Vision Transition Steering Team

Date : Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012Location :President’s Boardroom - Trafalgar

Chair: Jeff Zabudsky

Attendees:Ian Marley, Cathi Berge, Steven Parfeniuk, Maria Lucido-Bezely, Andre Plante, Ronni Rosenberg, SylviaLowndes, Bill Holmes, Mike Collins, Has Malik, Richard Finch, Mary Preece, Jocelyn Piercy, Melanie Spence-Ariemma, Megan Mascarin, Sara Rumsey

Regrets:Minutes Taken By:S Shaver

Item / By / Key notes / Action/Responsibility/Timeline
  1. Approval of Agenda of December 11/12
/ Jeff Zabudsky / Mike Collins moved and Has Malik seconded approval of the Agenda.
  1. Approval of Minutes
/ Jeff Zabudsky / Lisa Piccolo moved and Has Malik seconded approval of the Tuesday, October 16th minutes.
  1. President’s Update
/ Jeff Zabudsky / Jeff Zabudsky welcomed Sara Rumsey to her new role as Vision Transition Project Manager.
  1. Thank you Event
/ Jeff Zabudsky / Thank you event was a success and enjoyed by many.
  1. Next Steps
/ Jeff Zabudsky / Welcome discussion on the 3 broad questions in the Agenda
TheSenate is part of the journey that is underway and part of our learning over the next while. Strong governance is important. People will be learning where the place is for the individual opinions and concerns and we need to ensure we are providing a place for them to express their personal/program/faculty concerns, and clarify that the Senate itself is not the place for those concerns, and instead they should be fed through the committees to the Senate.
Recommended that the reps to the committees feed back to their LACs what takes place at the committees to help with the understanding of what has taken place, how their feedback was considered.
Internal community message and external community message. Figure it out internally and articulate it externally. The time for this is here now. / Mary to prepare a summary table to overview where the engagement teams are going/evolving to after the writing of the White Papers.
Suggested that the Applied Research document helped to clarify what Research at Sheridan would look like uniquely to Sheridan. There are other areas where we may need the specific clarification of what our uniqueness is.
Unique - what we are not letting go of, not all is going to be new.
Suggest the need for discussion of some of the larger context issues. Funding model is one of those issues. Clarified that all discussions are based on Sheridan operating within the same funding that we have currently.
Important to have conversations with the departments and teams and find other opportunities for discussion with staff.
  1. Update on new phase team planning progress - all
/ Mary Preece / Maria Lucido Bezely – Student Experience –discussion of how the Student experience fits into the work moving forward. It’s a culture embedded in all that we do. / Reminder to use the information and stats available to us from KPI and NESSE/FESSE, etc.and it may do well for us to promote those metrics as it raises the accountability.
  1. Project management
/ Mary Preece / Sara’s role is to pull the various pieces together for alignment, awareness and assist with internal communication efforts specific to the journey. Sara will also assist in tracking and coordinating pieces between teams/groups to maintain momentum and align timing.
  1. Adjournment
/ Moved by Ian Marley and seconded by Bill Holmes that the meeting be adjourned.

Next Vision Transition Steering Team meeting - Tuesday, January, 15, 2013 President’s Boardroom, Trafalgar campus

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