Academic Planning & Budget Committee
Terms of Reference
Academic Planning & Budget Committee (AP&B) is a standing committee of Senate, reporting to Senate and advisory to the Provost and Vice President Academic:
- To engage in an on-going process of long-range academic planning in an integrated planning and multi-year budgetary context,
- To provide advisory feedback on reports on budgetary issues, and on proposals from academic administrative offices and Senate committees with significant budgetary implications for the educational program
- To develop and review, as necessary, policies supporting long-range academic planning
- In accordance with the Institutional Quality Assurance Policy and Procedures (IQAP), to review proposals for new degree programs (including the Full Proposal, the External Reviewer(s)’ Report, the Working Group’s Response, and the Dean’s Letter of Support) and recommend new degree programs to Senate; to review proposals for for-credit graduate diplomas and recommend new for-credit graduate diplomas to Senate; to receive one-year follow-up monitoring reports on new programs; to reassess proposals for new programs that were not approved by the Quality Council
- To review proposals for terminating academic programs and recommend terminating academic programs to Senate
- To review proposals to create or change the status of academic units (departments/programs/schools) and make recommendations to Senate
- To recommend actions the University can take to strengthen its educational environment (including its teaching, learning and research capacity)
Composition
- Provost and Vice President Academic (Chair)
- 1 Dean*
- Dean of Graduate Studies*
- University Librarian
- 5 faculty (one to chair the Library Advisory Subcommittee**)
- Dean and Head, Trent University Durham
- 3 students (named by TCSA, TGSA and TDSA)
- Manager, Office of the Provost (secretary)
Consultants
- Deans who are not members
- Associate Vice-President, Finance
- University Registrar
* Who will serve as Vice-Chair
** Faculty members to typically serve in three-year staggered terms, with at least one member from each division and at least two members with graduate teaching and supervisory experience.
Terms of Reference revised Feb 2003, July 2007, Oct 2008 merger Academic Planning and Senate Budget Cttees, Mar 2012, Nov 2012, January 2015, May 2017