1. Perspective of the Provost:Science Faculty Council Professor Anthony C. Masi Provost 8 April 2008 Faculty of Science

2. What is distinctive about McGill: The “i’s” • identity • international • inquiry-based • interdisciplinary • innovation • infrastructure 2

3. General principles underlying McGill’s strategic planning activities • planning • objective, flexible, and adaptive • assumptions • realistic, sensitive to contexts • goals • attainable and sustainable over several years • allocations • coherent processes and transparent distributions • results • measurable • appropriate and agreed upon indicators • selected peer institutions

4. General principles (cont’d) • academic priorities are the drivers • resource allocations must be aligned with prioritised academic goals • strategic statements: • The White Paper • The Principal’s Task Force on Student Life and Learning and The Administrative Response • The Master Plan • Campaign McGill • operational compacts (budgets and other resource allocations)

5. The White Paper • P(U)F-RI-SC • strategic plan that builds on our strengths • integrative and iterative processes • inter-disciplinarity • Neurosciences (including pain research) • Environment • Computation • Public Policy (including health and social policy) • Literature, Languages, and Culture • Nano-technology • Integrative systems biology (genomics and therapeutics) 5

6. The Principal’s Task Force on Student Life and Learning and The Administrative Response • advising and mentoring • resources for students • funding • space • building a learning community 6

7. The Master Plan • academic priorities • sustainability • protect the past and build for the future 7

8. Campaign McGill • student experience • academic renewal • campus projects 8

9. Constraints on McGill • several years of budget deficits • No cuts implemented until FY 2007-08 • Reallocation of $9M • No reductions in Faculty or admin and support staff • MELS requiring balanced budget in short term: 3 years • new weighted student unit (WSU) grid under construction • no net gain or loss expected for McGill 9

10. Fiscal year 2008 (so far) • on target for FY08 forecast deficit of $15.0M • revenues and spending consistent with budgeted amounts • timing issue on MELS grant to be carried into FY09 • plan implemented to cut more expenses from now to end of FY08 • additional financial aid requirements are being met • good early results for Campaign Mcgill • $380M on $750M target • research funding results up $10M from last year at this time 10

11. FY 2008 – 2009 Reality • Additional MELS funding • $112M additional funding for Quebec universities • 12.5% expected for McGill ($14M) • $10M already included in preliminary budget • MELS additional contribution • injection of $53M/year over next 5 years • Targeted programs - details to be determined • McGill allocation projected at $6M • Expected confirmation in Fall 2008 11

12. Engaging the McGill community: solutions for FY 2009 (revenues) • manage enrolments • targeted undergraduate areas • professional programs, (emphasis on Master’s) • graduate students: one net new thesis student per TT professor: roughly 400 of 1600 TT staff have 0 thesis students in 2007-2008 • maximise research revenues • maximise participation rates and amounts requested • increase ICR from federal and provincial agencies • get contracts and partnerships to generate revenue • secure philanthropic dollars in line with priorities • identify new sources of revenue 12

13. Engaging the McGill community: solutions for FY 2009 (expenditures) • contain salary mass and related costs • retirements needed to align with projected revenues • slow-down in replacements • optimisation of support staff roles and responsibilities • improve program delivery • eliminate, or not offer courses, where possible and when action would have minimal effect on program quality • assign teaching workloads to permanent staff, reducing contract teaching and overload where possible • search hard for efficiencies in operations 13

14. Faculty of Science: Undergraduate Students Enrolment • full-time B.Sc. program enrolment (3,384) • Faculty of Science departments: 1,729 • B.Sc.: 1,693 • B.Sc./B.Ed.: 36 • Faculty of Medicine departments:1,655 • Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, or Physiology: 1,565 • Pre-Medicine: 80 • Pre-Dent: 10 • full-time B.A. & Sc. enrolment: 548 • Science teaching approx. 55% (Fall 2006 & Winter 2007) • full-time B.A. enrolment: 820 out of 5,440 in majors affiliated with Faculty of Science (Computer Science, Geography, Mathematics and Statistics, Psychology) 14

15. Faculty of Science Undergraduate Teaching (Fall 2006 – Winter 2007) • FTE taught by Faculty of Science: 4,277 (excludes MSE) • FTE taught to B.Sc. Students: 3,428 (includes B.Sc./B.Ed. And B.Sc. students in Faculty of Medicine departments, Faculty of Dentistry (Pre-Dent) and B.Sc. students affiliated with MSE) 15

16. Science Undergraduate Admissions: fall 2003 – fall 2007 16

17. Faculty of Science: Graduate Enrolment • full-time Master’s students (308) • full- time: 1 • thesis full-time: 224 • additional session: 83 • full-time Doctoral students (495) • thesis full-time: 334 • additional session: 161 17

18. Science Master’s Admissions: fall 2003 – fall 2007 18

19. Science Doctoral Admissions: fall 2003 – fall 2007 19

20. Faculty of Science: 2007- 2008 • full time tenure-track • staff count 1 Feb 2008: 248 • target complement set 1 June 2007: 247.8 • non-tenure track • 99 full-time, 244 part-time • Faculty of Science • Bachelor FTEs/TT: 17.2 • Master’s FTEs/TT: 0.9 (1.2) • Doctoral FTEs/TT: 1.3 (2.0) • average age of TT staff • Science: 49 years • University: 51 years 20

21. Staffing • 77 TT hires in last 5 (calendar) years • 27 retirements • 25 terminations/resignations • net gain of 25 21

22. Non Tenure-Track Task Force • NTT task force underway • next presentation to Senate on 16 April • highlights from 13 February Senate presentation • NTT staff are and will remain an important component of academic staff and critical to achievement of McGill’s mission • discontinue ‘part-time’ as way to identify NTT • NTT academic classifications will be rationalized and simplified 22

23. Space • Bio-engineering facility • No. 1 construction priority • proposal has been sent to Quebec (awaiting response) • Several ventilation studies underway • Otto Mass top priority • establishing deferred maintenance plan for next 5 years • Life Sciences building • coming online this summer • major budget approved last year; $500,00 over 2 years • emphasis on teaching labs 23

24. Campaign McGill (needs) • goal for Faculty: $87,200,000 • 15 Chairs ($3.0M each) • undergraduate student support ($17.9M) • graduate student support ($14.3 M) • program support ($5.5M) • faculty support ($3.5M) • lab renovations and upgrade ($1.0M) • achieved $37M as of Dec 2007, of which $24M represents older non-priority items and commitments 24

25. Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Criticisms? Complaints? 25