Senate Learning and Teaching Committee

Ensuring excellence in learning and teaching

The committee evaluates and fosters the development and implementation of research-inspired, evidence-based, and student-focused learning and teaching practices throughout the University.

The Senate Learning and Teaching Committee (the Committee) is responsible for working with the Academic Senate, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), and the Executive Deans of Faculty to establish an academic culture of excellence in which teaching matters and students are actively engaged in their learning.

Committee responsibilities

The Committee is responsible for driving the discussion and dissemination of the learning and teaching policies of the University, for consulting broadly within the University community on these matters, and for recommending the adoption of such policies to Academic Senate. While it is not in itself an audit body, it is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the University's learning and teaching policies and procedures.

Furthermore, it is responsible for advising Academic Senate and the wider University on the interpretation of learning and teaching policy and for reviewing and revising those policies to respond to new educational and regulatory challenges.

The Committee is also tasked with identifying and responding to emerging educational challenges (both internal and external), with promoting pedagogical excellence, and with encouraging the adoption of good practice in scholarly learning and teaching across the University.