minutes:councilnov315
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- Agenda approved
- Director’s Comments
Congrats to Dan on his teaching award Thanks to all those who helped make it possible
Faculty Hiring Update Short list of the faculty to 20 or so in the next week or two Looking at interviews beginning in January Filling the position quickly thereafter
Bill: Exciting portfolio? Stefan: broad range of applications, some of which are really exciting, others not so much short list of applicants look good
Yang: how many applications? Stefan: 130ish
Grad program assistant update Still being processed in the Dean’s office Stefan: Please encourage the Dean to support the hiring of a new grad assistant Bill: What stage is it at? Stefan: Still getting permission to advertise Upcoming tasks a. curriculum: Charlie has agreed to chair the undergraduate committee They will be moving forward with mobile computing major as well as other housekeeping activities At the graduate level, we will move ahead with the PhD program including updates to dept. regulations about the nuts and bolts of the program Perhaps the development of educational modules in the program [for students who aren’t as "comp sci strong" as others] Yang has agreed to chair the PhD committee
b. new uni initiative: New University Strategic Renewal Initiative New process - initiated out of pres office strategicrenewal.uoguelph.ca news.uoguelph.ca/conversations not connected to PPP or other initiatives Stefan: “we need to be actively engaged in this, and make the case for comp sci” Goal: defining where the uni is 10 years from now Stefan: "we shouldn’t be using this to solve our current resourcing problems" c. socs growth: need to properly resource the growth we’ve already seen, plus the growth that continues to happen, plus the growth we want need more staff and faculty positions need more money for labs and for renewal of machines where will the labs be located? space etc for faculty and students need to push for a new building d. DOE forms: for next fall - will be with us soon anticipated teaching and service for fall 2016 and on happy? sign and return not happy? set up a meeting with Stefan
e. winter 16 updates:
Overload courses available. Let Michael know by Wed PM. CIS2500 CIS3110
TA postings update the requirements for the course you are teaching word requirements with metrics if possible TA allotment will be based on enrolments each student only eligible for 1 14 hour per week per term more jobs will be posted as UTA jobs UTAs and GTAs posted by next week (hopefully) Dan: Is there an issue that the UTA positions won’t be able to be converted back to GTAs later? Stefan: I don’t believe so, since the union is pushing for GTA positions Dan: I thought the Dean could write a letter for exceptions to the rule? Sheryl: There are exceptions. Stefan: We don’t want to make this the standard thing we do. grad program funding: more money coming for grad program funding i. $4500 and $6500 may be increased by a few $1000 ii. uni developing a system to top up students with NSERC grant (to make us competitive) iii. uni actively engaging competitive scholarships wrt to other unis - if student has an offer from somewhere else, the uni will try to match/competitive offer (maybe higher) iv. aboriginal students interested in grad studies - extra funding available all on the horizon at the moment, nothing finalized Stefan: if you have a student that looks good, let me know with ample time and I will start asking about these things for the student. security system updated again all CIS student access will be disabled at the end of the semester all winter CIS students will be added to the system
Charlie: when will this be done? Sheryl: by January 11, the first day of class.
2. Other items
Dan: Lots of info presented today, will we be receiving meeting minutes? Stefan: I’ll work on a solution to that. Bill: I was going to ask the same thing.
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