faculty meeting friday, december 16, 2011

faculty of social sciences and humanities council

 october 4, 2011


approved
a meeting of the faculty council was held on october 4, 2011 at 9:30 am in the atac board room 5035.

presentations:

karen chan - student health and counselling services

kyla reid - research facilitator

1.
approval of agenda
 
it was moved by m. maclean and seconded by j. nicholas that the agenda be approved.
 
                                                                             carried.

2.
introduction of new colleagues

dr. alain takam was introduced as a new colleague in the department of languages.

3.
approval of the minutes
 
it was moved by d. mcpherson and seconded by m. maclean that the minutes of may 3, 2011, be approved.
 
                                                                             carried.

4.
business arising from minutes

 i) review ba general requirements:  groups 1&2.
m. maclean, d. ivison, b. vernier-larochette will meet in advance of the next council meeting with b. winter and h. doyle.

5.
registrar's report

b. winter stated that from now on enrolment and budgeting will be closely tied as per the goals set out in the draft academic plan.  she said we are up 80 full time 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and 17 part time but cautioned that we might lose some enrolment before november 1 as usual.  also, there has been a downturn in concurrent education. we need to review to see where the decline is.  although there are fewer teaching jobs, the interest is still strong.  
the registrar also indicated that she will be reviewing regulations related to getting more than one undergraduate degree by counting some of the same courses towards both degrees.

6.
dean's report for faculty council

report unavailable.

7.
departmental/school reports

i) political science

g. siddall suggested that this go forward at our next faculty council meeting at there was no one from political science at the meeting.

ii) sociology
 
it was moved by j. jarman and seconded by d. mcpherson that the calendar changes for sociology be approved.
   
                                                                        carried.

iii) women's studies

it was moved by j. nicholas and seconded by d. ivison that the calendar changes for women's studies be approved.


8.
orillia report

no report was available.

10.
other business
none.

10.
adjournment
 
the meeting adjourned at 11:30 am.

dennis mcpherson made a statement acknowledging all the upgrades in the ryan building.


 attendance
 
thunder bay campus

b. vernier-larochette
a. takam
m. maclean
d. mcpherson
l. chambers
j. nicholas
j. jarman

 attendance - continued

d. ivison
b. winter
d. jobin-bevans

orillia campus



regrets

r. berg
p. jasen
r. martin
t. potter
s.d. stone
v. smith
p. das