Report: Agenda Committee - December 13, 2019

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Simcoe Hall, 27 King’s College Circle, Board Room, 2nd Floor

REPORT NUMBER 259 OF THE AGENDA COMMITTEE 
Friday, December 13, 2019 

To the Academic Board,  
University of Toronto  

Your Committee reports that it met on Friday, December 13, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. in the Board Room, Simcoe Hall with the following members present:  

PRESENT: Nicholas Terpstra, Chair ,  Douglas McDougall, Vice-Chair , Markus Bussman* , Samantha Chang, Richard Hegele, Susan McCahan, Jan Mahrt-Smith, Cheryl Regehr,  

REGRETS: Ernest W.N. Lam 

SECRETARIAT: Tracey Gameiro, Secretary, Agenda Committee 

IN ATTENDANCE:  Archana Sridhar, Assistant Provost, Office of the Vice-President and Provost 

*via teleconference 

The Meeting was held in Closed Session   


  1. Chair’s Remarks 

The Chair welcomed members to the final Committee meeting for 2019. 

  1. Approval of the Report of the Previous Meeting 

Report 258 from the meeting of November 12, 2019, was approved.  

  1. Business Arising from the Report of the Previous Meeting 

    There was no business arising from the Report of the previous meeting 
     
  2. Date of the Next Meeting – Tuesday, January 21, 2020 

    The Chair stated that the next meeting would be held in the New Year on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. 
     
  3. Other Business 

    There were no items of other business.  

The Committee moved IN CAMERA. 

  1. Academic Administrative Appointments 

    On a motion duly moved, seconded and carried 

    YOUR COMMITTEE APPROVED 

    The following academic administrative appointments. 

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 
Professor Greg Evans     Interim Director      Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice, (ISTEP)  
January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020 [extension] 
[or until the appointment of a new Director, whichever comes first] 

FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCE  
Professor Pamela Klassen     Chair and Graduate Chair     Department for the Study of Religion 
July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2026 [including 1 year leave] 

Professor Nicholas Rule     Interim Vice-Dean, Undergraduate
January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020 
 
FACULTY OF INFORMATION  
Professor Wendy Duff     Dean 
January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 [extension] 

FACULTY OF MEDICINE 
Associate Professor Scott Heximer      Chair and Graduate Chair      Department of Physiology 
January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2024 

THE COMMITTEE RETURNED TO CLOSED SESSION. 

The meeting adjourned at 2:06 p.m. 

December 13, 2019