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October 24, 2025

Senate approved:

  • Minutes of September 26, 2025
  • Revisions to Senate Award for Service in University Governance
  • A slate of nominees for Senate committee vacancies and revised start date for one elected member
  • Ratification of Chair for the Student Discipline Appeals Committee
  • Revisions to President’s Award for Research Excellence
  • Revisions to Teaching Excellence Awards

Senate received for information:

  • Schedule for External Reviews

November 17, 2025

In addition to the Secretary of Senate posting Items for Communication to the Senate website, she will also be in contact with the Director of Communications who is preparing a campus-wide bulletin.

Senate approved:

  • Senate Executive’s recommendation to suspend Bylaw 6.2.2 regarding notice for this meeting
  • Summary of decisions to address the completion of the fall 2025 term following job action.
    • Motion 1:   In keeping with the principles of fairness and academic integrity, moved that instructors of classes that were suspended during the labour action be authorized to adjust their Fall 2025 and 2025-2026 full-year course outlines (including deadlines, dates, requirements, methods of evaluation, weighting, and modality of delivery) to reflect revised academic dates, to cover and assess learning outcomes, and to make reasonable efforts to meet the needs of individual students impacted by the Fall 2025 labour action, and that instructors communicate these changes to course outlines to students as soon as possible.
    • Motion 2:  Moved that, in light of teaching days lost to the recent labour action, the approved 2025-2026 academic Calendar dates be amended as follows to reduce the adverse impact on classes, while also preserving instructor discretion about how to complete the term:
      •  Move the scheduled Reading Day on Friday, December 5, to Monday, December 8.
      •  End classes taught by part-time instructors on Saturday, December 6 (instead of Thursday, December 4).
      •  Allow course instructors in classes that were suspended during the labour action an opportunity to make up a missed class on Friday, December 5, or Saturday, December 6, via remote asynchronous activities, if they choose; exceptions can be discussed with your Department Chair.
      •  Change the exam start date to Tuesday, December 9, from Saturday, December 6.
    • Motions 3, 4 & 5 to further amend academic Calendar dates:
      •  Last day to drop a Fall 2025 course with a transcript notation (W) be moved to Saturday, December 6, 2025.
      • Last day to drop a full-year course without transcript notation (W) be moved from Thursday, October 30, to Saturday, December 6, 2025.
      • Last day to report exam conflicts and/or exam accommodations to the Registrar’s Office be moved from November 15, 2025, to November 25, 2025, for the Fall 2025 academic term.
    • Motion 6: Moved that, since strike protocols did not require that students work during the labour disruption, and while instructors are planning for changes to their due dates, Senate requires instructors of courses that were suspended avoid, until students have the opportunity to consult with their instructor at least once either through class time or other means (by appointment, via online office hours), holding midterms or requiring submission of assessments that would require a substantial effort from students (e.g. lab reports and major assignments) or where students require consultation time with instructors before submission.
    •  Motion 7: Moved to allow instructors of suspended courses to schedule tests and examinations worth more than 20 percent of the course grade in the last two weeks of the Fall 2025 term while encouraging responsible pacing of course content, allowing for flexibility and class input where possible, and in line with their pedagogic approaches and respecting the duty to accommodate.
    •  Motion 8:  Reflecting Academic Rights and Responsibilities, moved that students remain responsible for fulfilling requirements in courses that were suspended during the labour action, but that students who are unable to participate in academic instruction during rescheduled classes on December 5 or 6 shall not be penalized for late submission of work and shall be given reasonable alternative provision for completing assignments or other requirements.
    •  Motion 9:  Moved that, in keeping with the spirit of the motions taken by Senate on November 17, changes to condensed courses in the Business and Tourism Department will be addressed separately in consultation with the Dean, Chair and Registrar with course completion to be no later than December 19, 2025.