Report: Agenda Committee - May 14, 2024

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Via Virtual Meeting room

Report Number 306 Of The Agenda Committee

MAY 14, 2024


To the Academic Board,
University of Toronto,

Your Committee reports that it held a virtual meeting on May 14, 2024 with the following members present:

PRESENT: Douglas McDougall, (Chair), Ernest W.N. Lam, (Vice-Chair), Cheryl Regehr, (Vice-President and Provost), Susan McCahan, (Vice-Provost, Academic Programs and Innovations in Undergraduate Education), Jutta Brunée, Catherine Amara, Aarthi Ashok, Mark Lautens, Ali Syed


REGRETS:

SECRETARIAT: Tracey Gameiro, Secretary, Agenda Committee

IN ATTENDANCE: Archana Sridhar, Assistant Provost

The meeting was held in Closed Session


  1. Chair’s Remarks

    The Chair welcomed members and guests and thanked them for their attendance.
  2. Review of the Academic Board Agenda for May 23, 2024

    The Committee reviewed and confirmed the agenda for the last meeting of the Academic Board for the governance year, scheduled for May 23, 2024.
  3. Approval of the Report of the Previous Meeting

    Report 305 from the meeting of April 11, 2024 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 – May 28, 2024

    The Chair advised members that the Committee would meet next on May 28, 2024 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
  6. Other Business

    There were no items of other business.

The Committee moved IN CAMERA.


IN CAMERA AGENDA
 

  1. Appointments: 2024-2025 Nominating Committee for the University Tribunal and the Academic Appeals Committee

    On a motion duly moved, seconded and carried

    YOUR COMMITTEE APPROVED

    THAT the following individuals be appointed to the 2020-2021 Nominating Committee for the University Tribunal and the Academic Appeals Committee for a term from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025:

    Professor Jutta Brunnée, Chair and President’s designate  
    Professor Ben Alarie, teaching staff member of the Academic Board  
    Mr. Peng Fu, alumni member of the Academic Board 
    Ms. Samantha Chang, former student member of the Academic Board  
  2. Academic Administrative Appointments

    On a motion duly moved, seconded and carried,

    YOUR COMMITTEE APPROVED

    the following academic administrative appointments.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE 

Professor Michael (Mikhail) Brudno 

Acting Vice-Dean, Graduate Education  
July 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 

Associate Professor Teaching Stream Suzanne Wood (Groppe) 

Associate Dean, Student Affairs 
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 

Professor Paul Kushner 

Chair  
Department of Physics  
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 

Professor Jesook Song  

Chair  
Department of Anthropology  
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING  

Professor Hani Naguib 

Chair and Graduate Chair  
Department of Materials Science and Engineering 
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 

SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES  

Professor Paul Kushner 

Graduate Chair  
Department of Physics  
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 

Associate Professor Patrick Theriault  

Graduate Chair  
Department of French Language and Literature 
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 

TEMERTY FACULTY OF MEDICINE  

Professor Moira Kapral  

Chair  
Department of Medicine  
September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029  


The meeting adjourned at 2:29 p.m.


May 15, 2024