| 1. The Department needs to work with senior leadership at the RMC to develop a long-term HR plan to address the department’s anticipated needs and to smooth the hiring process. |
3 year Dept BP being developed; Cut backs have cau sed the HR plan to immediate in year requirements; Once a stable future funding is available longer term planning can be undertaken. |
Dept Head |
Unspecified timeline |
| 2. The process of engaging sessionals needs to be streamlined in order to reduce the administrative burden on the Department. |
Faculty claims clerk will be trained to assist with sessional and TA hiring administration. |
Dean of Science |
Unspecified timeline |
| 3. The department should be more transparent in how it accounts for graduate teaching going forward. |
All teaching assignments, both graduate and undergraduate are coordinated. |
Dept Head |
Complete |
| 4. The number of Faculty teaching graduate programs in computer science needs to be increased. |
Develop marketing/outreach/ recruitment plan. |
Dept Head |
Ongoing |
| 5. The department should find a way to simplify access for RMC students to Queen’s resources for on-line scientific publications. |
Recruit and hire additional CS UTs (achieved), develop a strategy for training/recruitment of CS milfacs. |
N/A |
N/A |
| 6. The department should consider a different breakdown of teaching duties of military students at the start of their program, to speed up their initial research progress. |
Full-time military graduate students do not have teaching duties. |
N/A |
N/A |