Today@Dal

Monday, February 22, 2016
3:00pm ‐ 6:00pm – Please note the adjusted time.

Tupper A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building
Carleton Campus, Halifax

Agenda

1.Approval of Agenda

2. Consent Agenda

2.1 Approval of Draft Minutes of January 11, 2016 Senate Meeting

2.2 Senate Nominating Committee: Nominations for Senate Discipline Committee members

3. Matters Arising from the January 11, 2016 Senate Minutes

4. Chair of Senate’s Report

5. President’s Report

6. Provost’s Report

FOR APPROVAL

7. Senate Nominating Committee: Nomination for Chair of Senate, Term 2016-2019

Presenter: Chris Hartt, Chair, Senate Nominating Committee

8. Senate Academic Programs and Research Committee: New Program Proposal: Master of Science, Psychiatry

Presenters: David Anderson, Dean, Faculty of Medicine

Sherry Stewart, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

9. Senate Planning and Governance Committee: DSU Senate membership reform proposal

Presenter:  John Hutton, DSU Vice President, Academic and External

FOR DISCUSSION

10. Task Force on Misogyny, Sexism and Homophobia in the Faculty of Dentistry – Update #2 on Dentistry Recommendations

Presenters: Tom Boran, Dean, Faculty of Dentistry
Robert Loney, Chair, Department of Dental Clinical Sciences
Debora Matthews, Chair, Next Steps Committee, Dentistry
Ferne Kraglund, Assistant Dean, Student Affairs

11. Senate Learning and Teaching Committee: Draft Academic Schedule Policy

Presenters: Mairead Barry, Acting Registrar and Co-Chair, Academic Schedule Policy Work Group
Mike McAllister, Co-Chair, Academic Schedule Policy Work Group

12. The Budget Advisory Committee Draft Operating Budget Plan, 2016-2017

Presenter: Carolyn Watters, Chair, BAC

13. Report of the Independent Inquiry: Into the Situations of Drs. Gabrielle Horne, Michael Goodyear & Bassam A. Nassar at the Capital District Health Authority & Dalhousie University, January 2016

14. Question Period

15. Other Business