Faculty Meeting Thursday, May 14, 2009

 THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009

 

A meeting of the Faculty Council was held on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 10:30 am in the ATAC Board Room 5035.

 

 

 

It was moved by H. Smith and seconded by B. Cuthbertson that the revised agenda be approved.

 

                                                                             Carried.

  

 

It was moved by S.S. Islam and seconded by R. Berg that the minutes of April 3, 2009 be approved.

 

                                                                             Carried.

 

 

 i)  Budget (covered in the Dean's Report).

ii)  Courses with Low Student Enrolment (covered in the Dean's Report).

iii)  June Registration (covered in Dean's Report).

 

 

 

There was none. 

 

 

 

 i) Budget

 ii) Course Enrolments - 15 students

iii) June Registration

iv) Economics

 

A detailed report from the Dean will follow shortly.

 

 

 

 

 

i) Calendar Changes for the Department of Aboriginal Education

 

M.N. Rinne expressed her concern about this calendar change as she was not consulted beforehand.  G. Siddall stated that the changes had gone forward to SUSC without being approved at Council.  S. Stone also mentioned that it should have approval from Indigenous Learning, and J. Leggatt mentioned that it should have the English prerequisite.  G. Siddall deferred the approval until the next Faculty Council meeting.

 

 

 

A. Den Otter reported that the faculty renewals were in progress.  She stated that she had met with the Chairs and decisions had been made with regard to the length of each term.  This will hopefully be completed by May 15, 2009.  The advertisement should go out sometime next week.  G. Siddall noted that there was some confusion with regard to the governance between campuses, and that Deans should be part of the recommendation process.  With regard to marks submission, it was agreed that there needs to be a process in place.

 

i) Proposed Strategic Plan

 

There was a very lengthy discussion about the proposed Strategic Plan which took place during the Dean's Report.

 

ii) Economics

 

There was an overall expression of disappointment concerning the move of Economics to the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies with regard to the lack of any formal process, and for the lack of communication from the Department of Economics.  It was noted that this action may indeed pave the way for any Department/School to change faculties at any time.  It was generally agreed that the Department of Economics should have done a presentation to its current Faculty about why they wished to leave.  Great disappointment was expressed.  A suggestion was made that by abstaining from voting at Senate, our disappointment with regard to how things were done will be evident.  It was also suggested that during the discussion about the proposed move, there be a request put forward for a policy to be developed for this process.

 

 9.

 

The meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.

 

 

 ATTENDANCE

 

B. Cuthbertson

S.D. Stone

G. Colton

R. Berg

R. Ariss

M.N. Rinne

H. Smith

L. Paquette

J. Leggatt

V. Smith

S.S. Islam

M. Nisenholt

J. Nicholas

G. Siddall

 

A. den Otter

 

M. Beaulieu

D. Jobin-Bevans

R. Koster

D. Ivison

P. Jasen

B. Nelson

M. Ryks-Szelekovszky