University Planning Committee

University Planning Committee

Terms of Reference

The University Planning Committee is a joint committee of both the University Senate and the Board of Governors. It is McMaster’s senior planning committee and is, because of its relationship to both governing bodies, unique among Canadian universities with bicameral governing structures. The University Planning Committee has two primary roles, although in both roles its major responsibility is to ensure that academic planning and the management of resources (people, money, space) are fully integrated. In its first, and more formal, role the University Planning Committee is a critical step in the development and approval of plans. Its second role is to serve in an advisory capacity to the senior administration of the University.  The Chair of the University Planning Committee is the Provost & Vice-President (Academic).

For the complete terms of reference, please click here (Adobe PDF format).

Membership

For the University Planning Committee membership list, please click here (Adobe PDF format).

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Budget Committee

The Budget Committee shall:

1. Review the budget framework prepared by the University administration in consultation with the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis; this framework (including the models and projections upon which it is based) will be provided to the Joint Administration/Faculty Association Committee to Consider Matters and to Discuss and Negotiate Matters Related to Terms and Conditions of Employment of Faculty (The Joint Committee) as will updates to the framework should these arise;
2. Receive and respond to budget submissions from all Faculties, areas, and units;
3. Make budget recommendations available to the University Planning Committee during development of the recommendations, for comment on whether those recommendations are congruent with the University Plan; deliver the final budget to the University Planning Committee in a timely fashion to ensure that it is in a position to make comments in advance of the budget being transmitted to other deliberative bodies;
4. Make budget recommendations available to the University Senate for comment before they are transmitted by the President to the Finance Committee of the Board; and
5. Deliver budget recommendations to the President of the University for transmittal to the Finance Committee of the Board. Any comments of the University Planning Committee and Senate shall be included in the material for the Board, along with the President's own comments.

For the complete terms of reference, please click here (Adobe PDF format).

Membership

The Budget Committee consists of the following members for July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013:

Dr. Patrick Deane	President
Dr. David Wilkinson	Provost
Mr. Roger Couldrey	Vice-President (Administration)
Dr. Donald Goellnicht	Faculty Member
Dr. Graeme Luke	Faculty Member
Dr. Heather Sheardown (Chair)	Faculty Member
Ms Anne Pottier	Staff Member
Mr. Michael Carrier	Undergraduate Student
Mr. Scott Smith	Graduate Student

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