Report: Agenda Committee - February 25, 2025

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Via Virtual Meeting room

Report Number 313 Of The Agenda Committee

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2025


To the Academic Board,
University of Toronto,

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

PRESENT: Douglas McDougall (Chair), Donald Ainslie (Vice-Chair), Nicholas Rule (Vice-Provost, Academic Programs), Catherine Amara, Mark Lautens, Sergio Tenenbaum


REGRETS: Trevor Young (Vice-President and Provost), Charles Jia, Edwin Thomas

SECRETARIAT: Miranda Edwards, Acting Secretary, Agenda Committee

IN ATTENDANCE: Archana Sridhar (Assistant Provost), Lachmi Singh (Director, Academic Programs, Planning & Quality Assurance)

The meeting was held in Closed Session


CLOSED SESSION

  1. Chair’s Remarks

    The Chair welcomed members to the Cycle 4 meeting.
  2. Review and Approval of Academic Board Agenda – March 6, 2025

    The Committee reviewed and approved the agenda for the Cycle 4 meeting of the Academic Board scheduled for March 6, 2025.


    The Committee confirmed that the agenda would include the Report of the Vice-President and Provost, Enrolment Report 2024-2025 (for information), the Institutional Operating Budget Report, 2025-26 and the Long Range Budget Guidelines, 2025-26 to 2029-30 (for approval), and the 

    Tentative Agreement Between the University Administration and the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) on Articles 7 and 13 of the Memorandum of Agreement between The Governing Council of the University of Toronto and The University of Toronto Faculty Association (for recommendation).

    The Committee confirmed that the Consent Agenda would consist of Report Number 254 of the Academic Board (for approval), Report Number 313 of the Agenda Committee, Report Number 215 of the Planning and Budget Committee, Report Number 227 of the Committee on Academic Policy and Programs, the Quarterly Report on Donations of $250,000 or more to the University of Toronto, and the Appointments of the President’s Teaching Award Selection Committee.
  3. Approval of the Report of the Previous Meeting

    Report 312 of the Agenda Committee meeting of January 21, 2025 was approved.
  4. Business Arising from the Report of the Previous Meeting

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

    The Chair advised members that the Committee would next meet on April 15, 2025 from 2:10 to 3:00 p.m.
  6. 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.
     

DALLA LANA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Associate Professor Erica Marie Christine Di Ruggiero

Associate Dean, Research
March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2030.

Associate Professor Jeremy Scott

Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARIES

Larry Alford

University Chief Librarian
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
(extension)


The meeting adjourned at 2:35 p.m.


February 25, 2025