FOR INFORMATION

S090-27

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MEMORANDUM

TO:

Senate

FROM:

Liora Salter

Chair, SCAP

RE: External Reviews of Departments within

DATE:

March 14, 1990

Faculty of Science

The Senate Committee on Academic Planning, at its meeting of February

28, 1990, approved a set of motions accepting the external review reports

of each of:

•

a)

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics (S.90-26)

b)

The Department of Physics (S.90-27)

together with the responses from each Department and the Dean of

Science. These materials are attached for the information of Senate.

I would also like to inform Senate that the External Review of the

Biosciences Department has also been completed and SCAP is awaiting

responses from the Department and the Dean of Science. The External

Review of the Department of Chemistry has been completed and received

by SCAP. This Review will be presented to the next meeting of Senate

when the Chair of the Department of Chemistry will be able to attend. In

keeping with past practice, each Department is required to provide SCAP

with a status report, six months after the reviews are presented to Senate,

outlining what steps have been taken to implement the recommendations

contained within the review.

SCAP is also currently looking at a draft policy on external reviews which I

expect to place on Senate's Agenda for the May meeting.

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