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The Retirees's Association ( Faculty, Librarian, Administrator), University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont. Canada
Vol VIII, No. 5, December 1998
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Senate Approves Revised By-Laws
Campus Restructuring Now In Place
The Strategic Renewal Committee's (SRC) Report recommended a major restructuring of the Academic Organization of the University. The objective being that students would benefit and scholarship would be more likely to flourish, if there were less administration and more teaching and research. And, the restructuring aims to enhance administration through the employment of efficient and effective structures and systems.
SRC recommendations created three large colleges where there were once eight faculties.
College of Arts and Human Sciences
College of Business Administration, Education and Law
College of Engineering and Science and the
College of Graduate Studies and Research
In the new structure, instead of a wide range of academic unit types there is only one type, all at the same level, though some units are more multi-disciplinary than before. The units are now minimum size, at least twenty faculty; there are roughly half as many units as before. In short, the number of units required to be managed was cut in half, along with the number of academic administrators.
The Colleges are led by Executive Deans who report to the Vice-President, Academic. The colleges and their units are larger than their predecessors and each has a greater range of responsibility than was previously the case for the former units.
Increased efficiency, fewer structures and a more agile and responsive administration are central goals of the reform. At the same time the various committees strived to respect disciplinary autonomy and diverse local needs and were reminded time and again that autonomy and diversity need not be compromised by administrative arrangement.
New Academic Units In Colleges
College of Arts and Human Sciences
College of Business Administration, Education and Law
College of Engineering and Science
Glossary of Terms: New
Academic Administrative Unit or AAU ( Formerly BAU - Basic Administrative Unit) - This term refers to each Department, School, and Faculty as in Department of Psychology, the School of Nursing and the Faculty of Engineering.
AAU Council - Group formed by faculty members of an AAU, elected student representatives, and other individuals.
AAU Head - Term refers to the elected academic administrative officer of an AAU who reports to the Executive Dean - Example the Head Department of Biology, the Director of the School of Human Kinetics, and the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration are all referred as AAU Heads.
Associate Executive Dean: An Academic Administrative Officer of a College who reports directly to the Executive Dean of that College. All current Associate Deans are referred to as Associate Executive Deans.
Associate Head of an AAU: An Academic Administrative Officer of an AAU who reports to the Head of that AAU, where such a position is authorized and filled.
Chair: An Academic Leader of a disciplinary group within a multi-disciplinary AAU.
College Assembly: In the Colleges of Arts and Human Sciences, Engineering and Science, and Business, Education and Law, this term refers to the group formed by all members of the Colleges' AAU Councils.
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