Faculty Executive Council is the most senior governing body within the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS).

Function:

• Recommend all faculty matters required to go before Graduate Council, Undergraduate Council, Curriculum and Admissions Committees, Senate or the Board of Governors
• Recommend educational curricula and admission policies
• Recommend the appointment of full-time faculty members
• Approve the appointment of part-time faculty members
• Recommend or approve, as required, membership on selection committees for senior faculty leadership positions
• Recommend new or revised educational programs
• Review proposed changes in enrolment levels
• Affirm the research directions of the faculty
• Serve as a nominating committee for the faculty
• Establish committees and act upon the recommendations of such committees
• Receive and review external reviews of departments and schools and recommend or approve, as required, formal search committees
• Receive Standing Reports from all Faculty Standing councils and committees

Please note: In the list below, title links will take you to the Terms of Reference for the position and name links will take you to the individual’s MacExperts page.

Current membership for the 2023-24 academic year:

Function:

• Support the achievement of the overall academic mission of the faculty within the context of excellence in each area of research, by assisting the associate dean (research) in the evaluation of research performance within the Faculty of Health Sciences
• Development and maintenance of a rational basis for resource allocation among researchers
• Identification and development of new research opportunities
• Coordinate research activities among departments, research institutes/centres and partner hospitals

Please contact the Office of the Vice Dean, Research for further information on this committee.

Function:

• Provide a forum for full-time faculty members and part-time faculty members with senior educational administrative portfolios to discuss and advocate for issues of central importance to the educational programs of the faculty. Its interprofessional composition and collegial interchange encourage cross-program co-operation in keeping with the mission of the faculty. Its approval and oversight responsibilities extend to all educational programs, except graduate programs.
• Consider principles for the allocation of resources within faculty educational programming
• Consider academic issues that are central to all faculty educational programs
• Consider administrative issues that pertain to all faculty educational programs
• Define processes for the periodic review of educational programs
• Consider new educational programs, the discontinuance of existing programs and annual proposals to modify course curricula
• Review and recommend changes in admissions policies
• Ensure the generation of statistical data on faculty educational programming
• Consider issues related to the development and the use of educational research
• Recommend appointment of assistant deans of educational programs and other senior education leaders, as appropriate. In these matters, the Health Sciences Education Council will report and make recommendations to the Faculty Executive Council and will be responsible for ensuring that decisions approved by Faculty Executive Council concerning educational programs are implemented.
• Support the achievement of the overall academic mission of the faculty

Please contact the Office of the Vice Dean, Education for further information on this committee.

Function:

• Deal with all matters of policy and curriculum affecting graduate work in the Faculty of Health Sciences
• Appoint an executive committee and other such subcommittees, as may be deemed appropriate
• Approve full-time faculty members to supervise graduate students and/or for appointment to program leadership roles
• Review and approve curriculum revisions and new courses
• Make recommendations to Faculty Executive Council and Graduate Council related to new degree or diploma programs and major policy and/or curriculum changes with financial implications
• Provide standing reports to Faculty Executive Council and Graduate Council on all matters within its jurisdiction
• Deal with matters referred to it by the Graduate Admissions and Study Committee

The following faculty are elected members of this committee:

Function:

• Receive from chairs of departments, the associate dean health sciences (nursing) and the associate dean, health sciences (rehabilitation science)
• Consider all recommendations for the granting or withholding of tenure, continuing appointment without annual review or permanent teaching appointment.

For each candidate, the committee shall recommend to the Senate Committee on Appointments that tenure, continuing appointment without annual review or permanent teaching appointment be granted or will recommend:

1. That the appointment be allowed to lapse or
2. That the period of the tenure-track, special or teaching track appointment be extended.

The chair will convey the recommendations of the committee to the Senate Committee on Appointments.

The following faculty are elected members of this committee:

Meeting Schedules and Submission Deadlines for MDSM Council can be found here

Function:

• Assist in the development of policies relating to clinical and administrative matters, within the clinical and basic science departments of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences and bring forward, as appropriate, recommendations regarding university policy for approval by Faculty Executive Council
• Monitor the clinical practice plan and advise on the relationship between McMaster University and Regional Medical Associates
• Recommend clinical contract appointments and clinical scholar appointments to the Faculty Appointments Committee
• Develop policies, as needed, working within faculty and university guidelines, to ensure the fair and equitable treatment of clinical and non-clinical faculty within basic science and clinical departments
• Discuss and respond to clinical and administrative matters as they relate to the interface between the faculty and affiliated hospitals, joint hospital/university research institutes and external bodies, such as professional associations or governments
• Provide a forum for communication between the clinical departments and the medical education programs (i.e., undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing education)
• Provide a forum for input and advice from the Clinical Faculty Association

Please note: In the list below, name links will take you to the individual’s MacExperts page.

Current membership for the 2024 – 25 academic year:

Function:

• Guide strategic and operational planning for the School of Nursing and monitor outcomes in accordance with established performance indicators
• Inform acquisition and utilization of human, financial, physical plant and other required resources within the School of Nursing
• Provide oversight of, and/or direction to, core School of Nursing functions and activities including, but not limited to, undergraduate, graduate and specialty education, research and faculty development, and upon request by the associate dean (nursing), health sciences, provide advice on matters arising.

The School of Nursing Council is accountable to the Faculty Executive Council through the vice dean (nursing), health sciences.

Please contact the Office of the Vice Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and executive director, School of Nursing for further information on this committee.

The School of Rehabilitation Science Council is the overall senior governing body within the School of Rehabilitation Science and provides overall guidance to the school, including its educational programs, research and service activities. The School of Rehabilitation Science Council is accountable to the Faculty Executive Council through the vice dean, health sciences (rehabilitation science).

Function:

• Receive reports and issues related to the overall School of Rehabilitation Science functioning from the Academic Committee (who may have received and reviewed this information from the education and research committees) and consider their recommendations for action
• Consider and make recommendations to the associate dean, health sciences (rehabilitation science) regarding new proposals and development of new initiatives
• Develop policies and procedures for the School of Rehabilitation Science, usually after recommendations from the Academic Committee of the School of Rehabilitation Science
• Implement evaluation procedures as an ongoing assessment of the quality of the School of Rehabilitation Science

Please contact the Office of the Vice Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and executive director, School of Rehabilitation Science for further information on this committee.

A full listing of Senate Membership is on the University Secretariat website.

A full listing of the Graduate Council is on the University Secretariat website.

A full listing of the Undergraduate Council is on the University Secretariat website.