Issue 4, Wednesday 14 May 2003

Put Your Best Foot Forward 

Now is the time for all Monash Staff to put their best foot forward and join Occupational Health Safety & Environment (OHSE) and Monash Sport in the annual campus walks.  These walks are part of the OHSE health promotion program, which encourage staff to lead a healthy lifestyle.

This year all participants have the chance to win a pair of Adidas training shoes personally fitted by an Adidas fitting Specialist.

Caulfield Campus 

Date:  Thursday 15 May

Time:  1.05 p.m.

Venue:  Meet outside the main entrance of S Block Sir John Monash Drive.

Each walk will be approximately 2.5 kilometres and will take about 30 minutes and spot prizes will be awarded during the walk.

A free, healthy, light lunch will be provided for all participants and of course all participants will have an opportunity to win the Adidas training shoes. 

Health information and general information in relation to forming your own walking group will also be available.

What do I bring?  A hat, drink, sunscreen and wear comfortable shoes.

Register with Glenys Denier on ext 51016 or via email glenys.denier@adm.monash.edu.au

If you require further information please contact, via email either Angela Wall angela.wall@adm.monash.edu.au or Ann Tapley, ann.tapley@adm.monash.edu.au

 If you have noted exercised recently or have a serious medical injury, please check with your doctor before registering for the walk. 

Current Building Projects

 Art & Design

Refurbishment works are continuing with internal walls nearing completion, lift installation works continuing and the next external feature canopy commenced.  Works are scheduled for completion in June 2003.  Art and Design printmaking and photomedia facilities will relocate from B5 to the new area during the end of  semester break. 

Refurbishment Building T  

Detailed design and documentation works are almost complete.  Works involved a new three-level extension to the north-east corner of the building, planning for a new lift and a complete fit out of levels 2 and 3 of the building.

Tenders are expected to be called in mid-May with work scheduled to commence in late July.  SIMS will relocate completely from Building S allowing the Faculty of Business & Economics to expand and consolidate within this Building.  Works are scheduled to commence on site in early August 2003 with an anticipated completion in April/May 2004.

Pedestrian Safety Works

Facilities and Services has been working with the City of Glen Eira for a number of years on pedestrian safety improvement works to the intersection of Sir John Monash Drive and Queens Avenue.  Consultation dates back to 1996, with full documentation for the works completed in 1998, with the project failing to go to tender due to a lack of funding.

 Documentation for the works is currently underway again, with the University allocating $50,000 in 2003 for the project and the City of Glen Eira allocating $20,000 this financial year with a further $20,000 proposed for the next financial year.

 An independent assessment of the design undertaken in 1998 was undertaken during 2002, where an amended intersection design and scope of works was developed.  The main design features of the new design covers the following items:

 - Improved linemarking and signage

 - An enlarged central island to ensure increased deflection for through vehicular traffic

 - Kerb realignments in order to slow left turning traffic

 - Improved and enlarged pedestrian refuges on the east and west approaches

 - Installation of tactile pavement markers

 - Zebra crossing markings on the east and west approaches whilst maintaining the southern zebra crossing

 - Installation of amber pedestrian flashing lights to the east, west and southern crossings

(Layout for the new intersection).

 Please contact Bradley Williamson or Rod Thomas on 32124 should you wish to view the proposal in more detail at Facilities and Services in level 1 of Building T.

Work is planned to commence in July 2003.  Obviously during this time further traffic congestion will result at this intersection.  It is anticipated the works will be completed in October 2003.

Music Trivia Night

Come and join in the fun at the  music trivia night  being held at the Gryph Inn (Caulfield Campus) on Friday 30 May from 8.00 p.m. 

The cost is only $10.00 per head and includes supper - drinks at bar prices. Tables of 8 or 10 are available, but if are not able to organise a whole table, your name down and we will place you on a table - family and friends of staff are most welcome. 

It promises to be a great night of fun and music, with terrific prizes to be won.

To secure your table, or for further information please contact Judy Wrenn  on 53041 or Christel Kent  31000. 

A place for spiritual reflection and support ...

Hustle bustle, high-rise buildings and hectic schedules may be what many of us associate with our campus.  Is there time and space for spiritual reflection and support?

The Monash Caulfield Chaplaincy Committee certainly hopes so!  Consisting of staff, students and chaplaincy representative of the religious communities of Monash Caulfield, we work to provide a community focus in developing spirituality for students and staff.  

Our Chaplaincy services include opportunities for worship and meditation; confidential pastoral counselling for spiritual, religious and personal issues; lectures/workshops; and study groups on Scripture, faith reflection and personal growth.

The closer we relate to the campus community, the more effective our services will be!  We welcome feedback and opinions from interested staff and students.  You may like to join the Chaplaincy committee (membership is quite open!), be on our email infor list or at least drop in a suggestion for how we can improve!

For more information or to offer your feedback, please contact:

Joshua Beggs, Chairperson Monash Caulfield Chaplaincy Committee on telephone ext 31498 or email

joshua.beggs@monint.monash.edu.au

or Suzanne Wolf, Manager, Community Services, Caulfield on telephone ext 32500 or email:

suzanne.wolf@adm.monash.edu.au

Upcoming Courses Workshops  

Managing My Career

The Library has arranged for Sue Brown, Manager Staff Development Unit to present a lunchtime talk on the topic "Managing My Career" in the Clayfield Room on 16 May at 12.00 p.m.

Staff from other departments are invited, to book or for further information please contact Winifred Hirst on 32830. Bookings by 12 May 2003. Please note, participants are welcome to bring their lunch, as catering is not provided. 

First Aid Level 1 Course

Occupational Health, Safety & Environment have scheduled a First Aid Level 1 course to be conducted at Caulfield. The details of the course are as follows:-

Date: Thursday, 3 July
Time: 8.30am - 4.30pm
Venue: Clayfield Room (A1.34)
Course Code: FA12003003
Cost: $65

If anyone is interested in attending the above course, could you kindly complete a 'Course Enrolment' form and forward this to Lynne Peterson, OHSE, Clayton as soon as possible. The course enrolment form can be
downloaded from the following OHSE website:-

www.adm.monash.edu.au/ohse/training&videos/2003enrolment

Second Semester Textlist 2003 

  Please contact the Bookshop on ext 32147 or email Alison Woollard at alison.woollard@monyx.com

for all your textbook requires for Semester Two subjects for 2003.  Online textbook submissions  can be found at the following address:

www.citsu.bookshop.com.au/TextbookList.html

IMPORTANT  The Bookshop must have a textbook list for students to be eligible for the 8% textbook rebate

The Bookshop does not assume the re-use of any text therefore A FORM MUST BE SUBMITTED EACH SEMESTER.  Please complete a separate form for each subject listing all set texts and recommended titles.

Specify Monash Notes/Course Readings if required and print job number (if known).

Specify if a particular edition is required otherwise it is assumed that you require the most recent edition.  If you need a desk copy please contact the Orders Office who will put you in touch with the appropriate supplier.

Airfreight charges of up to $10.00 per book can be avoided if we receive a list 12 weeks before the commencement of semester.

Lists are to be signed and returned NO LATER THAN FRIDAY 30 MAY 2003.   Submit your textbook list by the due date and you will automatically go into the draw to win 1 dozen bottles of fine wine valued at over $200.00.  

Campus Notes

Accounting & Finance

 The department of Accounting & Finance recently conducted a half-day program for 20 National Australia Bank graduates in the Department's Treasury Dealing Room as part of their one week graduate training program.  Students traded foreign exchange with "winner take all" prize of $250.00.

The program was very successful in terms of its educational format, with this the first of many anticipated future programs.  

Caulfield Chaplain Passes Away

Reverend Stephen Tay, Minister of Caulfield Presbyterian Church, passed away on 17 April.  He was for many years a Chaplain to international students on the campus, providing caring support and guidance.   He will be sadly missed.  Sympathies are extended to his family and parish.  

Seminars 

Department of Accounting & Finance  advise the following Research Seminar Programs:

The Department of Accounting & Finance  advise the following Research Seminar Programs:

16 May Professor Michael Bradbury UNITEC Institute of Technology

The impact of legislation changes on earnings management to avoid earnings declines and earnings losses. 

23 May Professor Stephen Taylor University of New South Wales

Author independence and earning management. 

Staff  Profile: Associate Professor Ian Ward

This issue is profiling Associate Professor Ian Ward, who is  the longest serving member of the university, having been at Monash since it opened.

What is your position at the Caulfield Campus?

Associate Professor in economics and coordinator of the Economics Department at Caulfield.

Have you always been located at the Caulfield Campus?

I started at Clayton in March 1961.  There were 40 students in the Faculty of Economics and Politics.  I taught statistics and economics.  In 1999 I moved to Caulfield.  I am pleased to have overseen a doubling of enrolments in Economics at Caulfield during the past four years.

Being the longest serving member of the University, you have no doubt, seen many changes.  What do you see as the three most significant changes (good and bad) at the University?

1.  There is less interaction between staff and students that in earlier days.  Staff seem to be placed under much greater pressure by the bureaucracy with the result that they have little time for students.

2.  The greater multicultural nature of the university particularly at Caulfield.  International students contributed a great deal to the overall environment.  However we must be careful not to pursue revenue at the expense of students not having the required language skills.  

3.  I do not believe that the international character requires a global approach requiring the raising of the Monash flag in every corner of the world.  Investment in basic facilities for teaching and research at the local campuses would do much more for the quality of our work.  Caulfield has achieved so much and could be one of the great campuses in Australia with more financial resources.

What is your favourite quote?

As an economist,  "In the long run we are all dead" (Keynes).

As a human being, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." (Mohandas Gandhi, The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism).

What advice do you give to struggling students?

Learn how university education operates.  Go to orientation and transition activities.  Always go to class and participate in tutorials and interact as much as possible with staff.

What do you like to do in your spare time?

Relax with my wife Tze-miin, play with our child Sabrina Minglee, potter in the garden and plant trees for the betterment of the natural environment.

Thank you Ian for your time.  If  you would like to participate in the "Staff Profiles of Caulfield Campus" please register your interest with Christel Kent and a short list of questions will be sent to you. 

Caulfield Moves

Are you or someone you know making a move this year either to a new job, a conference or through a collaborative venture? Please let Offcourse know. 

Authorised by the Office of the Campus Manager - Caulfield 

Contributions can be emailed to Christel.Kent@adm.monash.edu.au