Senate Planning Committee

Mandate and Functions of the Senate Planning Committee¹

1. The Senate Planning Committee (SPC) will make recommendations to Senate which will attempt to deliver all academic programs within the overall academic budget of $10,600,000 as of July 1, 1997.
2. In its deliberations concerning 1., The SPC is invited to assume that it will be possible to reduce the costs of academic programs through the process of attrition and by reducing or eliminating the use of part-time credits given the collaboration of faculty and its willingness to be innovative and to demonstrate flexibility. The preparation of such a plan will require the SPC to exercise great creativity in order to ensure that academic restructuring yields high-quality academic programs which will permit Bishop’s to attract new students and retain them in numbers large enough to meet our enrolment goals.
3. In considering any academic restructuring, the SPC should, among other considerations, take cognizance of the net revenue contribution of different programs as well as the differential workload between programs.
4. The starting point for the SPC deliberations should be the state of continuing faculty positions as of 1995-96.
5. The SPC should consider changes to all academic programs following full consultation with those concerned.
6. The SPC should meet with members of the departments in open discussion as part of the process of preparing an interim report for presentation to Senate in mid- January of 1997 with a view to providing an interim report to the Executive Committee at its January meeting.

¹ As approved at the 388th meeting of Senate on October 21, 1996.
² As approved at the 429th Senate Meeting held on October 16, 2000.

Composition and Membership of the Senate Planning Committee²

• Vice-Principal Academic and Research
• One faculty member from each Division and School
• One full-time student

Committee Members

Name	Position	Nominated by:	First Term	Second Term
A. Webster	Vice-Principal Academic and Research, Chair	Vice-Principal Academic and Research, Chair
R. Palmer	Faculty (Business)	Senate Nominating	23/24 24/25
A. Aitken	Faculty (Education)	Senate Nominating	23/24 24/25
D. Webster	Faculty (Humanities)	Senate Nominating	23/24 24/25
M. Richardson	Faculty (Natural Sciences)	Senate Nominating	23/24 24/25
J. Carrière	Faculty (Social Sciences)	Senate Nominating	22/23 23/24	24/25 25/26
R. Rise	Full-Time Student	Senate Nominating	24/25