The Retirees' Newsletter

The Retirees's Association ( Faculty, Librarian, Administrator), University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Vol X I , No. 2, June 2001

Senate News:

New Senate Structure Approved

On April 4 Senate approved a new structure which reflects the University of Windsoršs reversion to a faculty system from colleges. Membership increased from 69 to 74 members.

After some debate, the final approved structure included amendments featuring the Associate Vice President Academic and Associate Vice President of Research as ex-officio, non-voting members, and expanded the number of student government representatives from eight to 10.

As it stands, Senate now comprises: 20 voting ex-officio members; two non-voting ex-officio members; six elected representatives of university academic support groups; 10 student representatives; 40 elected faculty and library representatives including six elected faculty and library members-at-large.

Each elected faculty, library and staff Senator is elected for a two-year term, except where staggered appointments are necessary. The at-large and student members are elected for one year.

Windsor to Offer

Degree in Decision-making

The University of Windsor will begin offering a Bachelor of Operational Research degree program in the fall of 2002.

Operational Research is the science of decision-making. It provides systematic and general approaches to problem-solving and decision-making, regardless of the nature of the system, product or service. The program, to be the second of its kind in Canada, will have a co-op education component. Interest in placing co-op students from the program has already been expressed by areas as diverse s a local freight company, the Department of Defense, and a major telecommunications company.

The program will be offered by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Bachelor of Mathematics

To Replace BA and BSc

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics received approval from Senate to replace its Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics) and Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) with new programs.

The department will now offer both general and honors Bachelor of Mathematics degrees as well as Bachelor of Mathematics (Honors Mathematics and Computer Science).

Guidelines for Research

Involving Human Subjects

Senate approved new guidelines for research involving human subjects. The guidelines conform to the policy statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans agreed upon and circulated to universities by Government of Canada research councils.

School of Nursing to Become

Faculty of Nursing this July

Windsor's Nursing school will become a full Faculty of Nursing under a new structure for administrative units at the University of Windsor approved by Senate yesterday.

Historic Developments For Nursing:

Collaborative Agreement Signed,

Curriculum Revised,

New Fast-track Program Planned

Nursing courses at St. Clair College in Windsor and Chatham and at Lambton College in Sarnia will be credited University of Windsor courses beginning September this year.

The courses will be offered under an agreement between the colleges and the University of Windsor. St. Clair College Academic Vice-President Rachael Donovan signed the agreement formally with President Ross Paul.

The agreement provides access to the four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Windsor to be offered at all four locations. Under new provincial legislation, all nurses entering the profession in 2005 must have a bachelor degree.

The first-year intake in nursing on at the university campus is expected to grow in the near future to about 120 students.

In addition to the approval of the collaborative agreement, Senate also approved a new University of Windsor Nursing Curriculum, which reduces the number of required courses from 51 to 48 and increases the number of hours in clinical practice.

Second Phase of

Academic Destructuring Completed

The report of department structures adopted by Senate completes the round of "destructuring" promised by President Ross Paul following a review of the effectiveness of the academic restructuring that occurred a few years ago. The first step in destructuring was last year. It dissolved the four-college structure and returned the university faculty structure. The latest changes take effect July 1. Senate agreed with recommendations restoring many of the departments that existed before restructuring. The report involves program administration, not the academic programs themselves. The University of Windsor Calendar, for instance, will continue to list program offerings by faculty.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will have 12 units: the departments of Communication Studies; English Language, Literature and Creative Writing; History; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; Sociology and Anthropology; and the Schools of Dramatic Art, Music, Social Work and Visual Arts. Senate agreed to consider later proposals from French to be separated from the Languages department.

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