Lloyd Fraser Award for Outstanding Senate Leadership

The Senate of Dalhousie University has established the Lloyd Fraser Award for Outstanding Leadership to recognize unique and exceptional/extraordinary leadership of a member of Senate or a Senate standing committee that has resulted in substantial benefit to the Senate of Dalhousie and the University at large. Recipients may be elected or appointed Senate members of academic units, student members or members of standing committees of Senate.

The award is intended to complement, not duplicate, the Faculty’s awards for outstanding teaching and research.

Lloyd Fraser Award for Outstanding Senate Leadership - Terms of Reference (PDF)

 

Biography of retired Senate Chair, Dr. Lloyd Fraser
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The Lloyd Fraser Award for Outstanding Senate Leadership Award is named in honour of a long serving Senator and Senate Officer, Dr. Lloyd
Fraser. Dr. Fraser served as the Vice‐Chair from 2001‐2006 and Chair from 2007–2014.

In June 2014, Dr. Lloyd Fraser retired as Professor of ContinuingEducation, having served in the College of Continuing Education and its predecessor units since 1981. He taught negotiation and conflict management in the College of Continuing Education in partnership with the Schulich School of Law. As a mature student, Lloyd completed his doctorate in adult education at the University of Toronto in 2001.

During his 12 years as a Senate Officer, Dr. Lloyd Fraser served Senate in many roles and on various committees throughout the University and provided active and diligent oversight of many academic matters that came before Senate. One of Dr. Fraser’s last Senate tasks was to oversee the revision and modernization of the Senate Constitution and the Senate Standing Committee terms of reference. It was no easy task and his negotiation skills were indeed an asset.

The list of Dr. Fraser’s Senate achievements is long and he clearly demonstrated extraordinary leadership as a Senator and Senate Officer, resulting in substantial benefit to the Senate of Dalhousie and the University at large. When the Senate Planning and Governance Committee discussed the concept of an award in 2017, the naming of the award was obvious.