Report: Agenda Committee - December 12, 2023

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Via Virtual Meeting room

Report Number 302 Of The Agenda Committee

DECEMBEr 12, 2023


To the Academic Board,
University of Toronto,

Your Committee reports that it held a virtual meeting on December 12, 2023 with the following members present:

PRESENT: Douglas McDougall, (Chair), Ernest W.N. Lam, (Vice-Chair), Cheryl Regehr, (Vice-President and Provost), Susan McCahan, (Vice-Provost, Academic Programs and Innovations in Undergraduate Education), Jutta Brunnée, Catherine Amara, Aarthi Ashok, Mark Lautens


REGRETS: Ali Syed

SECRETARIAT: Tracey Gameiro, Secretary, Agenda Committee

IN ATTENDANCE: Andrea Russell, Acting Assistant Provost

The meeting was held in Closed Session


  1. Chair’s Remarks

    The Chair welcomed members to the meeting to the final Committee meeting for 2023.

     
  2. Approval of the Report of the Previous Meeting

    Report 301 from the meeting of October 31, 2023 was approved.

     
  3. Business Arising from the Report of the Previous Meeting

    There was no business arising from the Report of the Previous Meeting.

     
  4. Date of the Next Meeting – January 16, 2024

    The Chair advised members that the Committee would meet next on January 16, 2024 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

     
  5. Other Business

    There were no items of other business.

     

The Committee moved IN CAMERA.


 IN CAMERA AGENDA

  1. Academic Administrative Appointments
     

    On a motion duly moved, seconded and carried,

    YOUR COMMITTEE APPROVED

    the following academic administrative appointments.
     

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE 

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Suzanne Groppe (also known as Wood) 

Interim Associate Dean, Unit-Level Reviews  
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 

Associate Professor Gillian Hamilton 

Vice-Dean Academic Planning 
January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2028 

Professor Antoinette Handley 

Acting Dean  
July 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 

Professor Robert McGill 

Acting Chair and Graduate Chair  
Department of English  
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025  

Professor Dana Seitler 

Director  
Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies 
January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2029 
(renewal) 

Associate Professor Surersh Sivanandam 

Director  
Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics  
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 
(includes six months of approved administrative leave) 

FACULTY OF KINESIOLOGY AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION 

Associate Professor Daniel Moore     

Acting Associate Dean, Research 
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 

LAWRENCE S. BLOOMBERG FACULTY OF NURSING  

Professor Robyn Stremler    

Acting Dean 
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024  

ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN EDUCATION 

Professor Ruth Childs   

Interim Chair and Graduate Chair 
Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education 
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 

TEMERTY FACULTY OF MEDICINE  

Professor Patricia Houston  

Interim Dean  
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 
(extension) 

Associate Professor Kara Patterson  

Interim Chair and Graduate Chair 
Department of Physical Therapy 
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 

Professor Lisa Robinson  

Dean 
Temerty Faculty of Medicine  
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH 

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Corinne Beauquis 

Interim Chair  
Department of Language Studies  
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 

Professor Jean-Etienne de Bettignies 

Acting Chair 
Department of Management 
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 

Professor Linda Johnston  

Acting Principal   
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 
[concurrent with her appointment as Acting Vice-President, University of Toronto, subject to the approval of the Governing Council]  

  

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA 

Professor Emeritus Ian Orchard  

Acting Principal   
January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024  
[concurrent with his appointment as Acting Vice-President, University of Toronto, subject to the approval of the Governing Council]  

  

The Committee returned to Closed Session.


The meeting adjourned at 2:19 p.m.

December 12, 2023