Senate
Date:
Friday, March 31, 2006 - 12:00am
Location:
Senate Chambers
Agenda:
LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY
SENATE MEETING #2006-3
To be held on Friday, March 31, 2006
4:30 p.m. - Senate Chambers
1.Approval of
Agenda
2.Minutes of Senate
Meeting #2006-2 held on Friday, March 3, 2006
Copy
is attached and posted at http://senate.lakeheadu.ca
3.Business Arising
from the Minutes
ITEMS FOR DECISION
4.Recommendation
from the Secretary of Senate: that,
henceforward, the following procedure be used to select Senate representatives
on the Board of Governors: when a
vacancy opens the Secretary of Senate will, by e-mail, solicit for interest to
serve all Senators who are also full-time faculty members but not members of
the Board, place the names of all who give favourable responses on a ballot,
and then submit the ballot to all members of Senate for their vote. Senators will return their completed ballots
to the Office of the Registrar. After
the votes have been tallied the Secretary of Senate will inform Senate, the
Board of Governors, and the candidate with the highest number of votes of the
result.
5.Report of the
Senate Budget Committee - University Budget (Dr. Q. L. Dang)
6.Proposed Calendar
Changes for Referral
Orillia Campus - SUSC/SBC
Faculty
of Professional Schools
School of Nursing - SUSC/SBC
School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks
& Tourism - SUSC/SBC
Faculty
of Social Sciences and Humanities
English - SUSC/SBC
Political Science - SUSC/SBC
Sociology - SGSC/FGSC/SBC
Faculty
of Science and Environmental Studies
Biology - SUSC/SBC
Biology - SGSC/FGSC/SBC
Biotechnology - SGSC/FGSC/SBC
Computer Science - SGSC/FGSC/SBC
General Science/Physics - SUSC/SBC
Geography & Anthropology -
SGSC/FGSC/SBC
Proposed
Calendar Changes are posted at http://senate.lakeheadu.ca
7.Reports of the Senate Standing Committees
on Proposed Calendar Changes to Undergraduate Programs (Dr. M. Leitch, SUSC;
Dr. Q. L. Dang, SBC)
Moved that the recommendations in the reports of the Senate
Budget and Undergraduate Studies Committees for Calendar changes concerning Psychology,
Sociology, Philosophy, Kinesiology, and Education Pass/Fail courses, as well as
the proposed articulation agreement between Lakehead University and the College of the North
Atlantic, all be approved.
Reports are
posted at http://senate.lakeheadu.ca
8.
Reports of the Senate Standing Committees on Proposed
Calendar Changes to Graduate Programs
(Dr. G. Boire, SGSC/FGSC; Dr. Q. L. Dang, SBC)
Moved that the recommendations in the Reports of the
Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Graduate Studies Committee/Faculty of
Graduate Studies Council for Calendar changes concerning the MA program in
History and the MEd program be approved.
Reports
are posted at http://senate.lakeheadu.ca
9. Report of the Senate Nominations Committee
(Dr. M. Leitch)
Moved that the recommendation in the Report of the Senate
Nominations Committee that Dr. John Spraggon be appointed to the Senate
Research Committee as a full-time faculty member who is a SSHRC eligible
researcher, for a term lasting from the present until June 30, 2007, be approved.
Moved that the recommendations in the
Report of the Senate Nominations Committee for filling the Senate committee
vacancies opening on July 1, 2006 be approved.
Report is posted at http://senate.lakeheadu.ca
10. Report of the Senate Academic Committee
(Dr. J. O'Meara)
Report is posted at http://senate.lakeheadu.ca
ITEMS
FOR INFORMATION
11. President's Report (Dr. F. Gilbert)
12. Report of the Vice-President (Academic) & Provost (Dr. L.
Hayes)
Report of the
Ombudsperson
Enrolment Report
(Dr. J. Birkholz)
13. Report of NOSM (Dr R. Strasser or Dr. D. Hunt)
14. COU Colleague's Report (Dr. B. Muirhead)
Minutes: