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. acuity of Asian Studies, Report to Council, 14 July 1995.

General: staffing and students.

1994 saw the beginning of re-staffing in the Faculty, after extensive staff losses in previous years. Ms Carol Hayes was first to join us, enabling the Japan Centre to enhance its teaching of both language and modem literature. At the end of the year, a cluster of appointments were made: Professor A C Milner, Dr John Powers and Dr Craig Reynolds to the Asian History Centre, and Dr George Quinn to the Southeast Asia Centre. Dr R.Ileto was also appointed, and will take up his appointment in 1996. These appointments will fill notable gaps in the Faculty's coverage of Asian society and religion and Indonesian and Javanese language and literature.

Student numbers. Student enrolments for 1994 were up again, with particularly strong growth in certain areas (e.g. the China and Korea Centre). In late 1994, however, initial applications revealed that while all other Faculties were holding steady or had increased applications for 1995, Asian Studies was well down. This was dismaying news, and in cooperation with the Assistant Faculty Secretary, I immediately began a recruitment campaign, using Sydney newspapers and other media. This led to the situation on enrolment day 1995 where Asian Studies came closer than any other Faculty to meeting its undergraduate target. Subsequent figures established that we were the only Faculty to exceed the overall target, by a small margin. I have continued to be a member of the Steering Committee of the Magnet Schools program, which works to increase the study of Asia in schools, and in June this year held a very succesful afternoon program for ACT careers advisers. Work with schools in the ACT and beyond continues to be a most important area, with the Deputy Dean (Prof. Jenner) playing a leading role. The Faculty's postgraduate numbers also grew, though we did not repeat the 76% increase of the previous year.

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The agenda for the year.

It was clear from the start that a lot of things had to be done in 1994. These fell under the following main headings:

1. implementation of Review recommendations 2. continuing to improve the quality of teaching in order to retain our national lead 3. expanding the range of our teaching, especially in the non-language area 4. maintaining and if possible improving research performance 5. developing better contacts with the public and private sectors and raising the Faculty's profile. These last two initiatives had to be undertaken without making Faculty staff, who were already over-stretched, feel that yet more unwanted burdens were being placed on them. I will deal with these five areas below.

Review implementation

Much time was devoted to implementing the recommendations of the Faculty Review and also to making the running of the Faculty more efficient and in accordance with current conditions. This involved the introduction of new Asian Studies degrees, and the setting up of the new degree rules, in the making of which there was considerable and constructive student input. Revision of honours program, Faculty rules, admission criteria for undergraduate students, and Faculty membership provisions was completed. During this process it became apparent to me and to the Faculty Secretary that the Faculty's general rules and procedures had fallen into a chaotic situation which was not good for student morale and laid us open to possible legal challenges. A good deal of effort was therefore devoted to cleaning up the administrative mess.

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e Teaching: quality.

1994 saw significant innovations in teaching methodology. Prof W J F Jenner developed a pioneering system of outside assessors to monitor and improve language teaching, which will be jointly funded by the Faculty and a CEDAM teaching grant. A special focus of the Thai language program was continuing to develop a range of multi-media and computer-assisted learning materials, including a number of externally-funded projects relating to distance education, self-instructing CD-ROM and interactive multi-media modes. The Asian History Centre began a process of systematic evaluation of unit assessment. Staff of the Japan Centre successfully applied to the Faculties Teaching Development Fund in October for a grant to help develop a new curriculum for first-year spoken Japanese courses. The staff concerned (Dr Yoshida as project leader, Mr Lee and Ms Moore) will be implementing and monitoring the new curriculum during 1995. Ms Moore attended a two-day workshop on 'Satellite TV Materials in Language Teaching' at the University of Queensland in June and wrote a debriefing of the workshop for the Japan and China and Korea Centres. She designed and taught the 1994-95 Intermediate Japanese course as a postgraduate unit for the ANU's LIFT (Language Inservice for Teachers) program, which was very well received by the ACT education department. The quality of the Faculty's teaching continued to be validated by our students' performance in:

Scholarships, prizes and awards.

Nicole Bargwanna and Anthony Hague received Mombusho Scholarships awarded through the Japanese universities where they will be spending the coming year as exchange students. Linda Williams was awarded the Tsuda Fellowship for her Year in Japan. Shannon Grey, Tania Heideman, Justin Hynes and Kiri Paramore received Shoyu Club Scholarships for their Year in Japan. Michelle Muller received the Showa Scholarship for a year at Showa Women's University, and thirteen Faculty students were awarded National Asian Language Scholarship Scheme scholarships.

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Two of the Faculty's honours graduates were awarded Universi. medals, and China Centre students won first and second prize in the 5th National Chinese Eisteddfod. Japan Centre students won first, second, and third prizes in the ACT Japanese Language Speech Contest.

Teaching: range of offerings

The Review had recommended an expansion of the Faculty's non­language program to the point where it comprised fifty percent of our teaching. Special emphasis was placed on catering for the student demand for increased coverage of contemporary Asia. The continuing necessity of paying off the large inherited debt was a cons training factor in working towards this target. Nevertheless, the following new courses were developed by existing staff: Dr A Vervoorn introduced a new first-year unit, Individual and Society in Contemporary Asia, which explores the major issues and problems currently faced by Asian societies, ranging from human rights and cultural imperialism through to economic development and environmental degradation. Student response was enthusiastic.

Dr Wells offered a new unit, Modern Korea, in first semester this year.

Dr Caiger offered two new courses relating to sensitive issues in contemporary historiography of Japan for students in the Graduate School and final-year honours students. These were Histories ojlapan l, a critical review of single volume histories of Japan in English, and Histories of Japan II, a reading course in the Japanese language using evidence given by Japanese historians in the Ienaga Textbook Case from 1968 to 1970. Prof B J Terwiel, again on leave from the University of Hamburg, offered a compressed semester course on Thai History.· Approaches and Incursions. Prof W Jenner and Dr B Penny developed two new courses in Chinese history. Prof Jenner introduced a new unit Early China, which he offered in first semester. Dr Penny offered a second semester unit in Culture and Society in Medieval China. The unit focused on social, cultural and religious issues in China from the second to the eighth

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- enturies. A feature of the unit was the integration- of visual material to complement textual sources. New joint degrees with IT A, Engineering and Arts were either in operation or put through Faculty.

New integrated Graduate Diploma/M.A. courses were also introduced.

Research

Despite the effects of understaffing, four books were published by Faculty staff during 1994. Dr Backhouse's book The Lexical Field of Taste: A Semantic Study of Japanese Taste Terms was published by Cambridge University Press; Mrs. Th. Macintyre was co-author, together with two former Faculty staff members, of the pioneering textbook Spoken Vietnamese for Beginners, published by Northern lliinois University Press; and Professor W J F Jenner published new editions of The Tyranny of History and Journey to the West. These publications illustrate the range of research activities in the Faculty, covering linguistics, theoretical and applied, history, political commentary, and translation. A number of large and small ARC grants were also won by staff to support their continuing research. In connection with the need to develop a research culture in the Faculty, in 1994 I ran the first-ever Faculty seminar series, drawing in speakers from outside as well as inside the Faculty. A Visiting Fellow from the University of Canberra gave an interesting presentation on film ("The Western in the East") which is another area of growing interest in the Faculty. The theme of this first seminar series related to the humanities generally; this was followed in 1995 by Dr. Penny's series on religion and the next series will be on applied linguistics.

Contacts with public and private sectors and Faculty profile

The National Thai Studies Centre again had an active year, despite uncertainties hanging over continued DEET funding, with the Dean acting as Director. Among other activities, it conducted a wide range of public-relations activities, including response to press inquiries; provision of information and advice to Public Service units and the RAAF, the educational sector and the general public; production and

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distribution of research publications, briefing documents ar9 contributions to country surveys. With DFAT support, the Centre sponsored and coordinated a major conference, Thailand Update 1994, to assist the Australian Business community; prepared a report on the nationwide teaching of Thai as a consultancy for the National Language and Literacy Institute of Australia; and set up electronic information­technology links with the new Australian Studies Centre in Bangkok, opened by the Hon Mr Crean in December, as well as playing a leading role in several information-technology conferences and workshops to establish Australia-Thailand electronic links. Its submission to the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee of the commonwealth Parliament's Joint Standing Committee was very well received. The Centre's Management Committee was expanded to include representatives from DEBT and DFAT, and a representative from the Australia-Thai Business Council. This last was part of a general expansion of working relationships with the public and private sectors. Another example of this is that many Faculty staff were involved in designing and providing courses for the Department of Defence. I designed the succesful tender for a week-long briefing program of in-country information on Japan, PNG and a number of South-east Asian countries, using staff from other parts of the University as well as the Faculty. This was a very succesful enterprise in that Defence asked that this be repeated a number of times throughout 1994, and this year has twice come back asking for further repeats. It also provided a positive experience for staff of having some outside income, a rather new thing in our area. Mrs T. Yang did a good deal of high-level interpretation for ministerial delegations, and Mrs. Gibbons also provided linguistic expertise to DFAT. Apart from individual staff, we also had quite a good year for institutional grants. Some of the larger grants were:

- In late April-early May, I myself, Prof MC Ricklefs (Director, RSPAS), Mr G Shin and Dr K Wells visited Seoul to present an application for funding from the Korea Foundation, which bore fruit at the end of the year in a grant towards funding a second position in the Korean language and literature program, as well as funds for part-time teaching and a PhD scholarship.

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--- A UMAP grant of about $60,000 - $19,000 from a Japanese foundation for a Japanese garden

Another important area for raising the Faculty profile has been the work done by Mr. Greg Young, who began working on the Faculty entry on the World Wide Web, which became a reality this year. The presence in the Faculty of a number of ARC fellows has also helped considerably to raise our profile.

In conclusion, I believe the Faculty not only achieved much in 1994 but also built up considerable momentum. These achievements and this momentum could not have come about without very great esprit de corps and teamwork. Special thanks are due from me as Dean to all, staff and students, who contributed, and particularly to my two Deputy Deans, Professor Jenner and Dr. Diller (Acting Deputy Dean in Second Semester and de facto executive officer of the National Thai Studies Centre), whose contributions were immeasurably great.

That there has been some loss of this momentum and esprit de corps in the months around the building move is undeniable. I have to advise that no further deterioration in working conditions be inflicted on the Faculty. Otherwise, feelings that the Faculty has not been adequately consulted and that its achievements, past and present, have not been recognised, may have serious consequences. If this caveat is observed, the ANU will benefit far more from the Faculty's very considerable talents.

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Sl'td~IARY OF A.CTL'.-\.L EXPENDJTLIRE BY ~IAJOR COST Cr\TEGORIES IN THE YEARS 1990 TO 1994

SCHOOU SECTION: FACULTY OF ASIAN STUDIES

Year

I990

I991

1992

I993

1994

Note:

Total Expenditure

$000

2,775 100.00

2,709 100.00

2,993 100.00

2,859 100.00

2,712 100.00

Salaries

$000

1,972 71.06

1,910 70.51

2,227 74.41

2, 100 73.45

1,950 71.90

Salary Related

$000

403

445

477

432

440

"' ' 0

14.52

16.43

15.94

15.11

16.22

Equipment

$000

39

21

20

49

45

1994 results are subject to completion of the Annual Accounts - no material alterations are expected.

1.41

0.78

0.67

1.71

1.66

Expendable Materials

$000 %

0. 18

3 0.11

2 0.07

0.03

2 0.07

!viovement Expenses

$000 %

72 2.59

61 2.25

91 3.04

IOI 3.53

79 2.9 1

Field and

Surve '

$000 %

9 0.32

46 1.70

4 0.13

2 0.07

4 0. 15

Scholarship Stipends

$000 %

202 7.28

110 4.06

IOI 3.37

96 3.36

40 1.47

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Scholarship Expenses

$000 %

39 1.41

55 2.03

42 1.40

32 1.12

56 2.06

Other

$000 %

34 1.23

58 2.14

29 0.97

46 1.61

96 3.54

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THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

SUMMARY OF ACTUAL EXPENDITURE BY MAJOR COST CATEGORIES FOR 1990 TO 1994

SCHOOL SPECIAL PURPOSE FUNDS

('S' ledgor)

FACULTY OF ASIAN STUDIES

Total Salaries Salary Equipment Expendable Movamant Field Scholarship Scholarship Other Transfers Year Expenditure Related Materials Expenns and Stipends Expenses

Surny

$000 % $000 r. $000 % $000 % $000 % $000 r. 1000 r. $000 % $000 % $000 % $000 %

1990 72 100.00 61 84.72 11 15.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.00

1991 132 100.00 89 67.42 17 12.88 1.52 0 0.00 24 18.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

1992 100 100.00 203 203.00 33 33.00 16 16.00 2.00 78 78.00 0.00 1.00 0 0.00 1233) 1233.001

1993 242 100.00 288 119.01 51 21.07 0.41 0.00 80 33.06 0.83 0.41 0.00 1181) 174.79)

1994 600 100.00 347 57.83 72 12.00 14 2.33 0.17 149 24.83 1.33 0 0.00 0.00 1.50 0 0.00

SCHOOL PROJECT FUNDS

('0' ledger)

FACULTY OF ASIAN STUDIES

Year Total Salaries Salary Equipment Expendable Movement Field Scholarship Scholarship Other Transfers Expenditure Related Materials Expenses and Stipends Expanses

SurVly

$000 r. $000 r. $000 % $000 % $000 % $000 r. $000 r. $000 % $000 % $000 % $000 r.

1990 19 100.00 5.26 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 18 94.74

1991 60 100.00 44 73.33 6.67 5.00 0.00 1.67 0.00 0.00 0.00 13.33

1992 23 100.00 10 43.48 4.35 0.00 0 0.00 30.43 0.00 0.00 0.00 21 .74

1993 18 100.00 9 50.00 5.56 0.00 0.00 5.56 0.00 0.00 0.00 38.89

1994 100.00 22.22 11.11 0.00 0.00 11 .11 0.00 0.00 0.00 55.56 0 0.00 e 94TABLES.XLS AsianStudies 3115/95

SCHOOL OF PACIFIC ANO ASIAN STUDIES

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

Total

Expondituro

$000 r.

2,938 100.00

3,812 100.00

3.785 100.00

3,603 100.00

4.708 100.00

SCHOOL Of PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES

Year

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

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Total

Expenditure

$000 r.

912 100.00

1,001 100.00

1,575 100.00

1,313 100.00

1.787 100.00

Salaries

$000 r.

1,213 41.29

1,366 35 .83

1,553 41.03

1,497 41.55

1,540 32.71

Salaries

$000

231 25.33

209 20.86

305 19.37

271 20.64

331 16.52

Salary

Related

$000

227

271

295

302

319

Salary

Related

$000

40

36

54

50

64

r.

7.73

7.11

7.79

8.38

6.78

4.39

3.60

3.43

3.61

3.58

TH f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

SUMMARY OF ACTUAL EXPENDITURE BY MAJOR COST CATEGORIES FOR 1990 TO 1994

Equipmant

$000

65 2.21

113 2.96

142 3.75

62 1.72

114 2.42

Equipment

moo 11

55 6.03

42 4.20

101 6.41

60 4.57

74 4.14

SCHOOL SPECIAL PURPOSE FUNDS ('S' lodger)

Expandable

Materials Movement Exponsn

$000 r. $000

17

28

27

17

35

Expandable

Materials

$000

14

26

0.58 375 12.76

0.73 526 13.60

0.71 616 16.33

0.47 814 22.59

0.74 989 21 .01

SCHOOL PROJECT FUNDS

('0' lodger)

1.54

0.80

1.65

0.46

0.00

Movement

Expansas

$000

55 6.03

110 10.99

93 5.90

78 5.94

172 9.63

RSPAS

Field and

Str.voy

$000 II

255

358

455

315

324

Rold and

Survey

$000

34

36

86

105

66

8.68

9.39

12.02

6.74

6.68

3.73

3.60

5.46

8.00

3.81

Soholarship

Stiponds

$000 11

85

167

227

236

251

Scholarship

Stipends

$000

11

2.89

4.38

6.00

6.55

5.33

0.55

0.20

0.70

0.15

121 10.111

Scholarship

Expensu

$000 r.

114

54

40

37

45

Scholarship

Expanses

$000

35

14

16

3.88

1.42

1.08

1.03

0.96

3.84

0.60

0.89

0.61

0.90

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Other Transfers

$000 11 $000 11

587 19.98

929 24 .37

428 11.31

323 8.96

795 16.89 296 6.29

Other Transfers

$000 $000

443 46.57

552 55.14

885 56.19

733 55.83

564 31.56 500

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TllE ,\USTRALIAN NATION,\L LINIVERSITY

SUl\lt-.1 ~\RY OF ACTUAL EXPENDITURE BY 1'1:-\JOR COST Cr\TEGORIES IN TllE YEARS 1990 TO 199~

SCllOOUSECTION: RESEARCH SCllOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES

Year

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

Note:

Total

Expenditure

$000

14,196 100.00

14,740 100.00

15,964 100.00

16,139 100.00

15,002 100.00

Salaries

$000

8,830 62 .20

9,411 63 .85

10,499 65 .77

10,208 63.25

9,136 60.90

Salary

Related

$000

1,910

2,212

2,269

2,234

2,049

13.45

15.01

14 .21

13 .84

13 .66

Equipment

$000

588

684

671

932

949

1994 resu lts are subject to completion of the Annual Accounts - no material alterations arc expected.

Expendable l\lovcment Field

Materials Expenses and

Survey

~'O $000 ~'O $000 ., ,. $000 %

4. 14 53 0.37 412 2.90 528 3.72

4.64 80 0.54 432 2.93 511 3.47

4.20 84 0.53 347 2.17 476 2.98

5.77 62 0.38 426 2.64 534 3.31

6.33 82 0.55 398 2.65 575 3.83

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Scholarship Scholarship Other

Stipends Expenses

$000 ., ,. $000

., ,. $000 %

774 5.45 106 0.75 995 7.01

496 3.36 192 l.30 722 4.90

528 3.31 80 0.50 1,010 6.33

371 2.30 76 0.47 1,296 8.03

416 2.77 87 0.58 1,3 10 8.73