AGY-3515 | Corporate Plan Steering Committee [Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education]

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The inaugural meeting of the Corporate Plan Steering Committee of the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education (RMIHE) was convened on 5 November 1987. (1) The membership of the Corporate Plan Steering Committee comprised of the Chairman of Council, the Principal, the Senior Deputy Principal, the Dean of Studies, the Deputy Chairman of Council and a Praelector. (2) The duties of the Corporate Plan Steering Committee were:
- to serve as the facilitator of the corporate planning process;
- to have directive authority and responsibility for developing guidelines and making assignments for the tasks to be performed;
- specifically, to be empowered to:
a) develop an Institute mission statement;
b) create consultative mechanisms, internal and external to the Institute;
c) identify the elements of the corporate plan to be addressed and the order in which they should be addressed;
d) develop or call for position papers on the priority elements;
e) consider reactions to the above papers and then to make determinations;
f) interact with the Council on a regular basis, thus providing advice to the Council for determination;
g) present to Council an Institute corporate plan for its determination;
h) monitor the implementation of the corporate plan;
i) review, as appropriate, the goals and strategic plans of the Institute; and
j) consult with government agencies, industry, and other academic institutions, as appropriate, and to make submissions to these bodies on behalf of the Institute in an endeavour to enhance planning and the achievement of the Institute’s agreed goals.
- to encourage the Principal to institute shifts in resource allocation and changes in organisational arrangements within the Institute, to better achieve the corporate goals set; and
- exercise such other functions, responsibilities or authority as may be assigned or delegated to it by the Council from time to time. (3)
In terms of administrative structure, the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee reported to the Institute Council, however the Committee was not a Sub-Committee of Council. In the course of its operation the Corporate Plan Steering Committee established several other Committees to which it could discharge certain duties and responsibilities including; the Corporate Plan Consultative Committee (4), the Murray Campus Corporate Plan Committee (5), the Corporate Plan Research Advisory Committee (6), the External Studies Corporate Plan Committee (7), and the Corporate Plan Academic Outcomes Advisory Committee (8). The final meeting of the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee was held on 5 September 1988. (9) Endnotes:
(1) Minutes of the inaugural meeting of the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee, Meeting 1/87, 5 November 1987, p.1.
(2) Ibid., Attachment A, p.1.
(3) Ibid., Attachment A, p.1-2.
(4) Minutes of the inaugural meeting of the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee, Meeting 1/87, 5 November 1987, p.1-2
(5) Minutes of the meeting of the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee, Meeting 2/87, 18 November 1987, p.2.
(6) Minutes of the meeting of the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee, Meeting 4/87, 10 December 1987, p.1.
(7) Agenda of the meeting of the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee, Meeting 4/87, 10 December 1987, p.1.
(8) Minutes of the meeting of the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee, Meeting 1/88, 17 February 1988, p.1.
(9) Minutes of the meeting of the RMIHE Corporate Plan Steering Committee, Meeting 4/88, 5 September 1988, p.2.