Dr Alf Hagger Honours Scholarship (Rule 139)
For more than five decades from 1952, Dr Alf Hagger played a central role in economic research and development of the economics discipline at the University of Tasmania. Recognised as the economist most singly responsible for the advent of the post-war 'quantitative revolution' in Australian economists, Dr Hagger led pioneering research into the economics of inflation and regional general equilibrium modelling. Generations of students fondly remember him as a careful teacher, a research supervisor with uncompromising rigour, and a quiet but inspiring leader.
Friends and family, former colleagues and students, and the UTAS School of Economics and Finance have together raised funds to endow a perpetual scholarship at the University to encourage talented students of economics to pursue excellence in the discipline by studying at honours level.
The Academic Senate of the University has agreed to establish an endowed scholarship in the terms declared in these rules.
Rules
1. An amount of $35,000 raised by donations from family, friends, former students and colleagues and the School of Economics and Finance, along with any income from time to time, forms the endowment of a scholarship to be called the "Dr Alf Hagger Honours Scholarship ".
2. The scholarship is to be awarded to a student who is eligible to undertake an Honours course in Economics.
3. The scholarship will be awarded by a selection committee comprising:
- The Head of the School of Economics and Finance ;
- The Honours coordinator in the School of Economics and Finance;
- A person nominated by the Dean of the Faculty of Business.
4. The selection committee will set the detailed selection and performance criteria for the scholarship having regard to the intention of the endowment.
5. The University Foundation will set the annual value of the scholarship from time to time, having regard to the income from the endowment.
6. The University Foundation will determine all other matters concerning the scholarship, including advertising, application procedures and the method and time of payment.
Made by Academic Senate on Chair of Academic Senate
9 November 2012
