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 and once in the summer. Agenda submissions/inquiries should be forwarded to the Manager, Office of the President.
Membership
- President and Vice-Chancellor
- Provost and Vice-President, Academic
- Chief Financial Officer and Vice-President, Administration
- Chief of Staff, Office of the President
- General Counsel and University Secretary
- Associate Vice-President, Human Resources
- Associate Vice-President, Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity
- Associate Vice-President, Student Affairs
- Associate Vice-President, Community Partnerships and Chief Advancement Officer
- Associate Vice-President, Academic
- Associate Vice-President, Facilities and Ancillary Services
- Associate Vice-President, Finance
- Associate Vice-President, International Education
- Associate Vice-President, Indigenous Education and Engagement
- Dean, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation
- Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Dean, Faculty of Education
- Dean, Faculty of Health and Human Services
- Dean, Faculty of Management
- Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology
- Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Dean, Faculty of Trades and Applied Technology
- Campus Administrator, Cowichan
- Campus Administrator, Powell River
- Co-CIO and Director, Enterprise Systems
- Co-CIO and Director, IT Operations
- Director, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
- Director, Communications and External Affairs
- Director, Enterprise Risk Management
- Director, Diversity, Equity and Human Rights
- Director, Office of University Planning & Analysis
- Director, Strategic Initiatives
- Registrar
- University Librarian