[SGS] Graduate Faculty Membership – Procedural Revision

SGS #006, 2010-2011

TO: Vice-Deans, Graduate
Graduate Chairs and Directors, Graduate Coordinators and Administrators

FROM: Elizabeth Smyth, Vice-Dean, Programs

CC: School of Graduate Studies Staff

DATE: December 20, 2010

RE: Graduate Faculty Membership – Procedural Revision

Please refer to the SGS web-site at: http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/adminsupport/memos.htm

The revised Constitution of the School of Graduate Studies received final University approval on December 6, 2010. The changes to the SGS Constitution include the revision and clarification of responsibilities regarding graduate faculty membership.
(http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/governance/policies.htm)

Responding to feedback from graduate units, and in conjunction with the Office of the Vice President and Provost, SGS has prepared an at-a-glance summary of the eligibility guidelines for graduate faculty membership. We hope that this summary will prove helpful.(http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/adminsupport/gradfac.htm)

To streamline the graduate faculty membership process, we have revised the procedures for implementing graduate faculty memberships, updated the templates for letters offering graduate faculty membership, and developed a new checklist to minimize the follow-up required by graduate administrators and business officers. All of these take effect on January 1, 2011.(http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/adminsupport/gradfac.htm)

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our colleagues within Graduate Units for their thoughtful contributions to the refinement of these procedures.