Agenda
Thursday, October 2, 2025
2:30 p.m.
Senate Chamber, N940 Ross Building
This meeting will be held in person. Also, please note Council's new start time.
1. Welcome and Chair’s Remarks
Chair Mike Zryd
2. Orientation
Associate Dean Academic Cheryl van Daalen-Smith
3. Minutes (Previous Meeting, June 5, 2025) (.docx)
4. Business Arising from the Minutes
Report on Academic Planning & Policy Committee summer authority for Faculty Council
For information
Criteria and Procedures for Appointments and Reappointments to Graduate Programs
Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought
5. Dean's Remarks
Dean Alice MacLachlan
6. YU Ethics Review – Introducing the New Online Ethics Review System
Presentation
Guest: Alison Collins, Director, Office of Research Ethics
7. Update to Faculty Regulations: Transfers Across Program Levels
Associate Director, Graduate Academic Affairs Wes Moir
For discussion
Motion (.docx)
8. Reports from Faculty of Graduate Studies' Representatives to Senate Committees
Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, Senate Academic Standards, Curriculum & Pedagogy Committee
Anne MacLennan, Senate Academic Policy, Planning and Research Committee
Naomi Couto, Senate Executive Committee
9. Senate Synopses
For information
Summaries of the Senate meetings of February 27, March 27, April 17 (agenda) April 24, May 22, and June 26, 2025 (URL/pdf)