Report: Agenda Committee - June 27, 2022

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Via Virtual Meeting room

REPORT NUMBER 289 OF THE AGENDA COMMITTEE

June 27, 2022

To the Academic Board, 
University of Toronto 

Your Committee reports that it held a virtual meeting on June 27, 2022, at 3:15 p.m. with the following members present:  
 

PRESENT:
Salvatore Spadafora, (Chair), Douglas McDougall, (Vice-Chair), Cheryl Regehr, (Vice-President and Provost), Linda Johnston, Jan Mahrt-Smith, Nicholas Rule

REGRETS:
Ernest W.N. Lam, Susan McCahan, Evan Tang

SECRETARIAT:
Tracey Gameiro, Secretary, Agenda Committee

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

The Meeting was held in Closed Session 
 


  1. Chair’s Remarks

    The Chair thanked members for attending the very last meeting of the Governance Calendar for 2021-2022.
     
  2. Approval of the Report of the Previous Meeting

    Report 288 from the meeting of May 31, 2022, 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 –  September 28, 2022

    The Chair stated that the next meeting would be held on September 28, 2022, at a special time from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. 
     
  5. 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 ARTS & SCIENCE  

    Associate Professor Christian Abizaid

    Acting Director

    School of the Environment

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022  

    Professor Alison Chasteen  

    Acting Associate Dean, Unit-Level Reviews 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    Professor M. Kamari Clarke

    Acting Director

    Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    Professor Stephen Easterbrook

    Director

    School of the Environment

    January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2027 (renewal) 

    Associate Professor, Teaching Stream William Ju

    Acting Vice-Dean, Undergraduate 

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 

    Professor Shahrzad Mojab

    Acting Director 

    Woman and Gender Studies Institute

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022

    Professor Kevin Lewis O’Neill

    Director

    Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies

    July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2028 (renewal)

    Associate Professor Mary Ann Pouls Wegner

    Chair and Graduate Chair

    Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027

     FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

    Professor Julie Audet

    Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027
    (includes six months of approval leave; renewal)

    Professor Aimy Bazylak

    Interim Director

    Division of Engineering Science

    July 1, 2022 to December 30, 2022

    Associate Professor Thomas Coyle

    Vice-Dean, Undergraduate Studies

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024 (renewal)

    Professor Christopher Damaren

    Director

    Institute for Aerospace Studies

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026 (renewal)

    Professor Stark Draper

    Vice-Dean, Research

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027

    Professor Glenn Hibbard

    Chair and Graduate Chair

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024 (renewal)

     FACULTY OF DENTISTRY

    Associate Professor Anuradha Prakki

    Interim Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES 

    Professor Kajri Jain

    Graduate Chair

    Department of Art History

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2025
    (includes six months of proposed leave)

    Professor Margaret Kohn

    Graduate Chair

    Department of Political Science

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2028
    (includes one year of approved leave)

    Professor Anthony Charles Ruocco

    Graduate Chair

    Graduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026  (includes six months of approved leave)

     TEMERTY FACULTY OF MEDICINE  

    Professor Lilliana Attisano

    Interim Chair and Graduate Chair 

    Department of Biochemistry

    July 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022 (extension)

    Associate Professor Pier Bryden

     

    Acting Vice-Dean, Clinical & Faculty Affairs 

    September 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023

    Professor Lea Harrington (pending tenure approval) 

    Chair and Graduate Chair  

    Department of Biochemistry  

    October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2027 

    Professor Timothy Hughes

    Chair and Graduate Chair 

    Department of Molecular Genetics 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027

    Professor Beverly Orser

    Chair

    Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027 (renewal)

     UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA  

    Professor Steven Bernstein

    Interim Chair

    Department of Political Science 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 (extension)

    Professor Tenley Conway

    Acting Chair 

    Department of Geography 

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022

    Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Marc Dryer

    Associate Dean, Academic Programs

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024

    Associate Professor Tracey Galloway

    Interim Chair 

    Department of Anthropology 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    Professor Shashi Kant

    Interim Director 

    Institute for Management and Innovation 

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022

    Associate Professor Tong Lam

    Interim Chair 

    Department of Historical Studies

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    Associate Professor Teaching Stream Andrew Petersen

    Acting Associate Dean, Pedagogical Development and Scholarship 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    Professor, Teaching Stream Fiona Rawle

    Associate Dean, Pedagogical Development and Scholarship 

    July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025

    Associate Professor Soo Min Toh

    Interim Director 

    Institute for Management and Innovation 

    January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023

     UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH

    Associate Professor Christopher Brian Cochrane

    Interim Chair 

    Department of Political Science 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    Professor Philip Kremer

    Acting Chair 

    Department of Philosophy 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    Associate Professor A. Julia Nefsky

    Chair

    Department of Philosophy 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026
    (includes one year of approved leave)

    Professor Mark Schmuckler

    Acting Chair 

    Department of Health and Society 

    July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023

    Professor Judith Ann Teichman

    Acting Chair

    Department of Global Development Studies 

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022

    Associate Professor David Zweig

    Interim Vice-Dean, Recruitment, Enrolment and Student Success

    July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 

    HE COMMITTEE RETURNED TO CLOSED SESSION.


    The meeting adjourned at 3:35 p.m.



    June 27, 2022