Responsibilities

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.