senate meeting

1.

approval of agenda

2.

approval of the march 19, 2018 senate minutes

3.

business arising from the minutes (not elsewhere on the agenda)

3.1

2018-2023 strategic plan (mr. david tamblyn)

moved that the 2018-2023 strategic plan be endorsed.

4.

reports of senate standing committees

4.1

senate academic committee report (dr. todd randall)

4.2

senate budget committee report (dr. jennifer roth)

4.3

senate executive committee recommendations

moved that the following faculty members be appointed to the senate nominations committee for the terms indicated:

• dr. irfan butt for the term july 1, 2018 to june 30, 2020
• dr. aristocles carastathis for the term july 1, 2018 to june 30, 2020
• dr. salimur choudhury for the term commencing immediately to june 30, 2020
• dr. naqi sayed for the term july 1, 2018 to june 30, 2020

4.4

faculty of graduate studies council report (dr. chander shahi)

4.5

senate organization committee (dr. judith leggatt)

4.5.1

moved that the attached amendments to the senate bylaws be approved, and that the “terms of academic colleague and alternate” policy be rescinded, both effective july 1, 2018.

4.6

senate research committee report (dr. grazia viola)

4.7

senate teaching and learning committee report (dr. douglas ivison)

4.8

senate undergraduate studies committee report (dr. rachel warburton)

5.

calendar change approvals

5.1

approval of undergraduate calendar changes (dr. rachel warburton)

moved that the following undergraduate academic calendar changes be approved:

faculty of business administration

• 2017-bus-6355 – h.b. comm marketing courses
• 2017-bus-6356 – honours bachelor of commerce – marketing major

faculty of engineering

• 2018-eng-6503 – course – modification-ug-civil engineering – add co-req

faculty of science and environmental studies

• 2017-sci-6335 – applied life sciences combined degree/diploma program with georgian college
• 2017-sci-6417 – special-modification-ug-computer science-lu-gc-articulation agreement
• 2017-sci-6452-a – honours bachelor of computer science – combined credential program
• 2017-sci-6459 – updates to the bsc general program

faculty of social sciences and humanities

• 2017-soc-6215 – program-new-ug-languages-certificate in international languages
• 2017-soc-6222-b – economics: business 1056 and 1076 is replacing 1066
  political science: poli 2110 is replacing 2212 and 2213 (both were discontinued to make 2110).
• 2017-soc-6298 – discontinuing indigenous learning 3333
• 2017-soc-6337 – change to course list for hbasc human nature concentration
• 2017-soc-6382 – cross listing anthropology and indigenous learning courses
• 2017-soc-6391 – course title change for indigenous learning 3351
• 2017-soc-6441 – cross-calendar soci 3811 and mdst 3811
• 2017-soc-6442 – cross-list mdst 3410 with wome 3410.
• 2017-soc-6446 – update language to current standards
• 2017-soc-6460-a – media studies course changes
• 2017-soc-6460-b – media studies course changes
• 2018-soc-6484 – cross list request with media studies in orillia
• 2018-soc-6500 – course-modification-ug-women’s studies-course title change
• 2018-soc-6509 – course-modification-women’s studies-addition of the offering information
• 2018-soc-6510 – courses-modification-women’s studies-addition of offering information

5.2

approval of undergraduate regulation and admission changes (dr. todd randall)

moved that the following undergraduate regulation and admission changes be approved:

faculty of science and environmental studies

• 2017-sci-6418 – special-modification-ug-computer science-admission-lu-gc-program
• 2017-sci-6336 – admission requirements applied life sciences combined degree/diploma program with georgian college
• 2017-sci-6452-b – honours bachelor in computer science – combined credential program admission requirements

6.

approval of professional associate

6.1

moved that dr. hugh stevenson be appointed as a professional associate in the department of interdisciplinary studies for the term july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2021.

7.

informational items

7.1

adjunct professor renewal

• dr. patrick rapley’s external adjunct professor appointment in the department of physics was renewed effective september 1, 2018 to august 31, 2022.

7.2

appointment to senate

• the ogimaawin-aboriginal governance council (o-agc) has appointed ms. april head as the o-agc member on senate for the term commencing april 9, 2018 to june 30, 2019.

7.3

president’s report (dr. moira mcpherson)

7.4

provost & vice-president (academic) report (dr. david barnett)

• marks report

adjournment