Agenda Package: Governing Council - May 22, 2025

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AGENDA

THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2025


Pursuant to section 38 of By-Law Number 2,
consideration of items 12 to 13 will take place in camera.

OPEN SESSION

  1. Chair’s Remarks
  2. President’s Report
    (Welcome Remarks from Vice-President & Principal, UTSC, Linda Johnston)
  3. Annual Report: 2024 Performance Indicators for Governance (for information)*
  4. Establishment of an Extra-departmental Unit B (EDU:B) - Institute of Forensic Sciences, (IFS), UTM (for approval)*

    Be it Resolved, 

    THAT the proposal to establish the Extra-departmental Unit B (EDU:B) – Institute of Forensic Sciences (IFS), at the University of Toronto Mississauga, as described in the Proposal for the Establishment of an EDU:B, Institute of Forensic Sciences, UTM dated February 21, 2025, be approved, effective July 1, 2025.
  5. Proposal for the Academic Restructuring of the Department of Italian Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (for approval)*

    Be It Resolved,

    THAT the academic restructuring described in the Proposal for Academic Restructuring of the Department of Italian Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (March 10, 2025), be approved, effective July 1, 2025.

CONSENT AGENDA

  1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting of the Governing Council (April 3, 2025) (for approval)*
  2. Business Arising from the Report of the Previous Meeting
  3. Reports for Information*
    1. Report Number 559 of the Executive Committee (May 6, 2025)
    2. Report Number 246 of the University Affairs Board (May 1, 2025)
    3. Report Number 256 of the Academic Board (April 24, 2025)
    4. Report Number 284 of the Business Board (April 23, 2025)
    5. Report Number 71 of the UTM Campus Council (April 22, 2025)
    6. Report Number 68 of the UTSC Campus Council (April 21, 2025)
  4. Date of Next Meeting – June 24, 2025, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. 
  1. Question Period
  2. Other Business

IN CAMERA SESSION

  1. Senior Appointment (for approval)+
  2. Appointments: Members of the Governing Council to Governance Bodies, 2025-26 (for approval)+
    (Arising from Report Number 559 of the Executive Committee (May 6, 2025))

* Documentation is attached.
**     Documentation for consent items included.  These items will be given individual consideration by the Governing Council only if a member so requests.  Members with questions or who would like the consent item to be discussed by the Governing Council are invited to notify the Secretary, Ms Sheree Drummond, at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting by telephone at 416-978-2118 or by email at sheree.drummond@utoronto.ca  
***    Documentation is to follow.
+      Confidential documentation is attached for members only.
++    Confidential documentation to follow for members only.
+++ Confidential documentation to be distributed in the meeting to members only.