Terms of Reference

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.

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.

Voting Members

Name Nature of Appointment College or Unit Term on Committee
Christian Willenborg (Chair) University Council Agriculture and Bioresources July 1, 2023-June 30, 2026
Claire Card University Council WCVM July 1, 2023-June 30, 2026
Rainer Dick University Council Arts and Science July 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
Jay Kalra University Council Medicine July 1, 2023-June 30, 2026
Angela Lieverse (Vice-Chair) University Council Arts and Science July 1, 2024-June 30, 2027
Jaswant Singh University Council WCVM July 1, 2024-June 30, 2027
Kerry Mansell GAA Pharmacy and Nutrition September 26, 2024-June 30, 2027
Alexey Shevyakov GAA Arts and Science September 26, 2024-June 30, 2027
Volker Gerdts GAA WCVM/VIDO July 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
Tim Hutchinson GAA Library July 1, 2022-June 30, 2025
Venkatesh Meda GAA Engineering July 1, 2024-June 30, 2027
Brooke Milne Dean Arts and Science July 1, 2024-June 30, 2027
Kyle White Sessional Lecturer    September 26- June 30, 2025
Airini ex officio Provost and Vice-President Academic
Terry Fonstad ex officio Designate for VP Research
Greg Fowler ex officio Vice-President, Administration & Chief Operating Officer
Angela Jaime ex officio Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement
Lindsay Gray Carlson Student appointee GSA (VP Finance & Operations) April 30, 2025
Moses Ahiabu Student appointee USSU (VP Operations & Finance) April 30, 2025


Non-Voting Members

Name Nature of Appointment College or Unit
Vicki Squires ex officio University Council Chair
Dee Henne ex officio Chief Financial Officer


Committee Support
Danielle Rudulier

Meeting Quorum
40% of voting members with at least five members of the GAA as appointed by Council (University Council members are part of the GAA)

Meeting Schedule

Meetings take place Wednesdays, 9:30-12:00pm

  • September 18, 2024
  • October 2, 2024
  • October 16, 2024
  • October 30, 2024
  • November 27, 2024
  • December 11, 2024
  • January 15, 2025
  • January 29, 2025
  • February 12, 2025
  • March 5, 2025
  • March 19, 2025
  • April 2, 2025
  • April 16, 2025
  • April 30, 2025
  • May 14, 2025
  • May 28, 2025
  • June 11, 2025

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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