SENATE MEETING AGENDA TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020 SENATE MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Via ZOOM Video Conferencing 5:00 p.m. Senate Meeting starts 1. Call to Order/Establishment of Quorum 2. Land Acknowledgement "Toronto is in the 'Dish With One Spoon Territory’. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect." 3. Approval of the Agenda Motion: That Senate approve the agenda for the April 7th, 2020 meeting. 4. Announcements Pages 1-15 5. Minutes of the Previous Meeting Motion: That Senate approve the minutes of the March 3rd, 2020 meeting. 6. Matters Arising from the Minutes 7. Correspondence 8. Reports Pages 16-23 8.1 Report of the President 8.1.1 President’s Update __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 24-25 8.2 Communications Report __________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 26-27 8.3 Report of the Secretary 8.3.1 Senate Elections Update __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 28-61 8.4 Committee Reports 8.4.1 Report #W2020-3 of the Academic Standards Committee (ASC): K. MacKay __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 28-35 8.4.1.1. Periodic Program Review for the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Degree Program – Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science Motion: That Senate approve the Periodic Program Review for the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Degree Program - Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 35-41 8.4.1.2. Periodic Program Review for the International Economics and Finance Program, Department of Economics - Faculty of Arts Motion: That Senate approve the Periodic Program Review for the International Economics and Finance Program, Department of Economics – Faculty of Arts. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 42-48 8.4.1.3. Universities of Canada - Egypt Partnership Proposal – Faculty of Communication and Design Motion: That Senate approve the Universities of Canada- Egypt Partnership Proposal – Faculty of Communication and Design. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 48-51 8.4.1.4. Certificate review for Advanced Nursing Leadership and Management – Chang School Motion: That Senate approve the certificate review for Advanced Nursing Leadership and Management – Chang School. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 51-54 8.4.1.5. Certificate modifications to Advanced Nursing Leadership and Management – Chang School Motion: That Senate approve the certificate modifications to Advanced Nursing Leadership and Management – Chang School. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 54-56 8.4.1.6. New Certificate in Introduction to Community Services – Chang School Motion: That Senate approve the new Certificate in Introduction to Community Services – Chang School. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 56-61 8.4.1.7. New Certificate in Practical Data Science and Machine Learning – Chang School Motion: That Senate approve the new Certificate in Practical Data Science and Machine Learning – Chang School. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 61 8.4.1.8. For information: G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education Certificate Revisions i. Certificate in Data Analytics, Big Data and Predictive Analytics: Required course deletions; course additions; changes in prerequisites ii. Certificate in Disaster and Emergency Management: Certificate title change iii. Certificates in Public Administration and Governance, Levels 1 and 2: Certificate title changes iv. Certificate in Disaster and Emergency Management: Course title change v. Certificate in English Literature and Popular Culture: Course addition and deletions (electives) __________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 62 8.4.2 Report #W2020-3 of the Academic Governance and Policy Committee (AGPC): M. Benarroch __________________________________________________________________________________________ 8.4.2.1. Provost’s Update __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 63-68 8.4.3 Report #W2020-1 of the Senate Priorities Committee (SPC): M. Lachemi __________________________________________________________________________________________ 8.4.3.1. Endorse the action taken on March 24, 2020 by Senate Priorities Committee (SPC), to amend Policy 46 to create CRD and NCR grades in order to address the concerns of students regarding the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on their grades and future prospects Motion: That Senate hereby endorses the action taken on March 24, 2020 by Senate Priorities Committee (SPC), to amend Policy 46 to create CRD and NCR grades in order to address the concerns of students regarding the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on their grades and future prospects. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pages 65-68 8.4.3.2. Proposed academic structure of a potential agreement with Navitas regarding the recruitment and academic preparation of international students for direct admission into the second-year of participating programs at Ryerson. Motion: That Senate approves the proposed academic structure of a potential agreement with Navitas regarding the recruitment and academic preparation of international students for direct admission into the second-year of participating programs at Ryerson. __________________________________________________________________________________________ 8.4.3.3. Grant Senate Priorities Committee (SPC) temporary emergency powers beyond those in Senate Bylaw #1 to address on behalf of Senate emergency academic issues that arise and cannot, without risk of harm to students or faculty, wait until the next scheduled Senate meeting to be addressed. These are special emergency powers only. Any actions so taken must be reported to Senate as soon as possible, including full descriptions of the nature of the emergency and the rationale for the actions taken. These powers will be in effect until either rescinded by Senate or superseded by an amendment to Senate Bylaw#1. Motion: Given the unprecedented adaptations forced upon the University by the current pandemic, that Senate hereby grants Senate Priorities Committee (SPC) temporary emergency powers beyond those in Senate Bylaw #1 to address on behalf of Senate emergency academic issues that arise and cannot, without risk of harm to students or faculty, wait until the next scheduled Senate meeting to be addressed. These are special emergency powers only. Any actions so taken must be reported to Senate as soon as possible, including full descriptions of the nature of the emergency and the rationale for the actions taken. These powers will be in effect until either rescinded by Senate or superseded by an amendment to Senate Bylaw#1. __________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Old Business 10. New Business as Circulated 11. Members’ Business 12. Consent Agenda 13. Adjournment Senate Meeting Agenda - April 7, 2020 Page 1 of 68 SENATE MINUTES OF MEETING Tuesday, March 3, 2020 MEMBERS PRESENT: EX-OFFICIO: FACULTY: STUDENTS: L. Barnoff R. Adams M. Arif M. Benarroch R. Babin S. Donato-Woodger D. Brown S. Benvie H. Elsayed D. Cramb A. Bailey M. Moghaddas G. Craney C. Bradish K. Nguyen T. Duever D. Checkland K. Park C. Falzon K. Dermody V. Prevost C. Hack M. Dionne D. Salman G. Hepburn A. El-Rabbany J. Spagnuolo M. Lachemi A. Ferworn S. Liss N. George K. MacKay R. Hudyma J. McMillen E. Ignagni I. Mishkel A. McWilliams D. O’Neil Green A. Miransky C. Searcy J. Neil C. Shepstone H. Rollwagen EX-OFFICIO STUDENTS: P. Sugiman M. Tiesse N. Brayiannis D. Taras J. Tiessen D. Young M. Vahabi SENATE ASSOCIATES: ALUMNI: A. M. Brinsmead N. Di Cuia J. Dallaire M. Zouri REGRETS: ABSENT: D. Androutsos D. Bitondo T. Burke Z. Bokhari R. Kucheran M. Green L. Lavallée O. Karp R. Noble J. Kewal S. Rattan K. Kumar S. Sabatinos R. Meldrum S. Rakhmayil P. Moore M. Tiessen H. Shahid N. Walton A. Yazdani S. Zolfaghari Senate Meeting Agenda - April 7, 2020 Page 2 of 68 COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE DISCUSSION: INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT OPPORTUNITIES A. McWilliams chaired the Committee of the Whole segment on International Recruitment Opportunities. G. Craney led the topic of discussion. The Ryerson Internationalization Strategy was approved in October 2019, setting a goal for Ryerson to become a leading city-facing innovation university with a global reach, and to establish Ryerson within the top 200 internationally-ranked universities by 2030, gaining top 50 ranking for at least 15 Ryerson academic programs. We are looking at a series of items we would like to focus