log in because you are told contact your department or faculty in order to request uni guest credentials. For all other enquiries contact somebody else. I find it particularly frustrating, I come to University a lot as a member of the Mentor Link and Women in Engineering program, for example, and I find it really frustrating not to be able to connect into the wifi, so I hope the administration will take that on board. It is something that the Chief Information Officer should have implemented years ago. You can go to MacDonald’s or Starbucks and get that service.

Response:Vice-Chancellor: I think it is a very good point. There is a legal constraint which is a tedious one and that is the arrangement

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last couple of years, have been faced with some really big challenges, some of them described by Paul earlier in terms of the new world and the digital world and so on, but big financial challenges with governments reducing funding to research and universities having to find ways of supporting that and competition between universities and so on.Paul has taken the tough decisions, he has taken decisions that had to be made in order to get the financial position of the University on a more sustainable footing. And that is not just words, we were in a situation where if we continued the way we were going with the expenditures ... fundamental expenditures greater than revenues, we would have been in serious difficulty in due course. What has happened with the renewal project is that we are in a much better financial situation going forward after this year, and as he described that, and as Dawn described, that enables us to make the investments we need to make to ensure we maintain a top research and teaching university.

Paul has had an unenviable task in that regard, in my view, and you will have read full page articles in The West criticising the cruel Vice Chancellor’s dismissal of certain professors and so on. I notice The West only printed a much smaller article when the Fair Work Commission concluded that they should have been dismissed for their behaviour. That’s life, I guess, with the press but the result of those sorts of articles have been sort of chatter ‘round the place and you know gosh, what’s happening at the University? I can assure you that the 21 members of the Senate have been unanimously behind all of the actions that have been taken and totally in support of the executive through that difficult process.

We have also had one-star teaching and that was raised today. People do not realise, and I think it has been said at one of these gatherings, that there is a lag in those results and we actually had one star from the students who were here before Paul even started. The whole renewal project is aimed at making sure we do something about that, and by the way, if it was Trip Advisor as I think Paul has said, it would have been four and a half stars because it was 83% satisfied or very satisfied, and if you got 89 you got five stars. It’s not a crisis in teaching at all, we have some fabulous teachers here at the University and everyone should be aware of that.

I just wanted to say how much the Senate has appreciated Paul’s contribution here. I think in years to come we will look back and say this was a really critical stage of the University’s life, a very important stage for sorting out some issues and positioning us so that we go forward with great strength. I would appreciate if we all show our appreciation of his contribution.

since they received their Nobel prize, and it is a tremendous amount of work. Barry is one of, I would say, he is Western Australia’s best known person in China. His global reach is phenomenal, but there are a couple of generations of students here in UWA who have never had access to Barry because he has not been teaching. He will be delivering a couple of lectures a year in the future to our undergraduate students because it is really important that they can get access to him and see just how he was inspired to undertake that remarkable research with Robin Warren that led to the Nobel prize. We have many, many inspiring academics here in the University, and we have to make sure that our students get access to them so that they too can be inspired and they become the next generation of intellectuals.

Sr Deputy Vice-Chancellor: May I just follow on from that and say firstly I loved the start to your point which was we are not going fast enough because it may seem really radical to do this in a year, but actually it can feel slow to the people on the ground who are experiencing the disruption to them. It is actually the fastest-paced change that has happened in the higher education sector in Australia of this nature. So whilst it appears like we are not going fast enough, we are actually going quite fast for the sector. But for exactly the reasons that you have identified, we have increased our highly cited researchers by one in the latest round. That might not sound like a lot but actually it is. It is a huge leap and we need to do more of that. And then the talking that we have been putting out there about the 50 new academics is also part of this process. So immediately reinvesting in new areas, new academics and bringing excellent staff to the University who will want to work with those staff, and who will come because we have highly cited researchers, bringing them onto campus and then having them build teams around them is where we need to go, and we need to do that rapidly and that is why it has to be a campaign around what the University will gain from having 50 new treasures but actually building on the hundred that we already have.

End of Q & A SessionIn closing the Q&A session, the Warden asked the Chancellor to make some concluding comments.

Chancellor:I just wanted to comment on Paul’s announcement that he is not going to accept the Senate’s invitation to extend his contract. Some of you were at the community dinner last week, but most of you probably were not. There will be other opportunities to speak about Paul’s contribution, but I thought it would be remiss of me to let this occasion go without saying a few words because you are such an important part of our University community. I think Paul has done an absolutely wonderful job here at UWA. It has been really a very tough job. Universities, particularly in the


ConclusionFollowing the remarks of the Chancellor, the Warden indicated that there was no further business, and therefore declared the Spring Ordinary Meeting of Convocation for 2016 closed at 8.15 pm.

In his concluding remarks, the Warden thanked the Panel and reminded everyone that the Autumn Ordinary Meeting for 2017 is scheduled to be held on the 17th of March 2017. As that will be the last meeting that he will chair as the Warden of Convocation, he indicated that he looked forward to announcing his successor at that meeting.

He also thanked Juanita Perez, the Convocation Officer, as well as members of the Convocation Outreach Committee for their contribution to the arrangements for the evening and to everyone in the events team from the Office of Development in Alumni Relations for all their efforts behind the scene. He also thanked Manny Tamayo the photographer for the meeting.

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Vice-Chancellor’s reportFirst Ordinary Meeting of Convocation 17 March 2017

Introduction

It is both a pleasure and a privilege to provide my first report as Vice-Chancellor, to the First Ordinary Meeting of Convocation in 2017.

I feel deeply humbled and very privileged to have been selected to lead this dynamic, world class university and I extend my heartfelt thanks to members of the University Senate, Convocation, UWA staff, our students, and many friends of the University for your warm messages of congratulations and support. Whilst recognizing the enormity of the challenge before me, I am very confident that our University is well placed to build on the traditions of the past, continue to deliver on its teaching and research mission and face the competitive and funding pressures with which we are confronted.

Strategic priorities

Executive Team / Key AppointmentsAn immediate priority has been and will continue to be the implementation of structural changes that were approved as part of the Renewal Project in 2016. The new academic structure involving four Faculties and the five structurally aligned Service Delivery Centres has been in place as of 1 January 2017.

The Pro Vice-Chancellor Executive Deans of the four Faculties are now an integral part of your University’s Executive team. Whilst an international search is currently underway to fill two vacancies on the Executive, Professor Grady Venville is the Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Education and Mr Pranay Lodhiya, the Interim Chief Operating Officer.

Recruitment action has also commenced to fill the roles of Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer and Director, Campus Management.

Academic RecruitmentThe global campaign to recruit 50 new academics has now been launched. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research is leading this project and is working closely with the Executive team to identify and shape specific areas of investment for the 50 new academic appointments and to craft the wording of the University-level Research Priorities. Recruitment of these new academics aims to influence a change in culture at the University. It is our intention to tap into our vast internal and external networks to target academics with impact, engaged with data led discovery who work across disciplines. Appointments will be for positions involving teaching or research or both.

Strategies are in place and a budget allocation has also been set aside to help nurture our academics who have the potential to achieve HiCi status and to recruit new ones.

Education StrategyAn Education Strategy Day was held in early February of this year. I am pleased to report that the recently appointed Associate Deans of Teaching and Learning and other key staff involved in shaping and delivering what we anticipate will be a distinctive UWA student experience, were enthusiastic and committed participants in the forum. Discussion and debate was supported with statistical data. Some major and what might be revolutionary concepts for this University, were considered. I look forward to bringing back reports on our progress in implementing these strategies over the course of the coming year.

Financial StrategyThe underlying financial result for UWA in 2016 was a deficit of $1.8 million. This does not take account of the impact of the Renewal Project on the bottom line. Our stronger financial result provides us with the means to embark on a range of exciting new strategic projects across campus such as further enhancements to our informational technology infrastructure, new teaching and research facilities and initiatives that will positively impact the student experience.

I would like to take the opportunity to report on a few such initiatives. Building on the success of the refurbishment of the ground floor of the Reid Library, we are committing funding to refurbishment of the Law Library to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the Law School later this year.

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Visits by federal and state politicians

I had the pleasure of welcoming the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Mark McGowan to our Campus as he announced his international education policy on allocating $2 million over five years to an international student recruitment strategy.

Three Federal MPs, Nola Marino MP, Senator Linda Reynolds and Senator Louise Pratt toured UWA’s world-class facilities such as the Future Observatory and Bloom Lab. On this occasion, the politicians had the opportunity to hear from our staff and students about their impactful and important work.

Federal Minister Ken Wyatt selected UWA as the site to launch an Organ Donation on line registration facility for students, which is part of his overall strategy to encourage organ donation.

Vice Chancellor’s website

2017 is shaping up to be a busy and eventful year. To encourage and enable the UWA community to follow our progress and to stay updated with our strategies, initiatives and all that is happening at this University, I launched the Vice-Chancellor’s website on 21 January. I invite you to visit this website to view my latest videos messages, photographs and accounts of events and activities across the campus and to stay up dated on news from your University.

Professor Dawn FreshwaterVice-Chancellor

Australia Day HonoursWe are delighted to have twelve graduates and a staff member recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours list.

UWA graduate and philanthropist Dr Andrew Forrest and Professor Leon Flicker from UWA’s Centre for Medical Research were among 727 Australians across the country to be recognised.

A full list of recipients of Australia Day Honours who have UWA affiliations is appended. May I take this opportunity to thank Convocation Council for their efforts in promoting and nominating members of the UWA community for such recognition.

Australian-based TED FellowSenior Research Fellow Dr Laura Boykin, from UWA’s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, has been appointed 2017 Senior TED Fellow, one of just 10 people selected worldwide.

TED or Technology Entertainment and Design is a non-profit organisation devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. It began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged and today covers everything from science to business and global issues.

The TED Senior Fellows program is an extended two-year Fellowship program in addition to the TED Fellows program, in which Dr Boykin was named in 2015. Benefits of the TED Senior Fellowship include participation in four additional pre-conferences, attendance at four additional TED events, and the opportunity to deliver a TED Talk.

Dr Boykin is working to save cassava, a food staple that feeds 500 million people in east Africa, from pests and disease. Smallholder farmers rely on cassava for their daily calorie intake but cassava crops are dying at alarming rates.

The Senior Fellowship will enable Dr Boykin to raise awareness of food security issues in sub-Saharan Africa and highlight how genomics and supercomputing are aiding research solutions for smallholder farmers.

Safety on CampusOur commitment to provide a safe and secure environment at UWA remains firm. The Strategy, Planning & Performance team has commenced a policy review to determine the adequacy, impact and gaps in our policies and processes. Discussion with internal representatives and the Student Guild has also taken place to explore the scope and approach, resulting in a draft action plan. This draft will be discussed with various relevant teams, such as Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Student Life, the Complaint Resolution Unit, Health Promotions Unit and Student Guild.

Statement on U.S. Immigration BanWith regard to the new U.S. Executive Order on the free exchange of students, academics and researchers between Australia and the United States of America, I have expressed my support for the position taken by our national higher education peak bodies, the Group of Eight (Go8) and Universities Australia. I am pleased to advise that UWA has joined higher education institutions and colleagues from across the world to express concern about the impact of the new US Executive Order on the free exchange of students, academics and researchers between Australia and the United States of America.

We are proud to be a top 100 global university working with leading academics and institutions from around the world in an effort to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. It would be unfortunate and regrettable if the change in the U.S. immigration policy were to impede our efforts.

WA Netball/West Coast Fever PartnershipLate in December, UWA signed a partnership with WA Netball/West Coast Fever. I am proud to report that this is the first partnership deal between an elite female sporting team and a tertiary education institution in WA women’s sport. This partnership also means that UWA joins other major club partners such as City of Perth and Telstra in raising the profile of women’s sport.

Apart from featuring the UWA logo on West Coast Fever-branded apparel, this three-year partnership deal includes work placement opportunities for UWA students as well as student and staff volunteering prospects at key Netball WA and West Coast Fever events. This is truly a unique opportunity that would provide benefits to both UWA and the wider community.

A sum of $7 million has been committed to the refurbishment of the Medical and Dental Library to provide a vibrant student hub and a strong presence for the University on the QEII Medical Centre Campus. The Honorable John Day and Mr Peter Tinley joined us for the formal commencement of this project. The opening of this state-of-the-art teaching and learning facility will be just one in a series of events to celebrate the 60th anniversary of our medical school.

Other achievements

International Recognition – UWA Business SchoolThe Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is one of three leading international bodies that accredits business schools around the world. I feel sure you will share our pride in the news that our UWA Business School has recently received confirmation that its accreditation by this body has been renewed for a further five year period.

The AACSB accreditation recognizes the international standard of the School’s mission, operations, faculty and programs. It is the result of the dedication and hard work of many current and former Business School staff.

Athena SWAN program at UWAThe University is engaged in an important gender equity initiative, the Athena SWAN program. This international program provides accreditation to institutions that actively support gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) disciplines. Athena SWAN is an important way for UWA to ensure equitable access and contribution to the education and research activities of the university. It will also position UWA, our academics, students, graduates and research outcomes for broader recognition by the community, employers and funding bodies. Whilst focusing on STEMM, Athena SWAN provides us with an opportunity for broader reflection and potential extension of initiatives across other disciplines.

The pilot is being supported by the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) initiative of the Australian Academy of Sciences. The pilot includes twenty-five universities, five medical research institutes and two government agencies.

At UWA, we recently completed the first phase of quantitative data analysis, to reflect on the factors impacting on the attrition of women and other under-represented groups in STEMM. Results from this exercise will be used to refine the next phase of data collection, which will be utilised to develop an action plan to boost the participation of under-represented groups in STEMM. In addition, we are conducting a policy review and planning workshops that will help us to understand the experience and cultural settings that have an impact and identify actions for a draft action plan.

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Appendix A. UWA Graduates and Staff recognised with Australian Honours

Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)• Dr Fred Affleck , AO (Adjunct Professor & Chair of the

Advisory Board for WA’s Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC) at UWA): For distinguished service to the transport and logistics industries through leadership roles, to policy development and planning, and as a supporter of the performing arts

• Professor Leon Flicker, AO (Winthrop Professor of Geriatric Medicine, and Director of Western Australian Centre for Health & Ageing): For distinguished service to medicine and medical education in the field of geriatrics, as an academic and researcher, and through contributions to improved dementia prevention and care

• Dr Andrew Forrest, AO, CitWA (BA 1983; HonDLitt 2014): For distinguished service to the mining sector, to the development of employment and business opportunities, as a supporter of sustainable foreign investment, and to philanthropy

• Professor Colin Masters, AO (BMedSc 1968; MB BS 1971; MD 1978; HonDLitt 2008): For distinguished service to medical research through international and national contributions to understanding Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases

• Emeritus Professor Tracey Horton, AO (BEc (Hons) 1986): For distinguished service to business and business education through a range of leadership and academic roles, and to the arts in Western Australia

Awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM)• Mrs Alison Doley, AM (BEc 1965): For significant service to

conservation and the environment in Western Australia through revegetation and catchment recovery initiatives

• Mr Bruce Maslin, AM (BSc 1968; MSc 1977): For significant service to botany, particularly in Western Australia, as a research scientist, and as an author

• Mr Christopher Pye, AM (LLB (Hons) 1973): For significant service to the tourism and hospitality industry in Western Australia through leadership roles, and to the community

• The Hon Eric Ripper, AM (BA 1974; DipEd 1975): For significant service to the people and Parliament of Western Australia, particularly through budgetary reform, native title policy, and energy sector developments

• Mr David Stanton, AM (BEc 1971): For distinguished service to public administration, to social policy development, and as an academic.

Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)• Mrs Jennifer Aramini, OAM (BSc 1974; DipEd 1975):

For service to youth, particularly through charitable organisations

• Mr William Bunbury, OAM (DipEd 1972): For service to the broadcast media, and to the Indigenous community of Western Australia

• Dr David Hough, OAM (BA 1975; MBA 1984; PhD 2013): For service to the performing arts as a journalist and author

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Introduction

I would like to thank the Convocation Council for inviting me to present this report at the First Ordinary Meeting of Convocation for 2017, and I look forward to watching the relationship between the UWA Student Guild and Convocation continue to build on its prior strengths. The Warden, Warren Kerr, and the whole Convocation Council have been exceedingly warm and welcoming to me coming into the role of Guild President, and I would like to take this opportunity to show my appreciation for their continued support.

I am Nevin Jayawardena and I am honoured to be the 104th Guild President. I started at UWA in 2012 and recently completed by Bachelor of Science (Engineering) and I am now doing a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. This is my sixth year at UWA now and I have two years left after my study leave this year.

In this report I will cover the plans that my team and I have for the year, some of the external challenges we anticipate and our desire to strengthen our relationship with Convocation.

104th Guild Council

The Guild is comprised of passionate and innovative students who have a desire to improve the student experience at UWA.

The 104th team:

President Nevin Jayawardena

Vice-President Megan Lee

Treasurer Alexandra O’Brien

Secretary Vinuri Gajanayake

Chair Of Guild Council Jack Looby

Education Council President Lina El Rakhawy

Societies Council President Michael Kabondo

Postgraduate Students’ Association President

Owen Myles

WelfareOfficer Tyson McEwan

International Students’ Service Director

Darryl Loke

WomensAffairsOfficer Hannah Matthews

EnviromentOfficer Sean O’Leary

PrideOfficer Rigel Gio Medequiso Paciente

PrideOfficer Tonia Curby

Residential Students’ Department President

Matthew Cransberg

Wa Student Aboriginial Association Chair

Sophie Coffin

Immediate Past President & Senate Representative

Maddie Mulholland

Ordinary Guild Councillor Bryan Quah

Ordinary Guild Councillor Dionel Arun

Ordinary Guild Councillor Michael McKenzie

Ordinary Guild Councillor Joseph Chan

Ordinary Guild Councillor Justin Workman

Ordinary Guild Councillor Lewis Hutton

Ordinary Guild Councillor Luke Andrew

Ordinary Guild Councillor Pheobe Ho

Ordinary Guild Councillor Reece Gherardi

Ordinary Guild Councillor Zena Ibrahim

Guild President’s reportAutumn Ordinary Meeting 17th March 2017

Working in partnership

The Guild and Convocation has a strong history of working in partnership to improve the UWA experience. Over quite some time now, the Guild President and the PSA President have had the opportunity to present on the Guild’s activities to Convocation Council monthly. It has been an effective way for the Guild to show what current students are doing and link alumni back to the University.

We have also taken further steps to work together, which strengthen this natural bond between current and past students. On 4 March 2017, we celebrated Convocation Day and to recognize the relationship between Convocation and the Guild, I was invited to plant a tree. This is commencing tradition since 2016 where the Guild President plants a tree on Convocation Day every year, which is an exciting, meaningful and permanent way to show the importance of our relationship.

The Guild and Convocation will always be seeking new ways to better engage the UWA community, including not only current students but also alumni.

2017 Guild strategic projects

Since 2013, Guild Executives have developed many different platforms for Strategic Transformation, and over the years we have narrowed it down three key strategic platforms being:

• Visibility & Value• Representation & Effective Engagement• Operational Excellence

These key strategic platforms will form the basis of a new long term strategic plan for the Guild. This year the Guild will be looking to develop a formal three-year long term strategic plan that focuses on the three areas listed above. This plan will encompass all services and facilities that the Guild offers to its members.

Visibility and Value

The Guild currently has the high rate of 96% membership, and we seek to provide services, support and value to all students at UWA. As a part of this, the Guild continually reviews its services and initiatives to ensure that what we provide is current, relevant and provides real value back to students.

Currently the Guild offers a wealth of support services, opportunities to get involved, and representation on many different committees and boards within the UWA Community. This year, we will be focusing on communicating value, and

assisting students in to better identify the range of services provided by the Guild. We have a dedicated Engagement department that is constantly seeking for new ways to deliver key information in a more concise and effective manner.

Two of the most significant points of contact between the Guild and students is our online presence, and food and drink. This year there has been a complete overhaul in our messaging and branding; The Guild’s name and message will be spread far and wide. ‘Experience Student Culture’ is our tagline and through various social media mediums as well as print and even merchandise, we will be promoting this message!

The Guild also operates the Tavern, Refectory and seven cafes/kiosks, plus a variety of food vans for flexibility and variety. Since 2013, we have been moving away from the previous structure of serving the same foods in all cafes, to a more bespoke model where each outlet provides its own unique experience. Over 2016 and even more so this year, we have been updating our menus to be more in line with what both students and staff want to see on campus and offering variety and quality that is fitting for a top 100 university.

We are surveying students’ feedback on these changes, and will continue to evolve the offerings based on this feedback.

RepresentationandEffectiveEngagement

The UWA Student Guild is the peak representative body for all students at UWA. Therefore, it is important that our voice is representative of the diversity of students we have. Continuing on from the work of previous Guild Councils, we will also focus on:

• Assisting the Access and Ethno-cultural collective become a Guild department in the near future.

• Bringing back the Student Parents department and conducting a survey to see what support services student parents are looking for at UWA.

• Continuing to assist the Mature Aged Students Association and the WA Student Aboriginal Corporation (WASAC) with their activities.

Better engaging with College Residential Clubs and ensuring that College students not only have access to Guild support services but that they are effectively communicated.

Fundamentally, Guild Council endeavours to be consultative on all levels and affect changes and improvements based on a diversity of perspective and needs from the student body. UWA is so fortunate to have such a diverse cohort of students


range of low-barrier activities that allow students to meet new people as well as innovative techniques to communicate essential information to commencing students.

ODAY

In 2016, we had approximately 9000 students attend, 220 stalls, a food van village and carnival rides, which were incredibly popular. This year we have not only managed to secure the same amount of stalls but we also have Uber and Westpac sponsoring the event and many more freebies to hand out to both commencing and returning students. We have slightly reconfigured our site plan to accommodate more stalls on James Oval and again introduced a carnival ride with a range of different food vans.

ODAY Festival

For the first time in five years, the Guild will be running a Festival after ODAY on Oak Lawn to give students the opportunity to properly celebrate the commencement of a new chapter in their lives. We have some big names in the local music industry coming down and the event will be free for all Guild members! This event will raise the profile of orientation at UWA and give students another opportunity to have a small taste of what to expect over their time at UWA.

Club Carnival

In week 2, we will be running our annual Semester One Club Carnival, which is a smaller version of O-Day held on Oak Lawn, designed to attract returning students (who don’t typically attend O-Day), and provide students who signed up to student organisations on O-Day to come back and find out more about what they do.

PROSH

This year is the 86th anniversary of PROSH! This year’s theme is PROSH WARS (STAR WARS). Our PROSH Directors Skevos and Angela, and Editors Rae & Dom are busy running Writer’s Nights and liaising with our four charities: Ronald McDonald House, Millennium Kids, CARAD (Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees), and SARC (Sexual Assault Resource Centre).

Volunteering

Guild Volunteering has hundreds of partnerships and programs, and engages with approximately 6000 students every year. Our programs run from one-off micro-volunteering initiatives that students can do in their lunch breaks, to regular programs that students can run as Program Directors. This year there will be a particular focus on expanding the

and it is through this diversity and effective representation and engagement that our Guild will become stronger achieve great results.

Operational Excellence

Strong commercial and administrative operations are essential for us to have the funds and structure to support students and run initiatives. To achieve this, we have a range of projects that we will carry through 2017:

• We have completed a successful transition and training of the 104th Guild Council. This included topics such as governance, strategic planning, risk management, and finance.

• We have established a new Audit and Risk Committee.• Introduction of a new Occupational Health and

Safety Officer.• We have introduced Task, a point of sale software that will

link in with Netsuite to provide us better management of and data from our commercial outlets.

• Renewal of the Guild website and introduction of a new app, which will be a one-stop-shop for all extra-curricular, catering and support services offered through the Guild.

• Reform of the Guild Regulations to bring them in line with good governance practices and current structures.

Operational Excellence is evidently vital to the smooth management of business. With an increase in income this year, the Guild is looking to improve and expand and we have dedicated staff and committees to ensure that we operate efficiently and to a high standard.

2017 Events

The UWA Student Guild is well known within WA and nationally as a Guild that fosters exceptional campus culture. I am proud to report that in 2016, the Guild and our affiliated Clubs and Faculty Societies collectively ran over 1000 diverse events for students, and we are set for a similar figure for 2017 as well! We have a range of events and initiatives lined up for this year that will really propel us into becoming a leader in providing students with the best possible university experience.

Orientation

The Guild’s number one priority this year, is to ensure that the Guild supports all students and that each and every student does not spend their whole degree attending classes and then going home. Attending university is much more than just getting a degree, it’s about meeting new people, developing skills, giving back to the community, getting involved, and having fun. The Guild plays a pivotal role in building this culture and in Orientation this year we have introduced a

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education is developed for students. Students are the main beneficiaries of increasing the quality of [higher education]. Students should have more impact in decision-making and governance of higher education, which must be a community of students and professors who are equally responsible for its quality.” [Budapest Declaration: Governance and Student Participation. 21st European Student Convention – February 2011]

Through this partnership model, the relevant Universities and Student Unions have seen tremendous success. The partnership is not so much of a contract but more of a guide of how the two bodies will interact with each other. Even now in Australia, groups have started to analyse this model and are in the early stages of putting together a national framework.

I want UWA to be one of the first Universities in forming a similar partnership so that student representative can be active and able ambassadors of positive change for other students. This partnership will more strongly encourage a deep appreciation and respect for the student voice and hopefully ensure that not only is the student voice heard but also sought at all levels of decision making within the University. It will give us timely access to information and an opportunity for genuine and meaningful engagement.

Over this year, I will be working with the VC to develop this partnership and hopefully students will see the dawn of a new and improved UWA.

Conclusion

Thank you very much for the opportunity to present this report and share with you the current activities of the Guild and students at UWA. I wish all members of Convocation and the Convocation Council the best for 2017, and I look forward to engaging with you throughout the year. If you have any questions about this report, or would like to know more about what the Guild is doing, please do not hesitate to email me: [email protected].

Nevin Jayawardena Guild President UWA Student Guild

Program Directors initiative by having more students thinking about how they would like to give back to the community by running their own program with the support of the Guild. Guild volunteering provides millions of dollars of impact to the WA community. We are always looking for more volunteering opportunities, especially skills based volunteering that students can do to complement their studies.

Capital development

Since 2013 the Guild has been going through phases of a Masterplan that aims to refurbish and upgrade various Guild buildings. Over last year we saw the opening of the Club Collaborative Zone (CCZ) as we as a significant refurbishment of the Tavern, Quobba Gnarning Café (Reid Café), and Hackett Café.

This year we are receiving 50% of the total SSAF collected. We plan to use these additional funds to refurbish the refectory and introduce a range of new independent brands that will raise the profile of the Guild and by extension UWA. This is a student led project, which will ensure diversity, affordability and quality is maintained. We hope to receive approval from the University Executive and open the new space at the commencement of Semester Two this year.

We have also developed a long term capital expenditure plan that includes both cosmetic and functional upgrades to the Guild Village precinct, Guild Village Café and a complete refurbishment of Cameron Hall.

The Guild has a vision and a strategy in place to continually improve student spaces, as well as food and drink on campus. This strategy is set by students for students and the Guild being an agile and very capable organization means that we are able to quickly introduce changes that will positively affect students. We have a thorough and on the ground understanding of what the demand and with sufficient funding and support we hope to deliver this over the coming years.

The partnership

The Partnership is a new initiative that I intend to make my main priority for this year. Currently in most UK Universities there exists a formal document that outlines a partnership between the University and its students. It emphasises that students are no longer just consumers of education but today we are active learners that are offered an opportunity to be a part of the decision-making process.

“Students are not consumers of higher education, but significant components within it. Consumers are not involved in the management of process, but students are co-responsible for higher education management, as higher


Professor Freshwater was selected from a strong field of candidates identified through an extensive international recruitment process. A large initial field was reduced to a smaller number for more detailed evaluation and the Senate Selection Committee ultimately concluded that Professor Freshwater was the best qualified candidate for the job.

Professor Freshwater brings considerable global experience in the higher education sector and has an intimate knowledge of the workings of the University, and its people, after leading the UWA Renewal Project.

Prior to moving to Western Australia to take up the position of Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Freshwater served as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Staff and Organizational Effectiveness, Professor of Mental Health and Head of the School of Healthcare at the University of Leeds.

Professor Freshwater received her doctorate at the University of Nottingham in 1998. She was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2001. She was also a panel member of the United Kingdom’s inaugural research excellence framework which assessed the impact and translation of research.

Professor Freshwater’s research has focused on two key themes; these being psychological therapies research and offender health research. She is also a passionate champion of the Athena Swan initiative which aims to increase the number of women in senior academic positions.

Following the decision by Senate on Monday 16th January, Professor Freshwater commenced her 5-year term as UWA’s Vice-Chancellor on Tuesday 17th January 2017.

On behalf of Convocation Council, I forwarded a message of congratulations to Professor Freshwater on the morning of Tuesday 17th January. With her appointment as Vice-Chancellor, Professor Freshwater’s becomes an ex-officio member of the UWA Senate, and as a consequence, a member of Convocation. I therefore also extended a warm welcome to our newest member of Convocation

An invitation to Professor Freshwater to meet with Convocation Council has been deferred until the completion of the Convocation elections when the new Warden and Council members commence their term on 17th March 2017.

Introduction

Since the Spring Ordinary Meeting of Convocation held in September last year, there have been a significant number of issues concerning the University reported in the press. Many of these issues and the actions being taken by the University are outlined in the Vice-Chancellor’s report for this meeting.

Although I am sure that all members of Convocation are vitally interested in the actions being taken to address these issues and the resultant impact on the University’s reputation, I will not duplicate coverage of these matters in my report.

The consistent advice provided by Convocation Council throughout this period has been for the University to communicate directly with graduates so that all members of Convocation are aware of the facts and the reasons for the actions being implemented rather than having to rely on metropolitan or suburban newspapers for this information.

New Vice-Chancellor

One of the most significant changes that has occurred since the last Ordinary Meeting has been the appointment of Professor Dawn Freshwater as the 18th Vice-Chancellor of UWA.

For the past three years prior to her appointment, Professor Freshwater has been the University’s Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Registrar and more recently Acting Vice-Chancellor, following the decision by Professor Paul Johnson not to continue as Vice-Chancellor.

Wardens Report For Ordinary Meeting of Convocation March 2017

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• The requirement that the majority of the Senate must not be students or staff has been deleted.

2. A Nominations Committee has been formed (comprising not more than 6 Senators) with the charter to nominate future members of the Senate. However, elected staff, students, members elected by Convocation and the Chair of Academic Board are explicitly excluded from membership of the Nominations Committee.

3. Remuneration of Senators. Senators can now be paid remuneration and allowances as determined by the Salaries and Allowances Tribunal.

4. Convocation Membership has been modified to restrict memberships to past and present members of Senate, graduates of UWA, those who are members before the amendments come into operation, and persons the Senate admits to Convocation.

5. Convocation’s role in relation to Statute changes: While Convocation’s role in commenting on Statute changes proposed by the Senate has been retained, the time allowed for this has been reduced from 3 months to 28 days.

Given that the initial drafts of this legislation eliminated Convocation entirely, the enacted provisions pertaining to Convocation (while diminished in some areas) validate the action taken by Convocation Council to make the Government aware of the need for Convocation to be preserved and reinvigorated.

Convocation Day

Convocation Day celebrates the anniversary of the first meeting of Convocation which was held on 4th March 1913. This year, Convocation Day fell on a Saturday in weeks surrounded by graduations. As a result, a decision was taken to undertake only a low-key celebration with the intention to plan for a more significant event in future years.

This year we continued the annual tradition of inviting the President of the Guild to plant a tree on the campus to symbolise the close working relationship between Convocation and the Students Guild. A young oak tree was planted by UWA’s 104th Guild President, Mr Nevin Jayawardena, in a prominent location on Oak Lawn.

This was followed by a celebratory function on the verandah of the Convocation Council Room in the Irwin Street Building.

Convocation Council believes the annual tree planting to celebrate Convocation Day is fitting for a University known for its beautiful grounds. The timing is also apt, with the

Annual Report of UWA

In addition to the reports presented at the Ordinary Meeting of Convocation, another important document which aims to provide an overview of UWA activities and the progress it is making to achieve its objective of becoming one of the world’s top 50 universities by 2050 is the Annual Report. Copies of the Annual Report were recently finalised and will shortly be tabled in State Parliament. Once the report is tabled in Parliament, it will be available online for members of Convocation on the UWA website at annualreport.uwa.edu.au/annual-report-2016

Later in the month, a limited number of printed copies of the Annual Report for 2016 will be available from the Convocation Office. Please advise the Convocation Officer Ms Juanita Perez if you would like to receive a copy.

Amendments to the UWA Act

On 13th October 2016, consideration of the Universities Legislation Amendment Bill was completed by State Parliament which resulted in a number of amendments being made to the UWA Act, which forms the constitution of our University.

The Bill received Royal Assent on Wednesday 19th October 2016 and was proclaimed on 2nd January 2017.

The main changes which impact on Convocation are as follows:

1. Composition of the UWA Senate.• The Senate is reduced in size from 21 to 17;• Most terms for members of the Senate are now 3 years

(down from 4 years), while the usual maximum tenure remains as 3 terms (however this now means 9 years instead of the previous 12 years);

• Those members that can be co-opted by the Senate have been increased from 3, to no more than 5;

• Those members of the Senate appointed by the Governor have been reduced from 4 to 3;

• Staff-elected members have been reduced from 3 academic and 1 non-academic staff, to 1 academic and 1 non-academic.

• The number of Senate members elected by Convocation have been reduced from 4 to 2,

• Members of the Senate elected by Convocation are no longer permitted to be UWA staff-members (previously they could not be ongoing or fixed term academic staff);

• The number of student elected positions on Senate have been reduced from 3 to 2.

• A provision has been added that at least 4 members of the Senate must be UWA graduates;

event falling at the same time as UWA graduation ceremonies – ceremonies where graduands receive their degrees and automatically become members of Convocation.

PROSH Party

Another initiative aimed at supporting the Guild and strengthening the relationship with Convocation has been to promote PROSH and assist in raising funds for the charities nominated by the Guild each year.

As you may be aware, PROSH first commenced in 1931 when the Guild decided to replace some defunct Graduation Day events with a procession, stunts and a “skit show” all highlighted in a satirical newspaper. While a number of these aspects continue, the “skit show” performance is no longer undertaken.

In considering how best Convocation can support PROSH, one of the ideas suggested was for Convocation to work in conjunction with the Guild to organise a revival of the “skit show” by using the many talents of the drama clubs and musical groups on campus to put together a satirical revue which could be performed on the evening of PROSH Day. The intention is for it to become the regular way in which graduates (most of whom would be at work during the day) could return to UWA to contribute to PROSH by attending a

sit-down meal to which all graduates would be invited, with all profits going to the charities nominated by the Guild.

As PROSH will be held next Wednesday 22nd March, I wish to encourage all members of Convocation to support this annual event, by buying the newspaper and contributing generously to the students collecting funds for the nominated charities.

Communication Challenges

Because all members of Convocation are life-time members of the University and therefore an integral part of UWA, communication with graduates and the other members of Convocation is viewed as vitally important in keeping everyone informed of the challenges facing the University and the actions being taken to address these challenges.

Like all organisations, UWA now uses a variety of electronic and printed material to communicate with its target audience. Finding the right balance between these two methods is one of the current challenges being considered by the University.

Over the past 18 months, a number of reviews have continued to ensure that the University is achieving the optimum balance in fully informing those graduates who wish to be informed without unduly annoying those do not wish to be bombarded by emails, letters and magazines from UWA.

UWA Magazines Review

One of the most important of these decisions with respect to communicating with graduates was the review initiated by the University to evaluate the magazines that it produces, including the Uniview magazine that is distributed to all graduates.

As the elected representatives of graduates, Convocation Council has been one of the main groups consulted as part of the review, in order to provide feedback on the content, format and timeliness of Uniview.

Based on the feedback derived from these consultative sessions, one of the key recommendations arising from the review is for UWA to continue with printed editions of Uniview but to have it linked to a website in a similar manner to the Bostonia magazine produced by the University of Boston for its graduate community (see bu.edu/bostonia/winter-spring16/)

At the Autumn Ordinary Meeting held in 2016, we thanked the retiring Editor of Uniview, Ms Trea Wiltshire for her significant contribution in facilitating communication between the University and its graduates by presenting her with the Convocation Medal.


Late last year we were pleased to welcome her successor Ms Liz McGrath to the Editor’s role and look forward to working with her to improve the quality of Uniview and overall communication with members of Convocation.

Review of Graduation Ceremonies

Another review of great interest to graduates is that currently underway to improve arrangements for the graduation ceremonies undertaken each year at UWA. This has been prompted by the significant increase in the number of graduation ceremonies resulting from the new course structure with many students now obtaining both an undergraduate and post-graduate qualification (and therefore each attending two graduation ceremonies).

As a result, the number of graduation ceremonies has increased from 7-10 ceremonies in past years, to 25 ceremonies this year. The time and resources required from University personnel to attend and manage this number of ceremonies has become the catalyst for an evaluation of how to improve the process whilst ensuring that the unique UWA graduation experience is maintained and hopefully enhanced.

A Working Group established last year with representatives from all sectors of the University involved with organising graduation ceremonies continues to meet on a monthly basis. Chaired by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Community & Engagement Professor Kent Anderson, this Group also includes representatives of all stakeholders including the Students Guild and Convocation. Specific improvements were trialled at individual graduation ceremonies held during 2016 and based on the positive response, more permanent arrangements are being implemented during 2017. This includes a number of graduation ceremonies being held on Saturdays and shortening the lead-time between the completion of coursework and exams and the date of the graduation ceremony.

WifionCampus

At the last Ordinary meeting, Peter Farr expressed his frustration with not being able to access WiFi during his time on the UWA campus, although he could at many off-campus cafes and coffee shops. In addressing this question, the Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson provided the following response:

“I think it is a very good point. There is a legal constraint which is a tedious one and that is the arrangement that we have as a university with our internet provider which is a company wholly owned by CSIRO, the government and the University, it’s called ARNET. I would like anyone who walks onto campus to have absolutely open and free wifi access. This university

was established in 1911 as the only free university in what was then the British Empire. We cannot replicate it being a free university now but I would dearly love the University to give completely free wifi access to anyone who comes onto campus. At present we are constrained by the access agreements with ARNET but there are some discussions being taken forward around that, and I certainly think that we have a good case to make with ARNET and I know the Warden has been also engaged with this. In terms of members of Convocation as being members of the University and therefore of being included within the trading terms that we have with ARNET so that is something to be looked at.

Since that meeting, I have been seeking to obtain an update on the University’s discussions with ARNET so that I can report some progress on this issue.

Convocation Clubs

One of the initiatives endorsed by Council since the last Ordinary Meeting has been to foster the establishment of Convocation Clubs and Societies for UWA graduates. This strategy is aimed at engendering greater engagement amongst members of Convocation and arose from discussions with the Guild which currently has over 130 clubs and societies. To facilitate the establishment of these clubs, an offer has been made to the Guild for those involved in these clubs as students to continue their activities as members of Convocation. The first club to accept this offer has been the WASTV which focusses on providing members with the skills and equipment required to undertake TV and video productions.

Convocation College

Throughout my term as Warden, Convocation Council has been looking for a way in which Convocation can provide a service that is required by the University that would support graduates, provide a highly visible presence for Convocation and would bring in sustainable income from a new long-term source. After a number of years of mulling over this “value proposition” we believe that we have found a way to achieve all these criteria.

Our proposal is for Convocation to develop a Convocation residential College for UWA graduate students and those graduates who may wish to stay on and develop “start-ups” or undertake further study or research at the University.

Because of the contacts and connections we have established in the building development and construction industry, we have been able to source the entire funding required for this initiative (which could amount to approximately $50 million) and the design and building expertise to make it happen. All that we would need from the University is a suitable site for the Convocation College. Our ideal site would be next to St

George’s College adjoining the original University buildings currently used by the School of Podiatry.

Given that the University’s Strategic Plan supports additional accommodation on the campus so that students (including graduate students) can actively participate in the life of the University, we believe that this initiative should align with the University’s priorities.

By developing and running a College specifically aimed at post-graduates, we believe that we would be addressing a “gap” in the “market” and providing a very visible presence for Convocation on the UWA Campus. In addition, because of the history of Convocation, we would also have an “immediate” set of College alumni who could support the activities of the College.

Initially the Council of Convocation could act as the de-facto Council of the College and therefore have real and meaningful role in the future of the University. We are hopeful that this proposal will proceed and look forward to providing further updates at future Ordinary Meetings.

Ken & Jocelyn Elliott – Kidnapping in Burkina Faso

Last year, we received the disturbing news that UWA medical graduate Dr Ken Elliott and his wife Jocelyn had been kidnapped in Burkina Faso. Both had worked tirelessly over the past 40 years to establish a 120 bed hospital to provide free healthcare services to the impoverished people in the remote area of Djibo close to the border with Mali.

Thankfully during February 2016, Jocelyn Elliott was released following mediation undertaken by the staff of Niger’s Foreign Minister Aichatou Kane Boualama.

However, during January 2017, we noted that Dr Elliott had now been in captivity for one year. At the request of the Australian Government, the University has made no public comment regarding the Elliotts, while negotiations continue for the safe return of Dr Ken Elliott.

Melbourne Rampage Claims Member of Convocation

Another sad event that occurred earlier this year was the needless death of UWA graduate in architecture Matthew Si, who was one of the victims of the rampage in Melbourne’s Burke Street Mall when he was struck by a car driven by Dimitrious Gargasoulas during lunchtime on Monday 20 January. Matthew (33) who is remembered as an outstanding architecture student, had just finished lunch with his wife Melinda when he was struck by the car when they were

walking back to work together. Matthew was employed as an architect in Woods Bagot’s Melbourne studio.

Australia Day Honours List

On a more upbeat note, I am delighted to report that 12 further members of Convocation were recognised in the Australia Day Honours list released during January.

Those accorded Honours are listed in the Vice-Chancellor’s report and have been added to the Convocation webpage which now contains details of all members of Convocation who have been recognised in this way over the past decade. See convocation.uwa.edu.au/order-of-australia-honours

On behalf of Convocation Council, letters of congratulation have been sent to each member of Convocation included in the Australia Day Honours List.

Unfortunately, due to lack of resources, the number of nominations submitted during the past 12 month on behalf of the Convocation Honours Committee was well down on previous periods.

However, suggestions from members of Convocation of those who wish to nominate UWA graduates who they feel should be recognised in this way are always welcome.

Convocation Council

Convocation Council currently represents the membership of Convocation through 21 elected members who are individually elected for a 3-year term with seven Councillors completing their term on a rotating basis every three years. In addition, the Warden of Convocation and the Deputy Warden are elected on an annual basis for a one-year term. Convocation Council comprises the 21 elected members, the Warden and Deputy Warden as well as the Immediate Past Warden, with the Warden of Convocation chairing each monthly Council meeting.

The current members of Convocation Council are as follows:

Warden of Convocation Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AM

Deputy Warden Dr Joan Pope OAMImmediate Past Warden Associate Professor David

HodgkinsonMr Mark Andrich Council Member (2016-2019)Dr Libby Feutrill Council Member (2016-2019)Dr Agi Gedeon Council Member (2015-2019)Dr Susan King Council Member (2013-2019)Councillor Julie Matheson Council Member (2016-2019)Dr Doug McGhie Council Member (2013-2019)

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Ms Nee Nee Ong Council Member (2016-2019)Mr Con Abbott Council Member (2015-2018)Mr Paul Appleton Council Member (2002-2018)Ms Devon Cuneo Council Member (2011-2018)Mr Garry Hawkes Council Member (2015-2018)Mr Peter Robinson Council Member (2016-2018)Ms Diana Salvaris Council Member (2015-2018)Clinical Professor Lesley Cala Council Member (2010-2017)Mr Colin Campbell-Fraser Council Member (2005-2017)Ms Felicity Farrelly Council Member (2014-2017)Dr Brett Davies Council Member (2016-2017)Mr Graham Harmsworth Council Member (2015-2017)Mr James Paparo Council Member (2014-2017)Mr Jonathan Strauss Council Member (2011-2017)Mrs Pauline Tremlett Council Member (1988-2017)

Elections for Convocation Council

As indicated above, each year, seven members of Council (as well as the Warden and Deputy Warden) complete their nominated term and elections are therefore held on an annual basis to fill these positions. The seven members of Council as well as the Warden and Deputy Warden can re-nominate if they wish to continue in these roles.

This year, the following members of Council who will complete their terms in March have decided to re-nominate and contest the annual Election:

Dr Joan Pope Deputy WardenClinical Professor Lesley Cala Council Member since 2010Dr Brett Davies Council Member since 2016Mr Graham Harmsworth Council Member since 2015Mr James Paparo Council Member since 2014Mr Jonathan Strauss Council Member since 2011

The following members have decided not to seek re-election:Mr Colin Campbell-Fraser Council Member since 2005Ms Felicity Farrelly Council Member since 2014Mrs Pauline Tremlett Council Member since 1988

On behalf of Convocation Council, I wish to express our thanks for their contribution over the time they have been on Council. As indicated both Pauline Tremlett and Colin Campbell-Fraser have been long serving members and we shall miss their wise counsel.

In August 2013, Convocation Council took a decision to outsource the conduct of future elections to the WA Electoral Commission. This year because the WA Electoral Commission is otherwise engaged with the State election, we have utilised the resources of CorpVote to organise our election for members of Convocation Council.

In accordance with previous arrangements, the call for nominations was advertised in The West Australian, the UWA News, the December edition of the Alumni Connect and in the latest edition of Uniview.

I am pleased to report that by the closing date for nominations of 12th December 2016, 17 nominations were received from members including two for the position of the Warden of Convocation, one for the position of Deputy Warden and 14 nominations for positions on Convocation Council.

I look forward to the announcement of the election results at the Autumn Ordinary Meeting.

50th Anniversary Luncheon

Convocation is again organising the annual reunion luncheon for graduates who are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their graduation from UWA.

This function has become very popular and all graduates are welcome.

This year the reunion luncheon will be held in Hackett Café (old Ref) at noon on Saturday, 21st October, so mark this date in your diary. All graduates of 1967 will receive an invitation at a later date.

The Convocation Council’s Promotion and Events Committee arranges the function but would welcome volunteers from among the 1967 graduates to join the committee and assist. Please forward your name and phone number to the Convocation Officer, Juanita Perez at the Convocation Office, at [email protected] if you are interested.

Help make this milestone an enjoyable celebration of your academic achievements. We are still trying to trace some ‘lost graduates’ listed overleaf. Anyone knowing the present address of any of these graduates is requested to pass the information to the Convocation Officer. Please note that the names in brackets are maiden names.

Thanks to Convocation Council

As I have decided not to renominate for the position of Warden of Convocation, I will be completing my term at the Autumn Ordinary Meeting. I therefore wish to thank all members of Convocation Council who have contributed to the successful delivery of our roles and functions during the past four years and to commend the splendid support we have all received from the Convocation Officer Ms Juanita Perez in her untiring efforts to implement our requests.

Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr AMWarden of Convocation

50th Anniversary LuncheonArtsElmira A. AbolinsDavid G. AndersenFaye R. BaumwolJanet BellAnne D. BoulterFrank Q. CampbellEdward A. ClelandRonald J. DaviesElizabeth P. DevineHelen EllisAlan R. FeeneyBarbara L. GallopDeborah S. HaganElsie G. HartRobert P. HowieMarjory B. Kristiansen (nee Silver)Yau-Tak A. LeungWendy MillingtonNoel P. MontagueNola A. Nicholls (nee Beckwith)Judith V. Nichols (nee Fitzmaurice)Kathleen O’ConnorVictor C. OostJennifer I. PatersonMervyn B. RegehrRosalind M. ReidJulie C. RobinsDavid F. RodgersPatrick W. ShawLeonie F. SmithWizayaratnam SomasundramElaine D. Spence (nee Haskins)Graham StewartEnid M. StuiverDaniel SymonsRobin A. Waterton (nee Little)Yoke M. WattDeirdre M. WheelerAnne W. Wykes (nee Rumbold)Phaik K. Yeoh

Business SchoolHock W. ChiewAnuja ChintakanandaKah N. ChongMoray J. ClaytonPatricia M. DermodyJohn I. FraserSean GlynnBarbara R. Gold (nee Kamien)

Francis J. HarmanShirley C. HughesDavid J. HutchinsonGie L. KhoChiu K. LamDavid W. MacKinnonJohn D. MacLeanAlan F. Mc CormackIbrahim Mohd Ali Bin MohdTipsuda OsathanondhMaxwell B. RogerSukumaran SomanElysee H. TanSiew H. TeoRonald C. TownsingNguyen D. TuongWilliam A. VaughanKeith F. WaltersKeith R. WilliamsKim L. Wong

EducationEdwin A. BellAlan P. ColeLen EdwardsSharifah M. Ghazali (nee Syed Mansor)Philippa J. HeronIan M. HodgeBernard K. HyamsJohn A. KennedyMaxwell G. KingstonKoon C. LeongGek N. LimHetherwick M. MbaleDonton S. MkandawireRobert E. RuddDiane N. SawGordon R. StoneKatherine R. Wills

Engineering, Computing & MathematicsMohd Zain Bin Mohd NawawiKenneth M. MooreKek C. TaiJoo K. TehKam T. WongAbdul A. Bhuiyan

LawPeter J. Remta

ScienceKok L. AngIan C. BondJeffrey R. CanningChusri ChapanontKen R. ClaytonRodney G. ColemanPaul CreevyNeville J. DemestreSteven B. DommGeoffrey L. DunhamPeter B. FitzpatrickAh M. FooHenry J. FrankElizabeth J. GraySara GreenPaul GregoryDavid G. HiggsChristiaan A. HuppelschotenRobert D. IrvineBridget I. JacksonPeter JamvoldKimberly R. JewellGarry T. KennedyCatherine M. La RocheKwok-Che S. LawChi S. LeungYong S. LimRoss A. MallerMichael T. ManderscheidLee D. MartinPeter F. MartinKey K. NgTerence D. O’DwyerBee J. OngSiew K. Quek Siew Kiat (nee Khoo)Barbara A. RamsayChristopher E. RathboneAbdul Razak bin Mohd SharifGregory J. SpencerFrederick V. SteeleBernard A. StuiverKumar R. SuranderNachiappan ThinakaranMartin A. ThomasTam W. Tong

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2005 Kelly M. Crock1974 John D. Croft1991 Tonia Gloudemans2005 Kate L. Hanley1980 Donita S. Head2008 Simon G. Hepplewhite1990 Emma K. Hondros1986 Penelope A. Hunt1977 Deborah M. Jones2006 David P. Kyle2000 Michael T. Lorraine1991 Leeana Manifis2009 Emma J. McClelland1995 Michael A. McGregor2008 Nicole A. McLeod2006 Jaymi L. O'Loughlin1991 Jodie M. Pritchard2006 Farhana Rahman1989 Amanda Samanek1997 Suzanne Slowiak

Engineering, Computing & Mathematics2012 Badr M. Aljabri1991 Gregory P. Breen1995 Siew F. Chan2007 Eu-Jeen Chin1980 Alan Drabble1975 Christopher D. Elliott2013 Justin W. Gaisford1970 Timothy R. Humphry2011 Abhimanyu Jana2007 Joshua Leeman2009 Thomas P. Mulroney2003 Robert J. Muniz2012 Simon R. Noordhoek1974 Glen I. Pearce2003 Guang S. Qiu1999 Peter J. Ricciardello1995 Alistair C. Rowe2006 Jen J. Siah2005 Steven Su2003 Jonathan C. Tan1999 Scott R. Taylor1991 David M. Teasdale2005 James G. Tourneur2004 Endriko R. Winata2004 Benjamin J. Woffenden2009 Chun Him Timothy Wong2008 Hui Wu1999 Philip C. Yang

Graduate Research School2007 David A. Abdo2008 Inez L. Cregan2007 Graeme J. Doole2003 Janet A. Dunstan2007 Owen C. Ho1960 Robert T. Lange2004 Clelia L. Marti2000 Sally A. McGann2013 Ahmed Mostayed1989 Roy M. Ndebele2010 Vijay Panicker2005 Leslie Podlog1978 Raj P. Sharma2004 Julie Taranto2013 Liang Wang2005 Edward J. Wilson2011 Pipat Wongsaart

Law2007 Tatum L. Burkett1971 Graeme N. Calder1987 Camillo E. D'Angelo1984 Paul J. Dorosz-Summers1995 Herve L. Duval2013 Brett G. Farmer1995 Richard B. Fink1984 Elizabeth A. Henderson2008 Sarah A. Kavanagh1975 Penelope J. Keeley1981 Ross J. Kerferd2005 Jeffrey S. Lee1995 Gavin MacLean1994 Jennifer M. Riseley2011 Evan K. Schnell1993 Olivier Sicouri1999 Chris D. Tylich

Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences2005 Michael C. Allen1961 William Cawley2015 Terry S. Chao1988 Martin J. Croft1988 Moira H. de la Hunty1982 Stephen J. Dunjey2008 Brendan T. Foo2011 Katie A. Foster1997 Siao Yung Hon1981 Arthur J. Jenkins2007 Benjamin A. Juengling2012 Hannah Knausenberger1997 Maria Lam

1990 Alfredo F. Mori2009 Jane P. Mullins1996 Van Huong Nguyen1970 Warwick H. Ruse1990 Stuart A. Smith2002 Benjamin W. Talbot2000 Jason C. Wan

Science1999 Kane R. Arundale1992 Darryl K. Baker1991 Darren S. Baumgarten1998 Kellie J. Bond2008 Dean R. Bradshaw2005 Louise E. Campbell1976 Paul D. Clark2011 Steven G. Clohessy1993 Andre M. Congues1997 Karen R. Crawley2004 Alvin J. d'Almaida2012 Megan A. Erikson1985 Stephen B. Evans1991 Stephen L. Fairbairn1980 Lee L. Foo2007 Dominic L. Foster1977 Barry N. Hanstrum2007 Ryan G. Henderson2006 Adriane Houghton1997 Vincent C. Huang2012 Bryony J. Hutchinson2006 Matthew S. Jackson2013 Harrison J. Jockel1961 Jeffrey O. Knight2007 Jillian Lee2010 Yaodong C. Lun1950 Derek A. Maelzer1977 Ian J. McIntosh2011 Ahmad Taufiq T. Mohtar1997 Michael O'Connell2008 Kathryn E. Owens2005 Karen Parfitt2006 Kerilee Peczka1993 Ann M. Penketh2007 Stephanie A. Robinson2007 Paul J. Rose2013 Liam N. Ryan2005 Timothy J. Sacks2000 Brendan R. Selley1995 Jane M. Short1965 Geoff A. Taylor2013 Shiyuan Wang2005 Cassie E. White1994 Hui Ting Yap

Convocation Officer’s reportThe following is a list of graduates whose current whereabouts have become unknown since the Spring Ordinary Meeting of Convocation on 16 September 2016. Graduates are listed according to the Faculty from which they obtained their latest degree, along with their year of graduation.

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Architecture, Landscape and Visual1999 Alison J. Devellerez1999 Simon P. Dewar2005 Xiaosu Liao2005 Mare D. Luik1999 Neil A. Moncrieff2008 Chi L. Tsang

Arts2000 Naomi L. Adams2005 Leila C. Afonso1971 Hilton W. Anderson1992 Kathleen M. Baruffi2007 Marcel J. Bennington2005 Bree M. Blakeman1981 Donna C. Brookes2008 rence N. Brown1979 Tracey K. Bussey2005 Matthew J. Cahill1977 Alan J. Carter1970 Chaya C. Chulasiriwongs1985 Barbara Dewar1981 Joy A. Edmondson2008 Jakara E. Enders1978 Edward M. Evans1992 Anthony P. Ferguson1989 Brett J. Goldthorpe2007 Evana S. Ho2007 Hannah E. Juengling1975 Theresa B. Knuckey2006 Marlene Kotze1989 Samantha G. Laden1968 Anne M. Lanigan2013 Xue Y. Lei1986 Penelope L. Leiper1981 Brita Lim1999 Emil Mandyczewsky2010 Daniel K. Mccarthy1985 Susan K. McGee1994 Angela Moo2004 Phillipa S. Norton2006 Daniel J. Privilege1995 Jill M. Rundle2005 Charmaine Shack1989 David G. Stewart2006 Sarah E. Sullivan

1949 Elizabeth A. Van Hulssen2003 Peter J. Venn1965 David K. Walker1983 Michael B. Wood2007 Kit H. Yeung

Board of Studies - Bachelor of Commerce2016 Wen Hui H. Chiew2016 Ishaa Sandhu 2016 Kai Xiang Hari Wijaya X. Xu

Business School1973 John R. Athans2009 Michael K. Bailey2007 David J. Bandy1974 Rodney J. Berg1992 Rodney J. Brandenburg1986 Joanne M. Buckley1997 Andrew L. Budzinski1976 John L. Burke2007 Marnie G. Butson2007 Mark Cartoon2013 Rikard N. Dahle1995 Roger P. Dartnell1989 Nikki Day1989 Steven Demiris2011 David L. Edgar2004 Michael J. Ellis1999 Zac J. Farrer1981 Barry W. Farthing2009 Dylan J. Foley1998 Lai W. Foo2004 Lee B. Garber1992 Colin A. Garven2005 Mark Goldman2002 Brett J. Harris1985 Thomas J. Henderson1989 Jean Hii2004 Rachel Huber2003 Blake W. Jaenke2006 Gopinath Jeyaraj2006 Paul A. Jones2000 Amelia Kan1992 Guy S. Kennedy2000 Helen C. Kurz2000 Dayna L. Lee

2006 Mei Y. Lee2003 Janet S. Lee2011 Benedict B. Leong2004 Patrick W. Leung1987 Swee-Sing Ling2003 Michael R. Lwin1999 Jason S. Macdonald2004 Shaun J. Marwick2004 Jodie M. Mason2008 Jessica A. Matacz2000 Gabrielle Mathews2007 Glenn McFadzean2011 Alexander R. McFaull2009 Elise A. Ntoumenopoulos2008 Shermin E. Oksuz2008 Mark T. O'Toole2005 Catherine P. Pazvakavambwa1997 James C. Pollett2002 Joel S. Ridley2009 Matthew E. Rootsey2002 Wayne Scali2004 Martina A. Sedic2013 Jahna A. Spielmanns2009 Jenna D. Stajduhar2004 Lisa M. Tassone1986 Jeremy J. Threlfall2006 Zheng Tian2003 Mark W. Trewhella2008 Dean C. Trewhella1999 Darren A. Tyrrell1978 Ronald D. Van Santen1976 Jean A. Vuattoux1997 Adam G. Wellisch1974 Harald F. Werner2006 Judson I. Williams1990 Sally A. Wood2001 Hwee K. Yeo2008 Yee H. Yung2005 Xue Zhang2012 Mengjiao Zhao

Education2003 Peter R. Altmeier-Mort1969 Ron F. Banks1981 David O. Bird1977 James R. Blue1995 Rodd Boughton


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While past graduates (and the other members of Convocation) may not regard themselves as on-going members of the University, legally this is their status under the UWA Act. The current staff and students are an important part of the University for the duration of their employment or studies, but it is only the members of Convocation who are granted life-long membership of the University.

These members form the electorate for the University which entitles them to vote in elections for the Senate and Council of Convocation, to attend the General Meetings and to review any proposed changes to the UWA Statutes.

This unique relationship has the potential to be a significant distinguishing characteristic for UWA and therefore to enhance the benefits that may accrue to the University and graduates through this association.

HistoryOne of the first universities to establish a Convocation representing all stakeholders with an interest in preserving the reputation and values of the University was at Oxford (the oldest university is the English-speaking world).

The term ‘convocatio’ was first used in the late fourteenth century, but this important part of the governance structure did not become more commonly known as Convocation until the sixteenth century.

UWA ConvocationWhen the legislation for establishing the University of Western Australia was drafted in 1910 under the guidance of Sir John Winthrop Hackett, he included Convocation as the electorate for the University in accordance with these precedents dating back to Oxford University in the sixteenth century.

While minor amendments have been made to the UWA act over the years, Convocation still retains all of its original legal responsibilities, including the right to elect two members of Convocation to the Senate, the responsibility to review any changes to UWA Statutes before they are forwarded to State Parliament for confirmation and the duty to convene two Ordinary Meetings of the University community where all members of Convocation have the right to receive reports from, and question the Vice-Chancellor, the President of the Student Guild and the Warden on any aspect of the University’s operations.

Convocation

What is a Convocation?The general definition of Convocation is a “gathering together for a large formal assembly.” When applied in the context of a university, it refers to those members of the university community who ‘when gathered together in a formal meeting’ are entitled to have input into aspects of the governance of the university such as voting for members of the governing body, attending General Meetings or reviewing major decisions, such as changes to statutes. These rights are generally reserved for graduates of the University who have demonstrated their credentials by gaining a degree.

UWA ConvocationWhen Sir John Winthrop Hackett created Convocation as part of the governance structure of UWA, he ensured that all graduates became life-long members of the University with similar rights to shareholders, having the right to vote for members of the Senate and the Council of Convocation, the right to attend the AGMs of the University (known as the Ordinary Meetings of Convocation) and the right to review any changes to the UWA Statutes.

As a result, the University of Western Australia has a direct relationship with its graduates through Convocation. While many universities view their alumni as external stakeholders, the UWA Act created Convocation as an integral part of the University. In Section 4 of the Act and in Statute 17, it states that the University shall consist of the Senate, the staff, the students and the members of Convocation (principally the 110,000 graduates who have graduated from our University since its foundation in 1913).

Roles of ConvocationIn the current version of the UWA Act and Statutes, Convocation has been assigned five key roles. These can be summarised as follows:

Representative Role • To represent the interests and opinions of members

through effective communication and to present such views to the University and the community of Western Australia;

Governance Role• To encourage members of Convocation to participate in

the governance of the University through the election of Convocation members to the Senate and the review of amendments to University statutes;

Contribution Role• To encourage members to support and contribute to

the intellectual and cultural prosperity of the University community;

Engagement Role• To promote professional and social links between

members of Convocation by creating and supporting opportunities for graduate interaction; and

Promotion Role• To promote the ideals and purpose of the University and

Convocation to graduates and undergraduates, other members of the University and the community of Western Australia.

Membership of ConvocationMembership of Convocation currently covers the following members of the UWA community.• All graduates of the University• All those awarded honorary degrees• All members and past members of the UWA Senate• Persons who have rendered services or made gifts to the

University • Others that the Senate deem worthy of being members

Organisational Structure of ConvocationUnder the provisions of the UWA Act, the roles outlined above are entrusted to a Council of Convocation (comprising 21 members, the Warden of Convocation, the Deputy Warden and the Immediate Past Warden). Each year elections are held for 7 members of Council as well as the leadership positions. All members of Convocation are eligible to be elected for these positions to serve a three year term.

The Council of Convocation meets on a monthly basis and reports back to all members of Convocation at two general meetings (known as Ordinary Meetings) held in March and September each year. Under its constitution (as outlined in the UWA Statutes), certain major decisions can only be approved by Convocation when meeting in full session at these Ordinary Meetings.

The Potential of Convocation Membership The fact that members of Convocation (primarily UWA graduates) are members of the University is the same way as the current staff and students, provides the potential for Convocation to become a significant catalyst within the University for providing a connection to graduates and other members of Convocation to aid life-long learning and an on-going active involvement through mentoring and service learning programs.

Further information regarding the history, roles and responsibilities of Convocation may be accessed at convocation.uwa.edu.au

or from the Convocation Officer

Ms Juanita Perez Convocation OfficerThe Office of Convocation The University of Western AustraliaM362, 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009Tel: +61 8 6488 1336Fax: +61 8 6488 1063Email: [email protected]

or from the Warden of Convocation

Warden of [email protected]

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