Governance

Student participation in Faculty governance of Business and Law

The governance of an organisation is the structure and process which allows planning and decision-making to take place. It is about effective management and accountability to stakeholders.

In the Faculty of Business and Law there is a structure of boards, committees, sub-committees and which control all aspects of the running of the Faculty.

The composition refers to positions that make up board or committee and the membership is who fills them.

The terms of reference refer to what the board or committee does and controls.

Many of the Faculty's boards and committees provide for student participation. This ensures input from our most important stakeholder — you.

The Faculty is seeking expressions of interest from students to fill representative positions on Faculty boards and committees.

Below is a list of Faculty Committees with student representation in their membership with a link to the Composition and Terms of Reference for each:

Faculty Board (18 KB)
Student representatives on Faculty Board must be nominated and elected via the Deakin University e-elections website.

Faculty Board Committees

Other Faculty Committees

Faculty Advisory Boards (73 KB) including:

  • Accounting, Economics and Finance
  • Arts and Entertainment Management
  • Commerce
  • Graduate Commerce
  • Human Resource Management
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • MBA
  • Personal Injury Management
  • Property and Real Estate
  • Retail Management
  • Sport Management

Faculty Advisory Committees to the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law)

Professor Gael McDonald'The Faculty values student participation for a number of reasons. The first is that it enables greater opportunity for interaction between staff and students, but more importantly it enables the Faculty to receive informed advice on how changes in courses, processes or procedures could affect students. Student participation also enables a steady flow of good ideas from students as to how we could be doing things better in the Faculty'.

'The benefits for student representatives on Faculty committees are that students are able to provide valuable input from a student's perspective, thus acting as a representative for the student body, and a voice in key decision making. At an individual level, participation in Faculty committees provides an excellent training ground and the development of skills which will be valuable in future employment.'

Professor Gael McDonald
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law)

Participate in Faculty governance
The students entitled to nominate for a Faculty board or committee must be enrolled in a course offered by the Faculty of Business and Law and must not be full time employees of the University.

If you would like to participate in the governance of the Faculty, complete the expression of interest form.

For more information email bl-committee@deakin.edu.au.

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21st March 2012