SENATE MEETING MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010 OVC Lifetime Learning Centre | Room 1714 | 5:30 p.m. AGENDA Page 1. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda 3 a) Approval of the Agenda [Motion] 2. Approval of the Minutes 5-20 a) Minutes of May 31, 2010 [Motion] b) Business Arising 3. Remarks from the Chair 4. Question Period 5. Student Senate Caucus Report 6. Presentations 21 a) President - Trends in Ontario Post-Secondary Education b) Provost - Academic Priorities for 2010-11 c) Vice-President (Research) - Research Priorities 7. Priorities and Planning Committee Report 23 a) Development of Senate Priorities for 2010-11 [Motion] 8. Bylaws and Membership Committee Report 25-33 a) Revisions to Senate Bylaws [Motion] 35-39 b) Board of Undergraduate Studies Bylaws: Composition and Membership of Guelph-Humber Program and Curriculum Committees [Motion] 41 c) Membership Slate for the Review Committee for the Dean of the College of Arts [Motion] 43-51 d) Review of the Composition and Membership of Senate 53 e) Update on Senate By-elections 9. Board of Undergraduate Studies Report 55-74 a) Cooperative Education Program: Academic Appeal Process [Motion] 75-79 b) Change to Admission Requirements: Bachelor of Computing Program [Motion] 81-85 c) Addition of Areas of Emphasis in Business, Human Services and Justice Studies to the B.A.Sc. Psychology at Guelph-Humber [Motion] 87-91 d) Calendar Review Committee Report: Program Changes | Course Additions and Deletions 93-98 e) Schedule of Dates 2011-12 99-105 f) Program Committees Membership 2010-11 Page 1 of 161 Senate Meeting Agenda | October 4, 2010 Page 10.Board of Graduate Studies Report 107 a) 2010-11 Sub-committees Membership 109 b) Programs Committee Report: Course Additions, Deletions and Changes 111-121 c) Graduate Faculty List 11.Joint Boards of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies Report 123-126 a) Background and Update on the Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP) Document 12.Committee on Non-degree Studies Report 127 a) Curriculum Changes 13.Committee on Quality Assurance Report 129-159 a) Internal Review Reports: Bachelor of Commerce Program | Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies | Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology 14.Other Business 15.Move to Closed Session 161 a) Move into Closed Session [Motion] 16.Closed Session: Honours and Awards Committee Report a) Honorary Degree Nominations [Ballot] b) Honorary Fellowship Nomination [Ballot] Adjournment Next Senate meeting: Monday, November 29, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. Page 2 of 161 UNIVERSITY SECRETARIAT To: Senate From: Kate Revington, Associate University Secretary Meeting: October 4, 2010 Subject: 1. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda 2. Approval of the Minutes 1. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda a) Approval of the Agenda [Motion] Senate is asked to, RESOLVE, That the October 4, 2010 agenda be approved, as presented. 2. Approval of the Minutes a) Minutes of May 31, 2010 [Motion] Senate is asked to, RESOLVE, That the minutes of the May 31, 2010 meeting be approved. b) Business Arising All matters of business arising are addressed in today’s meeting agenda. n:\senate\senate meetings\meeting packages\2010-11\04october2010\memos\1-2_agenda&minutes.doc Approval of the Agenda [Motion] Page 3 of 161 Page 4 of 161 Minutes of the 5:30 p.m. Senate meeting held Monday, May 31, 2010 OVC Lifetime Learning Centre, Room 1714 The following were present: Alastair Summer (Chair) Kate Revington (Associate University Secretary) Brian Allen Majid Hassas-Roudsari Erin Preiss Derek Alton (for A. Liebich) Peter Hausdorf Fred Pries James Amegashie Sally Hickson Eric Pringle Carol Armstrong Art Hill E.Jane Robb Gavin Armstrong Kendra Holliday Brad Rooney Jnanankur Bag Brian Husband Paul Rowntree Mark Baker Claire Jardine Paul Salmon Andreas Boecker Dick Julian Rakhal Sarker Thana Boonlert-Mounarath Matthew Kimber Jonathan Schmidt Elizabeth Boulding Gordon Kirby Judy Sheeshka Kevin Bowman Petko Kitanov Geoff Smith Francesco Braga Stefan Kremer Norman Smith Marena Brinkhurst John Lauzon Deborah Stacey Don Bruce Theresa Lee Henry Staempfli Wyatt Carrs (for J. Gaber) John Livernois Ron Stansfield John Cassidy Michael Lockhart Al Sullivan Julia Christensen Hughes Stephen Lynch Bill Teesdale Anthony Clarke Neil MacLusky Patricia Tersigni Peter Conlon Clare MacMartin Ian Tetlow Teresa Crease Maureen Mancuso Glen Van Der Kraak Nina Chander (for K. Carlton) Christian Mangar Anthony Vannelli Kerry Daly Harvey Marmurek Matthew Vickaryous Gerarda Darlington Dominic Marner John Walsh Serge Desmarais Scott McEwen David Walters Cate Dewey Virginia McLaughlin Allison Webb Bob Dony Rich Moccia Brian Wetstein David Dyck Medhat Moussa Brenda Whiteside Hugh Earl Ruediger Mueller Jordan Willcox Michael Emes Ross Nazar Ann Wilson John FitzSimons Ian Newby-Clark Lillian Wilson Joan Flaherty Jonathan Newman Dave Wolyn Mark Fortier Shireen Noble Geoffrey Wood Moira Ferguson Gard Otis Nonita Yap Bill Gardner Cecelia Paine Ze’ev Gedalof Linda Parker Visitors: Kerry Godfrey Thomas Piggott Lori Bona Hunt John Greenwood Eric Poisson Nathan Lachowsky Beverley Hale Heather Pollock 1. Welcome and Approval of the Agenda a) Approval of the Agenda On motion duly moved and seconded, it was RESOLVED, That the May 31, 2010 agenda be approved, as presented. Minutes of May 31, 2010 [Motion] Page 5 of 161 May 31, 2010 Senate Minutes 2. Approval of the Minutes a) Minutes of March 29, 2010 On motion duly moved and seconded, it was RESOLVED, That the minutes of March 29, 2010 meeting be approved. b) Business Arising The 2010-11 University budget and the 2010-11 Integrated Plan, presented and discussed at Senate on March 29, 2010, were approved by the Board of Governors on April 14, 2010. 3. Remarks from the Chair The Chair welcomed Senators to the last meeting for the 2009-10 session, and thanked all for their service to Senate over the past year. In particular, he extended appreciation to those members who have completed their term or who are retiring and not returning. As well, he acknowledged the leadership of the Chairs of the Senate Committees, particularly Professor Nonita Yap, who chaired the Research Board for the past two years and is now retiring from Senate, and Ms Erin Preiss, Chair of Senate Honours and Awards, who is finishing up her term as a student Senator. He also noted that this is the last Senate meeting for Dean Alun Joseph of the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences who will retire next month. On behalf of Senate and the entire University community, President Summerlee thanked Dean Joseph for his service to Senate and the University of Guelph. With regret, President Summerlee reported the following news: Condolences were extended to the family and colleagues of Virginia Gray, former director of the Office of Open Learning. Ms Gray’s career spanned 38 years during which time she served terms on the Board of Governors, Senate, the Board of Undergraduate Studies, the Senate International Committee, the Senate Committee on Open Learning and the Access for Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee. She was a former chair of the University’s United Way campaign and in 2006 she was awarded the Guelph YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction lifetime achievement award in education and training. She was an honorary member of the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education and the Ontario Council for University Lifelong Learning, and Senate elected her an Honorary Fellow of the University of Guelph in 2008. She is survived by her husband, Professor Christopher Gray, Department of Physics. Condolences are also expressed to the family of Professor Mieso Denko, of Department of Computing and Information Science. Professor Denko joined the University of Guelph faculty in 2002, teaching in the distributed computing program at Guelph-Humber. He received the Professor of the Year Award from the Guelph-Humber Student Association in 2006. Minutes of May 31, 2010 [Motion] Page 6 of 161 May 31, 2010 Senate Minutes Congratulations were offered to the following faculty, staff and students on recent achievements: - Professor Steven Liss, Associate Vice President (Research Services) has been appointed Vice Principal (Research) at Queen's University. - University of Guelph chief librarian Mike Ridley has been named the 2010 Miles Blackwell Outstanding Academic Librarian by the Canadian Library Association and the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries. - Professor Sujeevan Ratnasingham, informatics director with the university’s Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), has been awarded the 2010 Ebbe Nielsen Prize from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), a multilateral initiative that enables free and open access to biodiversity data online. - Two University of Guelph students have won the 2010 Alltech Young Scientist Award competition for their animal science research. Undergraduate student Lee-Anne Huber and graduate student Michael Steele were chosen from among 5,000 competitors worldwide. - Three faculty members from the College of Arts have received significant international honours for their scholarly work in recent weeks: o History professor Catherine Carstairs has been awarded a Fulbright Traditional Scholar Award; philosophy professor Peter Eardley a Humboldt Fellowship; and Professor Anne Milne of the School of English and Theatre Studies, has received a prestigious six-month fellowship in Munich, Germany which draws leading academics from all over the world to work on the complex relationship between nature and culture across disciplines. Capital Campaign – The Capital Campaign has been in planning since 2005 and will be the largest such fund-raising campaign in the history of the university. Fund-raising and development goals have been formulated to be in line with the strategic goals and directions of the University. It is anticipated that the campaign will be formally launched at the Community Breakfast in September. Convocation - The President encouraged all Senators to attend June convocation which will be held June 15 and 16th on the Guelph campus, and in Toronto on June 21st for Guelph-Humber.