The Faculty of Business and Economics operates on the Berwick, Caulfield,
Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula campuses in Australia, the Monash Malaysia
campus near Kuala Lumpur and the new campus near Johannesburg, South Africa, as
well as in Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore. It has approximately 13,000
students and offers a wide range of undergraduate degrees and diplomas,
executive certificates, graduate certificates, graduate diplomas,
postgraduate diplomas, masters degrees by research and by coursework and the
doctor of philosophy degree. These courses are available through a range of
flexible learning study methods, including distance education and open
learning, as well as the more traditional on-campus study.
The mission of the faculty is to use its scale, scope and unique internal
diversity to become an international leader in the pursuit, dissemination and
analysis of knowledge, particularly in the disciplines of accounting, banking,
business law, business statistics, econometrics, economics, electronic
commerce, finance, international business and international trade, management,
marketing, taxation and tourism. By the application of that knowledge, its
staff and students will contribute to the economic, social and commercial
development of Australia and other countries.
The term ´Faculty of Business and Economics' in the wider sense includes
all students enrolled for degrees, diplomas and certificates offered by the
faculty, and all staff (academic, administrative, technical and clerical)
attached to the campuses which make up the faculty.
The faculty is a body established under university statute. It comprises
members of the teaching staff and other persons as appointed by the university
Council. The responsibility for making academic decisions in the faculty lies
with the faculty board, which comprises heads of departments, faculty heads on
the various campuses, appointed and elected members of the teaching staff,
elected members of the general staff, student members (international,
undergraduate and postgraduate), nominees of other faculties and the library.
Except in certain matters on which it has power to act, the faculty board makes
recommendations to the Education Committee and to the Academic Board and
through the Academic Board to the Council of the university.
The faculty also has a number of committees, including an executive committee,
undergraduate and graduate studies committees and committees for research,
library, technical and computer services, budgets, quality assurance, equal
opportunity and affirmative action, credit transfer, and advertising and public
relations.
The dean, as chief executive officer of the faculty, provides academic
leadership to the faculty, presides over meetings of the faculty board and its
committees and exercises a general superintendence over the educational and
administrative affairs of the faculty.
The faculty general manager is responsible for the overall administration of
the faculty in conjunction with the faculty registrar and the director of
finance and resources. The registrar is responsible for matters relating to
university statutes, regulations, the provision of advice on policy to faculty
board and its related committees and student services management. The faculty
registrar, together with the managers, undergraduate studies, graduate studies,
research and higher degrees, campus managers students administration and the
administrative staff, are available to attend to the needs of both
undergraduate and graduate students within the faculty. The director, finance
and resources is responsible for the efficient and effective management of the
faculty's financial, technical, and resource activities. The human resource
management group manage the personnel matters of the faculty.
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