Governance | Vancouver Island University

The terms of reference and membership for the President's Council are as follows:

Terms of Reference

The President’s Council serves several purposes as follows:

provide cohesive and highly engaged leadership to the university, and provide counsel to the President, other members of the Senior Management Group and the Council-at-large.
discuss/debate university directions, strategic decisions, policies and macro-level procedures and operations.
provide a forum for members to bring forward for discussion opportunities and issues of relevance to the broader community.
provide support and oversight for:

completion and implementation of the Integrated Planning Process (and resulting Plans), and
development and implementation of multi-year financial and human resource plans.

provide a forum for university wide two-way communications and engagement:
- to ensure communications and information is more widely shared and disseminated from leadership to and throughout the university, and
- to provide a mechanism by which faculty, employees, students and various faculty councils can provide information and feedback directly to President's Council members, and through them, the the entire President's Council.
actively build understanding of the opportunities and challenges; sharing advice and feedback.
actively engage the University community in the pursuit of the VIU Mandate, Vision and Purpose.

The Council normally meets twice per term. Agenda submissions/inquiries should be forwarded to the Manager, Office of the President.