UNIVERSITY Gilmour Hall, Room 210 Phone: 905.525.9140, Ext. 24337 SECRETARIAT 1280 Main Street West Fax: 905.526.9884 • Board of Governors Hamilton, Ontario, Canada E-mail: [email protected] • Senate L8S 4L8 http://www.mcmaster.ca/univsec BOARD OF GOVERNORS Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. Gilmour Hall, Council Room (Room 111) AGENDA NOTE: Members who wish to have items moved from the Consent to the Regular Agenda should contact the University Secretariat before the Board meeting. Members may also request to have items moved when the Agenda is presented for approval at the Board meeting. Page A. OPEN SESSION 1. REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR 2. NOTICE OF MEETING - FEBRUARY 21, 2019 3. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA - OPEN SESSION CONSENT (9:05 a.m.) 4. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING – DECEMBER 13, 2018 (OPEN SESSION) Approval 5 - 9 a. Minutes - December 13, 2018 (Open Session) 5. BUSINESS ARISING 6. REPORTS FOR INFORMATION Information 10 - 20 a. McMaster Museum of Art - Annual Report 21 - 130 b. McMaster Museum of Art - Appendices 7. COMMITTEE REPORTS a. EXECUTIVE AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE Information i. Revisions to Terms of Reference for the Vice-Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Associate Dean, Page 1 of 460 Graduate Studies (Health Sciences) ii. McMaster Research Ethics Board Revised Terms of Reference 131 - 159 iii. Research Ethics Appeals Board Revised Terms of Reference Report from the Executive and Governance Committee MOTION: That items 4 to 7 be approved or received for information by consent. REGULAR 8. BUSINESS ARISING 9. COMMUNICATIONS 10. PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS Name: Dr. Claudia Emerson, Director, Program on Ethics & Policy for Innovation and Associate Professor, Philosophy Title: ESC (Ethical, Social, Cultural) Thinking and its Impact in Global Health 11. PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE BOARD Information 160 - 164 a. President's Report to the Board 165 b. Minute of Appreciation 12. REPORT FROM SENATE Approval 166 - 167 a. Amendment of Item 42 of the Tenure and Promotion Policy 13. COMMITTEE REPORTS a. EXECUTIVE AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE Notice of Motion 168 - 199 i. Revisions to Board By-Laws - Execution of Instruments and Title Changes Page 2 of 460 b. PLANNING AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE Approval i. Salaried Plan Actuarial Valuations 200 - 413 ii. Restatement of Plan Texts Report from the Planning and Resources Committee 14. REPORTS RECEIVED FOR INFORMATION 414 - 418 a. Report from Health, Safety and Risk Management 15. OTHER BUSINESS Page 3 of 460 MCMASTER MUSEUM OF ART (MMA) ANNUAL REPORT SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 – AUGUST 31, 2018 MUSEOLOGICAL RENEWAL Page 10 of 460 MCMASTER MUSEUM OF ART (MMA) ANNUAL REPORT SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 – AUGUST 31, 2018 MUSEOLOGICAL RENEWAL EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Following many years of intensive research activity on collections and educational programs, in 2017/2018 we re-focused our efforts on several foundational museological processes. Subsequently, there are many developments that mark the year as particularly significant. In terms of exhibitions, most notably, Levy and NIIPA; in terms of collections, again Levy but also Davidson as well as Daetwyler and Bos; in terms of education, The Art of Seeing and the N. Gillian Cooper Education Program; in terms of facility, storage vault and security up-grades; and in terms of administration, the status of the positon of Curator of Indigenous Art. Several of these occurrences have been on the evolving agenda for more than the period of this report, yet they have come to some fruition and/or developmental achievement during 2017/2018, such that they warrant special mention here in the Executive Summary. These items will be discussed in detail in the appropriate section headings below but, suffice it to say that they have added to the MMA’s traditional museological roles of collection, preservation, research, exhibition and interpretation, in ways which are innovative, exceptional and foundational. These achievements are highlighted with much gratitude to the Office of the Provost, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and donor extraordinaire, N. Gillian Cooper; for without their considerable assistance, many of the above would have been unattainable. ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW Our Mission The McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) engages, educates and enlightens through its innovative exhibitions and public programs while preserving the integrity of its collection. The MMA is a unique meeting place for both the campus and the wider community that aims to provoke people’s understanding of the visual arts with its online and physical presence. Our Vision The McMaster Museum of Art will inspire curiosity, expand knowledge, ignite creativity, and enrich people’s lives through an experience with visual arts. As a university-affiliated, public art museum, the McMaster Museum of Art acquires, preserves, exhibits and interprets a collection of European, Canadian, Inuit and First Nations works of art for the people of Canada. The role of the MMA is twofold: to support the academic mission of McMaster University and to contribute to the discourse on art in Canada. The MMA resides in a purpose-renovated building located at the centre of McMaster University’s main campus. It comprises 5 galleries, 5 on-site storage vaults, and attendant office and public areas. Specifically, these areas break down as follows: 1,700 net square feet of (non-collection area) public space; 5,000 net square feet of exhibition space; 4,000 net square feet of storage; and 1,200 net square Page 11 of 460 feet of office/administration space. The physical plant of the MMA is maintained by the University proper. The Museum maintains and pays for its own collections insurance coverage as a sub-set of the University’s larger institutional policy. The Museum maintains comprehensive security coverage in collaboration with an independent provider, Campus Security and the City of Hamilton police force. The Museum has 11 full-time staff: Director, Senior Curator, Curator of Indigenous Art, Collections Administrator, Senior Education Officer, Education Officer, Communications Officer, Preparator, and 3 Information Officers. The Curatorial staff is broadened by the addition of an Honorary Curator of Numismatics and Antiquities, a position currently held by Dr. Spencer Pope, Classics, McMaster University. Various student and community volunteers round out the staff complement at the MMA, helping primarily with educational programming and events. Of the 40 university-affiliated art galleries/museums nation-wide, the MMA houses one of the top three collections in one of the best facilities in the country. The collection at the MMA numbers 6,000+ works of art and contains important historical, modern and contemporary period works. Highlights of the collection include: • The Herman H. Levy Collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern work: including paintings by Caillebotte, Courbet, Derain, Marquet, Monet, Pissaro, Sickert, Soutine and Van Gogh; • the Denner Wallace Collection, the most comprehensive collection of German Expressionist and Weimar period prints in Canada, including works by Barlach, Beckmann, Dix, Kirchner and Kollwitz; • a significant holding of European Old Master works including 16th to 18th Century paintings and prints from Gosseart to Turner; • 20th Century European art including modernist and contemporary artists from Duchamp, Nicholson and Rodchenko to Beuys, Kiefer, Kapoor and Richter: • Canadian art including historical works by Thomson, Milne and the Group of Seven and including contemporary works by Andrews, Astman, Goodwin, Keeley, Maggs and Scherman,; • the Inuit collection with a focus on Cape Dorset prints and sculpture including works by Kenojuak, Pitseolak and Tookoome; • and Contemporary First Nations Art, including works by artists such as Ash Poitras, Beam, Boyer, Kakegamic and Morrisseau. The MMA produces on average 8 - 12 exhibitions annually and augments those exhibitions with publications and ancillary programs geared to engage both the campus and broader community audience of the region. Throughout its history, the MMA has actively contributed to the dialogue on contemporary art in its contemporary galleries while maintaining an active research program on the objects in the permanent collection in its collection galleries. The Museum, from its outset, has maintained a “doors open” policy in terms of collections access as well as an active education and public programs component. The MMA is one among several cultural institutions in the Hamilton area. The City of Hamilton manages several historic buildings and homes – Dundurn Castle, Military Museum, Museum of Steam & Technology, Whitehern Historic House, and a Children’s Museum; as well the City is home to the Art Gallery of Hamilton as well as the James Street North artists’ district. The MMA attempts to distinguish its contribution to the arts scene in the area by providing programming that is directed toward, on the one hand, scholarly research and on the other hand, inter-disciplinary projects. In this way, the Page 12 of 460 collections, exhibitions and programs of the MMA add a perspective on visual culture and society not currently being addressed on an on-going basis elsewhere in the region. The museum has a national and international community in terms of collaborative exhibition projects and the use of its collections by sister institutions. Works of art from the collection are regularly borrowed by international institutions such as the Belevdere Palace, Vienna, Austria; Tate Modern, Tate Britain,