Working Groups

The transition team has identified six working groups which will address the most pressing matters associated with the transition to a single faculty and the items outlined by the University Planning Committee for the transition team to address. Membership in the working groups will be determined based on the following criteria:

1) Working groups will consist of members within our existing units who hold expertise in the area the group is to address.

2) In striking each group, we will seek to include representation from staff, faculty and students.

3) In striking each group, we will seek to include a broad cross-section of individuals who represent a range of program units, while maintaining a group size that is conducive to working and making decisions efficiently.

Governance and Policy Development Working Group
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Chair: Kevin McQuillan, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences
Tamara Seiler, Communication and Culture
Ann McWhir, Humanities
David Stewart, Social Sciences
Allan Bell, Fine Arts
Megan Martin, Students' Union
Ann Jaggard, Humanities
Brian Keay, Science

Student and Academic Issues and Programs Working Group
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Chair: Dan Maher, Dean, Faculty of Humanities
George Bourne, Associate Dean, Science
Mary Polito, Associate Dean, Humanities
Doug Brent, Associate Dean, Communication and Culture
Jim Gaisford, Associate Dean, Social Sciences
Brian Smith, Associate Dean, Fine Arts
Megan Martin, Students' Union
Lindsay Penner, Graduate Students' Association

Resource people:

David Johnston, Registrar
Meghan Houghton, Associate Vice Provost, Student Success
Natalie Hampton, Undergraduate Programs Office
Heather Smith-Watkins, Fine Arts Student Success Team

This working group is looking at a range of issues related to student advising and programs including:

• Looking at the current structure of the UPO and determining how advising and student support can best be articulated between the new Student Success Centre, the Faculties and the Departments.
• Harmonizing as much as possible admission requirements, standardizing breadth requirements across degrees (BA, BSc, B(Mus), BFA), examining degree requirements and looking at interdisciplinary and general degrees. 

 

Research Development and Support Working Group
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Chair: Geoffrey Simmins, Associate Dean, Fine Arts
Barbara Schneider, Associate Dean, Communication and Culture
Murray McGillivray, Associate Dean, Humanities
Miriam Grant, Associate Dean, Social Sciences
Brian Keay, Associate Dean, Science
Lindsay Penner, Graduate Students Association

This working group will:

• Develop recommendations for transition team as to appropriate structure for supporting research in the new faculty;
• Develop explicit recommendations as to how the office of the Associate Dean(s) Research might be constituted in the new faculty;
• Identify and list research institutes and centres active in the four existing faculties, and contact their directors to request an update on their activities, both current and proposed in the new faculty;
• Develop recommendations as to how research can best be promoted and recognized in the new faculty;
• Liaise with graduate student organizations within the four existing faculties, and ask for input from these groups as to how research can be promoted for graduate students within the new faculty;
• Work with researchers in the faculty to develop and promote research in the new faculty, e.g., via proposed activities such as "Research Days";
• Encourage and support multi/interdisciplinary research collaboration.

 

External Activities Working Group
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Chair: Ann Calvert, Dean, Fine Arts
Jennifer Myers, External Relations and Communication and Culture
Ron Burke, Development Office
Michael Ullyot, Humanities
George Melnyk, Communication and Culture
Joann Reynolds, Fine Arts
Janice Lee, Humanities
Mary Pavelka, Social Sciences
Cynthia Chang, Student Enrolment Services
Student representative TBA

Space, Infrastructure and Facilities Working Group

Chair: Peter Toohey, Department Head, Humanities
Chloe Atkins, Communication and Culture
Eileen Corah, Humanities
Brian Kooyman, Social Sciences
Paul Kubicek, Manager, Computer Support Centre, Social Sciences
Clem Martini, Fine Arts
Don Monty, Fine Arts
Brian Moorman, Social Sciences
Pascale Sicotte, Social Sciences
Jie Yang, Humanities

Finance and Human Resources Working Group

Chair: Kevin McQuillan, Dean, Social Sciences
Ann Calvert, Dean, Fine Arts
Wisdom Tetty, Interim Dean Communication and Culture
Dan Maher, Interim Dean, Humanities