Announcement: Advisory Committee – Vice-Dean First Year & Call for Nominations

In accordance with Section 84 of the Policy on Appointment of Academic Administrators, Dean Yip has appointed a special committee to advise him on the appointment of a Vice-Dean First Year.

Reporting to the Dean, the Vice-Dean First Year works closely with the Vice-Dean Undergraduate, providing strategic leadership on aspects of Retention and Transition, First Year Curriculum and First Year Student Experience.  The Vice-Dean First Year works collaboratively with the members of the First Year Office, the Senior Academic Leadership team, the Registrar, the Faculty administrative units, members of the Faculty Council Standing Committees, and other members of the University community to advance the mission of the Faculty.

The composition of the advisory committee is as follows:

Christopher Yip, Dean (Chair)

Grant Allen, Chair, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry

Lisa Camilleri, Chief Administrative Officer

Glenn Hibbard, Chair, Materials Science and Engineering

Deepa Kundur, Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Don MacMillan, Faculty Registrar

Lisa Romkey, Associate Professor, ISTEP, and Associate Director, Engineering Science

Chirag Variawa, Associate Professor, ISTEP

The Advisory Committee will begin meeting shortly and welcomes comments and nominations from interested persons. These may be sent to the attention of the Dean, by email at dean.engineering@utoronto.ca by Thursday, April 1, 2021.

Communications will be received in confidence and will be anonymized before consideration by the Advisory Committee.

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