Recommendation from the Senate Committee on the Methods of 

Appointment, Responsibilities and Tenure of Heads and Deans. 

We were asked by the Acting President to consider urgently 

the general method Of appointment of an Academic Vice-President. We 

have considered the appropriate section of the interim Council report 

(section 2, para 

4-20), 

and make the following recommendations to 

Senate: 

(i) That a selection committee as described by Interim 

Council be used in all future selections of an Academic 

Vice-President. The composition of this committee shall 

be the (Acting) President, the three Deans of the Faculties, 

one representative elected by each Faculty, and two faculty 

members elected at-large. 

(2)

That in view of the present situation in which a 

Presidential Search Committee is already in existence, 

the three Faculties be asked to nominate to the Vice-. 

Presidential Search Committee the three members of the 

Presidential Search Committee. The two faculty members a 

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large should he elected as quickly as possible by normal 

procedures. 

(3)

That a temporary 

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Vice-Presidential Search Committee 

be instituted immediately, as a sub-comrnittee of the 

Presidential Search Committee; this sub-committee shall 

consist of the Acting President, the three Deans and the 

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three faculty members. This sub-committee shall auto- 

matically transfer its responsibilities to the committee 

described in (i) and (2) above when the latter is constituted. 

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