Senate Bylaw 4

A bylaw relating to the naming of additional ex officio members of Senate of the University of Waterloo.

BE IT ENACTED as a bylaw of Senate of the University of Waterloo, as follows:

1. Ex officio members

WHEREAS The University of Waterloo Act, 1972 provides in section 18.a.9 that Senate of the university may add to its membership such other ex officio members as Senate by bylaw may, from time to time, designate; and

WHEREAS The University of Waterloo Act, 1972 provides in section 18.b.2 that elected members of the faculty shall equal in number one more than the total number of all other members of Senate; and

WHEREAS The University of Waterloo Act, 1972 provides in section 18.c. that upon the designation of and addition, from time to time, by Senate of any additional ex officio members, the number of elected members from the Board of Governors, the undergraduate students, the graduate students and the alumni shall be increased by whatever numbers are necessary to retain the ratios, in each case, of the number of such elected persons to the number of elected faculty.

BE IT THEREFORE enacted as a bylaw of Senate of the University of Waterloo as follows:

That the following be named as ex officio members of Senate:

  1. The associate vice-president, equity, diversity, inclusion & anti-racism.
  2. The associate vice-president, Indigenous relations.
  3. The vice-president, research and international.
  4. The associate vice-president, academic.
  5. The associate vice-president, academic operations.
  6. The president of the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo.
  7. The president of the Federation of Students, University of Waterloo.
  8. The president of the Graduate Student Association - University of Waterloo.

That the chief returning officer be empowered upon passage of this bylaw to take whatever steps are necessary to carry out such elections or by-elections as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of The University of Waterloo Act, 1972, cited above and arising from the designation of ex officio members of Senate by the passage or amendment of this bylaw.

Approved by Senate 20 May 1975.
Amended by Senate in two readings, December 1980 and January 1981.
Amended by Senate in two readings, December 1983 and January 1984.
Amended by Senate in  two readings, May and June 1987.
Amended by Senate in two readings, May and June 1990.
Amended by Senate in two readings, October and November 2012.
Amended by Senate in two readings, November 2013 and January 2014.
Amended from Bylaw 11 by Senate in two readings, September and October 2014.
Amended by Senate in two readings, March and May 2015.
Amended by Senate in two readings, November 2017 and January 2018.
Amended by Senate in two readings, May 2019 and June 2019.
Amended by Senate in two readings, April 2023 and May 2023.