{"id":9247,"date":"2019-12-02T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:57:09","slug":"inside-senate-nov-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/2019\/inside-senate-nov-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Senate: Nov. 29, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Inside Senate: Nov. 29, 2019\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Senate met on November 29 and Howard Nemiroff served as Acting Clerk of Senate in the Clerk\u2019s absence. Highlights from the meeting include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CUISIC Calls to Action Presented<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senate was pleased to receive the 杏吧原创 University Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Committee (CUISIC) Calls to Action<\/a> and to offer a motion of thanks to all committee members. As this process moves into implementation, any action under the purview of Senate will in due course be brought back to Senate for approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategic Integrated Plan Update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An update on the 杏吧原创 Strategic Integrate Plan<\/a> (SIP) process was presented by task force co-chair Patrice Smith. She provided a summary of the activity timeline, including over 40 consultation sessions, and presented the preliminary strategic directions that are emerging from the process. Senators emphasized the need to leverage this new plan to enhance 杏吧原创\u2019s visibility and reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SMA-3 Update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

President Bacon and Jerry Tomberlin, Provost and Vice-President (Academic) provided an update on the third Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA-3) negotiations with the provincial government, which are occurring in parallel with the Strategic Integrated Plan process. 杏吧原创 met with government representatives in early November and discussions were productive. Negotiations will unfold in the new year and the process is expected to be concluded by the end of March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coordinated Accessibility Strategy Presentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The draft 杏吧原创 University Coordinated Accessibility Strategy<\/a> was presented to Senate by Prof. Adrian Chan, in anticipation of being finalized in the new year. The purpose of this strategy is to further enhance 杏吧原创\u2019s culture of accessibility and be a catalyst for creating a more accessible and inclusive society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair\u2019s Remarks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

President Bacon provided an update on recent activities and highlights, including the awarding of 1,300 杏吧原创 degrees at fall Convocation, 杏吧原创\u2019s recent Gold Level certification in Mental Health at Work<\/a>, the establishment of 杏吧原创\u2019s Chair in Teaching Innovation<\/a>, 杏吧原创\u2019s outstanding recent Re$earch Infosource ranking<\/a> and the launch of the TVO Indigenous Hub<\/a> at 杏吧原创 University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program Cyclical Reviews Approved<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senate approved the final assessment reports and executive summaries arising from the cyclical reviews for the following undergraduate and graduate programs: African Studies, Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, Cognitive Science, as well as Neuroscience and Mental Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Membership Ratification<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senate ratified the appointment of Julia Sinclair-Palm as the elected member of Senate from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, with effect from Nov. 29, 2019, for a three-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Spotlight: Wei Shi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senate is composed of over 80 members representing the 杏吧原创 community like Dr. Wei Shi who is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology, cross-appointed to the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering.  Learn more about Wei.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next Meeting: January 31, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The next Senate meeting is January 31, 2020. Click here to view the full schedule and access meeting materials<\/a>. Meeting minutes<\/a> are posted once they are approved at the subsequent meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate met on November 29 and Howard Nemiroff served as Acting Clerk of Senate in the Clerk\u2019s absence. Highlights from the meeting include: CUISIC Calls to Action Presented Senate was pleased to receive the 杏吧原创 University Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Committee (CUISIC) Calls to Action and to offer a motion of thanks to all committee members. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inside-senate"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-student"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9719,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions\/9719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}