Students working in renovated Otto Maas lab

University Teaching Labs Working Group (UTLWG)

The UTLWG enhances teaching and learning at McGill by prioritizing teaching lab projects for funding that are aligned with University strategic directions and principles of good pedagogy.

 

Mandate

The UTLWG’s mandate is to:

  1. Develop, maintain, and apply research-based principles to the renovation and upgrade of teaching labs.
  2. Establish multi-year needs and annual priorities for renovations to existing teaching labs across the University, and new teaching labs.
  3. Recommend funding for the creation, upgrade and maintenance of teaching labs and related equipment.
  4. Support University planning by identifying teaching lab priorities and designs that may benefit from funding opportunities that may arise.

For the purposes of this working group, “teaching labs” includes all discipline-specific teaching and learning spaces.

For further information about this project, please contact kathryn.kotar [at] mcgill.ca (E)erin.mcdonagh [at] mcgill.ca (subject: UTLWG%20question) (rin McDonagh), Teaching and Learning Planner.

Composition

Chair: Associate Director, Learning Environments, Teaching and Learning Services or delegate

Secretary: Teaching and Learning Services

  • Director, Campus and Space Planning or delegate
  • Academic Associate, Teaching and Learning Services
  • Director, Enrolment Services or delegate
  • Chief Information Officer or delegate
  • Director, Network and Communication Services or delegate
  • Faculty representatives:
    • Faculty of Arts
    • Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
    • School of Continuing Studies
    • Faculty of Dentistry
    • Faculty of Education
    • Faculty of Engineering
    • Faculty of Law
    • Desautels School of Management
    • Faculty of Medicine
    • Schulich School of Music
    • Faculty of Science
  • SSMU representative
  • PGSS representative
  • Resources:
    • Director, Building Operations, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
    • Director, Design Services, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
    • Delegate, Project Management, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
    • Sustainability Manager, McGill Office of Sustainability, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
    • Director, Office for Students with Disabilities
    • Project Manager, Teaching and Learning Projects, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
    • Teaching and Learning Planning, Teaching and Learning Services
    • Administration and Finance Officer, Teaching and Learning Services

Membership

Adam Finkelstein

Chair: Associate Director, Learning Environments

Laura Winer

Director, Teaching and Learning Services

Nermein Gamal

Manager, Class Scheduling Services, Enrolment Services

Ryan Ortiz

Director, ICS Customer Service

Devyn Nicholson

Portfolio Manager, Av Services, Network and Communication Services (NCS)

TBD

SSMU

Faculty (academic and alternate or technical) representatives:

Michael Fronda
Andrea Gore

Faculty of Arts

Alice Cherestes
Kevin Wade

Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences

Kenyon Gannon

School of Continuing Studies

Samer Abi-Nader

Faculty of Dentistry

Caroline Paquette
Vanessa Bridgman

Faculty of Education

Michael Kokkolaras
Sahar el Saidi

Faculty of Engineering

Vanessa Batik

Faculty of Law

Mark Michaud
Michelle Forsythe

Desautels School of Management

Michael Guevara
Genevieve Côté

Faculty of Medicine

Jon Wild
Peter Wightman

Schulich School of Music

Jean-Marc Gauthier
Marilena Cafaro

Faculty of Science

Resources:

Luc Roy Director, Building Operations, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
Emmanuelle Lapointe Associate Director, Design Services, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
Johanne Guay
Wendy Rivera
Associate Director, Project Management, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
Project Manager, Facilities Management  & Ancillary Services
François Miller Sustainability Manager, McGill Office of Sustainability, Facilities Management & Ancillary Services
TBA Access Services Advisor, Office for Students with Disabilities

Erin McDonagh 

Teaching and Learning Planner, Teaching and Learning Services
Sandrine Hoindo-Donkpegan Administration and Finance Officer, Teaching and Learning Services

Meetings

TBD. Meetings will be held virtually for the 2022-23 session. 

    McGill University is on land which has served and continues to serve as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. Teaching and Learning Services acknowledges and thanks the diverse Indigenous peoples whose footsteps mark this territory on which peoples of the world now gather. This land acknowledgement is shared as a starting point to provide context for further learning and action.

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