/ FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT COUNCIL
MEETING MINUTES
November17, 2015

ATTENDANCE

Peter Briscoe / Attending / Chris Jaeger / Attending / Dylan Pisto / Attending
Brock Dykeman / Regrets / Maggie James (recording) / Attending / Daniel Simons / Attending
Daniel Gardiner / Regrets / Keith Jensen / Attending / William Troost / Attending
Colin Haime / Regrets / Tiffany McLaughlin / Regrets / Dave Twynam / Attending
Tania Jacobs / Regrets / TaffiiNdlovu / Attending / Xin Wang / Attending

REVIEW OF MINUTES

Motion to approve the minutes from October 20, 2015 (Troost); carried.

APPROVAL OF AGENDA

Motion to approve the agenda (Simons); carried.

BUSINESS ARISING

AGENDA ITEMS

  1. Dean’s Update; D. Twynam
  1. Strategic Resource Plan, three funding requests were made in the plan:
  1. A position of Associate Deanto take over many of the responsibilities of the Area Chair plus others. Dave has been meeting with all departments to discuss where we are going as a faculty and succession planning. Personnel changes:

July, 2016, the Director, MBA Programs is retiring;

July, 2017, the Area Chair will go on leave;

May, 2017, the Dean’s term is completed and the hiring process will start prior to Summer, 2016.

The Director, MBA Program position will become the Director, Graduate Business Programs and will encompass other graduate programs including the PDDB, Forensics Accounting Graduate Diploma. MA-SLM will remain under the management of the Recreation and Tourism Department.

  1. Peer Supported Learning Initiative. Currently supports all first year Accounting courses and we want to expand to other first year courses.
  2. Event Management on-line Certificate. Request that the program moves into the base budget; it has been operated as a cost-recovery program and needs to be incorporated into the base to keep it current.
  1. Summative Program Assessments and Program Reviews. These two things from an academic point of view are really significant and are very much engaged with student feedback.
  2. Program Review. All business programs are going through a review right now (required every 5-7 years). We will be seeking student and faculty input; hopefully by the end of the academic year, all reviews will be completed. This is mandated through the Ministry of Advance Education. To get the status that we currently have (degree granting), we are required to do regularly scheduled program reviews. The process takes about 1.5 years to complete; Dave is hoping to accelerate and use information gathered in conjunction with the ACBSP accreditation program.

Inquiry, D. Simons about MAIDAM housed in International Education; D. Twynam advised that it is housed with the program champion Global Studies.

  1. Program Changes. Five program changes have been submitted seeking approval by the FOMC; the recommended changes have been approved by the Recreation/Tourism Department and the FOM Curriculum Committee.

PROGRAM NAME / CHANGES REQUESTED / FOMC COMMENTS
MA-SLM / Timely completion of the MA-SLM program / Approved
MA-SLM /
  1. Admission requirements
  2. Core course change
  3. Calendar copy
/ Revise to remove all references to skype interviews; change to personal or remote video conference interview
Recreation and Sport Management (diploma? Certificate?) /
  1. Admission requirements; changes to English and Math to match VIU admission requirements.
  2. Calendar copy
/ Approved
Tourism Management Degree /
  1. Admission requirements; changes to English and Math to match VIU admission requirements.
  2. Calendar copy
  3. Program Length
/ Approved
Tourism Studies (diploma? Certificate?) /
  1. Admission requirements; changes to English and Math to match VIU admission requirements.
  2. Calendar copy
/ Approved

MOTIONS:

To approve the program changes to the MA-SLM program with one revision (Jensen/Jaeger); carried.

To approve the program changes to the undergraduate programs (Simons/Jensen);carried.

REPORT FROM SENATE SUB-COMMITTEES

None

OTHER BUSINESS

None

Motion to adjourn (Briscoe/Troost); carried.

AGENDA ITEMS CARRIED FORWARD

NEXT MEETING

December 15, 2015