senate meeting

1.

approval of agenda

2.

approval of minutes

moved that the march 20, 2017 senate meeting minutes be approved.

3.

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

4.

calendar changes for referral

senators may view details of the proposed calendar changes on the curriculum navigator website.  a link to the website along with login information and instructions has been emailed to all senators.

4.1

proposed undergraduate calendar changes for referral (dr. michael stevenson)

moved that the proposed undergraduate academic calendar changes be referred to the appropriate committees:

faculty of education

• 2017-edu-6171 – new course-professional development in education
• 2017-edu-6181 - new courses-professional development in education

faculty of social sciences and humanities

• 2017-soc-6125 – courses-discontinuing-undergraduate-history- crosslistings languages and women’s studies
• 2017-soc-6127 – courses-modifications-undergraduate-history-changes to 3^rd year course descriptions
• 2017-soc-6135 – courses-modifications-ug-languages-remove cross listed course.

4.2

proposed undergraduate regulation change for referral (dr. wayne melville)

moved that the proposed undergraduate regulation change be referred to the appropriate committees:

university regulations & admission requirements

• 2017-univreg-6170 – regulation-modification-university regulation xii timely feedback

5.

reports of senate standing committees

5.1

senate academic committee report (dr. wayne melville)

5.1.1  moved that the amendments to the tests or assignments in the last week of classes policy be approved as attached.

5.1.2  moved that the senate academic committee report be accepted.

5.2

senate budget committee report (dr. donald kerr)

moved that the senate budget committee report be accepted.

5.3

senate continuing education and distributed learning committee report (dr. joey farrell)

moved that the senate continuing education and distributed learning committee report be accepted.

5.4

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

moved that the faculty of graduate studies council report be accepted.

5.5

senate organization committee report (dr. craig mackinnon)

5.5.1 moved that the terms of reference for the following senate standing committees be amended to reflect up to a 2 year term for the student members (with staggered terms in cases where the committee has more than one student member:

• senate academic committee
• joint senate committee for the northern ontario school of medicine (nosm)
• senate organization committee
• senate research committee
• senate teaching & learning committee
• senate undergraduate studies committee

5.5.2  moved that the senate organization     committee report be accepted.

5.6

senate research committee report (dr. constance russell)

moved that the senate research committee report be accepted.

5.7

senate undergraduate studies committee report (dr. michael stevenson)

moved that the senate undergraduate studies committee report be accepted.

6.

calendar change approvals

6.1

approval of undergraduate calendar changes (dr. michael stevenson)

moved that the following undergraduate academic calendar changes be approved:

faculty of education

• 2017-edu-6074 – amendments to course titles and descriptions
• 2017-edu-6076 – modification to course sequence
• 2017-edu-6141 – course title name changes

faculty of engineering

• 2016-eng-6018 - courses - discontinue - ug - chemical engineering - remove course from curriculum
• 2017-eng-6095 - courses - modify - ug - chemical engineering
• 2017-eng-6096 – programs – modifications – ug – chemical engineering – program changes
• 2017-eng-6099 – courses – modifications – ug – civil engineering – changes to prerequisites
• 2017-eng-6114 – programs – modifications – ug – civil engineering – new courses/language
• 2017-eng-6115 – courses – deletions/additions – ug – civil engineering

faculty of science and environmental sciences

• 2016-sci-5970-a – chemistry health sciences-related changes
• 2016-sci-5970-b-b – chemistry (chem 1210 gob for kine 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 )

faculty of social sciences and humanities

• 2016-soc-5991 – program changes--4 year basc degree option for is concentrations
• 2016-soc-5992 – new programs--4 year basc/bed is major degrees
• 2016-soc-6006 – removing from course calendar
• 2016-soc-6007 – indi 4111 change to type e
• 2016-soc-6009 – new undergraduate music course
• 2016-soc-6010 – program minor modifications – ug- english – writing
• 2016-soc-6012 – new writing course
• 2016-soc-6021 – discontinued course

6.2

approval of graduate calendar changes (dr. chander shahi)

moved that the following graduate academic calendar change be approved:

faculty of social sciences and humanities

• 2016-soc-6026 – sociology graduate course calendar changes

7.

approval of adjunct professors

7.1

moved that the following adjunct professor appointments for the faculty of health and behavioural sciences be approved:

• dr. chantal nelson, be appointed as an external adjunct professor to the department of health sciences for the term july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2021.
• dr. abraham rudnick, be appointed as an external adjunct professor to the department of health sciences for the term july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2021.
• dr. rebecca schiff, be appointed as an internal adjunct professor to the department of psychology for the term july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2021.

7. 2

moved that the following adjunct professor appointments for the faculty of science and environmental studies be approved:

• dr. philip fralick, be appointed as an internal adjunct professor to the department of geography & the environment for the term july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2021.
• dr. colleen george, be appointed as an external adjunct professor to the department of geography & the environment for the term july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2021.
• dr. thamara laredo, be appointed as an internal adjunct professor to the department of biology for the term july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2021.
• dr. carney matheson, be appointed as an internal adjunct professor to the department of chemistry for the term july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2021.

8.

阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 student union (lusu) recommendations

moved that the lusu recommendations for student members on the senate and its standing committees be approved as attached.

items for information

9.

senate committee acclamation

• dr. rhonda koster was acclaimed as the faculty senator on the joint senate committee for nosm with the term commencing july 1, 2017 to june 30, 2020.

10.

president’s report (dr. brian stevenson)

11.

provost & vice-president (academic) report (dr. moira mcpherson)

adjournment