| Individual Contact Information | Portfolios/Major Responsibilities |
|---|---|
| Executive Office | |
| Graham Carr, Dean of Graduate Studies |
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| 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) |