Report: Agenda Committee - June 25, 2025

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Via Virtual Meeting room

Report Number 317 Of The Agenda Committee

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2025


To the Academic Board,
University of Toronto,

Your Committee reports that it held a virtual meeting on June 25, 2025 with the following members present:

PRESENT:
Douglas McDougall (Chair), Donald Ainslie (Vice-Chair), Trevor Young (Vice-President and Provost), Nicholas Rule (Vice-Provost, Academic Programs), Catherine Amara, Charles Jia, Mark Lautens, Sergio Tenenbaum


REGRETS: Edwin Thomas 

SECRETARIAT: Tracey Gameiro, Secretary, Agenda Committee

The meeting was held in Closed Session


Pursuant to section 38 of By-Law Number 2,
consideration of item 6 took place in camera. 


OPEN SESSION

  1. Chair’s Remarks

    The Chair thanked members for attending the last meeting of the governance year.
  2. Approval of the Report of the Previous Meeting – Report 316 (June 4, 2025)

    Report 316 from the meeting of June 4, 2025 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 30, 2025

    The Chair stated that the Committee’s next meeting would be held on September 30, 2025 from 2:10 p.m. to 3:10 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 APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Associate Professor Craig Steeves

Acting Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies 
July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Associate Professor Christian Abizaid

Acting Director
School of the Environment
July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025

Associate Professor Matthew Farish

Interim Chair
Department of Geography and Planning
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Professor Jay Pratt

Acting Vice-Dean, Research
July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025
(extension)

Professor Kerry Rittich

Director
Women and Gender Studies Institute
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

FACULTY OF MUSIC

Professor, Teaching Stream, Jeffrey McFadden

Associate Dean, Performance & Public Events
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
(extension)

Associate Professor Nasim Niknafs

Associate Dean, Research
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027
(renewal)

TEMERTY FACULTY OF MEDICINE

Associate Professor Sara Guilcher 

Interim Chair and Graduate Chair
Department of Physical Therapy
July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025
(extension)

Professor Meredith Irwin

Chair
Department of Paediatrics
July 1, 2025 to March 31, 2030
(renewal)

Professor Lucy Osborne

Interim Director
Institute of Medical Science
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Professor Yana Yunusova

Interim Director
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA

Professor Ron Buliung

Interim Vice-Dean, Graduate & Postdoctoral Affairs
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Associate Professor Brett Caraway

Acting Director
Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Associate Professor Jacob Gallagher-Ross

Chair
Department of English and Drama
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2029
(renewal; includes six months of approved leave)

Associate Professor Alicia Hawkins

Chair
Department of Anthropology
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2029
(includes one year of research and study leave)

Professor Anna Korteweg

Interim Associate Dean, Faculty
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Associate Professor Josh Milstein

Chair
Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences
July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2030
(includes six months of approved leave)

Associate Professor David Pettinicchio

Acting Chair
Department of Sociology
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Associate Professor Alison Syme

Interim Vice-Dean, Faculty
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Professor Holger Schott Syme

Acting Chair
Department of English and Drama
July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025

Associate Professor Liye Xie

Acting Chair
Department of Anthropology
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Marc Dryer

Interim Director
Institute for Forensic Sciences
July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Karen Woodall

Interim Director
Institute for Forensic Sciences
January 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH

Associate Professor Michelle Buckley

Interim Chair
Department of Human Geography
July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025

Associate Professor Mary Elizabeth Luka

Acting Chair
Department of Arts, Culture, and Media
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Suzanne Sicchia

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program and Curriculum
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030
(renewal; includes one year of approved administrative leave)

Professor Mary Teresa Silcox

Acting Chair
Department of Anthropology
January 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Lynn Tucker

Associate Dean, Experiential and Global Learning
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027
(renewal)

SENIOR APPOINTMENT

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA

Professor Alexandra Gillespie

Principal
July 1, 2020to December 31, 2027
[concurrent with her appointment as Vice-President, University of Toronto, subject to the approval of the Governing Council]

(extension – original term ending December 31, 2025)

The meeting adjourned at 2:49 p.m.


June 25, 2025