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Individual Contact Information Portfolios/Major Responsibilities
Executive Office
Graham Carr,
Dean of Graduate Studies
 
Cameron Skinner
Associate Dean, Student Affairs, Postdoctoral Studies and Awards
Admissions, awards, postdoctoral studies, theses, student progress, academic code of conduct, student requests
Paula Wood-Adams,
Associate Dean, Academic Programs, Recruitment and Communications
New programs, Special Individualized Program, curriculum development and reform, recruitment, liaison with Concordia International
Joanne Beaudoin,
Administrative Director
Council secretary, new graduate program advising, SGS operations, personnel, and budget
Erika MacFadden,
Coordinator, Office of the Dean
Council administration, Associate Deans’ agendas, administrative support for Associate Deans and Administrative Director
Michael Jordan,
Executive Secretary to the Dean
Manages Dean’s agenda and correspondence, processes budget requisitions, Graduate Curriculum Committee secretary
David Gaudine,
Systems Analyst
Systems administrator of on-line student request system, all SGS in-house programs, and technical support for SGS
Adriana Rico,
Web and Graduate Calendar Coordinator
SGS website, on-line Graduate Calendar
Rhonda Chung,
Service Assistant
Greets and refers all visitors, and responds to all front-line enquiries for all SGS units, triages student requests
Steve Hirst,
Service Assistant
Greets and refers all visitors, and responds to all front-line enquiries for all SGS units, responds to general e-mail enquiries for the graduate awards office
Special Individualized Programs
David Howes,
Director, Special Individualized Programs (MA and PhD)
Graduate Program Director for the Special Individualized Programs (SIP)
Darlene Dubiel,
Coordinator
Administrative support for all aspects of the Special Individualized Programs (SIP)
Graduate Admissions and Academic Services
Virginia Bruce,
Director, Graduate Admissions
and Student Administrative Affairs
Oversees graduate admissions standards, policies and procedures, IITS liaison, web registration, student requests related to admissions, liaison with faculty representatives
Patrice Ah-Kam,
Graduate Programs Advisor
Inter-university registration requests, assesses and establishes admission requirements from international countries, international exchanges, student requests
Elena Marsillo,
Senior Advisor, Student Affairs
Academic standing issues, student requests, reviews all exceptional applications for admission
Lorena Marzitelli,
Advisor, Recruitment and Registration
Graduate student recruiter, represents the University at graduate fairs in Canada, North Eastern U.S.A. and International Fairs, coordinates on campus recruitment events, SGS events and student orientation, student requests
Sharon Carey,
Student Progress Coordinator
Final submissions of all doctoral theses and scheduling all doctoral thesis defences (excluding ENCS), issues and receives all research-based program progress reports, produces all performance monitoring letters for programs
Mary Appezzato,
Thesis Coordinator
First submission of all Master’s and Doctoral theses, scheduling of Engineering doctoral defences, graduation list
Graduate Awards & Postdoctoral Office
Patricia Verret,
Assistant Director, Graduate Awards and Postdoctoral Studies
All graduate awards policies and procedures, committees
Cynthia Raso,
Officer, Graduate Awards and Postdoctoral Studies
Postdoctoral policy administrator, special awards administrator (Banting, Vanier, Doctoral Dissertation, etc…), manages award recipients’ database
Dolly Grewal,
Advisor, External Awards
Student and faculty liaison for all federal and provincial external agency awards (i.e. SSHRC, NSERC, FRQSC, FRQNT, etc…), as well as conference, special entrance, and thesis completion awards
Sophy Khwaja,
Advisor, Internal Awards
Student and faculty liaison for all internal awards (i.e. advancement awards etc…)
Kelly Walsh
(on parental leave October 2011 through December 2012)
 

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