Director S Report #20

DIRECTOR’S REPORT #20 FEBUARY 2010

This will form part of the Director’s Report to the School of Administrative Studies (SAS) meeting on Thursday February 11. As matters in the DRs will have been communicated in advance, we will be able to concentrate on any elaboration and discussion at the School meeting. If you have any particular matters which you would like elaborated upon it would be appreciated if you can advise me in advance.

Past Director Reports can be found on the School protected web pages which are confined to full time faculty: http://oak.eso.yorku.ca/onyxsasmeetings.

Please let either Vita or I have any contributions for future DRs. We are particularly anxious to learn of any publications or honours that faculty have received.

Directors reports are published in both draft and final form on the faculty protected website. The DR for a month is updated right up to the date of the School meeting at which point it is final and I start on the following month’s DR.

NEWS AND INFORMATION ITEMS 

Please send me your research and service achievements. Only where you do this, can I include the information in Director’s Reports.

Our condolences to Vita Lobo whose mother passed away on Monday February 1. Details of the funeral ar- rangements are given at:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=maria-antoinette- antao&pid=139306019

New Agreement between Dean’s of Schulich and LAPS – 2 February, 2010

Here are the basic elements of the agreement between the Deans of the Schulich School of Business and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies as supplied by Dean Martin Singer:

1. Effective Fall 2010 as many as 200 so-called 101 (direct entry from high school) students will be admitted to SAS per year.

2. The intent of this arrangement is to enable 101 applicants with above an 80 average to study undergraduate business programs at York. Based on applications and yields over the past four years, the number 200 should allow access to York for such students. However, if yield results are greater than expected, the cap of 200 will ef- fectively raise the SAS admission average as necessary above 80.

3. To maintain the quality of undergraduate business education at York, the minimum GPA for SAS will be maintained at 80 even if fewer than 200 qualified 101 student accept offers of admission to SAS in a given year.

4. To reinforce the differentiation between undergraduate business programs offered by Schulich and SAS, we also agreed on the following: a. while all students admitted to Schulich undergraduate business programs will be from the 101 pool, a maximum of 1/3 of new SAS majors in a given year will be from the 101 pool, the remainder coming from the so- called 105 (non-direct entry pool). These will include visa students, transfer students from colleges and other uni- versities and mature and part-time students. b. Schulich undergraduate programs will continue to be offered only to full-time students, while SAS undergraduate programs will be available to both full-time and part-time students. c. SAS will renew its effort to build the 105 markets (particularly visa students, college transfer students and mature students) and to create additional niche programs which differentiate its undergraduate programs from those of Schulich. d. While Schulich will continue to offer its undergraduate business courses in the day, SAS will continue to offer its courses at a "mix" of times including day, evening and night. As has been the practice in recent years, no more than 25% of SAS undergraduate courses (excluding on-line courses) will be offered during the day.

5. The Deans of Schulich and LAPS will meet annually (presumably in early fall) to review the above ar- rangements.

Visit of Dean Martin Singer to SAS

Our Dean will come to our School on Thursday March 18 and one other day yet to be determined. During the two days he will hold discussions with various groups. Each of our areas will meet with him separately except for the two Management areas and those accounting areas which wish to combine together: area 2 pagers will be on each agenda for discussion. There will also be separate meetings to discuss 1) the student experience, 2) the faculty experience, 3) academic programming, 4) community and internationalism and 5) resources. Please let Tara know if you are interested in attending any of these focus group style meetings. The Dean will also meet with both our support staff, graduate program directors and graduate and undergraduate students in small separate meetings. The Director, UPD, GPDs, Administrative Assistant and Didier Pomerleau (the new Executive Director of Strategic Planning for the Faculty) will be invited to attend the various meetings and the Director and Didier will be expected to attend virtually all of them.

The Dean will visit all schools and departments of the Faculty by the end of April. In May a strategic plan for the faculty will be developed which will be reviewed by APPC and Faculty Council in June. The summer will then be spent developing resource sub-plans including budgeting, space, fund-raising, staff deployment and faculty hiring. These plans will be discussed at Faculty Council in the fall.

Sabbatical requests

The deadline for receiving sabbatical requests for 2011-12 is March 31, 2010. Article 20 of the YUFA Collective Agreement clearly outlines various procedures and expectations. Some of these include: effective scheduling of a unit’s course offerings; establishing a roster of sabbaticals; normal time period for sabbatical; time period for Dean’s response.

Please note LA&PS’s process for requesting a sabbatical: 1. Faculty member submits request to their Chair/Director along with a plan of activ- ities to be undertaken during sabbatical (Article 20.05); 2. Chairs and Directors email the request with the sabbatical plan to asimone@y- orku.ca with a brief comment indicating that this leave will not unduly disrupt the effective scheduling of course offerings. If there are concerns with the request a rationale is included in the Chair’s/Director’s recommendations. 3. Anomalous requests (outside of the Collective Agreement) must also include the Chair’s/Director’s response.

If you have any questions, please contact me or Narda Razack ([email protected]) ext. 66333. China University of Geosciences (Beijing)

York recently signed a collaborative agreement with this university. We have been designated to collaborate in areas of business and economics. I spent time with their business dean and she invited us to collaborate in three areas: 1) faculty visits for 2 or 4 weeks which would include seminars, 2) faculty taking all or a portion of their sabbatical leave in Beijing and 3) our accepting some of their students into a collaborative program whereby the first two years of their degree would be completed in Beijing and the final two years at York with both institutions granting their degrees. Please let me know of any interest you have in participating in any of these three areas.

Good News on the Applications Front

Our BAS attracted 1,966 applications from high school students for 2010 admission. This is up slightly from last year and second only to Criminology which with 2,070 had a significant (over 25%) increase in applications. Business and Society and Social Work came next, both with 847.

Good News on the Enrolment Front Administrative Studies Majors at Nov 1, 2009 (Actual) by Full-time/Partime Status and Area of Concentration

Heads Major 1 Area of Concentration FULLTIME PARTTIME Grand Total Administrative Studies Accounting 873 227 1,100 Business Research 10 3 13 Finance 442 85 527 General Management 41 27 68 Human Resource 94 33 127 Management 224 55 279 Management Science 8 2 10 Marketing 243 51 294 BAS (90 credit) 481 274 755 Administrative Studies Total 2,416 757 3,173

The totals compare with 4,302, 3,959, 3,539 and 3,038 at the same date in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 respectively. Details for last year can be found in DR8.

Visit of the Dean to our School

SIGNIFICANT DATES AND DEADLINES  (Please forgive any errors – this will be updated each month)

Academic dates and events - Mon Jan 18 – last date to announce components of final grades Tues Jan 19 – last date to enrol without permission Sun Jan 24 - – last date to withdraw with 20% refund Wed Feb 3 – last date to enrol with permission Sat Feb 13 to Fri Feb 19 Reading Week Mon Feb 15 – Family Day Wed Mar 3 – Open House Mon Apr 5 – last date to submit term work Mon Mar 8 – last date to drop W-term course without receiving a grade Fri Apr 2 – Good Friday Mon Apr 5 – Winter classes end Wed Apr 7 to Fri Apr 23 – Winter term exam period Mon May 3 – Summer SU and S1 terms begin Fri May 7 – last date to enrol without permission (SU & S1) Fri May 14 – last date to enrol with permission (SU & S1) Mon May 28 - last date to drop S1-term course without receiving a grade Fri Jun 11 – S1 classes end Wed Jun 16 to Fri Jun 18 – S1 exam period Mon Jun 21 – SU2 term begins Thu Jul 1 – Canada Day Fri Jul 2 – last date to enrol without permission (S2) Fri Jul 9 – last date to enrol with permission (S2) Mon Jul 5 – last date to drop SU-term course without receiving a grade Fri Jul 16 - last date to drop S2-term course without receiving a grade Fri Jul 30 – SU & S2 classes end Mon Aug 2 – Civic Holiday Tue Aug 3 to Fri Aug 13 – SU & S2 exam period Mon Sep 7 – Labour Day Refund tables for summer are not yet available.

Council, School, C&C Meeting Dates - Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Council – 3 - 5pm the following Thursdays in the Senate Chamber unless otherwise indicated Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 8, May 13, Jun 10 School of Administrative Studies – 10am to noon on the following Thursdays in the Crowe Room Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 8, May 13, Jun 10 (if required) Note that these dates are subject to a by-law change. The new dates correspond with notice periods required to get matters considered by Council and have been arrived at in consultation with the Council Office. Note: the above School meetings will be immediately followed by Brown Bag Research Seminars. Curriculum and Coordinators – Room 223A Thu Feb 25 9.30am, Thu Mar 25 9.30am, Thu Apr 29 9.30am, Thu May 27 9.30am (if required)

RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS 

These monthly reports are intended to be an important means of communication among our faculty. Please feel free to send us questions that you would like addressed. Where they may be of general interest, they will be included here. As DRs are now updated on an ongoing basis, there is no longer a deadline for submission.

Paul Evans February 3, 2010 www.atkinson.yorku.ca/pevans