Macquarie University - school for scandal 45members.optusnet.com.au/jvirata/schwartz 01.pdf · admissions to university for the Blair Government, recommending that universities that

`Worst boss' nominee to run Macquarie uni 3

VC crashes through 4

Snitch 6

Hobbled by too much red tape 8

Wall Street comes to campus 11

Ambassadorial role for outgoing VC 13

Macquarie University 15

Not shy of tough decisions 16

Macquarie brings trio to abrupt finale 17

Macquarie Trio's strings are suddenly untied 18

SNITCH 19

Trio's members on different score sheets 21

SNITCH 23

New VC to push up HECS charges 24

New VC to push up HECS charges 26

Supreme skill overrides trio's trauma 27

Nelson leans on uni over `Left bias' 28

Too much focus on HSC marks, says uni chief 30

Rent row means dictionary shifts 31

Macquarie Dictionary moves out 32

War of words on words' worth 33

Heads duck as a storm sweeps in 34

A degree of scandal - $12.9m in art and a $29,000 credit card bill 38

Former uni chief may sue over breach 40

Yerbury defends her art 42

Uni audit gets to the bottom of dispute 43

Macquarie University - school for scandal 45

The Prince - Newman jarred in university pickle 46

Controversial academic's departure is no small task 47

Learning the hard way 48

Chancellor intervenes in VCs' dispute 52

Chancellor intervenes 54

Professor defends her $13m art hoard 56

From figurehead to dynamic leader 57

Yerbury approved manager's weekly flights 58

Caught up in the Macquarie mire 60

Audit `weapon' aimed at Yerbury 62

Audit a `weapon' 64

SNITCH 65

Yerbury gets $1m but wants more [CORRECTED]. 66

Schwartz outlines cultural overhaul 68

Uni feud continues over FoI release 70

Macquarie's new strategy 72

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`Worst boss' nominee to run Macquarie uni

SE LocalHD `Worst boss' nominee to run Macquarie uni BY Brendan O'Keefe CR MATPWC 342 wordsPD 29 June 2005SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 3LA EnglishCY Copyright 2005 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP AN academic who has received votes of no confidence from staff at two universities and whom

staff nominated to star on a British TV program about bad bosses will be Macquarie University'snew vice-chancellor. Former Murdoch University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz has quit his post at London's BrunelUniversity and, pending a "suitable contract", will take over from outgoing chief Di Yerbury onFebruary 1. Professor Yerbury leaves after 19 years in the role.

TD In March, members of British academics union the Association of University Teachers nominatedProfessor Schwartz for Britain's Worst Boss, a reality TV show. Professor Schwartz was vice-chancellor at Murdoch from 1996 to 2002. Staff passed a vote of noconfidence in him at the end of his term, which was marked by reform and upheaval as ProfessorSchwartz sold university land to private companies and established a campus in a working-classPerth suburb. Still smarting three years after Professor Schwartz left, Murdoch members of the National TertiaryEducation Union in April sent a letter of support to academics at Brunel, who were on strike overforced redundancies at the west London institution. In September last year, the New York-born Professor Schwartz released a report on faireradmissions to university for the Blair Government, recommending that universities that wanted tocharge a top-up fee must also provide bursaries for poor students. NTEU Murdoch branch president Mick Campion said Macquarie staff should "find out more aboutthe recent happenings at Brunel", where 50 academics were marked for redundancies earlier thisyear, six of them forced. "There has been a great deal of consternation (at Brunel) in relation to Steven Schwartz," MrCampion said. But Macquarie chancellor Maurice Newman said Professor Schwartz was "the right choice" forMacquarie. "He has taken Brunel up the league tables to well within the top quarter of UKuniversities. He has also been successful in raising significant private funding."

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VC crashes through

SE Features;FeatureHD VC crashes through BY Stephen Matchett CR MATPWC 1,041 wordsPD 2 July 2005SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 22LA EnglishCY Copyright 2005 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP The next boss of one of our biggest universities brings with him a reputation for reformist zeal,

writes Stephen Matchett NO one will ever accuse Steven Schwartz of not speaking his mind, loudly and often. And someof what he says is likely to terrify academics at Sydney's Macquarie University, where he will takeover as vice-chancellor next February.

TD Schwartz is an academic not afraid of an argument, especially when it comes to the need to makemarkets in higher education, so that universities compete for students on price and access. "Aworkable funding system must put power where it belongs, in the hands of consumers," he wrotein a 2001 manifesto for change. He has the passion and political skills to make his case. Schwartz is returning to Australia afterthree years running Brunel University, a middle-ranking institution in outer suburban London, andbuilding a political profile that amazed long-established operators in English education politics. Despite being an absolute outsider, he was selected by the Blair Government to come up with areform package for England's ramshackle, often elitist university entrance system. It is easy to seewhy he was given the job. Schwartz is charming, but calculating in conversation and supremelyconfident in his opinions. Many of these opinions define the destruction of the old academic life, where governmentshanded over an annual cheque and left university communities to do pretty much what they liked.Schwartz believes this world is not going, it has already gone, and universities must change, andfast. "He likes to fix problems rather than manage decline," says a long-time observer of universitymanagement. Schwartz is no ally of any established order which he thinks is not working. In a2000 lecture to the market-friendly Centre for Independent Studies, he asked whether Australia'suniversities were the "last of the great socialist enterprises". He went on to compare university administrations unfavourably with five-star hotels, saying highereducation suffered from "a centrally controlled, provider-driven mentality". In essence, universitieswere run by the staff to suit them, not the students, and he wanted it to end. For anybody in the industry, these are obvious ideas, but even five years on many people inuniversities dislike, even fear such suggestions. Some certainly hated the way he tried to apply them at Perth's Murdoch University, where heserved a five-year term as vice-chancellor, ending in 2001. All sorts of people have an opinion on Schwartz, and although everybody approached was keento comment, very few were willing to talk on the record. "A bit of a gadfly," one vice-chancellorsays. "He is seen as abrasive and arrogant, a man who likes to throw everything up in the air and seewhere issues drop," says an education commentator in England. Retired federal Liberal minister Fred Chaney, Murdoch's chancellor while Schwartz was chiefexecutive, is one of the few who was prepared to speak, but only to offer a curt "no comment"when Inquirer called. Which does not appear to bother Schwartz one bit. "My lot in life is to change things," he says.


Nor does it alarm Macquarie's chancellor Maurice Newman. "He works to objectives and peoplewho do not like being kept accountable will not enjoy him," he says. Newman says Macquarie, which has about 30,000 students, is in good shape, but the globalmarket for students and good staff means universities "must be more smarter and moremanagerial than in the past". Although the chancellor is confident Schwartz will "take us to a higher level", it is easy toanticipate that some at Macquarie will see the new vice-chancellor as a monster rather than amentor. Arriving from the US in 1978, he built a conventional career for a gifted academic. A psychologistby training, he moved from teaching and research into administration. In 1996 he was appointedvice-chancellor of Murdoch, not a first-ranked university. He did not like much of what he found. "Everyone in the institution demanded to be consulted onevery conceivable topic," he wrote in 2001. "At Murdoch the buck did not stop anywhere. It wentaround and around until everyone was exhausted." He terminated the tarantella and, recognising that there was no hope of more government money,worked to cut costs and create the university's own revenues. He ran Brunel the same way, withmodest reforms generating disproportionate staff anger. What this means for Macquarie after along period of stability -- retiring vice-chancellor Di Yerbury has been in the job for 19 years -- willlikely be change, probably in substance, certainly in style. Schwartz will not be drawn on additional undergraduate fees. Macquarie was one of very fewAustralian universities not to levy the new undergraduate top-up fee this year. But his in-principleposition is clear. "The bottom line is that if students do not make a contribution, it's middle-classwelfare," he says. "The argument should be about the principle, not the amount of money." His ambition to be allowed to get on with the job is obvious. "Academic issues should be left toacademics," he says, but "committees are not the best way to do everything." There is much Macquarie will love about Schwartz. The 40-year-old suburban-Sydney campushas always had a chip on its shoulder about its older, research-rich competitors, the University ofSydney and the University of NSW. But Macquarie has the potential to expand the Group of Eight research-intensive universities intothe G9, according to one vice-chancellor. Schwartz will be judged by how far he can push his newinstitution, and how quickly. Research funding is another issue where Schwartz's free-marketprinciples prevail. He says competing for money in a free market is the best way to improveMacquarie's research record. This, and his belief that academic wages and conditions must improve to attract people incompetitive markets, will please ambitious, talented staff. But he will terrify, even enrage, thosewho hate their vocation being compared with running a hotel.

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Snitch

SE FeaturesHD Snitch BY Dorothy Illing CR MATPWC 509 wordsPD 6 July 2005SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 40LA EnglishCY Copyright 2005 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP STEVEN Schwartz is a man ahead of his time. Before Macquarie University had announced last

week that Schwartz was its new vice-chancellor, the news was in the British press: "StevenSchwartz, the controversial vice-chancellor of Brunel University, today surprised the highereducation sector by announcing he was leaving to head an Australian higher educationinstitution," said the Guardian, revealing he was going to Macquarie after only three years in OldBlighty. It's the second pre-emptive announcement for Schwartz: when he got the Brunel job thestaff at Murdoch Uni, where he was VC, found out via the rumour mill after Brunel posted thenews on its website. * * *

TD NO shrinking violet when it comes to shaking up the academic establishment, Schwartz has leftmore than a handful of not-happy acas in his wake. Word is that some academics at Macquarieare running a book to see if he wins the trifecta:three universities, three no-confidence votes bystaff. * * * A MERGER-CONFIDENT Curtin University of Technology has suspended the search for a newvice-chancellor, probably because it knows no one will apply. Curtin, as we now know, may notexist: it's been talking mergers with Murdoch Uni. Curtin VC Lance Twomey retires in April. Thathas left the way open for Murdoch's VC, the young John Yovich, to head a merged institution.Edith Cowan, on the other hand, is proceeding with its search for a VC to replace Millicent Poole,who leaves at the end of the year. * * * VICE-CHANCELLORS never retire: as Snitch revealed last week, they become chancellors.Former Central Queensland University VC Lauchlan Chipman has reminded Snitch that BobSmith is among them. Smith, the former University of New England VC, is now chancellor atBallarat. David Caro (former VC at TasUni and Melbourne) did the same gig a long time ago.Dennis Gibson (RMIT) and Ingrid Moses (VC at UNE, but on her way to Canberra Uni) are ingood company. * * * THE subversives at Monash Gazette -- the "unofficial publication of the Monash InformationTeam" -- have been at it again with their take on vice-chancellor Richard Larkins's pronouncementthat the uni has formally adopted "excellence in research" as one of its values: "After 40 years ofmediocrity it was time for a change," said Albert Ross, the university's deputy vice-chancellor(global). "This really inspires us," sang a chorus of senior academics. "This is real leading-the-wayrhetoric," said Howard Drumbanger, executive director of the Monash University UlteriorDecoration Office. "A bit more of it and Monash will sound more like every other university thanany other university." The only negative comments, says the Gazette, came from people who hadleft the university. One geriatric claimed the idea of excellence had pervaded Monash in the daysof the university's first vice-chancellor (whose name he had forgotten) and that anothervice-chancellor -- a Professor Slogan, he thought -- had used the word almost daily.

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Hobbled by too much red tape

SE Features;FeatureHD Hobbled by too much red tape BY Maurice Newman CR MATPWC 1,271 wordsPD 14 September 2005SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 30LA EnglishCY Copyright 2005 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP Our universities must be given the freedom to respond to today's more competitive world, argues

Maurice Newman THE recent appointment of Steven Schwartz as vice-chancellor elect at Sydney's MacquarieUniversity attracted media commentary quite disproportionate to any likely community interest inhis appointment.

TD Why? For a long time Schwartz has been an agent for change. While his reforms significantlyimproved the status and performance of the institutions he served, some unpopular decisionswere taken. This upset university reactionaries and the commentary on Schwartz's employmentsuggests it still does. They are not alone. There are many in the community and in the higher education sector whoyearn for a return to the good old days of free education and the security blanket that keptuniversity management, academics and students comfortably quarantined from the cold winds ofcompetition and global markets. Remarkably, even after 14 consecutive years of strong gross domestic product growth, theaverage, nominally public, university in Australia receives less than 44 per cent of its funds fromcommonwealth and state governments combined. For some of our institutions it's less than 30 percent. If you look at what universities give back in taxes and charges, net money from governmentcould add up to less than 25 per cent. When does a university become private? At the least, with their revenue share so low,governments have forfeited their right to control all but the quality of teaching andresearch. Universities have generally welcomed the federal Government's higher education reforms and theimminent shake-up of research. Reforms have included the first significant injection of funds formany years. But there is still no indexation and the introduction of flexible HECS, which givesscope to universities to raise student contributions by up to 25per cent, is not a substitute. The introduction of flexible HECS and the capacity to enrol a bigger proportion of fee-payingundergraduates, along with the reluctance to commit to the proper indexation of university grants,are strong indicators of theway things are likely to go, whoever is ingovernment. This continues toleave a big gap between what universities receive in annual increments from governments andwhat they spend on rising costs, much of which are staff-related. The salaries of our top academics are still less than some could earn in business, although theworking conditions are exceptional. But with budgets so contested, governments are unlikely to be rewarded for agreeing to furtherbenefits when academics already enjoy conditions the average factory and office worker couldn'thope to win for themselves. This said, some universities have truthfully acknowledged that a lot of additional fees will be usedto pay for escalating staffing costs related to providing much the same standards of delivery,facilities and services as already exist; that is, the charges are necessary if the universities are tomeet successive rounds of enterprise bargaining. And while the National Tertiary Education Union has criticised such charges for students and hasattacked those universities for making the connection between the increased staffing costs andthe need for more income to pay for them, the union, nevertheless, seems to regard anyuniversity that increases HECS and fee-paying arrangements as increasing its capacity to pay for


improvements in salaries and conditions. Although flexibility to increase HECS and charge domestic undergraduate fees gives universitiesmore money, it doesn't change the way education is delivered. While fee-paying domesticundergraduates may provide economies of scale in courses that would otherwise haveenrolments too small to be viable, in most respects their presence doesn't change the cost ofrunning courses. What most universities have yet to do is put significant effort into reducing, let alone slashing, thecosts of what they do. Rather than tackle the unions, they remain hopeful that the Government'scavalry may yet save them. It won't. In many other ways, including the recruitment of international students, universities put a lot ofeffort into generating more income simply so they can pay for what they do in much the same wayas they do it now. The sheer effort of generating more income is itself costly and success isuncertain. Then there are the huge costs of bureaucracy. Central planning limits choices andpreventsuniversities playing to their strengths. The primary point is that although generating more income is essential, it does not in itself resolvethe fundamental budgetary problems that universities face. Hope springs eternal, but in 2005 universities are caught between a public rock and a private hardplace, hemmed in on all sides. They are required to implement reforms that should bring relieffrom staff costs, yet they are simultaneously denied the freedom to make the most of them bygovernment imposed rigidities. For example, capping commonwealth supported places rations the intake of full-fee-payingundergraduates and limits revenue. Determining the profile of subsidised students may alsoreduce university income. Rather than determine the course-by-course subsidies and the studentsentitled to receive them, the Government could make grants to each university and leave it tothem to work out how to employ the funds. Instead, the Government prefers to pick winners and sit in judgment on course closures. Thisleads to distortions and the misallocation of resources. Merging may be a solution to fundingshortfalls and it may provide critical mass, but distributed campuses and cultural differences makethis a high-riskstrategy. Then there is the Australian Universities Quality Agency, which audits a range of issues in thename of standards maintenance. Add to this the NSW Government's Independent CommissionAgainst Corruption or equivalents in other states and the state ombudsmen, and you have amultitude of inquisitorial bodies. Each one requires effort from top university management to meetconstantly arising claims, many of which are vexatious. The cost of dealing with these sometimesoverzealous agencies is enormous and diverting. When it comes to the commercialisation of intellectual property, state government requirementsare onerous and invite university councils and administrators to become risk averse. Thisheavy-handed approach to risk management seems to miss the point of what intellectual propertycommercialisation is about and may limit a potentially valuable source of revenue for many in thesector. While some universities are developing property trusts and employing other enterprising methodsto free up capital, they are all operating within narrowly defined limits. Although it is difficult tocalculate how much more revenue would be available to the sector if the present restrictions andregulations were lifted, it would certainly change the culture and focus, and resolve ambiguity. Nor should it be presumed that a market-driven sector would lower standards. Rankings andcommercial success depend on reputations for excellence. The market for higher education in Australia and our region is fertile and exciting, but not withoutits challenges as foreign entrants step up competition. To meet this, Australian universities willneed to be at their entrepreneurial and efficient best. Unfortunately, most are not. Yet they havenever been so exposed to the cold winds of market forces. A protracted local or global recessionwill drive many into loss. This is an urgent national issue that requires a broader policy response than industrial relationsreform. Having delivered higher education to the market, it is not possible to micro-manage eachinstitution. If universities are to succeed, governments must devolve responsibility to universitymanagement and put their confidence in them. Maurice Newman is chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney.


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Wall Street comes to campus

SE News and FeaturesHD Wall Street comes to campus BY Paul Sheehan WC 1,015 wordsPD 1 October 2005SN The Sydney Morning HeraldSC SMHHED FirstPG 1LA EnglishCY © 2005 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP University life is about to become more intense in Sydney thanks to the arrival of Steven

"Shake-up" Schwartz. Paul Sheehan reports. A high-energy, high-impact New Yorker is bringing his world of winners and losers, excellenceand reward, league tables and rankings to university life in Sydney. Professor Steven Schwartz will become the vice-chancellor of Macquarie University - which has long lived in the shadow ofthe University of Sydney and the University of NSW - on February 1, succeeding Professor DiYerbury.

TD It's going to be lively. Schwartz, 51, has become associated with the trend of treating universitiesas the last bastion of socialism and turning them into University Inc. As he told the Herald thisweek: "One of the massive changes in the universities has been their engagement with industry.They used to behave as if they were above all that." The latest Times Higher EducationSupplement has a story on Schwartz under the headline, "His style may be better suited to WallStreet". "You only have to work at a uni for a week to know that it's not a business," Schwartz told theHerald. But, having begun his academic career as a psychologist, he is now a chief executive whoseeks to make the university culture more entrepreneurial, with more research, moreaccountability, more transparency, higher standards, higher salaries, and a higher profile to attractmore and better students. As the vice-chancellor of Brunel University in London for the past three years, Schwartz went outand recruited new talent. He got rid of 60 staff, mostly teaching academics who did not do muchresearch. This was shocking in a world that once enshrined job security. Most were removed bynegotiation but some were forced redundancies, incurring the wrath of the Association ofUniversity Teachers. The union waged a personal campaign against Schwartz, urging students to boycott theuniversity. Both sides took out full-page ads in The Times Higher Education Supplement. Theunion falsely said staff at Brunel had passed a no-confidence motion in Schwartz and nominatedhim for a reality show called Britain's Worst Boss. The Guardian had to print a retraction when itpublished these claims. In his final annual report to Brunel's council, Schwartz wrote: "As frequently happens, most of mytime, and the time of many of Brunel's senior managers, was not spent on the tasks summarisedin this report but on industrial relations, particularly the redundancy issue and the associatedindustrial actions. This emotionally draining experience is not yet over but it is moving towardsconclusion." Such was the nervousness when his appointment was announced at Macquarie that theuniversity's chancellor, Maurice Newman, the chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange, feltcompelled to send a long email to staff to head off what he called "disinformation and rumour". Struck by this reaction, Schwartz toned down his usual ebullience when he spoke to the Herald:"I'm a bit wary of coming across as telling people what to do, as if I know everything before I evenget there. I do not come to Macquarie with all the answers. I do not even know all the rightquestions yet. I plan to spend my first 100 days listening and fact-finding. I can say that I believe auniversity's international reputation is determined mainly by its scholarly performance, so I will dowhat I can to ensure that Macquarie does well in research. "I should also say, with some emphasis, that I expect to work co-operatively towards a commongoal with all stakeholders, including staff unions." By making this appointment, the council of Macquarie has signalled it wants to regalvanise a


university that was established in 1964 as "a radical alternative, pioneering, different andground-breaking". The New York-born and educated Schwartz is keen to return to Australia; he moved here in 1978and stayed for 23 years, and his three children grew up here (all live in Melbourne). His wife,Claire, has two daughters in Perth from a first marriage. Schwartz's stints at Brunel and at Murdoch University in Perth, where he was vice-chancellor from1996 to 2001, reveal much about his priorities. In his farewell message to Brunel, he wrote: "It hasbecome commonplace to talk about universities as if they were businesses. And it's certainly truethat universities must be business-like. But a better analogy is a football team. If you get the rightplayers, and give them the opportunity to develop, then you have a good team. The same goesfor universities." The football analogy mirrors Schwartz's obsession with league tables, reflected in Brunel's latestannual report: "Brunel moved up from No. 30 to be ranked 27 out of 122 institutions in this year'sGuardian league table (in the top 22 per cent of universities). This exceeds our eight-year targetto be in the top 33 per cent. But the Guardian's ranking excludes research. The Times 2005league table [which includes research] ranks Brunel 43 of 111 institutions (top 38 per cent)." Schwartz says: "It was particularly gratifying that Brunel progressed up the league tables in everyone of the last four years. We achieved this not by turning the university into a business but bybeing business-like. We set targets, employed strategies to reach targets, and measured ourprogress ... Over the past three years we employed more than 100 new research-active academicstaff and increased our research income by 50 per cent ... "This does not mean neglecting teaching. Research universities are excellent teachinguniversities as well, because academics who are actively engaged in their fields, who work at thecutting edge of their disciplines, communicate their excitement about their subjects to theirstudents." The Blair Government in Britain, which has closely followed university reforms in Australia,appointed Schwartz to head a review of the admissions process for all English universities.

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Ambassadorial role for outgoing VC

SE FeaturesHD Ambassadorial role for outgoing VC BY Bernard Lane CR MATPWC 441 wordsPD 30 November 2005SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 36LA EnglishCY Copyright 2005 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP DI Yerbury, about to end her long term as Macquarie's vice-chancellor, will become international

ambassador for the university next year. Professor Yerbury said her successor, Steven Schwartz, had asked her to take up the new position. She agreed it was unusual for a former vice-chancellor to be given such a high-profile role. "I'mnot aware of it happening elsewhere," she told the HES. "And it came from Steven to me, I wasn'texpecting it. I felt pleased and honoured that he wished me to assist him in that role. I thought itwas a very nice thing of him to do."

TD February 10 next year will be Professor Yerbury's last day as vice-chancellor after 19 years in thejob. Her successor, Professor Schwartz, most recently has been chief executive of Britain's BrunelUniversity. He was also vice-chancellor at Murdoch University. Professor Yerbury said she and Professor Schwartz, who offered her the new job last September,had not yet worked out what it would involve or how long it would last. But she expected shewould "introduce him to my contacts and assist him". She also hoped to keep up a broader connection with the university. "I'd like to go on assisting the university with its arts and cultural outreach and not just next yearbut beyond that; it's a passion of mine," she said. "I do have a whole host of things I'll be doing,some of them still have to be finalised." Professor Yerbury will also serve as an ambassador for the International College of Management,Sydney, a partner of Macquarie. And next year, she will act as international ambassador whiletaking study leave on full pay as a vice-chancellor. The one year of leave had been arranged withthe university council "several years ago", she said. "I've been here 19 years and I've never had aday's study leave," she said. "Council had already invited me to be here on study leave for my20th year." Professor Yerbury said she will be writing about internationalisation and the entrepreneurialuniversity, and looking at university outreach to industry and community. She will not be paid for her role as international ambassador. Her paid work will finish in February2007. "Any paid arrangements after that would only be if the university asked me to do something," shesaid. Professor Yerbury said she had been approached about other roles outside the university andalso expected to do some consultancy work.

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Macquarie University

HD Macquarie University WC 246 wordsPD 31 December 2005SN IBISWorld Industry Market Research (Summary)SC IBISLA EnglishCY (c) 2005 IBISWorld Pty Ltd. All rights reserved LP *About this company Macquarie University is a Government Body that is ranked number 669 out

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Not shy of tough decisions

HD Not shy of tough decisions WC 364 wordsPD 8 March 2006SN Northern District TimesSC NORDISED 1 -PG 9LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP LEAFY Macquarie University may be in for a shake-up with the new vice chancellor, Steven

Schwartz, who has a reputation for making bold reforms. As vice chancellor of Murdoch University in Perth he founded a private high school on campusand developed a retirement village to create new sources of income for the university.

TD Professor Schwartz said there were enough private schools in the area, but a state high schoolmay come from a deal to develop the university's land. "We would never develop land that could be used by the university in the future, but Macquariehas so much land," he said. "The model is Stanford University, which started life without anyassets but they had a lot of land. "We already work with business at Macquarie Park, and there is a chance to develop moresynergies." Professor Schwartz has spent the past four years in London as head of Brunel University. He amalgamated faculties, brought in performance-related pay for all levels of management, andled a taskforce for the British government on university admissions. He does not shy away from tough decisions. "Like a dentist, I have half-hour appointments that are usually accompanied by some pain," hejoked. Starting his academic career as a child psychologist, Professor Schwartz has written 13 booksand 120 scientific articles. In his spare time, he writes screenplays and journalistic articles on health and education. Hestarted his undergraduate degree in English literature and drama and still loves going to thetheatre. "When I was very young I was quite stage-struck," he said. "I worked at Lincoln Centre, aperforming arts centre in New York City." At Murdoch University, Professor Schwartz began a mentoring program for women and startedprograms for students with disabilities. "It's important for the country that everyone with potential has the opportunity to study andachieve," he said. Professor Schwartz has loved universities since his early days as an undergraduate. "At university you are working with very optimistic people," he said. "Researchers believe they candiscover things that will make the world better than it is."

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Macquarie brings trio to abrupt finale

SE News and FeaturesHD Macquarie brings trio to abrupt finale BY Valerie Lawson WC 297 wordsPD 28 August 2006SN The Sydney Morning HeraldSC SMHHED FirstPG 5LA EnglishCY © 2006 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP THREE weeks ago Macquarie University's online arts newsletter urged readers to "thrill your

senses and join Macquarie Trio for its fourth sensational concert series of 2006". But by late last week the trio had ceased to exist. Its concerts were cancelled and a recordedmessage for ticket holders told callers they had "reached the concert office of what used to beknown as the Macquarie Trio".

TD The university's new American vice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz, has steered the institutionaway from backing cultural activities. As lawyers presided over the end of one of Australia's top chamber music ensembles, the trio'swebsite, maintained by the university, consisted of just a single item, a statement for ticketholders. Concertgoers were told their money would be refunded and that the relationship between the trioand the university had ended. "This will enable the university to focus on its strategic researchredirection effective immediately," the statement said. Ticket holders were told that one member of the trio, the pianist Kathryn Selby, would perform atall scheduled concerts this year but that the concerts would not be held under the auspices of theuniversity. Another member of the trio, the cellist Michael Goldschlager, said yesterday that for legal reasonshe was unable to expand on the statements, but that "it was fair to say the university basicallyunder new stewardship has undertaken a different direction". Funded by Macquarie University, the trio began 14 years ago under the vice-chancellorship ofProfessor Di Yerbury. She was succeeded by Professor Schwartz in February. In April the university decided not to pursue a planned merger with the National Art School inDarlinghurst.

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Macquarie Trio's strings are suddenly untied

SE ARTSHD Macquarie Trio's strings are suddenly untied BY Alison Barclay WC 219 wordsPD 29 August 2006SN Herald-SunSC HERSUNED 1 - FIRSTPG 63LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP NEWS

ONE of Australia's most popular classical ensembles, the Macquarie Trio, has suddenlydisbanded after more than 13 years.

TD Pianist Kathryn Selby, cellist Michael Goldschlager and violinist Michael Dauth parted ways lastweek after their sponsor, Sydney's Macquarie University, cancelled the trio's contract on August16. Apart from one performance in Canberra last night, the trio have cancelled their concerts for therest of the year. In a statement, Selby said she would arrange concerts on the same dates and in the samevenues, in which she would play with a former trio member, violinist Charmian Gadd, and cellistGeorg Pedersen, "who have both readily agreed to perform at the very last minute". Selby did not return the Herald Sun's calls yesterday. The university said only that the trio'sdeparture "will enable the university to focus on its strategic research direction, effectiveimmediately". But it is believed that, though the trio enjoyed the support of former vice-chancellor Professor DiYerbury, they were less in favour with her successor, Professor Steven Schwartz, who took overthis year. A university source said: "There seems to have been some sort of breakdown. It came as a bigshock to everyone."

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SNITCH

SE FeaturesHD SNITCH CR MATPWC 616 wordsPD 30 August 2006SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 34LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP THE stoush over Steven Schwartz's agenda at Macquarie University turned reptilian this week

when shock jock Alan Jones accused the vice-chancellor of being a cultural lizard. This was afterit transpired that Schwartz has cut loose the highly regarded chamber group the Macquarie Trio,formerly funded by the uni. The rest of the trio's 2006 concerts have been cancelled andsubstitute performances scheduled, sans the Macquarie Uni banner. Yesterday the universityissued a statement saying it did not terminate the trio against its will and that the parting of wayshad been amicable and mutually agreed. It's not the only cultural group inspired by hispredecessor, Di Yerbury, that the new VC has put the kybosh on. Snitch hears another Yerburyarrangement, a series of concerts by the Balmain Symphonia, has hit a low note: the weekendconcerts at Macquarie have been terminated.

TD WITH a federal election due next year, it's time for education groups to start honing their lobbyingskills. They could start by casting their eyes over a new report on what pollies want. Twelve yearsafter their first survey of politicians' lobbying preferences, Canberra-based consultants ClientSolutions have produced another survey in their newsletter, Committee Bulletin. Eighty-six polliesof all persuasions had a few helpful hints, among them the top five mistakes lobby groups make.These were a failure to appreciate their time constraints, ambit claims, wasting time oninsignificant issues, lack of local electorate focus, and misstating the facts. But the the wily folk atthe Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee are ahead of the curve on this one. This year theylaunched a "winter roadshow" that involved piling as many VCs, acting VCs and DVCs as wereavailable on the day into a minibus for a tour of local MPs' electoral offices in Sydney, Melbourneand Brisbane. Chief executive John Mullarvey said the initiative was in recognition of the difficultyof winning face time with MPs in Canberra during hectic parliamentary sittings. THE annual Princeton Review college rankings are out. This year Yale Uni ranks No.1 for the bestcampus newspaper; Harvard College, Cambridge, has the best library; and the University ofChicago trumps its rivals for overall academic experience for undergraduates. Based on surveysof 115,000 students at 361 colleges, the rankings cover 62 categories, ranging from theaccessibility of lecturers to the top party school. Best college food goes to Bowdoin College,Brunswick, Maine. The US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, has the mostunhappy students. Most important, more "Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging, clove-smokingvegetarians" can be found at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, than anywhere else. ADELAIDE University boss James McWha has signed on for another five years, which meanshe'll be in the vice-chancellor's chair until 2012. McWha has defied the trend of shorter secondterms for VCs, so he must be doing something right. Chancellor John von Doussa thinks so: "Hetook up the vice-chancellorship at Adelaide during a difficult time in the university's history andhas led a renaissance at Adelaide that will benefit students and the community for many years tocome." THERE was a time when people who lost their jobs were sacked. Then came downsizing,rightsizing, rationalising and a host of other "ings". Now the University of NSW has brought in"workplace change". Last week chief operating officer Peter Graham circulated an email settingout formal workplace changes affecting workers in various units. And a separate workplacechange proposal went to cleaning and security staff. Their changes? They no longer have jobs atall. Anywhere.

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Trio's members on different score sheets

SE News and FeaturesHD Trio's members on different score sheets BY Valerie Lawson and Harriet Alexander WC 402 wordsPD 30 August 2006SN The Sydney Morning HeraldSC SMHHED FirstPG 7LA EnglishCY © 2006 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP DISCORD and disharmony soured the last weeks of the Macquarie Trio whose demise is being

marked by legal action. Members of the trio have cited legal advice that prevents them revealing how the trio fell apart, inparticular how two members of the trio reached an agreement with the ensemble's backers,Macquarie University, while the third, and founding member, did not appear to do so.

TD The university issued a statement yesterday saying it had not terminated the agreement againstthe trio's will, and that some artists had wished to pursue "new artistic challenges". However, a member of the trio, Michael Goldschlager said that the "exploration of that idea[ending of the relationship] came from the university and not from us. The exploration of that ideawas floated some time back". Asked who initiated the idea at the university, he said, "I'd really rather not say. It was a phonecall." The statement from the university said agreement had been reached by Mr Goldschlager andMichael Dauth, but did not mention the founder of the trio, Kathryn Selby as one with whom it hadnegotiated. Asked whether there was a falling out between the men and Ms Selby, Goldschlager said hecould not comment. Ms Selby said the end of the trio had come as a shock and as recently as two weeks ago she hadplayed in a concert with Mr Goldschlager and Mr Dauth with no inkling of what was to come. Afew days later the trio would be disbanded. "I'm still trying to work out what's happening," she said. "I've only heard that [the university has] reached some kind of agreement with the two Michaelsthat they haven't reached with me." Macquarie University's vice chancellor, Steven Schwartz, said the decision to end the trio'scontract was "probably mutual". "All I can say is some members of the Macquarie Trio wanted to seek new opportunities,"Professor Schwartz said. "Had they wanted to stay, they would still be here." Ms Selby will play the rest of the season with Charmian Gadd and Georg Pedersen. She said theperformances the new group had done since audiences learned of the Macquarie Trio's demisehad been met with standing ovations.

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SNITCH

SE FeaturesHD SNITCH CR MATPWC 620 wordsPD 6 September 2006SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 30LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP DI Yerbury's legacy at Macquarie University continues to unravel. She held out against a 25 per

cent HECS rise. Under her successor, Steven Schwartz, Macquarie will join the sector trend. Inpassing, Schwartz describes as interesting the Yerbury-era decision to embrace full-fee-payingplaces yet reject a HECS increase. "In many places they went the other way," Schwartz says, "soin that way it was unusual." Also unusual is Macquarie's big game hunt for 40 new research staff,"the largest recruitment campaign of its type to ever be conducted by an Australian university",according to Macquarie's news organs. Asked about this, Schwartz seemed amused: "Australianuniversities go in for hyperbole, you probably haven't noticed that."

TD CAMERON Crowe, of the environmental group Leave No Trace Australia, has taken issue withour description of the Wollemi pine as "out of harm's way" ("Poachers prey on researchpublications", HES, August 30). He points out that a tree at the ostensibly secret Wollemi pine sitein the Blue Mountains west of Sydney was found last year to have been infected with a potentiallydeadly fungus, Phytophthora cinnamoni. The site's custodians aren't sure how the fungus, thesame one implicated in dieback episodes across Australia, got there, but NSW Parks and Wildlifehead Tony Fleming told the ABC that word about the site's location had leaked out. He said thatperhaps some canyoners were driven by ego to "bag this site and be able to brag about it down atthe pub", but it was "a very foolish thing to do" and "if you care about this species and its survivalin the wild, don't visit it". LANKY vice-chancellor Richard Larkins was abroad last week when news of Monash's plans tojoin forces with a Chinese university ran in this newspaper under the headline "Monash towelcome China on campus". He arrived back in Melbourne to find the citadels shaking. In hisabsence "all hell broke loose", amid outraged queries to the academic board demanding to know"why we are selling Monash to the Chinese". The article said there had been "in-principleapproval" from the Chinese Ministry of Education to house Chinese students and staff at Monash.Larkins, updating media on Monash's strategy in the university's Collins Street boardroom lastweek, is keen to hose down the story. He says the university is merely exploring an idea proposedby Chinese Vice-Minister for Education Wu Qidi during her visit to Australia in April. Everything isin very early stages and Australian and Victorian government say-so as well as Chinesegovernment approval is required for anything to eventuate, Larkins says. He says the prospectiveChinese partner university has not even been identified, but it will have to be a top one to ensurethe kind of genuine scholarly partnership Monash is interested in. YOU know the feeling: turn up to a lecture on Monday and it feels like Friday by the time it hasended. If you ever find yourself in one of Errol Muzawazi's classes, take a cut lunch or several.The Zimbabwean law student claims to have set the world record for a the longest lecture, a 991/2-hour marathon at Harare's Belvedere Teachers College from last Monday evening to Fridayevening, according to the Denver Press Association. Muzawazi, a student of international law atPoland's Jagiellonian University, who spoke about African unity and youth empowerment, says hebeat the previous record by an hour. Previous holder Annaiah Ramesh of India spoke for 98 1/2hours on the molecular logic of life.

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New VC to push up HECS charges

SE FeaturesHD New VC to push up HECS charges BY Bernard Lane CR MATPWC 465 wordsPD 6 September 2006SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 23LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP MACQUARIE University will increase HECS fees by 25 per cent next year, leaving the University

of Tasmania as the last institution not to take advantage of a partial deregulation of fees. Macquarie vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz said about 20per cent of the extra money wouldfund $1 million to $2million in new scholarships for needy students, especially those keen onscience, maths or technology.

TD UTAS said if its healthy finances deteriorated it would push up HECS fees, but imposing this extraburden on students would be "a last resort", according to Paul Barnett, executive director ofplanning and development. Professor Schwartz's predecessor at Macquarie, Di Yerbury, had resisted a HECS increase,saying the university was "very conscious at the moment that there's a big burden on students". But Professor Schwartz said the decision not to lift fees was in effect a "poorly targeted discount"since affluent students, as well as the needy, stood to benefit, and the benefit would not arriveuntil graduates earned enough to begin paying off their HECS debt. "For many people, they need the money right now, they need the bursaries and scholarship helpto go to university at the moment," he said. More fee income also would help Macquarie fund 40 new research positions advertised as part ofa campaign to make the university more research intensive. Three of the nine fields in whichMacquarie is seeking new staff could be classified as humanities and social sciences. Professor Schwartz said Macquarie had not set out to emphasise science and technology but toidentify fields "where we were already strong [and] could make a reputation for ourselves". He said 40 staff was "a very large number of people to be looking for all at once", although heunderstood the campaign, run in July in the HES, had generated "quite a good response". "I thought perhaps we wouldn't be filling any of those positions until January but now it seems as ifwe may be filling some this year," he said. Macquarie also announced that Elizabeth More's portfolio as deputy vice-chancellor wouldchange from administration to development and external relations. Last year, not long before herretirement, Professor Yerbury said Professor Schwartz had asked her to take up a new positionas Macquarie's "international ambassador". She agreed at the time this was an unusual positionfor a former vice-chancellor to occupy. Yesterday, Professor Schwartz confirmed Professor More would take charge of "all externalaffairs". Asked to clarify whether this meant Professor Yerbury ceased to be internationalambassador, he said: "I am afraid that there is nothing clear about that situation." Professor Yerbury could not be contacted for comment.

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New VC to push up HECS charges

HD New VC to push up HECS charges BY Bernard Lane WC 134 wordsPD 6 September 2006SN The Australian (ABIX abstracts)SC ABXAUSNGC ABIX (Australasian News Abstracts)GC CTGABXPG 23LA EnglishCY (c) Copyright 2006. Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd trading as LexisNexis. All Rights

Reserved. LP Only one university remains in Australia that has not raised its fees after Federal Government

deregulation moves. The University of Tasmania's status as the last bastion in the area ofmaintaining Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) fees has been crated by newMacquarie University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz announcing an increase of 25% for 2007.He noted that some 20% of the extra income will go toward scholarships for low-income students.Some 40 new researchers' jobs will also be funded by the move, cementing a push by Macquarieto become more prolific in that part of its operations. Meanwhile Elizabeth More will remainMacquarie's deputy vice-chancellor, but is to be in charge of development and external relationsrather than administration

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Supreme skill overrides trio's trauma

SE TodayHD Supreme skill overrides trio's trauma BY Patricia Kelly WC 379 wordsPD 11 September 2006SN The Courier-MailSC COUMAIED 1 - First with the newsPG 39LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP POWER. Romance. Passion. That was the promise for the 2006 subscription concert series of

Macquarie Trio and its founding patron, Professor Di Yerbury, former vice-chancellor ofMacquarie University where the trio was ensemble-in-residence until two weeks ago whenMacquarie axed its trio of 14 years. Now the romance is severed but the passion remains. Legal passion that is and it is tipped to beacrimonious. Participants cannot comment.

TD Announcing the severance, Macquarie University, under the vice-chancellorship of AmericanProfessor Steven Schwartz since February, stated the university would focus "on its strategicresearch redirection", saying it had been negotiating "an agreement" with the trio's violinistMichael Dauth and cellist Michael Goldschlager. Apparently pianist Kathryn Selby knew nothing until the axe fell. It was a bitter end to her dream.With violinist Charmian Gadd and cellist David Pereira, Selby had founded Macquarie Trio in1993. A university notice offered to refund ticket money to subscribers for forthcoming concerts in its2006 season, but Selby wanted to honour her commitment. With little more than two weeks toprepare, Gadd and cellist Georg Pedersen put aside work schedules to join Selby so the Feast ofFirsts tour could go ahead in five Australian cities, including Brisbane. They held a concert as promised at Ithaca Auditorium in Brisbane City Hall on September 1 and itpromised a feast of first trios by Dvorak and Arensky. The three made music with virtuosic skill and a sensitivity coming from the heart, which reaffirmedthe trio's legacy of strong performances and substantial recordings. The new program seemed appropriate for the sad moment. Haydn's Gypsy Rondo Trio was brightyet soothing in its neat structure. The broad sweeps, layers of dissonance and the thirdmovement's fluttering disturbances in Trio No. 2 in C by Brahms and the mercurial humours ofMendelssohn's No. 1 in D minor confirmed the supremacy of Selby's piano technique. Why the partnership should have ended with such mid-season haste and backroom deals defieslogic. The fifth concert in the series, in Brisbane on November 3, has been announced, a big promise.But Selby is nothing if not tenacious.

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Nelson leans on uni over `Left bias'

SE LocalHD Nelson leans on uni over `Left bias' BY Dorothy Illing Higher education writer CR MATPWC 525 wordsPD 30 September 2006SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 3LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP AN extraordinary intervention by a senior federal minister has forced Sydney's Macquarie

University to publicly defend the academic freedom of its staff. Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has written to Macquarie vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz after one of his constituents complained of "left-wing" bias in a history subject.

TD A spokesman for Dr Nelson said yesterday that the Defence Minister was just passing on acomplaint from a constituent. But in a copy of the letter, obtained by The Weekend Australian, Dr Nelson has penned a note atthe bottom of the letter that says: "I am very concerned about this and would appreciate yourpersonal attention to these issues which I find disturbing." The move comes after another senior minister, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, recently warneda South Australian academic that his research could breach new terrorism laws. The situation is awkward for Julie Bishop, who, since succeeding Dr Nelson as Education Ministerin January, has been outspoken about her desire to ease government intervention in universities. In a veiled swipe at her colleague, Ms Bishop told The Weekend Australian yesterday: "It is notfeasible for university courses to be designed to match the personal biases of individual students. "Students should argue all course content and argue alternative points of view." The complaint came from a postgraduate student, Douglas Brown, enrolled in the Master ofArtssubject Rights and theEvolution of Australian Citizenship. He demanded the university rewrite the unit guide and delete half the articles because thereadings were so left-wing the course was an attempt at "indoctrination". Senior academics whoinvestigated the complaint rejected the claim. Mr Brown said one of those academics, Tom Hillard, argued that it was hard to find suitablescholarly writings about Australian citizenship from the conservative side. But Mr Brown said articles from Quadrant magazine or from the Centre for Independent Studieswould be appropriate. All university courses and degrees are approved independently by the peak academic senate, aself-accrediting status that institutions guard jealously. Professor Schwartz would not comment on the Nelson incident but moved to quell growing fearsin universities about the erosion of academic freedom in the post-September 11 environment. "It's absolutely fundamental ... that we safeguard academic freedom ... if we're going to have alively and effective university sector and if we're going to have a fair and lively society as well," hesaid. There were few instances, if any, where "we would want to stifle an academic's freedom to teachwhatever they felt was fair". Last year, the issue of academic freedom came to a head at Macquarie when law lecturer Andrew


Fraser created uproar with his comments about African migrants in Australia. Since then, the university's academic senate has scrutinised the issue and devised a statement,which was being finalised yesterday. It says that academics must be able to teach and research without undue interference fromgovernment, university administration, the media, private corporations and other organisations. The Weekend Australian tried unsuccessfully to contact Mr Brown.

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Too much focus on HSC marks, says uni chief

SE News and FeaturesHD Too much focus on HSC marks, says uni chief BY Harriet Alexander Higher Education Reporter WC 451 wordsPD 9 October 2006SN The Sydney Morning HeraldSC SMHHED FirstPG 5LA EnglishCY © 2006 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP STUDENTS should be considered for university on a broader range of factors than marks alone if

the system is to be fair, one of Australia's most controversial vice-chancellors says. Professor Steven Schwartz, of Macquarie University, said a more equitable way of choosingstudents would combine references, interviews and Higher School Certificate marks, which is howoverseas universities run their admissions processes.

TD Otherwise disadvantaged students were being discriminated against, he said. "You can make arguments on both sides," said Professor Schwartz, who oversaw a review ofadmissions at British universities in 2004, while vice-chancellor at Brunel University in London. "You can say for marks, no other factors are taken into consideration and therefore it's faircompetition. The argument on the other side is that's only true if everyone starts from the sameplace. My feeling is that the opportunity for mobility, to give people the opportunity to go touniversity and move up in society, is more important ... we shouldn't ignore it." Professor Schwartz, who took up his position at Macquarie in February, did not rule out choosingstudents for some courses on a combination of marks and other factors, but said it would bedifficult for the university to overhaul entry requirements unilaterally. Although US and British higher education systems look at a variety of factors when acceptingstudents, Australia has not held the same debate. The most notable exception to the rule is medicine, for which applicants sit a separate exam andmost universities run interviews. Other courses consider auditions or portfolios in addition tomarks. "I don't think anyone in the UK or US would want to go on with a system like [Australia's] becauseit's so mechanical," Professor Schwartz said. "It's hard to believe that [the difference between] a99.4 and a 99.5 means anything and yet it changes your life." The British review run by Professor Schwartz argued students' backgrounds should be taken intoaccount in selection for university, because those from poorer backgrounds were less likely toachieve high grades. Admissions should not be biased in favour of students from certainbackgrounds, but their achievements should be put in context, it said. George Cooney, a professor in education at Macquarie and chairman of the NSW UniversityAdmission Index scaling committee, said many faculties were already considering factors otherthan marks and offering programs to disadvantaged students. University admission procedures inBritain and the US were markedly different to those here, so they should not be compared, hesaid.

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Rent row means dictionary shifts

SE LocalHD Rent row means dictionary shifts BY Brendan O'Keefe CR MATPWC 312 wordsPD 13 October 2006SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 3LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP THE Macquarie Dictionary is going sandstone, with a move to the University of Sydney.

But despite the new digs, Australia's first dictionary will retain the name of its original campus atMacquarie University.

TD The dictionary and thesaurus produced out of Macquarie University since 1980 will be housed atthe University of Sydney from Tuesday. Publisher Sue Butler said that after almost three decades at Macquarie University, which hadbeen a supportive "safe house" for the dictionary in its early days, it was time to move. "They (the university) feel that this is not their focus of interest," she said. "The newvice-chancellor sees other ways in which he wants the university to develop. So by mutualagreement, we're parting company." But vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz said the split was over real estate. During a recent accommodation reshuffle, it was discovered that the company behind thedictionary, Macquarie Library, had been using an office on campus rent-free for most of the past25 years, he said. Ms Butler said: "They wanted to upgrade us to this brand new accommodation, which was not thestyle to which dictionary staff had been accustomed ... so we parted." Macquarie Library, which isnot related to the university's library, is owned by the publisher Pan MacMillan. When the dictionary and thesaurus publishing emanated from the university's linguisticsdepartment in the 1970s, it was lauded as a symbol of an emerging national identity. The latest edition of the dictionary, its fourth, was published late last year, without the lighthouselogo of the university that appeared on previous editions. Senior university administrator William McGaw said: "The fact is that Macquarie (University) hasnever owned it. But that doesn't mean that Macquarie doesn't bask in reflected glory."

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Macquarie Dictionary moves out

SE LocalHD Macquarie Dictionary moves out BY Brendan O'Keefe CR MATPWC 311 wordsPD 13 October 2006SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 2 - All-round FirstPG 3LA EnglishCY Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP THE Macquarie Dictionary is going sandstone, with a move to the University of Sydney.

But despite the new digs, Australia's first dictionary will retain the name of its original campus atMacquarie University.

TD The dictionary and thesaurus produced out of Macquarie University since 1980 will be housed atthe University of Sydney from Tuesday. Publisher Sue Butler said that after almost three decades at Macquarie University, which hadbeen a supportive "safe house" for the dictionary in its early days, it was time to move. "They (the university) feel that this is not their focus of interest," she said. "The newvice-chancellor sees other ways in which he wants the university to develop. So by mutualagreement, we're parting company." But vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz said the split was over real estate. During a recent accommodation reshuffle, it was discovered that the company behind thedictionary, Macquarie Library, had been using an office on campus rent-free for most of the past25 years, he said. Ms Butler said: "They wanted to upgrade us to this brand new accommodation, which was not thestyle to which dictionary staff had been accustomed ... so we parted." Macquarie Library, which isnot related to the university's library, is owned by the publisher Pan MacMillan. When the dictionary and thesaurus publishing emanated from the university's linguisticsdepartment in the 1970s, it was lauded as a symbol of an emerging national identity. The latest edition of the dictionary, its fourth, was published late last year, without the lighthouselogo of the university that appeared on previous editions. Senior university administrator William McGaw said: "The fact is that Macquarie (University) hasnever owned it. But that doesn't mean that Macquarie doesn't bask in reflected glory."

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War of words on words' worth

SE News and FeaturesHD War of words on words' worth BY Harriet Alexander Higher Education Reporter WC 377 wordsPD 2 November 2006SN The Sydney Morning HeraldSC SMHHED FirstPG 9LA EnglishCY © 2006 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP ACADEMIC staff at the university that gave Australia's most famous dictionary its name have

decided to abandon formal ties between the institutions. The Macquarie University lexicographers who have lent their expertise to The MacquarieDictionary for more than 25 years agreed this week, pending contractual negotiations, to withdrawfrom their official role on the project and forsake nearly $13,000 they each receive annually inroyalties.

TD The move follows a decision by the publication's staff's to relocate to the University of Sydney. Macquarie University owns the copyright to the dictionary but the publication rights are held by aprivate company, Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. Earlier this year, Macquarie's new vice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz, discovered the companyhad not been paying rent, and attempted to move it to offices on Lane Cove Road and impose arental agreement. Instead the company decided to look for new accommodation and Macquarie Universityacademics were astonished that they found it on a rival campus. Six of the seven members of the dictionary's editorial committee, all linguists from MacquarieUniversity, wrote to Professor Schwartz on Tuesday, advising him to sell the copyright toMacmillan, the publishing house that owns Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. "We believe there is nofurther prospect of a productive collaboration between Macquarie Library Pty Ltd and the currenteditorial committee of The Macquarie Dictionary," the email said. The seventh member, Sue Butler, the publisher of the dictionary and a Macmillan employee,declined to comment. Professor Pam Peters, a member of the editorial committee, said she hoped the university couldcontinue to collaborate on future editions of The Macquarie Dictionary through its DictionaryResearch Centre. "I think it's very sad," Professor Peters said. "The majority [of the editorial committee] thoughtthere was no possibility of resuming and continuing work with the Macquarie Library staff - that'sthe Macmillan employees - and for me that's a pretty sad conclusion." Macmillan declined to comment on whether the Macquarie University lexicographers would bereplaced by contract workers. It is understood University of Sydney academics are hoping that a role will emerge for them.

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Heads duck as a storm sweeps in

SE News and Features - News ReviewHD Heads duck as a storm sweeps in BY Harriet Alexander. WC 2,114 wordsPD 22 December 2006SN The Sydney Morning HeraldSC SMHHED FirstPG 23LA EnglishCY © 2006 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP Some people despise Steven Schwartz; others admire his vision. But that's what you can expect

from a man with big ideas, reports Harriet Alexander. Steven Schwartz is giant on the big screens propped around the Macquarie Universityauditorium and giant as he lopes along the stage. It is 38 degrees outside and it must be at leastthat inside, with several hundred bodies packed into seats and flopped against the walls, but nostaff member is about to leave this year's final "town hall" meeting.

TD Even after a year in the job, this debonair vice-chancellor provokes a powerful curiosity. So hetickles the crowd with a story, which is how he likes to begin, to build up a gag, and demonstratethat the logic of the case he is about to build is really that simple. It is about how his brother was taught to swim by literally being thrown in at the deep end - ratherlike the staff at most universities, he says, to reassure staff it will not happen here. But then, thereare a lot of stories floating about Macquarie. Schwartz, 60, had a controversial reputation when he skipped into Sydney's staid highereducation scene at the beginning of the year, immaculately presented and eyebrow raised. The irreverent New York native first came to Australia in 1978, when his academic career inpsychology took him first to the University of Western Australia and quickly accelerated him intomanagement roles. A free-market idealist who has argued for the deregulation of universities, he has beenvice-chancellor at two other universities, both of which were left with elements that still despisehim for the changes he pushed through. But this time his arrival was opportune. Macquarie was emerging from 19 years under the samevice-chancellor, Di Yerbury, and even her supporters were looking for a change. "He really did come in on a honeymoon," one staff member says. "We thought, 'OK, we've heardall these stories about what he's done at previous universities, but they were different sorts of unisand maybe it will be different here'." Whereas Perth's Murdoch University was struggling to survive and Brunel University in Britainwas struggling to improve, Macquarie was respected, but dwelled in the shadow cast by the localsandstones, the universities of Sydney and NSW. His mission for Macquarie was to build its research profile, particularly in its strongest areas -ancient cultures, climate change, lasers and cognitive science - and improve its rankings on localand international league tables. In turn, the best academics and the brightest students wouldcome flocking. The university has advertised 40 academic positions and made 25 offers. No academic could oppose such a goal, but the vice-chancellor's oft-repeated comment that "nouniversity can be the best at everything" has alarmed staff in a sector that has grown accustomedto every investment being offset by a cut. Even at the meeting, that was geared towards allaying staff fears and keeping them informed, theunion representatives were distributing a brochure. "The three little pigs were ready for the big bad wolf. Are you?" it asked, and warned that deanshad been told to make cuts to their budgets and general staff could be the first target.


Another anonymous leaflet circulating among staff is entitled How to lose your university in justone year (a fable for our times) and speculates on the future of a university that sacrifices smalldepartments to build up the large ones and compromises its soul in its pursuit of research starsand world rankings. There are more tangible examples, too. The children's music program at the Institute for EarlyChildhood was cut earlier this month. The Macquarie Trio, a well-known musical ensemble that had operated from the university for 14years, ended its contract in August, initially hinting that the university had made a cost-cuttingdecision. But the decision had come from the musicians themselves, who had fallen out monthsearlier. Schwartz wasn't sorry to see them go, as they were costing the university $350,000 ayear. The university also stopped funding the Theatre of Image and, last month, the MacquarieDictionary publisher moved its operations to the University of Sydney after the vice-chancellorasked to be paid rent. This last example irritates Schwartz, who either does not appreciate or does not admit to thesymbolism of the dictionary's move. The university had never owned the publishing rights to thedictionary and it will maintain its name and copyright, so the only thing moving to the University ofSydney will be the free rental accommodation, he says. If Sydney thinks that is a good deal, he likes to say: "Then I have a bridge they may be interestedin buying." As for the Theatre of Image, that was always a dubious project for the university to support, hesays. The arrangement, like that of the Macquarie Trio, began under his predecessor, who wasalso chairwoman of the theatre, but the university appeared to get no benefit from the relationshipand most people did not know it existed. "I frankly find it unusual that somebody could be vice-chancellor here and giving money from oneto the other," he says. "It was well over $1000 a year." There is no love lost between Schwartz and Yerbury, who remains at the university as anemeritus professor, eyeing her successor like a watchful mother-in-law. But even Schwartz, who is entertained by controversy and would rather remain silent on mostissues than hose them down, later thinks better of this comment. "The only thing I regret," he says at the end of the conversation, "are the comments I made aboutmy predecessor." It is understood the two are arguing over the ownership of some artwork. He isless ambiguous about the redundancies rumours. "At Macquarie the problem is not losing people- the problem is getting people," he says. Instead, the university will make the money it needs by increasing HECS fees to the maximumlevel that most universities command, exploiting its land for commercial development andcontinuing to recruit international students, he says. But there is another reason Schwartz would be reluctant to introduce a redundancy program: hecame to Macquarie from a turgid three years at Brunel. As a political operator he was a success, heading a review into university admissions for theBritish Government that generated heated debate about the most effective and equitable way toget the best students into the system, but reform in his own institution was hard fought. His redundancy program met vehement opposition, and by the time he had pushed it through hewas spent. "It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, and I wonder sometimes whether thebenefits justified it," he says. "I thought, 'would it be so terrible if we just added people and tried todo it [without laying anybody off]?' " Worse was to come. Shortly after accepting the Macquarie position late last year, news camethrough from Melbourne that Schwartz's youngest son, Gregory, had mysteriously died at 29. "It changes everything," Schwartz says. "You never, ever really get used to the idea thatsomething like that could happen. The coroner's report came back there was no cause of death.He just went to sleep and never woke up." The decision to move to Macquarie was now affirmed as the right one. He would return to hisadopted country with his wife, Claire, and be close to his two other children, Seth, 36, and Tricia,32. It was also an opportunity to work at a university that had a real chance of being among the


best. Fifty days after his arrival he described it as the most rewarding work of his professional life. "Ithink it was because there was so much potential at Macquarie to do really good things sociallyand educationally. We had the resources, the right location to exploit the land educationally. I justthought, 'this is just great'." Staff say they are impressed with his ideas about equity, though wary of his penchant forcorporatising the university. Already he has changed the management structure to include the position of chief operatingofficer. But if he is a proponent of a user-pays system, he is also an advocate of equity ineducation. He is critical of the way universities generally skew scholarships solely towards academicexcellence - regardless of whether those people would be able to pay their own way anyway - andplans an overhaul of scholarships at Macquarie. "Di [Yerbury] was very hands on," one academic says. "Every time there was a meeting she wasthere. Schwartz is not so interested in the day-to-day running of the place. He's more a big-pictureperson and that, of course, has benefits." It is early days as to whether those plans will pay off. A Melbourne academic and industry observer says Schwartz often behaves more like a politicianthan a vice-chancellor. "I also think Macquarie has got a real shot at doing well," he says. "There's space for another eliteuniversity in Sydney, it [isn't] too big, it's got a great research park around it, it's really got a lotgoing for it and he's come in at the right time. He's got a real shot at coming out as a very strongvice-chancellor." But he worries about Schwartz's sincerity. "It's great to be a good communicator, it's worth a lot.But I think you should mean what you say ... and I don't think he does." Perceptions are also coloured by the Murdoch experience, which saw Schwartz push throughsome deeply unpopular changes and become known as an autocratic ruler. When he took up thereins, Murdoch was 21 years old, racked by financial concerns and at real risk of merging withanother West Australian university - a prospect that he also investigated before it was buried byMurdoch's senate. He cut courses with low enrolments, built a shopping centre and retirement village on theuniversity's land and established a branch campus at nearby Rockingham. But not all staff supported the changes, and five years after he left many still prickle at the mentionof his name. The president of the National Tertiary Education Union's West Australian division,Mick Campion, hung up immediately when asked to contribute to this story. Some academics didnot return calls. One staffer, asked to suggest somebody who might say something nice about the formervice-chancellor, gave a hollow laugh. "He's very litigious," she said of the ill-feeling towards him. "Ican't say much, to be honest." And when pressed: "One [academic] made comments in a lecture and that went to the courts. Itnever got anywhere, but that's why we're extremely careful." But others describe his Murdoch tenure as an exciting time. For the first time the university'sfortunes are turning. "He put together a vision for the university," says Emeritus Professor Jeff Gawthorne, who servedthere as a deputy to Schwartz. "He enjoyed testing arguments and ideas and he was always opento fresh ways of doing things. "I think some people found him a bit formidable because he had such an intellect and you reallyhad to ... know your stuff if you were going to take him on in arguments. Some people found that abit too difficult, of course." Back at the Macquarie meeting, Schwartz addresses some of the whispers that have floatedthrough to his air-conditioned office. "There are no plans for large-scale academic staff redundancies," he says. "Yes, we do want tolook at our provision of space. Yes, we do welcome any input.


"There will be scholarships for PhD students who work in areas other than the cores. We're nottrying to kill off all the cultural activity at Macquarie. There are complicated stories involved in allthese things..." STEVEN SCHWARTZ Born: November 5, 1946, New York; moved to Australia 1978 Educated: Brooklyn College. City University (New York), Syracuse University Married: Claire Mary Farrugia, November 9, 2001 Children: Two sons (one deceased), one daughter from previous marriage 1980s: Universities of Queensland and Western Australia. 1996-2001: Vice-chancellor, Murdoch University (Western Australia) 2002-05: Vice-chancellor, Brunel University (England) 2006: Vice-chancellor, Macquarie University Source: Who's Who in Australia 2006

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A degree of scandal - $12.9m in art and a $29,000 credit card bill

SE LocalHD A degree of scandal - $12.9m in art and a $29,000 credit card bill BY GEMMA JONES CR MATPWC 436 wordsPD 9 February 2007SN Daily TelegraphSC DAITELED 1 - StatePG 15LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP FORMER Macquarie University vice-chancellor Di Yerbury is packing up her university-funded

home of 16 years in the middle of a bitter feud with her successor. Students at the university have been oblivious to the dispute involving Professor Yerbury over a$12.9 million art collection, credit card expenses of more than $29,000 and even her academicresidence.

TD The Auditor-General's office may be forced to step in to resolve the dispute with current vicechancellor Steven Schwartz if investigations by the university uncover financial discrepancies. An eight-point letter called for an audit of everything from Professor Yerbury's right to live in theuniversity's Killara residence, allegations she had not paid a credit card invoice of more than$29,000 and thousands of dollars in travel bills. Mr Schwartz's office is now holding 1000 artworks and more than 100 boxes of documents as thetwo sides try to resolve the dispute. It is understood Professor Yerbury was yesterday disappointed that the allegations had beenmade public. The battle could threaten the hard-won reputation Professor Yerbury had built as a universityinnovator who propelled Macquarie to international acclaim. While the battle has raged in the highest office of the university, students yesterday said theywere kept in the dark. An Audit Office spokesman confirmed an internal university investigation could reach a higheroffice by May, when university's publish their financial results. "We are aware of it, we are concerned if it has an impact on the financial report -- our primary roleis to attest the accuracy of their financial statements," the spokesman said. Professor Yerbury was not at home yesterday and packing boxes could be seen through thewindow of the Killara home. It is claimed there is confusion between artworks owned by Professor Yerbury and those ownedby the university, with the university apparently footing the insurance bill. Lawyers for Ms Yerbury said she had records detailing the artwork which belongs to her. An invoice for credit card expenses of more than $29,000 were still unpaid in August last year,according to the letter. The allegations also include questions about travel bills for more than $25,000 over the past year-- she has been on study leave since February 2006. Legal letters between the two sides have been exchanged, with lawyers for Professor Yerburyclaiming some of the allegations have been highly defamatory. Mr Schwartz declined to return calls yesterday.


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Former uni chief may sue over breach

SE LocalHD Former uni chief may sue over breach BY Justine Ferrari CR MATPWC 520 wordsPD 9 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 5LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP MACQUARIE University faces possible legal action over the alleged breach of Freedom of

Information laws in its release of documents claiming maladministration by its outgoingvice-chancellor Di Yerbury. Professor Yerbury was yesterday considering her legal options against the university and newVice-Chancellor Steven Schwartz, after the release of audit documents regarding the ownershipof millions of dollars worth of artworks which accuse her of poor administration.

TD Under FOI laws, any person subjected to a request must be informed and given the opportunity toobject to the documents being released. Certain classes of documents covering personal and business affairs, containing confidentialinformation or subject to legal professional privilege are exempt under FOI laws. The Australian understands that Professor Yerbury was not informed of the FOI request and shesaid yesterday she had been unaware of the audit into her administration commissioned byProfessor Schwartz until it was reported by the media. Professor Yerbury said she had repeatedly offered to work with university officials to resolve thedispute but Professor Schwartz had failed to respond. "How I have been treated by Steven Schwartz is very surprising and it does not reflect well onhim and it does no credit to a great university," she said. "I think he will be shown to have behaved very inappropriately in relation to me. There are lots oflegal rights I have which have not been observed." Professor Yerbury said it had become apparent last year that "it was not going to work with me onthe campus" after Professor Schwartz became Vice-Chancellor, and she had met ChancellorMaurice Newman to request she leave in August. But Professor Schwartz had blocked her early departure and changed her job description to sayshe would work "under his personal supervision". "I'm shocked they've spent $200,000 of university money on this when it could have beenresolved by now. I'm shocked they've turned it into such a mess; it didn't require that. I think it's asad use of stretched university resources," she said. "It came as a bit of a shock to find he (Professor Schwartz) has been conducting secret audits atgreat expense and the rest of the world know before I do." An interim report by auditors Deloitte -- to which Professor Yerbury has not yet been able torespond -- found the administration, including the retention of key documentation in relation to hercontractual arrangements, was "poor". With regard to the ownership records for the different artworks, the Deloitte review "identifiedextremely poor administration and control" and that the artworks from Professor Yerbury's privatecollection were jointly stored with those owned by the university. Professor Yerbury described as "scurrilous" claims she had failed to reconcile about $40,000worth of credit card expenses. She said the receipts had been handed in but the reconciliationhad fallen behind after the sudden death of the staff member who looked after the expenses.


Professor Schwartz could not be contacted last night.

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Yerbury defends her art

SE General NewsHD Yerbury defends her art BY Luke Slattery WC 136 wordsPD 9 February 2007SN Australian Financial Review (Abstracts)SC AFNRPG 3LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 Media Monitors Australia Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP Former Macquarie University vice-chancellor Di Yerbury yesterday said she was 'outraged' by

claims that she was not the rightful owner of millions of dollars of artwork currently displayed atthe university's North Ryde campus, and has threatened the university with defamationproceedings. Ms Yerbury was also upset over an $29,000 invoice for travel and other expenses, which currentvice-chancellor Steven Schwartz is insisting she repay because she never provided receipts.

TD Ms Yerbury says that many of the works hanging at the campus were bought by her before shestarted at Macquarie in 1987, and that her ownership is not in dispute. She and ProfessorSchwartz have reportedly had a frosty relationship during her final year at Macquarie, in whichshe had an ambassadorial role.

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Uni audit gets to the bottom of dispute

SE LocalHD Uni audit gets to the bottom of dispute BY Justine Ferrari CR MATPWC 444 wordsPD 10 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 5LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP THE decision by Macquarie University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz to investigate the

administration of his predecessor, Di Yerbury, was prompted by the discovery of gaps inuniversity records, he said yesterday. Professor Schwartz said his decision to commission an audit over the disputed ownership ofartworks worth millions of dollars and documents was motivated by his responsibility to ensuregood governance.

TD "As chief executive of Macquarie University, I am accountable for public funds. When it becameclear there were gaps in our records, it was my duty to make proper inquiries," he said. Professor Schwartz said he recognised the "important contribution" Professor Yerbury had madeto the university over almost 20 years, adding that her fostering of the art collection "has beenmuch admired, as it should be". "It is our obligation to establish good records relating to the ownership and provenance of thepaintings and sculpture, which will enable Professor Yerbury to claim those that are rightly hersand identify those that other generous people have lent or given to Macquarie," he said. Professor Schwartz last year commissioned the auditors Deloitte to investigate matters related toProfessor Yerbury, including the combining of her artworks with the university's collection andissues linked to the terms of her employment and entitlements. The interim report of the audit team, which is yet to seek Professor Yerbury's response, found"extremely poor administration and control" of the art collection. Professor Yerbury said the matter could be simply resolved but her offer to work with universityofficials had not been accepted by Professor Schwartz. She is considering legal action, including that the university breached Freedom of Informationlaws in releasing exempt documents to a newspaper and failing to notify Professor Yerbury thatshe was the subject of an FOI request. University FOI officer Lachlan Morgan said the request related to university business andadministration, so there was no need to tell Professor Yerbury. One of the artworks under dispute is a gouache painting by multiple Archibald Prize-winner CliftonPugh of Professor Yerbury's buttocks when she was 30. Professor Yerbury said the painting was a gift from Pugh, who was a friend, and that she had noproof of ownership beyond the artist's note on the work, which gives the date and reads, "Of Difrom Clif". "After 34 years, I don't think I could prove it even by showing you my behind," she said. She said Pugh was after a particular shape, "I think because I was a skinny young thing at thetime".

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Macquarie University - school for scandal

SE PerspectiveHD Macquarie University - school for scandal BY Luke Slattery WC 251 wordsPD 10 February 2007SN Australian Financial Review (Abstracts)SC AFNRPG 22LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 Media Monitors Australia Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP The recent clash between former Macquarie University vice-chancellor Di Yerbury and her

successor, Steven Schwartz, has been the subject of meuch media coverage, not least becauseof the clash of two very large personalities. However, the dispute over millions of dollars worth of artworks, that Yerbury says are hers, and a$29,000 invoice that Schwartz says is hers too, may be masking a deeper issue.

TD Schwartz has a plan for Macquarie to turn it into one of Australia's leading research institutes. Todo this, he needs more funding, and a particular focus. He has outlined a plan, neatly in line withthat of Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop, to build on Macquarie's 'research strengths' at theexpense of some of the cultural programs that are traditionally associated with universities. Yerbury, a long-time patron of the arts, has been hanging around the campus as an 'ambassador'for what she still calls her 'beloved Macquarie' since her retirement last February. She has seenthe demise of the Macquarie Trio and Theatre of the Image, and the abrupt departure of theMacquarie Dictionary offices to Sydney University. These moves by Schwartz have seen himdescribed a 'cultural lizard', and some from within the university are seeing his attack on Yerburyas simply a manifestation of his 'my way or the highway' attitude. According to some, Schwatzwants Yerbury, and everybody else, to know that it is no longer her beloved Macquarie.

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The Prince - Newman jarred in university pickle

SE General NewsHD The Prince - Newman jarred in university pickle WC 163 wordsPD 10 February 2007SN Australian Financial Review (Abstracts)SC AFNRPG 11LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 Media Monitors Australia Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP Recent events have conspired to tarnish the reputation of Maurice Newman. Although highly

regarded as a stickler for corporate governance and an upholder of high corporate standards aschairman of the Australian Stock Exchange, a situation at Macquarie University, where he servesas chancellor, has become troublesome. A row erupted between former vice-chancellor DiYerbury and her hand-picked replacement Steven Schwartz, but the personal clashes havegiven way to corporate governance issues, after internal auditor Deloitte found 'a general failure tokeep and maintain proper records as part of the university record-keeping system as requiredunder the State Records Act and in accordance with proper administrative processes.' Among keyrecords lacking are terms of, and the contract governing, the appointment of Yerbury.

TD Newman is no stranger to battles over corporate governance, having resigned in disgust from theABC board in 2004, only to make a triumphant return as chairman last year.

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Controversial academic's departure is no small task

SE NewsHD Controversial academic's departure is no small task BY By MARIO CHRISTODOULOU and FRANK WALKER WC 327 wordsPD 11 February 2007SN Sun HeraldSC SHDED FirstPG 28LA EnglishCY © 2007 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP IT took six removal vans and 20 removalists to cart hundreds of boxes and artworks yesterday

from the mansion Macquarie University supplied to former vice-chancellor Di Yerbury for the past16 years. Professor Yerbury, 65, is leaving the Killara property as she faces allegations her $3.3 million artcollection had been "co-mingled" with more than 1000 artworks in the $12.9 million universitycollection, and a dispute over $29,000 in credit card bills.

TD Professor Yerbury refused to come out of the house to talk to reporters yesterday as shesupervised packing. "I am usually quite obliging to the media, but not today," she said by phonefrom inside the house. Her voice breaking with emotion she said reporters should "go and stand outside Steven's house",a reference to the new vice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz, who has called for an audit of theartworks to determine ownership. Twenty removalists began at 7am, carting hundreds of boxes, furniture and artworks from themansion. Many boxes appeared to contain old newspapers that were carefully catalogued by dateand number. It is understood the university was footing the removalists' bill, estimated to be more than $10,000. The boxes and artworks were headed for storage and it is not clear where Professor Yerbury willlive now that her employment with the university is over. Neighbours dropped in to say goodbye, but they did not want to comment to reporters. Professor Yerbury won a reputation as a distinguished academic, who brought MacquarieUniversity international acclaim during her 19 years as vice-chancellor. She has threatened to sue Professor Schwartz for releasing documents about the dispute after afreedom of information request. She said the law required she be notified so she could respond, but she was not told thedocuments would be released.

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Learning the hard way

SE Features;FeatureHD Learning the hard way BY Dorothy Illing CR MATPWC 1,822 wordsPD 12 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 10LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP Universities can be more cut-throat than other businesses, as Macquarie University's former

vice-chancellor Di Yerbury is discovering, writes Dorothy Illing IN the dog-eat-dog world of university politics, it's best to keep an execution quick and clean. Aprivate word or a signal from the board can hasten a bloodless exit for the vice-chancellor with ahandsome payout that buys silence and protects the reputation of the university.

TD But the departures of university chief executives in recent years have become more town squareaffairs as the controversies surrounding academe's rich and powerful play out in the public arena. With the salary packages of some vice-chancellors tipping $1 million a year, the stakes are highand expectations in terms of performance are mounting. What was once a job for life can now bea career killer. Macquarie University is the latest seat of seething, where former vice-chancellor Di Yerbury is atloggerheads with her successor of 12 months, Steven Schwartz. Claims and counterclaims about ownership of documents, Yerbury's art collection and the termsof her departure from the top job are engulfing the chancellery. While the Yerbury-Schwartz battle has been brewing for 12 months -- until September, her officewas only a couple of doors down the corridor from his -- inauspicious endings come much fasterfor some. Since 2001, at least six vice-chancellors have left their universities amid public controversies,often not of their own making. Others have gone quietly, with governing councils refusing to renewtheir contracts. The dredging up of old scandals, groundswells of opposition from antsy faculties and unworkablerelationships with their governing councils are among the reasons they have gone before theirtime was up. "It's a very Marie Antoinette phenomenon," says former Adelaide University vice-chancellor MaryO'Kane of the public fall of some. "These are little communities and this is a bit like localentertainment or, as was the case in the old days, the local execution." O'Kane should know. The academic community was shocked when she resigned suddenly in2001 after being rolled by members of her senior management. The university's governingcouncil, then chaired by former Normandy Mining boss Robert Champion de Crespigny, hadgranted her a pay rise only the week before. Announcing her resignation, de Crespigny said: "It isquite evident that the concerns which have led to this situation relate to questions of managementstyle and not matters of competence, commitment or propriety." When she was appointed to Adelaide in 1996, O'Kane was Australia's youngest vice-chancellorand a rising star. Now she runs a consultancy in Sydney and is reluctant to talk about the episode. "You work very hard, you take a lot of tough decisions, inevitably you are not popular with manypeople, but you get paid a lot and have to accept a high level of personal risk," she says. "It canbe pretty horrible, but that's life." The accountability demands on vice-chancellors have risen dramatically in the past decade in linewith their salaries.


La Trobe University's Michael Osborne fell victim to this when, in late 2005, a disgruntled facultywaged a campaign against him over his travel expenses and the general direction of theuniversity. Osborne was among the few vice-chancellors who succeeded in getting his contract renewed forunusually long periods when the university's performance was flagging. But the end was swift andpublic, with the allegations about his expenses being aired in state parliament. He was latervindicated by an audit. RMIT University chancellor Dennis Gibson knows better than most the new pressures imposed onuniversity chiefs. The former vice-chancellor of Queensland University of Technology retired fromthe institution after 21 years at the helm of QUT and its forerunner. He was appointed chancellorof RMIT in Melbourne soon afterwards. At RMIT he inherited a battle-scarred institution where another vice-chancellor, Ruth Dunkin,resigned suddenly. She endured a long public controversy over RMIT's financial crisis, which wasblamed on the installation of a new computer system to handle student administration. Gibson points to the much shorter terms of vice-chancellors these days, which usually begin withfive-year contracts but include options for shorter extensions. He says the high expectations meanthat the steady growth of an institution is hardly an option any longer. "They are appointed for five years on a big salary, and councils and universities expect big thingsto happen fast," he says. "[Universities] are huge, complicated organisations and sometimesthings go wrong. It may not be the fault of the vice-chancellor, but that's where the buck stops." Yerbury's long tenure at Macquarie is anachronistic. She once enjoyed an "evergreen" contract.The Australian understands the deal was that as long as her health was fine and the universitywas running well, the job was hers. And for 19 years it was. In the late 1990s, her contract was renegotiated -- a long process -- and atermination date was inserted so succession could be planned. But she appeared reluctant to go and more extensions were granted. In 2002, her contract wasrenewed for a further three years. And in a contentious move, the council renewed it for yetanother year; at about the same time, Yerbury was positioning herself for a two-year stint aspresident of the peak Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee. That took her term as vice-chancellor to February last year, with a year of sabbatical after that, acondition that was set in stone years ago but which was always going to be problematic for hersuccessor. Yerbury was a trailblazer in higher education. She was Australia's first woman vice-chancellor --for many years its only one -- and, until she stepped down, its longest-serving university chief. Under her, Macquarie grew into a strong institution with a good international reputation. Now herexit will be marred by controversy and what may become a long and bitter legal battle. John Hay, vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland, is now the elder statesman of highereducation, the man with the view that only comes with hindsight. Regarded as one of the sector'smost successful chief executives, Hay says he loves his job but won't be seeking an extensionwhen his term expires at the end of this year. There are other things he wants to do. Hay says the pressures on universities are greater than ever. Among the external demandsdriving them are tight funding, rising student-staff ratios, the rapid evolution of disciplines and thehuge advance of technologies. "The real change for the vice-chancellor is the far greater pressures in terms of public visibility: notsimply being seen, but finding new sources of funding, support from industry and the widercommunity," he says. Those different revenue streams are also tied to the greater demand for accountability fromgovernments and university councils. Ken McKinnon, a former vice-chancellor of three universities, likens an academic community to alegal or medical practice where everyone sees themselves as an equal partner. For the person who leads that community, there's a different set of expectations. "There's muchmore expectation that a vice-chancellor will be all things that a business leader is, plus have thecapacity to deal with fractious colleagues," he says.


So fractious can those colleagues become that seeds of discontent can quickly grow into bitterdisputes that can bring down the vice-chancellor. The University of NSW is still recovering from the ugly dispute over a case of alleged scientificmisconduct that ran for years, claiming the scalp of former vice-chancellor Rory Hume. Humeinherited the affair from his predecessor John Niland. He was only 21 months into his contractwhen he resigned, citing a breakdown in his relationship with the governing council. He cameunder enormous pressure over his handling of the case and his refusal to sack the person at thecentre of the allegations, who was found guilty of the lesser charge of academic misconduct. The mild-mannered former dentist has moved to the US and now holds a senior post at theUniversity of California. Gibson reckons one of the most important ingredients of success is luck. "In really complicatedorganisations subject to public scrutiny, things can go wrong and even the best managers have tocarry the blame for it," he says. There was, he recalls fondly, a gentler time when new vice-chancellors were given time to settleinto the job and "people would look after them a bit. But now you are expected to hit the deckrunning." Tim Besley, who was chancellor at Macquarie for eight years before Maurice Newman took over,is familiar with the cut and thrust of boardrooms. He has held many senior posts, includingchairman of the Commonwealth Bank, chairman of Leighton Holdings and more recentlychairman of the Wheat Export Authority, the regulator that became embroiled in the AWB scandal.Asked if the politics that pervade the upper echelons of universities are more vicious than in othersectors, he doesn't hesitate: "Absolutely." Besley blames the factional interests within institutions, particularly on university councils, whichoften override the interests of the organisation as a whole. With all its inherent problems, there is still no shortage of people wanting to be a vice-chancellor.And with shorter contracts and truncated careers, the turnover today is higher than in the past. That means more work for executive search firms which trawl the globe looking for ambitiousdeputies, deans and, increasingly, contenders from outside the sector. As well as the hefty salaries, the posts bring eminence, power and the potential for enormous jobsatisfaction in an unparalleled intellectual environment. And for those who do fall from grace, there is always the club. They don't have to face a jobqueue. Not only are their payouts healthy, but their colleagues look after them by steeringconsultancy work their way. Dorothy Illing is a senior higher education writer with The Australian. VICE-CHANCELLORS WHO BECAME VICTIMS OF THEIR UNIVERSITIES Mary O'Kane, Adelaide University Resigned August 2001, after she was rolled by members of her senior management. David Robinson, Monash University Resigned July 2002, amid plagiarism allegations dredged up after more than 20 years. John Niland, University of NSW Retired June 2002, after troubled relationship with the governing council. Rory Hume, University of NSW Resigned April 2004, when he lost the support of the governing council over his handling of acase of academic misconduct. Ruth Dunkin, RMIT Resigned August 2004, after relentless coverage of the university's financial crisis.


Michael Osborne, La Trobe University Resigned December 2005, after public controversy over travel expenses, but later vindicated byan audit.

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Chancellor intervenes in VCs' dispute

SE FeaturesHD Chancellor intervenes in VCs' dispute BY Dorothy Illing, Lisa Macnamara, Additional reporting by Brendan O'Keefe and Catherine Armitage CR MATPWC 838 wordsPD 14 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 2 - All-round FirstPG 21LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP ABC boss and chancellor of Macquarie University Maurice Newman has moved to quell the

escalating public dispute between the former and present vice-chancellors. Mr Newman, whooverhauled governance at the Australian Stock Exchange, where he is chairman, faces agovernance crisis of his own at Macquarie, where the dispute threatens to damage the reputationof the university. Former vice-chancellor Di Yerbury and her successor Steven Schwartz are locked in a battleover ownership of 125 boxes of documents, $12 million in artworks, the terms of ProfessorYerbury's contract and her termination payout. (Her package as VC reportedly was worth$600,000 but Macquarie refused to confirm or deny this yesterday.)

TD The controversy was brought to a head by an audit Professor Schwartz ordered last year and afreedom-of-information request that Professor Yerbury said she was not told about. She told the HES that Mr Newman had urged her to resolve the matter out of court because hewas concerned about Macquarie's reputation. But she said that would only happen if Professor Schwartz and other people -- perhaps even theuniversity council -- issued a written apology. "There would have to be retractions and some apologies, and a lot of different things would haveto be put right," she said. Professor Schwartz declined to comment on the matter of an apology. He continued to defend hishandling of the dispute, insisting it was a governance issue and not a personality clash: "When it became clear that there were gaps relating to our records, it was my duty to make properinquiries. The University must meet all legislative requirements and I took legal advice at everystage." He said Macquarie recognised the "important contribution" made by Professor Yerbury over thepast 20 years. Continued -- Page 22 From Page 21 "Her fostering of the art collection is much admired and it is only right that we have an obligationto establish good records relating to the ownership and provenance of the paintings andsculpture, which will enable Professor Yerbury to claim those that are rightly hers." Meredith Edwards, the former head and founder of Canberra University's National Institute forGovernance, said Macquarie's governing council had some responsibility in the campus fallout. "The role of the council -- with the chancellor as its head -- should have been not to have allowedthe old vice-chancellor to have this role [on campus] for a year. And if it were for a year, to havevery clearly specified conditions," she said. RMIT chancellor and former Queensland University of Technology vice chancellor Dennis Gibsonsaid Professor Yerbury and chancellor Newman both should have clarified her status, followingretirement. He said there needed to be a significant period of transition when an outgoing vicechancellor was not on campus unless invited back by the new vice chancellor. "I'm not saying


they should go and never be seen again but there needs to be a significant space of time whenthe [retiring vice-chancellor] is not around." Professor Yerbury left Macquarie on Friday after a year of sabbatical and moved out of thevice-chancellor's house on Saturday. Contrary to claims she received free rent, she said she had paid $114,000 a year for heraccommodation, its maintenance and other costs of the Killara house. She has rented a place in the Bennelong Apartments at Circular Quay. Professor Schwartz saidhe would continue to live in his own house at his own expense. The Australian has learned that Professor Yerbury was on an "evergreen contract" for many ofher 19 years at Macquarie, a highly unusual arrangement similar to academic tenure. Mostvice-chancellors are now on five-year contracts with an option for shorter reappointmentsdepending on performance. At Macquarie, as long as the university was running well andProfessor Yerbury was healthy, she could keep the job. But in about 2000 former chancellor TimBesley told her that "nobody has these types of contracts these days" and he began negotiating anew contract which included a termination date. Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee president Gerard Sutton said the falling out at Macquariewas a personal disappointment to him but it was a matter for the university and not the AVCC. He said the dispute had no bearing on the state of governance in the sector, which was "as strongas ever". But one former Macquarie councillor who asked not to be named said questions about goodgovernance, good practice and transparency at the university were not countenanced duringProfessor Yerbury's tenure. He said there were few independent voices. "There was a palpablefeeling of inadequacy, isolation and irrelevance." Former academic Peter Abelson, dismissed by Professor Yerbury last year over extra-muralearnings, said: "Staff members [on council] can't afford to be too objectionable and students can'tsay much."

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Chancellor intervenes

SE FeaturesHD Chancellor intervenes BY Dorothy Illing, Lisa Macnamara, Additional reporting by Brendan O'Keefe and Catherine Armitage CR MATPWC 516 wordsPD 14 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 21LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP ABC boss and chancellor of Macquarie University Maurice Newman has moved to quell the

escalating public dispute between the former and present vice-chancellors. Mr Newman, whooverhauled governance at the Australian Stock Exchange, where he is chairman, faces agovernance crisis of his own at Macquarie, where the dispute threatens to damage the reputationof the university. Former vice-chancellor Di Yerbury and her successor Steven Schwartz are locked in a battleover ownership of 125 boxes of documents, $12 million in artworks, the terms of ProfessorYerbury's contract and her termination payout. (Her package as VC reportedly was worth$600,000 but Macquarie refused to confirm or deny this yesterday.)

TD The controversy was brought to a head by an audit Professor Schwartz ordered last year and afreedom-of-information request that Professor Yerbury said she was not told about. She told the HES that Mr Newman had urged her to resolve the matter out of court because hewas concerned about Macquarie's reputation. But she said that would only happen if Professor Schwartz and other people -- perhaps even theuniversity council -- issued a written apology. "There would have to be retractions and some apologies, and a lot of different things would haveto be put right," she said. Professor Schwartz declined to comment on the matter of an apology. He continued to defend hishandling of the dispute, insisting it was a governance issue and not a personality clash: "When it became clear that there were gaps relating to our records, it was my duty to make properinquiries. The University must meet all legislative requirements and I took legal advice at everystage." He said Macquarie recognised the "important contribution" made by Professor Yerbury over thepast 20 years. "Her fostering of the art collection is much admired and it is only right that we have an obligationto establish good records relating to the ownership and provenance of the paintings andsculpture, which will Continued -- Page 22 From Page 21 enable Professor Yerbury to claim those that are rightly hers." Meredith Edwards, the former headand founder of Canberra University's National Institute for Governance, said Macquarie'sgoverning council had some responsibility in the campus fallout. "The role of the council -- with thechancellor as its head -- should have been not to have allowed the old vice-chancellor to have thisrole [on campus] for a year. And if it were for a year, to have very clearly specified conditions,"she said. Professor Yerbury left Macquarie on Friday and moved out of the vice-chancellor's house onSaturday. Contrary to claims she received free rent, she said she had paid $114,000 a year forher accommodation, its maintenance and other costs of the Killara house.


Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee president Gerard Sutton said the dispute had no bearingon the state of governance in the sector, which was "as strong as ever".

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Professor defends her $13m art hoard

SE LocalHD Professor defends her $13m art hoard BY ELLEN CONNOLLY CR MATPWC 199 wordsPD 18 February 2007SN Sunday TelegraphSC SUNTELED 1 - StatePG 28LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP THE former vice-chancellor of Macquarie University Di Yerbury insists she "earned every penny"

of her $600,000 taxpayer-funded salary. "I've never lived in an ivory tower in my life," she says on ABC radio's Sunday profile, which airstonight.

TD Professor Yerbury is in the middle of a bitter dispute with Macquarie's new vice-chancellor StevenSchwartz over a $12.9 million art collection, travel expenses, weekend secretaries and creditcards. Professor Schwartz has seized control of more than 1000 artworks and 125 boxes. But Professor Yerbury said in the interview she has receipts, cheque stubs and valuations toprove she purchased the art works. "I've got photographs with many of them before I ever camenear Macquarie," she said. She said she was "appalled" at how the events were being played out and "outraged" at the liesbeing told. "This could have been handled amicably, responsibly, without a great deal of expenditure andwithout a lot of publicity." She said she had intended to donate a lot of her artwork to the university on her retirement.

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From figurehead to dynamic leader

SE EducationHD From figurehead to dynamic leader BY Lyndall Crisp WC 188 wordsPD 19 February 2007SN Australian Financial Review (Abstracts)SC AFNRPG 34LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 Media Monitors Australia Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP Universities are recruiting chancellors from the upper echelons of the business world, as the role

of the chancellor has transformed from that of ceremonial figurehead to vital leader, fundraiser,and court of appeal in disputes. The recent conflict between Macquarie University's departing vice-chancellor and successor Steven Schwartz demonstrated the crucial role of ABC and ASX chairman Maurice Newman aschancellor.

TD With the government pushing universities to raise funds through sponsorship, endowments andphilanthropy, the chancellor becomes more and more and like the chairman of a public company,and as the duties multiply, calls for remuneration increase. University of Western Australia chancellor Michael Chaney - also chairman of National AustraliaBank and president of the Business Council of Australia - says that the position may be anhonour, but payment will likely be introduced if the workload increases. Chancellor of the University of NSW David Gonski sees the comparison to a company chairmanas apt, drawing on his experience in his other roles as chairman of Coca-Cola Amatil and directorof Westfield Group and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group.

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Yerbury approved manager's weekly flights

SE LocalHD Yerbury approved manager's weekly flights BY Brendan O'Keefe, Justine Ferrari CR MATPWC 507 wordsPD 21 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 5LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP MACQUARIE University's former vice-chancellor Di Yerbury gave approval for a senior manager

to commute weekly from his home in Melbourne while working at the university's Sydney campusfor at least three years. The travel arrangements of the former head of the university's international office, Tony Adams,are now at the centre of an investigation into the office's expenses.

TD He was one of three staff members who made 74 trips between Sydney and Melbourne over anine-month period. Mr Adams yesterday claimed Professor Yerbury had approved all of his travel arrangements,which he said were justified. Mr Adams, who resigned last month after eight years heading the office, said he commutedweekly between the two cities for at least three years, flying economy class, and sometimes flewback to Melbourne for mid-week meetings. "I was down the back; I flew Virgin, so there is onlydown the back," he said. Mr Adams also confirmed that his daughter-in-law, Melbourne-based graphic designer Jo Adams,was hired by the office to design a brochure, but denied it was for the sum of $400,000 as allegedin the investigation. "There were no strict rules on these things; I followed what I considered to be a very properprocedure," he said. "I have distanced myself from any involvement in it at all. I have nothing to apologise for andneither does the designer." The Weekend Australian reported on Saturday that the university's auditors, Deloitte, had starteda second audit last week into expenses worth several hundred thousand dollars incurred by theinternational office. In addition to the 74 trips between Melbourne and Sydney over nine months, the office's taxi bill oftens of thousands of dollars was 40 times higher than a comparable university. The anomalies in the international office's expenses were uncovered during an initial audit into theuniversity's administration under Professor Yerbury, instigated in September by the newvice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz . An interim report examining missing university records and the commingling of artworks owned byProfessor Yerbury with the university's art collection was completed in December and sent to theNSW Auditor-General. Professor Yerbury did not return phone calls last night, but last week denied any wrongdoing orimproper conduct. Problems in the administration of the university were identified in a 2003 report by the AustralianUniversities Quality Agency, which is described in this month's Campus Review as "one of themost damning delivered in the sector". While the audit praised the university's educational qualityand activities, it identified problems in record-keeping and with the "intensity of ownership" felt bysenior staff, in particular the then vice-chancellor Professor Yerbury.


Professor Schwartz yesterday said he had implemented a centralised cataloguing system for alluniversity records and intended to fully implement all of the agency's 23 recommendations. Higher Education -- Page 33

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Caught up in the Macquarie mire

SE FeaturesHD Caught up in the Macquarie mire BY Bruce Williams CR MATPWC 675 wordsPD 21 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 37LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP Schwartz is worthy of backing in the Yerbury fiasco, says Bruce Williams

WHEN Di Yerbury was appointed vice-chancellor of Macquarie University in 1987, she wasinducted on the same terms as her two predecessors: that, subject to continuing good health andperformance, she would serve until age 65. Nothing odd about that.

TD What was odd was the decision to appoint Steven Schwartz vice-chancellor from February lastyear and to leave Yerbury on her VC's salary until February this year, apparently without informingher that as vice-chancellor on leave she no longer had any executive powers. (As internationalambassador she should have been given a specified budget but that does not seem to have beendone.) Shortly after his appointment, Schwartz wrote to his chancellor, Maurice Newman, about thisunusual situation. Schwartz had discovered that Yerbury had organised a weekend secretary,was using the vice-chancellor's driver and planned to remain in the main administration building. Schwartz informed the chancellor that Yerbury was very upset when he told her that she could nolonger authorise her own travel and expenses or expenditures on the art gallery. Two months later Schwartz cancelled her university credit cards. Yerbury asked the chancellor tooverride the vice-chancellor's refusal to approve her planned travel -- which he did not -- and shemaintained her claim for a $100,000 bonus, which the university council did not approve, and for apayout for 70 weeks of accumulated holiday leave, though the university policy allowed no morethan eight weeks' accrual. The chancellor's desire to make Yerbury's exit "as dignified as possible" seems to have prolongedthe dispute between Yerbury and Schwartz, which by August had become very sharp when,following an audit report, Schwartz challenged Yerbury's ownership of more than 400 paintings inthe university's gallery and, to clarify ownership, seized boxes of records that Yerbury claimed asher own. The weakness of university records for the paintings, described as "appalling" by deputychancellor Malcolm Irving, is prolonging that dispute, which harms the work and reputation of theuniversity. (A later request for an external audit of the international office suggests a past weakness in theaudit process at Macquarie.) These issues should have been settled before February last year so that the new VC couldconcentrate on establishing his regime. As judged from newspaper reports, the chancellor has not given Schwartz the support that I thinkhe deserved. Relations between chancellors and vice-chancellors vary between universities andover time. The university acts and by-laws do not spell out the role of the chancellor, other than topreside at meetings. But all governing bodies and their chancellors have a responsibility to makegood decisions on policy and to support the incumbent vice-chancellor in conducting an efficientadministration. The failure of the chancellor and/or the council to clarify Yerbury's position and her entitlements --as requested by the vice-chancellor -- handicaps his activities. A clean retirement from a respected and, on the whole, pleasant position is not easy for thosewho still feel full of energy. Life in retirement can be disturbing for those who do not accept thatmany of their accustomed perks are not for the person as such but for the person in a position.


The Sydney Morning Herald published a very revealing comment from Yerbury. University ofNSW vice-chancellor Fred Hilmer had invited her to an honorary degree ceremony. "When Iaccepted I was given VIP status and reserved seating, invited to a restricted-entry cocktail party ...and shown every courtesy," Yerbury said. "It was really quite moving to be reminded what normalcourteous behaviour in a university is like." Such VIP treatment will become rarer after her retirement as a vice-chancellor. Bruce Williams was vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Sydney from 1967 to 1981.His most recent book is Making and Breaking Universities.

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Audit `weapon' aimed at Yerbury

SE FeaturesHD Audit `weapon' aimed at Yerbury BY Brendan O'Keefe CR MATPWC 588 wordsPD 21 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 35LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP MACQUARIE University was using audits as a weapon against former vice-chancellor Di Yerbury,

the former head of the university's international office said yesterday. Tony Adams, who resigned from his post as pro vice-chancellor (international) last month, said:"The university is acting in a very bad way. It's releasing stuff to the press that I don't think itshould be.

TD "I believe that, particularly against the former vice-chancellor, he [VC Steven Schwartz] is usingthe audits as a weapon, which I think is quite different from using them for public accountability." A spokesman for the university said: "The audits have been instigated as the only way ofassessing the true nature of the university's records. It is essential that all moneys, particularly inrespect of taxpayer funds, are accounted for. "The use of the word weapon suggests that there's a personal vendetta. There is no vendetta.This is a matter of proper governance." Mr Adams, who had an arrangement with Professor Yerbury to commute between his Melbournehome and his Sydney job, scoffed at an auditor's claims of excessive spending in the internationaloffice. He said: "The university runs a $120million income business; my activities and those of my staffover the past eight years brought in nearly half a billion dollars. "We tried to run it as a business activity and that's difficult in a public-sector environment, and Ibelieve our budgets were reasonable and accountable." He said his resignation was one of five from the office recently but that none was connected to anaudit. His deputy John Molony also resigned. "It's appalling to suggest that people had resigned because of [questions over expenditure]," hesaid. "I don't believe there's any correlation. All the questions [about expenditures] put to me wereanswered and all questions put to others were answered." Mr Adams was head of international (including student recruitment) for eight years, during whichtime the department made nearly $500million in fees and Macquarie jumped from 23rd mostpopular Australian destination for foreign students to fourth most popular, he said. The meanincrease in income from international students was 306per cent sector-wide and 996per cent atMacquarie during his eight years, he said. He resigned one year after Professor Schwartz started. "My use-by date had come and the university was changing direction; there was a culturechange," Mr Adams said. There had been no personal or professional clashes with ProfessorSchwartz: "It was merely that the direction of the university was changing and my role was notseen to be so central." Mr Adams now runs a one-man international education consultancy in Melbourne. The audit ofthe international office follows revelations about poor record keeping at Macquarie and a stoushbetween Professor Schwartz and Professor Yerbury over the latter's terms of employment lastyear. The Australian Universities Quality Agency as far back as 2003 criticised Macquarie for poordocument management and recommended it improve its practices.


Deloittes was due soon to look at what action, if any, was taken after the AUQA recommendation,a university spokesman said. Incumbent Macquarie International office director Bill McGaw could not be reached for comment. Professor Yerbury was also unavailable. * Clarification: Former Macquarie economics professor Peter Abelson resigned from his postduring a dispute over out-of-university earnings. He was not dismissed, as stated last week.

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Audit a `weapon'

SE FeaturesHD Audit a `weapon' CR MATPWC 105 wordsPD 21 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 33LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP THE former head of Macquarie University's international division has strongly denied suggestions

that he and four others resigned over allegations of excessive spending in the division. Tony Adams, now an independent education consultant in Melbourne, has been drawn into thefight between Macquarie vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz and his predecessor Di Yerbury overthe terms of Professor Yerbury's retirement. Mr Adams accused Professor Schwartz of usingaudits as a weapon against his former boss. A spokesman said the audits were a matter of propergovernance.

TD Full report -- Page 35 Comment -- Page 37

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SE FeaturesHD SNITCH CR MATPWC 458 wordsPD 28 February 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 40LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP ON the Macquarie Uni scandal front, the week ahead promises to be interesting. The university

council meets on Friday for the first time since the sad convulsions within the chancellery over theterms of Di Yerbury's departure from the campus hit the headlines earlier this month. As thecouncil ruminates on the sobering business of what damage has been done to the university'sreputation by exposure of the fight over the ownership of artworks, payments to Yerbury andlavish spending by the university's international division, some members may pine for the Yerburydays when a drinks trolley was routinely wheeled out during council deliberations. Vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz is likely to face questions over his handling of the matter and will no doubtcontinue to insist it's not a personality clash but an issue of governance standards for theuniversity.

TD The "town hall" meeting he has called for the entire university next week -- at which 2007planning as well as governance issues will be discussed -- promises to be lively. BAD English -- well, the less than ept English of a new professional class of overseas studentsturned permanent Aussie residents -- has been a headline-hogger of late. But for one anonymousinsider, venting mightily in an expert email list, it's just not news: "Anyone working in the education`industry' is aware that this topic is published and republished in the news and that it has beendiscussed ad nauseam [though the nausea is kept to a low rumble if one is to keep a job]." Oddlyenough, our insider goes on to hint that the story is even bigger -- and the English even worser[sic] -- than we suspected. "We are all probably aware that casual academics/learning advisersare relied on to rewrite the work submitted by students [of non English-speaking background] byputting in hours of unpaid work in order to try to hold on to tenuous employment and in the vainhope that one day, when steady employment is offered, we can help to re-introduce the conceptsof academic honesty and integrity." EVER wondered why nostrils come in pairs? Try blocking out the four other senses -- courtesy ofopaque goggles, earmuffs, kneepads and gloves -- and follow the trail of a chocolate-scentedstring through the grass. This is what volunteers did for a study at the University of California atBerkeley. Just as two eyes put objects in perspective each nostril has a distinct job to do ingathering olfactory information. "Berkeley scientists have also proved that people will crawl ontheir hands and knees for dozens of yards across wet grass for chocolate," The Chronicle ofHigher Education drolly observed.

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Yerbury gets $1m but wants more [CORRECTED].

SE News and FeaturesHD Yerbury gets $1m but wants more [CORRECTED]. BY Harriet Alexander Higher Education Reporter WC 551 wordsPD 3 March 2007SN The Sydney Morning HeraldSC SMHHED FirstPG 5LA EnglishCY © 2007 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY has paid its former vice-chancellor, Di Yerbury, just over $1 million in

a settlement it hopes will end a fight over her entitlements. But the professor says it is less than her due and she will pursue the matter through her lawyers.

TD The university made the payment on Tuesday after receiving legal advice from Bob Ellicott, QC,who was hired after the chancellor, Maurice Newman, had sought the opinion of two other lawfirms as to her entitlements. Negotiations have been complicated because the university lost its signed copy of her contract. Professor Yerbury declined to say how much the university had given her or how much she hadwanted, other than to say the amount paid was "not quite what I was expecting". "It is certainly not what they told me last year," Professor Yerbury said. "I will discuss that with mylawyers." Professor Yerbury said she had not yet given the university a copy of her contract because shehad not yet been able to find it. "It was signed in 2001 and it's extremely out of date," she said. Sources close to the university say she wants $1.5 million. They said the amount was more than the university or council believed she was owed, but thepayment was made in a bid to avoid court action. She will also receive an ongoing pension of more than $120,000, a source said. Professor Yerbury has so far declined to meet with Deloitte auditors who were commissioned bythe university to review her entitlements and the ownership of a multi-million-dollar art collection. An interim report released to councillors yesterday, and seen by the Herald, said ProfessorYerbury had yet to reconcile $29,000 accrued on her university credit card. The currentvice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz, cancelled the card in April last year. Professor Yerbury had incurred $48,000 in expenses since stepping down as vice-chancellor, andthey were approved by people without the power to do so, the report said. It also found there needed to be a mechanism to ensure there was no conflict of interest regardingProfessor Yerbury's involvement with IBT Education, a private college with commercial links toMacquarie University, and the Scholar Ship, a floating transnational campus in a partnership withthe university. But it acknowledged Professor Yerbury was entitled to engage in those appointments. The report also suggests a "greater arms-length arrangement should have been maintained"between Professor Yerbury and the Theatre of Image, which she chaired while she wasvice-chancellor of Macquarie. Professor Yerbury said yesterday her involvement in all those companies was known to theuniversity and council and declared ahead of each meeting. She said the expenses charged to her credit card were all accrued on university business, but the


person who was dealing with the receipts had since died. CORRECTION - An article on Saturday,"Yerbury gets $1m but wants more", incorrectly said expenses incurred by Di Yerbury since shestepped down as vice-chancellor of Macquarie University had not been approved by theappropriate people. Professor Yerbury's expenses were properly approved (SMHH, 06/03/2007).

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Schwartz outlines cultural overhaul

SE FeaturesHD Schwartz outlines cultural overhaul BY Brendan O'Keefe CR MATPWC 467 wordsPD 7 March 2007SN The AustralianSC AUSTLNED 1 - All-round CountryPG 35LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP A CULTURAL revolution to enhance professionalism and accountability at Macquarie University

will take years and cause pain for staff, vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz will warn a campusmeeting today. But the university, still reeling from a dispute over what entitlements are due to formervice-chancellor Di Yerbury, needs the change to achieve its goal of a top-10 national researchranking by 2014.

TD In a paper written for a university meeting today, Professor Schwartz wrote: "The process ofcultural change will take some years and will cause some anxiety ... change always does. "But the effort is worthwhile because Macquarie's educational mission is too important to be left tochance." To ease the pain, staff have been promised rewards if they "help the university to achieve itsgoals". Senior managers will have their needs analysed and they will be given training where necessary:"All staff will have the opportunity to set objectives and they will be given the opportunity toachieve them," Professor Schwartz wrote. The cultural change he seeks includes moving from teaching the subjects teachers want to teachto the subjects students want to learn; ensuring institutional success rather than ensuring morale;and decentralising responsibility and accountability. Professor Schwartz will announce an overhaul of the university's "multiple teaching relatedactivities into a single office". There will be master courses for teachers. A development (fund-raising) office will be opened. "Our long-term goal is a $1billion investmentfund," Professor Schwartz said. Under a heading Principles for Decision Making -- and the subheading Selflessness -- ProfessorSchwartz wrote: "Employees should not make decisions in order to gain financial or other materialbenefits for themselves, their family or their friends." Under Objectivity, Professor Schwartz said: "In carrying out business, including making hiringappointments, awarding contracts or recommending individuals for rewards and benefits,employees should make choices on merit." Professor Yerbury, who did not return phone calls yesterday, has denied any wrongdoing in adispute over the terms of her departure from the university, including ownership of about$13million worth of paintings, many of which were in her home. The university has paid her a $1million settlement but has not heard whether she has acceptedthe payout. Tony Adams, former deputy vice-chancellor, international, told The Australian last month that itwas his daughter-in-law who was contracted to design a brochure for the international office, at acost reputed by auditors Deloittes to be $400,000. Mr Adams said there was nothing improperabout the arrangement. And as the auditors trawl the campus for missing contracts, Professor Schwartz has said


employees should be "accountable for their decisions or actions and must submit themselves towhatever scrutiny is appropriate to their office".

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Uni feud continues over FoI release

SE News and FeaturesHD Uni feud continues over FoI release BY Matthew Moore, Harriet Alexander and Gerard Noonan WC 594 wordsPD 8 March 2007SN The Sydney Morning HeraldSC SMHHED FirstPG 3LA EnglishCY © 2007 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Not available for re-distribution. LP IN A MOVE that has worsened tensions at the top of Macquarie University, the Chancellor,

Maurice Newman, has ordered an inquiry into the release of documents underfreedom-of-information laws that revealed a bitter dispute with the former vice-chancellor, DiYerbury. Mr Newman has told the university's registrar, Dr Brian Spencer, to investigate why theuniversity's FoI officer, Lachlan Morgan, had released so much sensitive material to the Herald.

TD But the vice-chancellor of the university, Steven Schwartz - who is in effect the chief executive ofthe institution - has told the Herald he was not consulted about the inquiry and had not approvedit. Under the Freedom of Information Act, Professor Schwartz is the principal officer for handling FoIinquiries at the university. "Not at any stage did I contemplate an investigation or inquiry and no investigation wasundertaken at my request," Professor Schwartz said. "I have no concerns about the way the FoIrequest by The Sydney Morning Herald was handled internally. "I think we [Mr Newman and Professor Schwartz] are trying to achieve the same things, but we goabout it in different ways." The FoI documents detailed a bitter dispute between Dr Yerbury and the university over theownership of 125 boxes of documents and several hundred artworks, as well as arguments overDr Yerbury's severance arrangements after a 19-year tenure at the university, her $600,000salary package and other entitlements. Among the material was an embarrassing edited extract of a transcript of a University Councilmeeting where council members complained the university had wasted $200,000 unsuccessfullytrying to find out who owned the contested paintings. The 2500 pages of documents also contained numerous personal emails and othercorrespondence between Professor Schwartz and Mr Newman which revealed an increasinglytense relationship between the two men over the way the university was being run. Professor Schwartz has ordered the accounting firm Deloitte to audit ownership of the paintingsand the dispute over Dr Yerbury's salary arrangements. Deloitte has produced a report, parts ofwhich were released under freedom of information. Dr Yerbury has challenged the report, which was produced without her involvement, and whichshe says she has not seen. Mr Newman, who was recently appointed by the Howard Government as chairman of the ABC,has refused to respond to repeated questions about the affair. Mr Morgan has defended his handling of the released documents. "It was the largest FoI everhandled by the university ... many documents were withheld in full or in part," he said. He declined to discuss the investigation into his actions. Yesterday, Professor Schwartz addressed a packed staff meeting at the university campus inRyde to update university employees on the administration's activities, despite recent"distractions".


He said the Deloitte report had illustrated how little transparency and accountability had existed inthe university. "We are a public institution and we need to be accountable to the public foreverything we do," he said. A survey conducted shortly after Professor Schwartz took the helm at Macquarie last yearrevealed only 14 per cent of staff believed there was good communication in the university. Just under half the staff in the vice-chancellor's office rated leadership favourably. In response,Professor Schwartz plans to write a code of conduct into managers' contracts and is designing acode of ethics with the St James Ethics Centre.

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Macquarie's new strategy

SE EducationHD Macquarie's new strategy BY Luke Slattery WC 208 wordsPD 12 March 2007SN Australian Financial Review (Abstracts)SC AFNRPG 34LA EnglishCY Copyright 2007 Media Monitors Australia Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved LP The Macquarie University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz, is using the ambitious goal of getting

Macquarie into the global Top 200 by 2017, as the impetus for a refocus on improving theperformance of senior management and the assessment and appraisal scheme, in the wake ofhis dispute with his predecessor Di Yerbury. He is simultaneously seeking extra income sourcesby establishing a property trust to leverage the value of Macquarie's substantial property assets,with a long-term goal of $1 billion investment fund. Professor Schwartz outlined his plans at ameeting last week attended by more than 700 staff, and in his march vice-chancellor's reportcommits to providing developmental opportunities for all staff at Macquarie with rewards to thosewho help the university reach its goals. He aims to introduce a meritocratic culture at the NorthRyde campus, with everyone in the new scheme to know what is expected of them and how theyare doing in the light of those expectations.

TD In a bid to achieve 'group of eight' status, professor Schwartz aims to open Macquarie up tostudents from diverse backgrounds, and to fund research strategically on the basis of strengthsidentified in nine core areas.

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