Senate Committee on Planning
The Senate Committee on Planning considers and recommends to Senate proposals for the creation or disestablishment of programs, faculties, schools, departments, centres and institutes, and major modifications of existing programs. The committee also assists and advises Senate in the formulation of appropriate academic policy.
Meeting dates and deadlines for 2024/25:
| Deadline for agenda items | Meeting Dates |
| August 28, 2024 | September 11, 2024 |
| September 18, 2024 | October 2, 2024 |
| October 23, 2024 | November 6, 2024 |
| November 20, 2024 | December 4, 2024 |
| December 18, 2024 | January 8, 2025 |
| January 22, 2025 | February 5, 2025 |
| February 19, 2025 | March 5, 2025 |
| March 19, 2025 | April 2, 2025 |
| April 23, 2025 | May 7, 2025 |
Click here for the Committee's Terms of Reference
Annual Reports
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
Membership and Composition effective July 1, 2024
Name Faculty or Department Composition
| Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey (Chair) | Associate Vice-President Academic Programs (ex-officio, voting) |
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| Vacancy (term ends June 30, 2027) |
Peter B. Gustavson School of Business | 10 faculty members representing the faculties (at least 2 of whom shall be members of Senate*) (voting) |
| Vacancy (term ends June 30, 2027) |
Education | |
| Pablo Restrepo Gautier (term ends June 30, 2026) |
Humanities | |
| Adam Con (term ends June 30, 2025) |
Fine Arts | |
| Maureen Ryan * (term ends June 30, 2025) |
Human and Social Development | |
| Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (term ends June 30, 2026) |
Social Sciences |
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| Henning Struchtrup * (term ends June 30, 2026) |
Engineering and Computer Science | |
| Geoff Loomer (term ends December 31, 2026) |
Law | |
| Vacancy (term ends June 30, 2027) |
Graduate Studies | |
| Alexandre Brolo (term ends June 30, 2027) |
Science | |
| Vacancy (term ends June 30, 2027) |
Medical Sciences | 2 members representing the divisions (Continuing Studies and Medical Sciences) (voting) |
| Tania Muir (term ends June 30, 2026) |
Continuing Studies | |
| Anthony Ryan (term ends June 30, 2025) |
Student Senator | 2 students (1 undergraduate and 1 graduate); 1 student member of Senate and the other to be nominated by the UVSS or the GSS as appropriate (voting) |
| Vacancy (term ends June 30, 2025) |
GSS representative | |
| Annalee Lepp (term ends June 30, 2025) |
Dean | 1 Dean, other than the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, nominated by the Deans (voting) |
| Robin Hicks |
Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies (ex-officio, voting) |
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| Vacancy |
President or nominee (ex-officio, voting) |
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| Vacancy |
Vice-President Academic Provost's designate (ex-officio, voting) |
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| Vacancy |
Vice-President Research and Innovation or designate (ex-officio, voting) |
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| Wendy Taylor |
Acting Registrar (ex-officio, non-voting) |
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| Andrea Giles | Executive Director, Co-operative Education and Career Services | Executive Director or designate, Co-operative Education and Career Services (ex-officio, non-voting) |
| Ada Saab | Associate University Secretary | University Secretary or designate (ex-officio, non-voting) |
| Sandra Duggan | Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost | Secretary |