Board approves new VP position
At its Dec. 15 meeting, Concordia’s Board of Governors approved the new position of Vice-President Research and Graduate Studies. The new position will report directly to the President and work closely with the Provost, who remains the chief academic officer of the university.
The Vice-President Research and Graduate Studies search committee will consist of a chair, two Board members (one community-at-large or alumni, one faculty representative), five full-time faculty members (two from Arts & Science, one from each of the other faculties), one regular part-time faculty member, two representatives of the senior administration (one Dean, one Vice-President), two students (one undergraduate, one graduate) and one member of the administrative support staff from the Office of Research or School of Graduate Studies.
Following the decision of Jerry Tomberlin to not seek another term after 2007, the Board approved the composition of a search committee for the Dean of the John Molson School of Business (JMSB).
President Claude Lajeunesse announced that a resolution was passed in closed session to allow Dean of Engineering and Computer Science Nabil Esmail to serve a third term of no more than three years at the end of his second term on May 31, 2007, subject to a positive evaluation by an evaluation committee.
Paul Gauthier and Arvind K. Joshi have joined Concordia’s Board of Governors as representatives of the community at large. They were appointed at the Dec. 15 meeting of the Board for three-year terms ending June 30, 2008.
Gauthier is president of BIMCOR/Bell Canada, the investment management arm of Bell Canada Inc. He has served on the boards of a number of companies and community organizations and has participated in many fundraising activities. He has a master’s degree in economics from Université Laval and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.
Joshi has been CEO of St. Mary’s Hospital Center since 1997. He is an obstetrician-gynecologist with training in maternal-fetal medicine. He has an MBA, and is a Certified Health Executive.
He is an associate professor at McGill University, and a member of the corporation of Bishop’s University, where he served on the executive committee. He is a recent past chair of the advisory board of the JMSB, and chair of the board of advisors of the JMSB International Case Competition.