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Minutes of a Meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on
Monday, December 3, 2001 at 6:00 pm in Room 3120 WMC
Open Session
Present: Stevenson, Michael, President and Chair
Atkins, Stella
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Absent: Aloi, Santa
Budra, Paul
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Barrow, Robin
Cameron, Rob (representing B. Lewis)
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Bawa, Parveen
Chan, Albert
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Chang, Jack
Clayman, Bruce
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Dempster, Peter
Collins-Dodd, Colleen
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Grimmett, Peter
Copeland, Lynne ?
Gupte, Jaideep
D'Auria, John
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Heaney, John
Davidson, Willie ?
Jensen, Britta
Deigrande, James
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Klymson, Sarah
Dunsterville, Valerie ?
McArthur, James
Gerson, Carole ?
Muirhead, Leah
Gill, Alison
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Sekhon, Devinder
Haunerland, Norbert ?
Sirri, Odai
Hill, Ross
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Tansey, Caralyn
Jackson, Margaret ?
Warren, Joel
Jones, John ?
Yerbury, Cohn
Krane, Bill
Love, Ernie
Mauser, Gary ?
In attendance:
McFetridge, Paul
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Brockman, Joan
McInnes, Dina
Naef, Barbara
Paterson, David
Percival, Paul
Peters, Joseph
Pierce, John
Russell, Robert
Smith, Michael
Steinbach, Chris
Stephensen, Brock
Thandi, Ranbir
Toohey, Kelleen (representing J. Driver)
Van Aalst, Jan
Waterhouse, John
Weldon, Larry
Wessel, Sylvia
Wong, Milton
Wortis,
Heath, Ron, Dean of Student Services and
Michael
Registrar
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Watt, Alison, Director, University Secretariat
Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary
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Approval of the Agenda
The Agenda was approved as distributed.
2.
Approval of the Minutes of the Open Session of November
5.
2001
Senate was advised that there was an omission in the Minutes regarding an inquiry with
respect to the reading break and advertising in the Calendar. Following agreement that
the omission would be corrected, the Minutes were approved.
3.
Business Arising from the Minutes
i)
BUEC 333 Revisions
In response to a question raised at. the last meeting requesting details and clarification
with respect to the change of credit hours for BUEC 333, Senate was advised that more
lecture time was needed to provide more detailed examples and applications, and the
change would apply equally to both Business Administration and Economics students.
ii)
Centre for Dialogue Undergraduate Semester
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The following revisions were reported with respect to the Morris J. Wosk Centre for
Dialogue Undergraduate Semester:
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50
credit hours has been changed to
45
throughout the document
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the program name has been changed to 'Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue'
since courses would not always be held at the Centre for Dialogue
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the project's final publishable paper has been redefined to reflect the possibility
that the project might include radio or video
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the administrative home for the program has been designated as the Dean's Office
in the Faculty of Science
Senate was advised that SCAR felt that the changes were consistent with the tenor of
discussion at the last meeting and that no further action was required. It was noted that
the change from Continuing Studies to the Dean's Office was due to the need to have
internal processes in place for grade appeals etc. which were not available through
Continuing Studies.
An inquiry was made as to whether the program had been approved by the appropriate
committees within the Faculty of Science. It was pointed out that this was not a Faculty
of Science program. The Dean's office was an administrative location strictly to handle
student appeals and other student matters related to the program. The Dean of Science
confirmed that his office would administer the program while Mark Winston (a faculty
member in Science) was in charge of the program but when a new director was appointed
the administrative location should be reviewed. Concern was expressed that a precedent
was being set in that courses in this program do not have an academic home and
clarification was sought as to whether it was possible for the university to have courses or
programs that were not attached to any one Faculty. Clarification was not available at the
meeting but the Vice President Academic stated he would make inquiries and report back
to Senate at the next meeting.
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iii)
Woodsworth Chair
Senate was provided with a further update on the status of the Woodsworth Chair
appointment. As mentioned in an announcement from the Vice President Academic
dated November 23
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, the University Appointments Committee (UAC) reconsidered the
appointment of D. Noble and had sent the nomination back to the Department of
Humanities with a request that a new search be undertaken. The nomination did not have
the demonstrated support of the Humanities Department and the documentation in
support of the nomination was incomplete. The Department, together with the Dean,
would now decide when and what kind of new search would be undertaken.
iv)
Meeting Time for UTC and Search Committees
Reference was made to the concern raised at the last meeting about the specification of a
Friday meeting time in the call for nominations for the UTC and certain search
committees. The Vice President Academic reported that an analysis of the usage of
rooms by half days of the week had found that Friday afternoons appeared to be the time
with the lowest room utilization. In future, meetings of those groups would focus on
Friday afternoons.
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Report of the Chair
As announced in the press, the Chair reported that the University had formed a
consortium to receive a very substantial gift from Finning International of a property in
. the False Creek area. The gift to each of the four members - SFU, UBC, BCIT, and
Emily Carr - was valued at
8.5
million dollars each. The consortium agreement commits
the parties to initiate a planning process within each of the institutions to determine what
use they might make of the site and to integrate those interests across the consortium,
subject to the ratification of each institution's governing bodies. The agreement also
provides a clear exit agreement from the consortium if desired. Emily Carr and BCIT are
prepared to immediately occupy all or most of the buildings at commercial rent which
would pay for the full operating costs of the buildings. Under this arrangement there
would be no cost to SFU unless the university wished to utilize some of the existing
space. The Vice President Academic has been requested to initiate planning as to how
SFU might make use of this property and a sub-committee of SCUP has been set up to
work on this.
Reference was made to recent information in the press concerning Tech BC. The Chair
alerted Senate that there may be consequences to the University as a result of decisions
with respect to Tech BC. It is possible that the Ministry may regard the protection of the
students in existing programs at Tech BC as a priority to ensure satisfactory completion
of their programs. In addition, the shortfalls in enrolment at Tech BC would have a
significant impact on general planning and accessibility. The Chair reiterated that no
official communication had been received from the Ministry with respect to this issue.
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Question Period
There were no questions submitted.
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Reports of Committees
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Senate Nominating Committee
i)
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Paper S.01-73 (Revised) - Elections
The following are the results of elections to Senate Committees.
Committee to Review University Admissions (CRUA)
One undergraduate student (alternate) to replace W. Gerwel for term of office to May 31,
2002.
Elected by acclamation: ?
Cynthia Leung
Research Ethics Board (REB)
Two Faculty or Staff Members for terms of office to May 31,
2005.
Elected by acclamation: ?
Kathleen Akins
John Lowman
Two members of the community from outside the University for term of office to May
31, 2004.
Candidates: L. Kennedy, B. Melville, R. Ogden
Elected: ?
Lynne Kennedy
Bill Melville
Senate Appeals Board (SAB)
One (at-large) Undergraduate Student to replace S. Al-Natour for term of office to May
31, 2003.
Elected by acclamation: ?
Cynthia Leung
Senate Committee on Continuing Studies (SCCS)
One (at-large) Student Alternate to replace L. Ho for term of office to May 31, 2002.
Elected by acclamation:
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Muneer Esmail
Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUTL)
One Faculty Member (Science) to replace B. Honda for term of office to May 31, 2002.
Elected by acclamation:
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Bernard Roitberg
Senate Nominating Committee (SNC)
One Faculty Senator to replace P. Budra for term of office to May 31, 2002.
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Elected by acclamation:
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Carole Gerson
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B)
University Board on Student Discipline (UBSD) and Senate Committee on
Disciplinar
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Appeals (SCODA)
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Paper S.01-74 - Annual Reports (For Information)
Joan Brockman, Co-ordinator of the UBSD and Joseph Peters, Senator and Chair of
SCODA were in attendance in order to respond to questions. The annual reports were
received by Senate for information.
C)
Senate Library Committee (SLC) including Librar
y
Penalties Appeal Committee
(LPAC)
Bruce Clayman, Senator and Chair of the SLC and Lynne Copeland, Senator and
University Librarian were in attendance in order to respond to questions. The annual
report was received by Senate for information.
D)
Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
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Paper S.01-76 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Applied Sciences (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved new courses in the School of Kinesiology.
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Paper S.01-77 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Arts (For Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved new courses in the Department of Linguistics and
curriculum revisions to existing courses/programs in the Department of Psychology.
iii)
Paper S.01-78 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Education (For Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved new courses and curriculum revisions to existing
courses and programs in the Faculty of Education.
iv)
Paper S.01-79 - Deletion of courses not offered/Temporaril
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Withdrawn Courses
(For Information)
Senate regulation states that any courses not offered within a six semester period should
be deleted from the Calendar unless adequate justification for retaining the course is
presented. Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Studies, acting under delegated authority, approved the deletion of ARCH 378, CMPT
400, EDPR 347, EDPR 407, EDPR 461, EDUC 420, GEOG
475,
GERM 141, GERM
205, GS 106, GS 410, GS 411, POL
357,
POL 382, POL 427, POL 430.
Senate regulation also provides an option for departments to identify courses that have
not been offered as 'temporarily withdrawn' (mothballed) if they do not wish to delete
the course. Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
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Studies, acting under delegated authority, identified the following courses under this
provision as being temporarily withdrawn: ARCH 410, BUEC 397, ECON 101, ECON
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459,
ECON 468, EDUC 250, EDUC 342, EDUC 343, HIST 104, HIST
354,
HIST 418,
LING 423, POL 330, POL 311.
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Senate Graduate Studies Committee
i)
Paper S.01-80 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Arts (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
delegated authority, approved curriculum revisions in the following departments:
English, Geography, Political Science, and Psychology.
ii)
Paper S.01-81 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Education (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
delegated authority, approved new courses in the Faculty of Education.
iii)
Paper S.01-82 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Science (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
delegated authority, approved curriculum revisions in the following departments:
Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Geography, and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.
7.
Other Business
There was no other business.
8.
Information
The date of the next regularly scheduled meeting is Monday, January
7,
2002.
Open Session adjourned at 6:30 pm. Following a brief recess, Senate moved into Closed
Session.
Alison Watt
Director, University Secretariat
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