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Memorandum of Understanding
The Vice-Chancellors of the University of New South Wales, The University of Sydney, Macquarie University and the University of Technology, Sydney, agree in principle to the immediate establishment of the Sydney Universities’ Consortium of Geology and Geophysics.
The aims of the Consortium will be to promote co-operation in teaching and research; the purchase, housing and maintenance of equipment; joint approaches to government and industry for funding of collaborative research projects and equipment; and liaison on the appointment of academic and certain technical staff.
The Consortium will consist of the Department of Applied Geology, University of New South Wales; the Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Sydney, Geology and Geophysics discipline areas, School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University and the Department of Applied Geology, University of Technology, Sydney, hereafter referred to as the Departments.
Management of the Consortium will be undertaken by a Management Committee comprising two representatives from each Department, one of whom is Head of Department. The Chairperson of the Management Committee shall be a Head of Department and shall hold office for two calendar years and the position shall rotate among Departments. The order of rotation shall be determined by the Committee. Head of Department will have power of veto on matters concerning their own Department. Major administrative matters will be organised as follows:
(a) Finance: Departments will retain control of all funds their University has placed under their control. Funds that are not departmental but which arise from the activities of the Consortium will be held by the University providing the current chairperson; these funds will be transferred biennially when the position of Chairperson rotates.
(b) Academic Programs: Control of individual programs will be handled by the appropriate Department/Faculty/Academic Board within the relevant university. Joint programs developed by the Consortium will be sponsored by a single university, normally the initiating institution, which will receive DEET funding for the program. Compensation for co operative teaching and/or supervision of joint programs may be in the form of exchanges EFTSUs, exchange teaching or direct payment will be handled by the Management Committee.
(c) Academic Staff: Each university will employ its own academic staff. The Chairperson of the Management Committee (or nominee chosen by the Committee from one or other of the universities, where the Chairperson is from the university making the appointment) will participate as an advisory member in the academic staff selection processes.
(d) Equipment: The purchase and use of joint equipment will not be undertaken without approval of the Management Committee.
Any matter which becomes the subject of a dispute or is identified by the Management Committee as being beyond its capacity to resolve shall be referred to a committee of the four Vice-Chancellors for determination.
Immediate establishment of the Consortium will enable the purchase of joint geophysical equipment from Category C funds obtained in December 1990, and will allow formal approaches for financial support to be made to Government and industry.
The Academic Boards and Councils/Senates of the four participating universities will be advised of these arrangements. The Management Committee will report by 31 March each year to the Vice Chancellors of the four participating universities on the operations of the Consortium in the preceding calendar year. The effectiveness of Consortium operations will be reviewed by the Vice-Chancellors of the four universities after a period of three years.
This agreement shall remain in force until replaced by a more detailed agreement or until repealed either by agreement of the four participating universities or by the withdrawal of one of the participating universities provided that the withdrawing university gives six months notice of such withdrawal.
Signed by the Vice-Chancellors of; The University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Macquarie University and University of Technology, Sydney. 23 April 1991.
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