Senate Agenda - January 18, 2002 - EXHIBIT I, Appendix 3
Composition and Rules of Procedure
PROPOSED
1. The Faculty of Arts shall consist of the following departments: Classical Studies, English, French, Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, and Visual Arts.
Admission of other departments to the Faculty of Arts will require the following steps:
(i) application of the department concerned to the Senate.
(ii) approval of this application by the Senate, after consultation with the Faculty of Arts and any other
Faculty concerned.
2. The Head of the Faculty of Arts shall be the Dean of Arts who shall be assisted by one or more Associate Deans. Appointments to these positions shall be made in accordance with current University policy.
3. Student enrolment in the Faculty of Arts shall consist of all first year students of the University who
select three or more courses offered by the Faculty of Arts, students in Honors Programs in departments
of the Faculty of Arts, all General BA students who select Majors offered by departments within the
Faculty of Arts, and any students who, in the opinion of Senate, have academic needs which would best
be met by enrolment in the Faculty of Arts.
3. There shall be a Council of the Faculty of Arts, responsible to the Senate and composed of:
(A) The following ex officio members:
(i) The President & Vice-Chancellor.
(ii) Such Vice-Presidents of the University as Senate may determine. The Provost & Vice-President
(Academic)
(iii) The Dean (who shall be Chair of the Council) and Associate Deans of the Faculty of Arts.
(iv) The Dean (or an Associate Dean) of the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
(v) The Director of the Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research
(vi) The Director of the Centre for Theory and Criticism
(vii) The Director of Writing
(viii) The Director, The D.B. Weldon Library
( ) The Academic Deans of the Affiliated Colleges, non-voting.
( ) Such other ex officio members as the Senate may determine.
(B) The following faculty members from Arts:
(i) All full-time members of the departments of the Faculty of Arts who hold the rank of Lecturer or
higher.
(i) All full-time (probationary, tenured, and limited-term) members of the departments of the
Faculty of Arts (except those on unpaid Leave of Absence).
(ii) All part-time and visiting members of the departments of the Faculty of Arts who hold the rank of
Assistant Professor or higher.
(ii) All full-time faculty members of the University holding joint appointments with the departments
in the Faculty of Arts.
(iii) All full-time members of the Faculty of the University holding joint appointments with the
departments in the Faculty of Arts.
(iii) Up to 12 part-time faculty members, two elected by each department.
(iv) The following representatives holding the rank of Lecturer or higher:
3 from the Faculty of Social Science
3 from the Faculty of Science
1 from the Faculty of Music
1 from each of the Affiliated Colleges and the Faculty of Education
1 each from the Richard Ivey School of Business, the Health Sciences, the Faculty of Law, and the
Faculty of Engineering Science
(v) 6 students registered in the Faculty of Arts to be selected by the student body.
(vi) 1 member of the Regular Full-Time administrative staff of the Faculty of Arts, elected thereby
(vii) Such other members as the Senate may determine.
(C) The following other members:
(i) Representatives holding the rank of Assistant Professor higher:
2 each from the Faculties of Social Science and Science
1 each from the Faculties of Education, Health Sciences, Law, Music, Information and Media
Studies, Medicine & Dentistry
1 each from the Affiliated Colleges
(ii) Up to 6 students registered in the Faculty of Arts to be selected by the Arts Students Council
(iii) 1 member of the regular full-time administrative staff of the Faculty of Arts, elected thereby.
4. Members of the above categories, unless otherwise specified, shall be entitled to participate fully in
meetings of the Council, i.e., to speak, to propose motions, to vote on all questions and sit on
Committees elected at Council meetings. The Council shall elect from among its members each year
a Speaker whose job it will be to preside over meetings of Council that year.
5. The Council shall meet at least twice each year and at such other times as the Council, the Chair
Dean, or the Senate may prescribe. A minimum of twenty-five percent (25%) of the members of the
Council, including at least 25% of those members of Council who are from the Faculty of Arts, shall
constitute a quorum.
6. A special meeting of the Council shall be called on the written notice of ten (10) of its members, and
shall be convened within seven (7) fourteen (14) days thereafter, to consider matters set out in the notice
of the meeting.
7. The Council shall advise the Senate on all matters under the jurisdiction of the Senate which pertain to the Faculty of Arts or which are referred to the Council by the Senate, and shall determine policy on all such matters if so delegated by the Senate.
8. The Council shall establish such Committees to exercise its powers and to advise it, as it considers
necessary. The Council may delegate authority to its Committees but these shall be responsible to the
Council.
10. The Standing Committees of the Faculty of Arts shall be such Committees as the Faculty or the
Senate may, from time to time, determine.
9. The by-laws and regulations for the conduct of the proceedings of Council shall, where practicable, be those adopted by the Senate.
10. This document may be amended by the Senate on recommendation by majority of the voting members of the Council in attendance at a regularly constituted meeting prior to which there has been at least seven (7) days' written notice of the proposed amendment.