Professorial and Academic Board Timeline

1853

  • 29 May 1853: First meeting of the Professorial Board

1857

  • 13 February 1857: A Proctorial Board, which had been established for the maintenance of discipline, met for the first time.

@1862

  • The Professorial Board was renamed the Conference Board.

@1876

  • The Conference Board was renamed the Board of Studies.

1886

  • May 1886: Senate adopted amended by-laws to amalgamate the two Boards - the Board of Studies and the Proctorial Board - under the name of the Professorial Board.
  • 13 May 1886: The Professorial Board met for the first time.

1965

1975

  • 18 June 1975: the Professorial Board was replaced by the enlarged Academic Board, a change aimed at opening up the senior academic deliberative body both to the non-professorial level of academic staff and to students.

1989

  • July 1989: Review of the Academic Board

1995

  • July 1995: Report on the second Review of the Academic Board
  • October 1995: Senate considered the Report.

1996

  • 28 October 1996: Final meeting of the old Academic Board.
  • November 1996: The first meeting of the new Academic Board.

2000

  • Review of the Academic Board

2002

  • University of Sydney (Academic Governance) Rule

2003

  • The Academic Forum, established as part of the Academic Board Review in 1995, was dissolved.

2004

  • January 2004: The Academic Board was reconstituted after a self-review.

2006

  • 13 April 2006: Professor Bruce Sutton elected Chair of the Academic Board.
  • 17 May 2006: Associate Professor P McCallum appointed as Deputy Chair on the nomination of the Chair of the Academic Board.