Standing committee duties shall be defined by Council from time to time. Standing committees will report at least annually to Council.
The Standing Committees of Council and their mandates are listed below.
Mandate: The Executive and Planning Committee shall make informed recommendations to Council on long-range academic planning and comprehensive policies for the Faculty. It will serve as Council’s Nominating Committee and as Council’s summer authority (as specified in article 6) following Senate practice, and act on behalf of the Council from the last meeting of Council in the spring to the first meeting of Council in the fall.
Mandate: The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee shall review and recommend to Council approval or other appropriate action in relation to the Faculty’s regulations and practices as required relating to degree requirements for all years of study and all undergraduate programs and Faculty-level legislation including:
- New or changes to certificates
- New or changes to programs of study, and
- Other matters relating to academic policy and planning
The Committee shall receive and review quality assurance, cyclical program, and other reviews; review and act on behalf of Council with regard to proposals for new or changes in requirements of existing programs and certificates, courses and programs at all levels including content and patterns of study. The Curriculum Committee will receive undergraduate curricular submissions from the schools and department, and will report to Council on these matters according to Senate reporting requirements. It will forward proposals to Senate as appropriate, and report such actions to Council for information.
The Committee will review and report as appropriate to Council on the academic implications of the undergraduate curriculum policy of all units responsible for instruction, that is, schools, departments, undergraduate programs, and of the Faculty as a whole. Reports provided to this committee may be subject to redaction for the purpose of removing personal, confidential and/or identifying information. It will collaborate with the Committee on Examinations and Academic Standards on issues of joint concern.
Mandate: The Committee on Examinations and Academic Standards shall oversee academic policy, academic standards and policies and practices related to examinations. It will monitor and provide Faculty-level academic oversight of grades exercises undertaken by academic units. It will recommend to Council policy on student honours, awards, scholarships and bursaries.
The Committee shall conduct hearings and make decisions in cases of breach of the Senate Policy on Academic Honesty.
Each Council standing committee shall have the authority to delegate business to sub-committees but such sub-committees will report to the parent committee. A sub-committee does not need to have any of its membership from the elected members of the Council standing committee.
Mandate: The Sub-committee of Committee on Examinations and Academic Standards shall help adjudicate panel hearings. Academic honesty requires that persons do not falsely claim credit for the ideas, writing or other intellectual property of others, either by presenting such works as their own or through impersonation. Similarly, academic honesty requires that persons do not cheat (attempt to gain an improper advantage in an academic evaluation), nor attempt or actually alter, suppress, falsify or fabricate any research data or results, official academic record, application or document. Finally, academic honesty requires that persons do not aid or abet others to commit an offence of academic dishonesty, including intentional acts to disrupt academic activities.
Mandate: The Committee on Research and Awards shall make recommendations and provide advice to Council on policy matters related to research and creative scholarship. It will promote and celebrate research and creative scholarship at the Faculty level. It will adjudicate Faculty level competitions and programs and adjudicate student research awards as applicable.
Mandate: The Petitions Committee shall receive and act upon student academic petitions and make recommendations on policy matters and procedures relating to student academic petitions. The Committee meets in panels for consideration of petitions and appeals against previous committee decisions.
Mandate: The Committee on Tenure and Promotions makes recommendations, as required, on Faculty and University policy concerning tenure and promotions. It liaises with the Senate Committee on Tenure and Promotions to confirm the list of tenure and/or promotion candidates scheduled for consideration, ensures that timelines are maintained and makes regular reports to Council on the disposition of files by category.
The Faculty Committee on Tenure and Promotions, when augmented by two members from the Senate Committee on Tenure and Promotions, acts as a Review Committee and is constituted as a sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Tenure and Promotions. Acting as a review committee, it will evaluate the recommendations of School/Department Adjudicating Committees to ensure that procedures set out have been followed and that the criteria used in the evaluation of files have been applied fairly and in accordance with University criteria. When the committee determines that the procedures have been followed in all material respects, that the appropriate criteria have been fairly applied and that the judgment of the Adjudicating Committee concerning application of University criteria is correct, it will concur in the judgment and forward the file to the President. When the committee determines that procedures have not been followed and/or that the appropriate criteria have not been fairly applied, it shall send the file back to the Adjudicating Committee and require that proper procedures be followed and the file be reconsidered with the criteria fairly applied.
Mandate: The Graduate Committee shall review and recommend to Council approval or other appropriate action relating to degree requirements for all years of study and all graduate programs:
- New or changes to diplomas
- Proposals for new, deleted or changed Graduate Program
- New course proposals, revised and deleted courses
- Revised program, degree or Faculty regulations
- Other matters relating to graduate policy and planning
The Committee shall receive and review quality assurance, cyclical program, and other reviews.
The Graduate Committee will receive graduate curricular submissions from the programs and will report to Council on these matters according to Senate reporting requirements. It will forward proposals to Senate as appropriate and report such actions to Council for information. It will collaborate with the Faculty of Graduate Studies on issues of joint concern.
The Committee will promote and celebrate graduate research and creative scholarship at the Faculty level. It will adjudicate Faculty level graduate competitions and awards as applicable.
Mandate: The Faculty of Health Teaching Awards Committee (TAC) will review the nominations for Teaching and Educational Leadership, Pedagogical and/or Curricular Innovation awards and will make recommendations to the Dean, who will make the final decisions on the recipients.
The Committee shall be responsible for:
- Assessing and ranking nominated candidates and making recommendations to the Dean for the awards.
- Recommending changes to the Dean where necessary to award criteria and nomination procedure.
- Advising the Dean on award procedures and coordinating with other bodies as necessary.
Mandate: To provide oversight on any academic activities (e.g. policies, procedures, practices, programs) under the purview of the Faculty of Health Council to identify any barriers to enabling full participation in aspects of campus life including research, teaching, learning, and working.
- To conduct initially, and to maintain on a regular basis, an up-to-date inventory of current DEDI-related policies, plans and initiatives throughout the Faculty, including the Schools and Colleges within the Faculty and, to the extent practicable, across the institution. To undertake data collection and surveys to ensure the inventory is maintained.
- To report regularly to Council on the committee’s activities and to engage with the Associate Dean’s Caucus on DEDI.
- To work with other Council committees to review and make changes where necessary on aspects of their mandates that relate to equity.
- To review, recommend and advise on DEDI-related policies, programs, operations, practices, procedures, events, and other interventions developed within Faculty of Health, its Council and its committees.