Entity titleAcademic SecretariatEntity identifier83Entity typeAgencyDate range1981 - 1986DescriptionIn 1965 by an amendment to statute 3.5 of the Monash University Act 1958, the responsibilities for institutional recordkeeping, formerly assigned to the Registrar, were divided between the two new positions of Academic Registrar and Comptroller. The Academic Registrar was assigned responsibility for all academic boards and committees while the Comptroller became responsible for all non-academic boards and committees. The secretarial work of the academic boards and committees, (in particular the Professorial Board) was carried out by members of the Academic Branch of the Registrar’s Office until the creation of the Academic Secretariat within the Registrar’s Office in 1981. The Academic Secretariat also became responsible for the organisation of graduation ceremonies and university elections.
In 1986 as part of a second major restructuring of the university’s central administration, a single University Secretariat was created within the Registrar’s Office. The new Secretariat encompassed both the former Council and Academic Secretariats, under the direction of the head of the former Council Secretariat, and became responsible for the records of both Council and Professorial Board, and their committees.
