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Senate Nominating Committee

Composition (see Terms of Reference)

Current Membership

President and Executive Vice-Chancellor,ÌýChair, ex officio

ProfessorÌýDeep Saini

Provost and Vice-President (Academic), ex officio

ProfessorÌýChristopher Manfredi

Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, ex officio

Professor Josephine Nalbantoglu

Associate Vice-President (Macdonald Campus), ex officio

Professor Petra Rohrbach (acting)

Dean of Medicine and Health Sciences

Professor Lesley Fellows

Dean of Science

Professor Bruce Lennox

Dean of Arts

Professor Lisa Shapiro

Dean of Education

Professor Vivek Venkatesh

Dean of Music

Professor Sean Ferguson

TenÌýmembers from among the elected academic or administrative and support staff members of Senate

Margaret Levey (CONTINUING STUDIES) - 2025

ProfessorÌýNate Quitoriano (Materials Engineering, ENGINEERING) - 2025

ProfessorÌýJuliet Johnson (Political Science, ARTS) - 2025

Bonnie Borenstein (GROUP 1) - 2025

ProfessorÌýEleanor Elstein (Medicine, FMHS) - 2026

ProfessorÌýDavid Stephens (Mathematics and Statistics, SCIENCE) - 2026

ProfessorÌýJosée Bonneau (Ingram School of Nursing, FMHS) - 2026

Cheryl SmeallÌý(GROUP 2) - 2026

Svetlana Kochkina (LIBRARIES) - 2026

Professor Manuel Balàn (ARTS) - 2027

One Undergraduate Student

Abe Berglas (Arts)

One Graduate Student

Racchana RamamurthyÌý

Secretary

Edyta Rogowska, Secretary-General

Terms of Reference

The Senate Nominating Committee is a Standing Committee of Senate charged with recommending to Senate committee membership and committee terms of reference.

Specific Areas of Responsibility

The Committee shall:

  1. Review the terms of reference of all Senate committees and recommend revisions, the dissolution, or creation of new committees;
  2. Review and recommend to Senate the membership of all its committees;
  3. Recommend to Senate its representatives on all other University committees requiring such representation;
  4. Receive and recommend for approval the creation of special committees charged with specific consideration of issues under Senate’s mandate. Such committees shall have a specific mandate and deadline for providing recommendations to Senate and shall not be Standing Committees of Senate;
  5. Meet at least three times per semester in the academic year.

Composition

  • President and Vice-Chancellor (Chair), ex officio
  • Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic), ex officio
  • The Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, ex officio
  • The Associate Vice-President (Macdonald Campus), ex officio
  • Five Deans selected on the recommendation of the Provost
  • Ten members from among the elected academic or administrative and support staff members of Senate, nominated and elected byÌýall members of Senate, other than student members
  • Two student members of Senate (one undergraduate and one graduate), nominated and elected by student members of Senate
  • Committee Secretary (Secretary General)

Source:

Senate Minute 11, September 30, 1987
Amendments: Senate Minute 10, September 25, 1991
Senate Minute 8, September 22, 1993
Senate Minute 120, May 15, 1996
Senate Minute 6, May 21, 1997
Senate Minute 6, November 10, 1999
Senate Minute 12, March 13, 2002
Senate Minute IIB4.2, May 20, 2009
Senate Minute IIB 6.12, May 15, 2013
Senate Minute IIB5, November 20, 2013

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