Responsibilities

Terms of Reference

The Planning and Priorities Committee of University Council is responsible for:

  1. Recommending and reporting to Council on university wide planning and priorities initiatives and review activities in consultation with the President and Senior Administration.
  2. Undertaking the review and recommending to Council on:
    1. Academic plans & priorities for the university including teaching, learning and research, scholarly and artistic works.
    2. Community engagement plans & priorities.
    3. Matters referred to it from other committees.
    4. Establishment and disestablishment (including through amalgamation or separation) of any college, school, department, or any unit responsible for the administration of an academic program, with the advice of relevant committees of Council.
    5. Establishment and disestablishment (including through amalgamation or separation) or review of any institute or centre at the university.
    6. Affiliation or federation with other educational institutions, or dissolution of such arrangements, in consultation with relevant committees of Council.
  3. Review the physical and budgetary plans for the university and make recommendations respecting those matters to the President or Board, such as:
    1. Main elements of the comprehensive budget.
    2. Budgetary implications of government funding requests.
    3. Operating and capital budgetary matters, including infrastructure and space allocation issues.
    4. Administrative structural changes and reorganizations.
  4. Designating individuals to act as representatives of the Committee on any other bodies, when requested, where such representation is deemed by the Committee to be beneficial.
  5. Balancing academic and fiscal concerns in forming its recommendations.
  6. Proactively supporting equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging as well as a commitment to transformative decolonization leading to reconciliation in all processes and matters coming before the Committee.

Members

Membership

  • Eleven members of the General Academic Assembly, at least six of whom will be elected members of Council, normally one of whom will be Chair. At least one member from the General Academic Assembly with some expertise in financial analysis will be nominated.
  • One Dean appointed by Council
  • One undergraduate student appointed by the USSU
  • One graduate student appointed by the GSA
  • One Sessional Lecturer*

Ex Officio Members

  • Provost and Vice-President, Academic or designate
  • Vice-President, Administration and Chief Operating Officer or designate
  • Vice-President, Research or designate
  • Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement or designate
  • Chief Financial Officer, Office of the President (non-voting member)
  • President (non-voting member)
  • Chair of Council (non-voting member)

Resource Officers (Non-voting members)

  • Resource Officers are to be identified at the end of each academic cycle for the following year (May committee meetings) by the Committee, and in consultation with the Governance Office.

Committee Coordination

  • Governance Office
*If there is no immediate interest in the Sessional Lecturer position, it will remain vacant.

Meeting Schedule

2023-2024 Meeting Schedule:

Meetings are held 9:30am-Noon

  • September 13, 2023
  • September 27, 2023
  • October 11, 2023
  • October 25, 2023
  • November 22, 2023
  • December 6, 2023
  • January 17, 2024
  • January 31, 2024
  • February 14, 2024
  • March 6, 2024
  • March 20, 2024
  • April 3, 2024
  • April 17, 2024
  • May 1, 2024
  • May 15, 2024
  • May 29, 2024
  • June 12, 2024

2024-2025 Tentative Meeting Plan:

  • Every second Wednesday morning from 9:30am-Noon

Centres Subcommittee

Terms of reference

(from Section 11, Policy on Centres, as approved by the Board of Governors December 2020)

The mandate of the PPC Standing Subcommittee on Centres is:

  1. To facilitate the creation of new centres
  2. To monitor adherence to the Centres Policy
  3. To develop and review the Centres Policy and Guidelines
  4. To oversee the establishment and disestablishment of centres
  5. To maintain a list of active centres
  6. To report on and bring recommendations on these issues to PPC

Membership on this subcommittee will be drawn from the Academic Programs (1), Planning and Priorities (2) and Research, Scholarly and Artistic Works (1) Committees of Council, the offices of the provost, vice-president administration, and vice-president research, centre directors, and will be supported by the Governance Office.

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