NOTICE OF MEETING 92nd Meeting of Faculty Council January 14, 2021 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Zoom Meeting Room AGENDA 1. Call to Order and Approval of the Agenda 2. Chair’s Remarks 3. Minutes of the December 10, 2020 Meeting………..……………………...……….………….…………..……….2 4. Business Arising from the Minutes 5. Reports of Standing Committees of Council • Executive Committee o Item for Information: Election Results………………….……………………………….…..11 o Item for Action: Creation of Special Committee to Establish Terms of Reference for Proposed Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity Committee of Council……………….…..12 • Committee on Curriculum, Curricular Policy and Standards o Discussion: General Education Working Group Report………………………….………14 o Item for Action: Approval of a Major Modification: Humanities……………….………...63 • Graduate Committee o Item for Action: Approval of Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing………….……….131 o Item for Action: Non-Major Modification Program Change: Changes to Degree: Graduate Diploma: Latin American and Caribbean Studies………………….…………276 o Consent Agenda…………………………………………………………………….…………..278 • Committee on Academic Policy and Planning o Item for Information: Developing LA&PS Academic Plan 6. Report of Professor Andrea Davis, Special Advisor on LA&PS Anti-Back Racism Strategy 7. Dean’s Report 8. Other Business Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Faculty Council Meetings are normally on the second Thursday of the month at 3:00pm in the Robert Everett Senate Chamber, N940 Ross. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Faculty Council meetings will be held virtually over Zoom. February 11, 2021 April 8, 2021 June 10, 2021 March 11, 2021 May 13, 2021 council.laps.yorku.ca York University 5. Reports of Standing Committees of Council Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Faculty Council 5.1. Executive Committee (EC) Zoom Meeting Room · Item for Information: Elections Results Minutes of the 91st Meeting of Council December 10, 2020 The Vice-Chair announced that one of the student members has stepped down from FC. In addition, a member from the Research Policy Please find the Attendance List from the meeting enclosed. and Planning Committee, Soma Chatterjee, has stepped down and a nomination period will be taking place from Dec 2 to Dec 8 to fill that 1. Call to Order and Approval of the Agenda position. The meeting was called to order. The Chair announced that we are The Vice-Chair announced that the EC has decided to move forward in piloting live captioning at this meeting. proposing that a subcommittee of Council be established to investigate what a permanent committee on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion would A poll was taken to confirm quorum for the meeting. Quorum was look like. He said that the EC is hoping to bring a motion at the January achieved. FC meeting to have such a temporary committee approved by Council. A member brought a motion from the floor. She said that her motion is 5.2. Committee on Curriculum, Curricular Policy and to request endorsement of the motion she shared in the chat regarding Standards (CCPS) the closing of the research officer positions. · Item for Information: General Education Working Group The Chair announced that 2/3 of Council members must vote in favour Report of adding this hortative motion to the agenda for it to be included on the agenda. A motion to add this item to the agenda was moved, sec- The Chair of CCPS revealed that the General Education Subcommittee onded and passed. of CCPS, convened to address the Dean’s Office concerns about the general education program, has finished its report, which is included in A motion to approve the agenda was moved, seconded and passed. today’s agenda package at page 13. He stated that Council will be discussing this report at the next Council meeting to give members time 2. Chair’s Remarks to review and consider the report prior to the discussion. The Chair welcomed all to the 91st meeting of Faculty Council (FC). · Item for Action: Minor Change to Existing Program: Sociology 3. Minutes of the November 12, 2020 Meeting The Chair of CCPS presented the first motion from CCPS to approve a It was moved, seconded, and passed to approve the minutes of the minor change to the existing program in Sociology. The rationale is that November 12, 2020 Faculty Council meeting. it provides more clarity to students and it ensures that the course numbers and titles correspond to the intentions of the program. 4. Business Arising from the Minutes A motion to approve this proposal was moved, seconded and passed. There was none. · Item for Action: Minor Change to Existing Program: point they would like to raise in discussion at Faculty Council with Department of English: Certificate in Anti-Racist Research respect to an item on the Consent Agenda. In such a case, the item will and Practice (CARRP) be removed from the Consent Agenda and added to the Faculty Council agenda as a separate item. The Chair of CCPS presented the second motion to approve the minor change to the existing program in the Department of English, the 5.3. Committee on Academic Policy and Planning Certificate in Anti-Racist Research and Practice. · Item for Information: Developing LA&PS Academic The motion to approve this proposal was moved and seconded. Plan A member stated that as Chair of DES, she wrote to the appropriate The Chair of APPC thanked LA&PS community members for joining staff members to withdraw this motion, as there has been more APPC in consultation discussions. She announced that APPC has been discussion and there is no longer a desire for this minor change at the attending departmental meetings to discuss the LA&PS Academic Plan department level. and that the second town hall took place. The Chair of CCPS confirmed that this was an administrative error. He She advised that the surveys, links to which can be found on the LA&PS said that Kathryn Doyle confirmed that the request to withdraw this Academic Plan website, are another opportunity to gain feedback and motion was received by her team but was inadvertently not processed. she encouraged community members to send their comments and He, therefore, brought a motion to withdraw the earlier motion, which feedback to the LA&PS Academic Plan email address: was seconded and passed. [email protected]. The motion was withdrawn. A member thanked APPC and the staff members working on the plan. He said that he would like to see issues of climate, environmental action · Item for Action: Minor Change to Existing Program: Work and and justice at the forefront of the plan. Labour Studies 6. Budget Consultation by the President, Provost and VPFA The Chair of CCPS moved to have a minor change to the existing program in Work and Labour Studies approved. The motion was The Chair welcomed the President, Provost, AVP BAM, and VPFA and seconded and passed. invited them to begin their budget consultation presentation. They presented the slides that can be found under Additional Documents on · Consent Agenda the Council website. The Chair of CCPS stated that CCPS discussed the possibility of 7. Budget Consultation Question and Answer Session including minor changes to existing programs in the Consent Agenda at future meetings. He said that CCPS still must ensure that this A member raised four points: corresponds to protocol, which is why these minor changes to existing programs/certificates are being presented as motions at this Council 1) In terms of capital projects, many in LA&PS perceive LA&PS to meeting. be the abandoned child at York, as the majority capital projects appear to occurring elsewhere in this institution. He asked He invited all faculty members to notify the Chair of Faculty Council and whether this perception is a reality. to copy the Chair of the committee presenting the motion if they have a 2) With respect to the lands for learning, he understands there is are exciting plans emerging to improve the Ross building. LA&PS will a proposal for climate solutions around the pond area to bring have significant space at the Markham campus and the classrooms and together a series of actions around teaching, experiential washrooms will be significantly improved. With respect to the faculty education and public dissemination, and it sounds like it will complement, she said she doesn’t have the exact numbers before her, develop to enormous opportunities consistent with the UAP. however, there has not been net complement growth in LA&PS yet. We 3) The full time complement for the full university has grown, but need to bring down faculty-student ratios in three faculties, including we are not seeing this growth within LAPS. It would be useful LA&PS. With respect to interdisciplinary, she said she hopes that for us to know the full time complement recovery for LA&PS colleagues are aware of guidelines that were created on the importance specifically. of interdisciplinary cross-faculty programs at York and the need to have 4) One of the major problems with the SHARP budget is it doesn’t more of them. This was done so that we can relax, if necessary, the way facilitate collaboration within an interdisciplinary university. He the SHARP budget model works so that we can focus on how to make asked whether this will be addressed in the revised version of those programs thrive. In the generation of the next version of the SHARP. SHARP model, there will be further attention on this issue, particularly around the way we compensate faculties for doing cross-faculty The President said that two good things have happened in the last while: teaching. There is a perception of barriers. The larger goal is to ensure 1) developing priorities for capital projects has shifted.