Academic Governance

For many years Rhonda Ewart gave outstanding service to the University of Tasmania as Examinations and Prizes Officer and then with the University Foundation. She has established this scholarship to honour the memory of her mother Zoe, and to encourage talented students to study and explore legal and justice issues at tertiary level and beyond.

The Academic Senate of the University has agreed to the foundation of an endowed scholarship. These are the rules of the scholarship:

Rules

1. An amount of $100,000 donated by Ms Rhonda Ewart to the University of Tasmania Foundation, together with a matching contribution of $100,000 provided by the UTAS Foundation, along with any future donations from her estate and accrued interest, forms the endowment of a scholarship to be called the ‘Zoe Ewart Memorial Tasmania University Scholarship in Law’.

   2. The income generated by the fund will be used to provide a scholarship for an undergraduate student in the Faculty of Law and who meets the eligibility criteria prescribed in these rules.  

2. 1. The amounts referred to in Rule 1 will, for the purposes of these rules, be referred to as ‘the fund’; 
   • intends completing a law degree;
   • has best overall performance in units obtained in first year of an undergraduate course, including the unit Introduction to Law, and; 
   • does not hold another scholarship provided by the University of Tasmania.

3. The Scholarship will be offered to a student who: 

4. The scholarship will be awarded by a selection committee comprising: 
   • The Dean of the Faculty of Law, or a nominee; 
   • A member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Law elected by the teaching staff of the Faculty; 
   • Ms Rhonda Ewart, while she wishes to be involved;
   • Mr Jim Walker, executor of Ms Ewart’s estate; 
   • At the end of the involvement of Ms Ewart and Mr Walker, a nominee of the Tasmanian Law Society.
5. The selection committee will set the detailed selection and performance criteria for the scholarship with regard to the intention of the endowment.
6. The scholarship is tenable for the minimum time necessary to complete a degree course. 
7. The selection committee may terminate a student’s scholarship, or suspend it for one year, if in its absolute discretion 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 in the previous year justifies that action.
8. The University of Tasmania Foundation will set the annual value of the scholarship from time to time, in consultation with Ms Rhonda Ewart while she wishes to be involved.
9. All other matters concerning the scholarship, including the frequency and number of awards offered, advertising, application procedures, and the method and time of payment will be determined by the selection committee with agreement from the University of Tasmania Foundation..

Made by Academic Senate on 3 June 2005

Amended by Academic Senate on 15 April 2011