The Board of Governors of York University has approved the re-appointment of Lisa Philipps as Provost & Vice-President Academic for an additional five-year term, commencing July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2027.
Dear Colleagues,
Lisa Philipps
It is with great pleasure that I inform colleagues from across the University that the Board of Governors has approved the re-appointment of Lisa Philipps as Provost & Vice-President Academic for an additional five-year term, commencing July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2027.
Professor Philipps has provided outstanding leadership as Provost & Vice-President Academic for the past four and a half years. She has led institutional initiatives including development of the University's third Strategic Mandate Agreement with the province; collaborating with the Academic Policy, Planning, and Research Committee of Senate to craft the University Academic Plan 2020-2025: Building a Better Future; preparing to launch distinctive new academic programs at the Markham Campus; advancing pedagogical innovation across the University; implementing the University's first Faculty Complement Renewal Strategy; and positioning York as a leader in advancing the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Since March 2020, Professor Philipps and her team have played a central role in coordinating the University's pandemic planning and response efforts. She has remained a strong champion of York's commitments to equity, diversity, and inclusion, and an advocate for our values and vision in the broader University sector.
Professor Philipps joined York in 1996 and is a Professor of Law in Osgoode Hall Law School. She holds an LLB from the University of Toronto and an LLM from York, and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1988. Her research encompasses taxation law and policy, fiscal policy, higher education policy, and feminist legal theory.
Prior to her appointment as Provost, Professor Philipps held a number of key positions here at York, including Assistant Dean (First Year) and Associate Dean (Research, Graduate Studies & Institutional Relations) at Osgoode Hall Law School. At the institutional level, in 2014, as part of the Academic and Administrative Program Review process, she chaired the Academic Task Force, which offered important recommendations on the quality and sustainability of academic and research programs, thereby providing guidance to academic planners across the University. She has also served as Chair of the (then) Senate Academic Policy and Planning Committee (2005-2006), and from 2011 to 2014 was Associate Vice-President Research, with responsibility for supporting research intensification across the University and for liaising with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and community research partners.
Beyond York University, Professor Philipps has provided expert legal advice to a range of bodies, including the Ontario Ministry of Finance as Special Counsel in 2015. In 2015-16, she served as Interim Dean of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University, a new law school with a mandate to strengthen the Indigenous bar and prepare lawyers to practice in northern and rural communities.
Please join me in congratulating Professor Philipps on her re-appointment.
Sincerely,
Rhonda L. Lenton
President and Vice-Chancellor
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