Transcript Ryerson's Senate Office: A Plethora of Policies Procedures to Prevent Problems

Ryerson’s Senate Office: A Plethora of Policies & Procedures to Prevent Problems
John Turtle and Lucia Stewart
 The Senate office is in JOR 1227 ([email protected], [email protected], x5011)
 Secretary of Senate is John Turtle
 Administrative Assistant is Lucia Stewart
 About 70 people are on Ryerson’s Senate
 Elected faculty and student reps from across the University, and ex officio/senior admin members
 The President is the Chair of Senate, the Vice Chair is Nima Naghibi from English
 Over 50 Senate policies at www.ryerson.ca/senate provide guidance on a range of issues…
Student Appeals
Course Outlines
Exams
Three Common Routes
 Exam scheduling, integrity, and
security issues are shared across
departments and offices
Senate Level Appeal
AIC Appeal
Academic
Integrity
Council
 Senate office manages final exams
at the MTCC and in the two gyms
Faculty Level Appeal
Grade
Appeal to
Teaching Dept
Facilitated
Discussion w/
Instructor
Suspicion of Cheating
or Plagiarism (Pol. 60)
Inform
Instructor
ASAP
Standing
Appeal to
Program Dept
Submit Documents
to Program Dept
within 3 Days
Request for Consideration
on Medical/Compassionate
Grounds (Pol. 134 & 152)
Attempt to Address
Issues with Student to
Avoid an Appeal
Inform
Instructor
ASAP
Course Management
Issues
(Pol. 145)
 Some issues …
 prohibition from testing in the last
week of classes
 resources for midterms vs. final
exams