Who sits on the Strategic Planning Task Force?

 

Terms of reference for the Task Force were approved by the Senate and Board of Governors in June 2005, which included membership composition.

Task Force members include:

  1. President & Vice-Chancellor, as Chair (Paul Davenport)
  2. Provost & Vice-President, Academic (Fred Longstaffe)
  3. Four members elected by the Board of Governors (Helen Connell, Halfdan Kelly, John Nash, Michele Noble)
  4. Seven members elected by Senate, one of whom must be an undergraduate and one a graduate student (Sandy Clark, undergraduate student; Elan Paulson, graduate student; Samantha Brennan, Arts & Humanities – Philosophy; Chris Ellis, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry – Medical Biophysics; Brock Fenton, Science – Biology; Joyce Garnett, University Librarian; Julie McMullin, Social Science – Sociology)
  5. One member named by UWOFA (Michael Bartlett, Engineering)
  6. One member named by the Unity Group from among the staff groups (David Empey, UWOSA)
  7. One member named by Western’s Alumni Association (Jim Etherington)
  8. One member named by the Principals of the three Affiliated University Colleges (Theresa Topic, Brescia University College)
  9. One member named by the University Students’ Council (Shane Gonsalves, VP Education)
  10. One graduate student named by the Society of Graduate Students (Patti Dalton, SOGS President)
  11. Two members named by the President and Vice-Chancellor, one of whom will be a member of the administrative staff (Peggy Wakabayashi, Housing; John Doerksen, Music)

Resource staff include:

  1. Vice-President, Administration (Gitta Kulczycki)
  2. Vice-President, Research & International Relations (Ted Hewitt)
  3. Vice-President, External (Ted Garrard)
  4. Vice-Provosts and Associate Vice-Presidents, as required by the Task Force
  5. Special Advisor to the President (Marty England) and the Executive Assistant to the President (Dalin Jameson) and the Provost will provide direct support to the Task Force