2020-2021 Senate Reports

Certain landmark reports from McGill Senate are outlined below, with a short summary attached for your reference. The summary will sometimes represent the Science Senator’s interpretation and no more. Please refer to the document itself to obtain the totality of its content. 

February 19th, 2020

Report on Salary Equity in Tenured Positions 

  1. There are no significant differences between the salaries of men and women tenure-track and tenured, once controlling for certain variables that affect salary and after omitting the 95th+ percentile salaries. 

  2. There are no systemic inequities in the salaries of tenure-track and tenured academic staff who self-identify as persons who are racialized, Indigenous, disabled, or of minority sexual orientation/gender identity, once controlling for key variables that affect salary (same as above)

  3. Although no systemic salary inequities exist (outside the gender-based ones in the 95th), the University can take measures to try to mitigate the inequitable impact of some of the aforementioned variables.  

Report on Renaming Men’s Varsity 

  1. Suggested names incl. Royals, Red Thunder, Highlanders

  2. Not going off popular vote, but instead a name that unifies community

 

Report on Enrolment and Strategic Enrolment 

  1. McGill’s Strategic Academic Plan (2017-2022) includes targets such as:

    • Increasing # of applications and yield rate (60% currently) for CEGEP students 

    • Increasing # of new registrations (49% currently) from Francophone CEGEPs

    • Increasing Indigenous enrolment to 1,00o (currently 456 for fall enrolment alone, full year statistics are not available)

  2. Keep international enrolment at 25-30% (27% currently)

 January 15, 2020

Report of Academic Policy Committee 

  1. New programs 

    • M.Sc. Applied in Translational Biomedical Engineering: Non-Thesis (45 cr.)

    • Gr. Diploma in Oncology (30 cr.)

  2. Creation of McGill Cancer Institute (to incl. Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre)

  3. New concentration: Faculty of Science, Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Environment (0 cr.)

 

Report of Board of Governors 

  1. Reappointment of Dr. B. R. Lennox to 5-year term as Dean of Science, beginning July 01, 2020

  2. CAMSR Recommendations 

    • Decarbonization

    • Impact investment

    • Among others…

  3. Approval of a permanent Department of Emergency Medicine

December 4, 2019

Annual Report on Financial State of University – Dec. 4th, 2019

Annual Report of the Committee on Student Services 

  1. A worthwhile read on reducing the mental health burden of students