Academic Governance

Mrs Flora Fenton is a lifetime resident of the Circular Head district and is a member of the Fenton family which pioneered European settlement in the North-West of Tasmania.  Mrs Fenton wants to encourage talented, deserving students from her local area to pursue study at the University of Tasmania.  She has agreed to assist them by funding an annual scholarship at the University and to pay in April of each year during her lifetime the sum of $2,000 for each scholarship current in that year and afterwards by the income from a trust fund of $120,000 established by her estate in the University of Tasmania Foundation.

The Academic Senate of the University has agreed to the foundation of a scholarship.  These are rules of the Scholarship.

Rules

1. The scholarship will be known as the Flora Fenton Tasmania University Scholarship.
2. The scholarship is to be awarded to a suitably qualified student commencing a degree course at the University of Tasmania who resides in the Circular Head municipality and who has received a substantial part of their education in a school or schools in the North-West of Tasmania.
3. The scholarship will be awarded by a selection committee comprising:
   • the Chair of Academic Senate or nominee 
   • the Academic Registrar or nominee 
   • the Manager of Student Services or nominee
4. The selection committee will set the detailed selection and performance criteria for the scholarship having regard to the intention of the donor.  However, in its selection, the committee shall:
   • give priority to a talented student who will need financial assistance to move away from home to undertake study at the University of Tasmania 
   • take into account the personal qualities and achievements of that student; and 
   • not make an award in any year if no suitable candidate presents in any year
5. The scholarship is tenable for three years provided the student’s progress in each year of the course is considered by the selection committee to be satisfactory.  
6. The selection committee may terminate a student’s scholarship or suspend it for one year if it considers the student’s progress is unsatisfactory.  If the award is suspended, the selection committee may re-award the scholarship to the same student for a following year if it considers that the student’s academic record the previous year justifies that action.
7. The selection committee will determine all other matters concerning the scholarship, including advertising, application procedures and the method and time of payment.
8. The annual value of the scholarship is $2,000 or any amount agreed by Mrs Flora Fenton, from time to time.

Made by Academic Senate on 2 May 2003