Academic Leaders Task Group

Launched in June 2021, the Academic Leaders Task Group (ALTG) was charged with undertaking a review of academic leadership roles in the context of the 海角社区's new academic structure to understand how to best deploy one of the university's most critical resources: our professors. This included the number, location and responsibilities of these academic leaders at the department, faculty, college and institutional levels.

The task group's two core objectives were:

  • To sustain strong, strategic and effective leadership with the appropriate number of professors and a harmonization of roles, service levels and functions (recognizing that there are unique aspects in every discipline that must be considered). 
  • To explore approaches to decreasing the number of academics in leadership roles by 25 per cent.

On November 4, 2021, Provost Steven Dew released the ALTG's report of its analysis. Please send comments and feedback to uat@ualberta.ca.

Read Provost Dew's Update Read the ALTG Report

In February, 2022, the group moved forward with an approach that aligns academic leaders primarily at the faculty level and allocates them on the basis of key drivers of activity, such as number of students, courses, research dollars and grants.

Read more in this update »

ALTG Membership

  • Provost (Chair) — Steve Dew
  • VP (Research & Innovation) — Aminah Robinson 
  • 1 College Dean — Greta Cummings
  • 2 Faculty Deans — Steve Patten, Simaan AbouRizk
  • Vice-Provost and Dean of FGSR — Brooke Milne
  • 1 Chair — Narmin Kassam (Department of Medicine) 
  • 1 Associate Dean (Research) — David Bressler (ALES)
  • 2 Associate Deans (Graduate) — Doug Gleddie (Education), Dianne Tapp (Nursing)*
  • 1 Associate Chair (Undergraduate) — Jaymie Heilman (History and Classics)
  • 1 Associate Chair (Graduate) — Michael Serpe (Chemistry)
  • 1 College General Manager — Julie Naylor (Natural and Applied Sciences) 
  • 1 Faculty General Manager — Yvonne Norton (Education) 
  • Students' Union President — Rowan Ley 
  • Graduate Students' Association President — Anas Fassih

*1 representative from each of a departmentalized and non-departmentalized faculty