The Committee believes that Recommendations 1-3 relate to matters of serious concern to the University and require urgent attention. Recommendations 4-12 relate to matters that should be addressed at the appropriate level.
RECOMMENDATION 1
that the Vice-Chancellor investigates, as a matter of priority, the
management practices within the Department.
RECOMMENDATION 2
that the Vice-Chancellor, resolves the divisions that have developed
within the Department.
RECOMMENDATION 3
that the Vice-Chancellor, in conjunction with the Equity Officer,
investigates purportedly inequitable behaviour within the Department.
that the activities of the Centre for Prehistory be discontinued for the time being. The Committee recommends that the Department, continues its involvement in research oriented consultancies.
RECOMMENDATION 5
that the Department investigates ways and means of increasing inter- departmental and cross-institutional contact with a view to further developing research programmes and team teaching, and thus extending the range of course offerings.
RECOMMENDATION 6
that the Department continues to take steps to reduce the attrition rate in Archaeology 120.
RECOMMENDATION 7
that the Department takes immediate steps to ensure that any perceived problems with research supervision are rectified.
RECOMMENDATION 8
that consideration be given to the relocation of the Department into the Division of Arts and Architecture.
RECOMMENDATION 9
that the Accommodation Committee gives sympathetic consideration to the growing accommodation needs of the Department and accepts the need for a storage facility to be located at ground floor level in the immediate vicinity of the Department and for the Department to have access to a wet laboratory.
RECOMMENDATION 10
that the Department gives priority to the acquisition of expanded laboratory equipment and additional equipment and that the Division considers ways of helping the Department meet such requirements.
RECOMMENDATION 11
that the Department liaises more closely with the University's Aboriginal Programmes group in developing and promoting access of Aboriginal students to archaeological training.
RECOMMENDATION 12
that the Department be assisted to overcome its present difficulties and encouraged to promote the discipline of Archaeology in Western Australia.