REPORT NUMBER 286 OF THE AGENDA COMMITTEE
April 19, 2022
To the Academic Board,
University of Toronto
Your Committee reports that it held a virtual meeting on April 19, 2022, at 3:00 p.m. with the following members present:
PRESENT:
Douglas McDougall, (Vice-Chair, Acting as Chair), Cheryl Regehr, (Vice-President and Provost), Linda Johnston, Ernest W.N. Lam, Susan McCahan, Nicholas Rule, Evan Tang
REGRETS:
Salvatore Spadafora, Jan Mahrt-Smith
SECRETARIAT:
Tracey Gameiro, Secretary, Agenda Committee
IN ATTENDANCE:
Leah Cowen, (Vice-President, Research and Innovation and Strategic Initiatives), Daniella Mallinick (Director, Academic Programs, Planning and Quality Assurance, Office of the Vice- Provost, Academic Programs), Archana Sridhar (Assistant Provost, Office of the Vice-President and Provost)
The Meeting was held in Closed Session
- Chair’s Remarks
The Vice-Chair welcomed members of the Committee. He advised that the Chair was unavoidably absent and that he would be chairing the meeting in his absence. He advised members that as one academic administrative appointment pertained to his own appointment, he would recuse himself as Chair for consideration of the item, for which the Committee would appoint a char per tempore. He nominated Ernest Lam, Chair of the Committee on Academic Policy and Programs to serve as chair per tempore. The Committee voted in favour of this appointment.
- Review of Academic Programs and Units – Part 2
- Semi-Annual Report on the review of Academic Units and Programs, October 2021 – April 2022
Professor Susan McCahan, Vice-Provost, Academic Programs and Innovations in Undergraduate Education introduced the item, noting that the report included five external reviews (one Provostial and four Decanal).
Professor Ernest Lam, Chair of the Committee on Academic Policy and Programs (“AP&P), reported on the Committee’s discussion of the reviews at its April 12, 2022 meeting. A summary of the discussion was contained in the AP&P report. The Committee found generally that each of the review summaries accurately reflected the overall reviews and that the administrative responses adequately addressed issues identified in the reports. There were no follow-up reports requested by the Committee.
- Academic Board – Review and Approval of Agenda –April 27, 2022
The Committee reviewed and approved the (draft) agenda for the Academic Board meeting scheduled for April 27, 2022.
- Approval of the Reports of the Previous Meetings
Report 284 from the meeting of March 2, 2022, and Report 285 from the special meeting held April 6, 2022 were approved.
- Business Arising from the Report of the Previous Meeting
There was no business arising from the Report of the previous meeting
- Date of the Next Meeting – May 17, 2022
The Chair stated that the next meeting would be held on May 17, 2022, from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
- Other Business
There were no items of other business.
The Committee moved IN CAMERA.
- Academic Administrative Appointments
On a motion duly moved, seconded and carried
YOUR COMMITTEE APPROVED
The following academic administrative appointments:
FACTOR-INWENTASH FACULTY OF SOCIAL WORK
Professor David Brennan
Associate Dean, Research
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023
[extension]FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
Associate Professor Elisa Brilli
Director
Centre for Medieval Studies
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027Professor Michael Evans
Interim Chair and Graduate Chair
Department of Statistical Science
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023Associate Professor Angelica Fenner
Acting Chair and Graduate Chair
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023Professor Robert Gibbs
Acting Chair and Graduate Chair
Department for the Study of Religion
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023Associate Professor Gillian Hamilton
Acting Vice-Dean, Academic Operations
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023Professor Geoffrey MacDonald
Acting Chair
Department of Psychology
June 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023
[extension]Professor John Peever
Acting Chair and Graduate Chair
Department of Cell and Systems Biology
January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023Professor Edward Schatz
Director
Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027Professor James Stafford
Vice-Dean, Academic Operations
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025
[renewal; including one year of approved leave]FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
Professor Morris Manolson
Interim Vice-Dean, Research
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023JOHN H. DANIELS FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND DESIGN
Professor Sean Thomas
Associate Dean, Research
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025NEW COLLEGE
Associate Professor Dickson Eyoh
Acting Principal
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN EDUCATION
Professor Douglas McDougall
Interim Chair and Graduate Chair
Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023Associate Professor Sarfaroz Niyozov
Interim Associate Dean, Programs
July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022Professor Michele Peterson-Badali
Associate Dean, Research, International & Innovation
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023
[extension]ROTMAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Professor Partha Sarathy Mohanram
Acting Vice-Dean, Research, Strategy & Resources
September 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023TEMERTY FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Associate Professor Pier Bryden
Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs and Professional Values
May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2027Professor Rita Kandel
Chair and Graduate Chair
Department of Laboratory Medicine
May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2027
[renewal]UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA
Associate Professor Jill Caskey
Chair
Department of Visual Studies
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024
[extension]UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH
Associate Professor Alice Maurice
Chair
Department of English
July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025
- Academic Administrative Appointments
THE COMMITTEE RETURNED TO CLOSED SESSION.
The meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.
April 19, 2022