| Individual Contact Information | Portfolios/Major Responsibilities |
|---|---|
| Executive Office | |
| Paula Wood-Adams, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies |
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| Anne-Marie Croteau, Associate Dean, Recruitment and Awards |
Awards, recruitment |
| Cameron Skinner, Associate Dean, Student Affairs and Postdoctoral Studies |
Admissions, postdoctoral studies, theses, student progress, academic code of conduct, student requests |
| Vivek Venkatesh, Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Development |
New programs, Individualized Program, GradProSkills, curriculum development and reform, liaison with Concordia International |
| Joanne Beaudoin, Administrative Director |
Council secretary, SGS operations, personnel, and budget |
| Erika MacFadden, Coordinator, Information and Projects |
Code administration, documentation, archives, GPD liaison |
| Michael Jordan, Executive Secretary to the Dean |
Manages Dean’s agenda and correspondence, processes budget requisitions |
| David Gaudine, Systems Analyst |
Systems administrator of on-line student request system, all SGS in-house programs, and technical support for SGS |
| Frédérica Martin, Academic Programs Analyst |
Conducts comparative analyses of all graduate programs, advises programs and faculties on new program development, advises on all major curriculum revisions, Graduate Curriculum Committee secretary |
| Adriana Rico, Web and Graduate Calendar Coordinator |
SGS website, on-line Graduate Calendar |
| Rhonda Chung, Service Assistant |
Greets and refers visitors for Dean’s office, coordinates agendas for Associate Deans |
| Steve Hirst, Service Assistant |
Greets and refers visitors, responds to front-line enquiries for SGS units, archiving, SRF triage |
| Individualized Program | |
| Bradley Nelson, Director, Individualized Program (MA and PhD) |
Graduate Program Director for the Individualized Program (INDI) |
| Darlene Dubiel, Coordinator |
Administrative support for all aspects of the Individualized Program (INDI) |
| Graduate Admissions, Student Affairs, and Postdoctoral Studies | |
| Guity Nadjafie, Director, Graduate Admissions and Student Affairs |
Oversees graduate admissions standards, policies and procedures, IITS liaison, web registration, student requests related to admissions, liaison with faculty representatives |
| Virginia Bruce, Director, Graduate Admissions and Student Affairs |
On temporary reassignment |
| Vacant, Officer, Postdoctoral Studies and Graduate Enrollment |
Postdoctoral policy administrator, special awards administrator (Banting, Doctoral Dissertation, GGGM, Valedictorian, etc…), Agreements |
| Kelly Walsh, Advisor, Graduate Admissions |
Inter-university registration requests, assesses and establishes admission requirements from international countries, international exchanges, reviews all exceptional applications for admission |
| Irene Grigoropoulos, Advisor, Student Affairs |
Academic standing issues, student requests, issues and receives all research-based program reports, produces all performance monitoring letters for programs |
| Sharon Carey, Coordinator, Registration and Doctoral Studies |
All doctoral theses (scheduling of defences, processing first and final submissions), all student requests pertaining to registration |
| Mary Appezzato, Thesis Coordinator |
All Master’s theses, graduation lists, student requests |
| Marwa Gouda, Student Affairs Assistant |
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| Graduate Recruitment and Awards | |
| Claudia Tocco, Assistant Director, Graduate Recruitment and Awards |
All graduate awards policies and procedures, committees |
| Lorena Marzitelli, Officer, Graduate Recruitment |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bridgette Arrindell, Advisor, Internal Awards |
On parental leave |
| Margaret Lawrence, Advisor, Internal Awards |
Student and faculty liaison for all internal awards (i.e. advancement awards etc…) |
| Daniela Del Balso, Awards Assistant |
Responds to all front-line awards questions, updates directory and database, issues payroll documents |
| Graduate and Professional Skills | |
| Laurie Lamoureux-Scholes, Director, Graduate and Professional Skills Development Program |
Oversees GradProSkills Program, policies and procedures, liases with all providers |
| Christina Bardu Administrative Assistant |
Responds to all inquires, schedules meetings and workshops, manages the database |