Senate to Hear About 5-Year Plans
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Volume 29 Number 39 November 14, 1985 Guelph Spring Festival unveils 1986 program (See page 5 ) Senate to hear about 5-year plans Senate is expected to give its stamp of unit during December, and a completed plan, how it intends to evaluate its annual progress approval to the final text of Towards 2000: after review by all faculty in the unit, is to in implementing the plan. Challenges and Responses, Aims of the Uni- go to Clark by Feb. 14, 1986. The deans of versity of Guelph at its Nov. 19 meeting, graduate studies and research, the chief and the committee on university planning librarian, the directors of the Office for Process for periodic reviews is to seek support for a planning process to Educational Practice and the Centre for Senate will also be asked to approve achieve the goals contained in the report. International Programs, and the executive principles for periodic reviews of depart- Much that is now being proposed and director for information technology are to mental and school programs — a process discussed is new within any Canadian uni- submit reports by Feb. 1, 1986, after con- based on critical evaluation, but with versity, says Vice-President, Academic, sultation with their boards. emphasis on constructive suggestion and Howard Clark, who hopes the steps will Each plan is to address specific steps advice, says Clark. CUP would establish a enhance excellence and help unify the that will be taken towards excellence and standing subcommittee to determine the institution. towards ensuring that programs and teaching review schedule, set up an internal review CUP is to ask Senate to receive for are consistent with the University's aims and committee, appoint two external assessors, information notice of Clark's request for objectives. It must also outline staffing plans, ensure that appropriate material is available, preparation of college plans for the 1986- new programs and the phasing out of old arrange visits of the external assessors, make 1990 period, which would form the basis of ones, new disciplinary areas, space and capit- certain the visits are conducted satisfactorily, a full report to CUP for review and discussion. al needs, faculty renewal and college colla- and ensure that the assessors provide their The committee would bring a comprehensive boration. In addition, each unit must explain Continued on page 2. report to Senate by June 1, 1986. Clark says he plans to meet with faculty in each unit next month to discuss the aims ices. report. It is essential not only that faculty Serv ion participate in the formulation of the college t plans, but that they do so on the basis of a tra good understanding of the aims and objec- Illus tives document, he says. ssy. Deans and directors are now consider- joro ing names of external people for college and Ma university school advisory councils, to be hn proposed to President Burt Matthews by Jo Nov. 15. He is expected to establish the councils by Dec. 15 so they can meet in January to advise units on the preparation of their final five-year plans. To help units with their plans, Clark has prepared the document Strategic Plan- ning for the 1990s, which provides para- meters and a description of suggested plan- ning procedures. The parameters are that for at least the next five years, present faculty and staff positions will be maintained with junior replacements allowed for resignations and retirements; priorities for dealing with space needs will be determined by fund- raising abilities; total enrolments will remain constant; and the financial climate will THE CSS "GROUP OF SEVEN" improve only slightly. The College of Social Science recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first classes, and presented Clark recommends that deans and some of its founders with a mounted scroll and book. They are, left to right: Profs. Jack Madden, John directors prepare a preliminary plan by Melby, Archie McIntyre, Jack Skinner, Denis Stott, Fred Hung and Ken Duncan, with CSS Dean John Vanderkamp. A plate was carved, bearing their names, which will be hung in the ninth floor lounge, Jan. 1, 1986, which is consistent with the MacKinnon building, and the recently established graduate scholarship program was renamed the College parameters and the University's aims. The of Social Science Founder's Graduate Scholarship. preliminary plan is to be discussed with each Senate Continued from page 1. independent reports within a reasonable time to the internal review committee. MCU approves The internal committee would prepare a detailed final report, which CUP would undergraduate equipment proposal review, summarize and present to Senate Guelph is to receive $597,744 for undergrad- The College of Family and Consumer with a conclusion. Copies of all reports uate equipment purchases — the University's Studies is allocated $70,300 for a college would go to the president. Responsibility share of a special $10-million fund set up by microcomputer lab and for spectrophoto- for carrying out review recommendations the Ministry of Colleges and Universities for meters to be used in the applied nutrition would lie with department chairmen, deans, 1985/86. President Burt Matthews learned assessment lab in the Department of Family vice-presidents, presidents and appropriate last week that MCU supports Guelph's pro- Studies. committees and boards. posal for the use of its allocation from the OAC gets a total of $61,407 for com- All programs of a department would be multi-million-dollar, one-shot fund. puter equipment and software in the covered by a review. Assessors would be The grant covers only the equipment Department of Rural Extension Studies; expected to apply international standards itemized in Guelph's July 24 proposal, said for microscopes, an incubator, orbital shaker of excellence and recommend specific actions Matthews. MCU will make payment when and electrophoresis chamber for the new to enhance the quality of programs. Each it receives copies of paid invoices. crop biotechnology course in the Depart- review would be conducted within the con- Some $26,417 is allocated to the College ment of Crop Science; for the pilot project text of the University's aims and the five-year of Arts for a lighting control board in the to introduce student-owned microcom- plans of the University and the colleges. Department of Drama, a Wright Press for puters into the School of Engineering; and OAC and OVC, the University's areas lithography, intaglio and woodcuts in the for four microscopes in the Department of of special responsibility, would be the first Department of Fine Art, and a project for Environmental Biology. to be reviewed. Each unit would be assessed computer-assisted instruction in the Depart- ment of Languages and Literatures. OVC is to receive $106,152 for a com- about every seven years, to be co-ordinated puterized clinical epidemiology-health man- with other reviews so that no unit becomes The College of Social Science has been agement lab and equipment for a biomedical involved in a review more than once in allocated $72,235 for a microcomputer animal simulation modelling system. three to four years. Detailed procedural laboratory for cartography and data presen- guidelines would be developed and approved tation in the Department of Geography. Funds to the Library, totalling $34,165, by CUP by May 1986. The College of Physical Science is to are for videotape players, public access receive funding for its microcomputer lab in terminals for the on-line catalogue and Other business the amount of $86,429. The College of rear-screen slide/tape projectors for self-study. Senate will also receive for information Biological Science has been allocated $51,756 The Office for Educational Practice has a report on the creation of Guelph Interna- for a microcomputer lab and another $34,000 been allocated $54,460 for hardware for its tional Development Corp., a non-profit- for a biotechnology genetic engineering VITAL course authorizing system for com- making program administered by the Centre teaching lab in the Department of Molecular puter-assisted learning, and for major for International Programs, which would Biology and Genetics. classroom improvements. 0 develop, promote and market the University's expertise internationally. Senate will also receive for information a report that CUP has endorsed a proposal Special admissions assessment by the Senate committee for information technology to move the communications set for strike-bound students and network responsibilities of Computing and Communications Services into a new and Guelph is taking steps to minimize the effects most affected — those who expected to separate directorate, which will be integrated school closures will have on Grade 13 stu- complete their secondary school studies by with the telecommunications unit formerly dents hoping to enter the University next Christmas — will be considered on an indi- in Administration Services. The new direc- year, says Dr. Howard Clark, vice-president, vidual basis by the University's admission torates are to be known as Computing Services academic. officers. The assessment will include the and Communications Services. 0 Clark says the students who will be Grade 13 courses that the student is enrolled in or has successfully completed; the stu- dent's previous secondary school record; and any other evidence that the student wishes to submit. As one of the few universities in Ontario that accept first-year students in January and in May, Guelph is particularly concerned about students who expected to complete high school in December, says Clark. But the disruption of classes will also affect students who expect to finish school in June and enrol at university in September, he says. In some cases, it may not be possible for schools to submit marks by the establish- ed date of April 1986.