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To: Senate
From: C.L. Hamilton and
D.P. Robertson
Subject: A proposal to establish a Committee
Date: February 22, 1966
on Graduate Admissions as a sub-Committee
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of the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies
TYPE:
Continuing
PURPOSE: 1) To interpret the Senate's policy on admission to graduate work.
2) To review the graduate admission policy of the University and
to make recommendations to the Committee on Graduate Studies
as required.
MEMBERSHIP:
Registrar (Chairman)
6 members elected by and from the Senate Committee on Graduate
Studies.
Assistant Registrar - Admissions (non-voting Secretary)
TERMS OF
The six elected members will hold office for two years. (The
APPOINTMENT:
first elections will be for three members for two years and
three members for one year, in order to stagger the term.)
OPERATION: 1) Applications for graduate study will be
,
considered by the
departments before being submitted to the Committee. All
applications presented by the department will be considered by
the Committee after recommendations have been received from
the department concerned. The following rules will apply:
a)
No application unacceptable to a department on academic
grounds can be accepted by the Committee, although the
Committee may request the department to review its decision.
b) Applications acceptable to the department on academic
grounds, but which cannot be accepted because of space or
financial limitations, may be sent a letter stating this.
(It is embarrassing for a student to receive a formal
rejection letter when the unstated reason is non-academic.)
c)
Applicatts recommended by hedeptment may be rejected
by the Committee, but only after a request has been made
of the department to review its decision.
2)
As instructed by the Committee the Registrar's Office will
be responsible for administering the policies.
3)
The Secretary will be responsible for preparing the Agenda
of meetings, sending out notices and conveying the decision
of the Committee.