. DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE
Meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on
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Monday, April 3,2006at5:30pm in Room 3210 WMC?
Open Session
Stevenson, Michael, President and Chair of
Senate
Absent:
Black, Sam
Brennand, Tracy
Corbett, Kitty
Dickinson, John
Fizzell, Maureen
Fleming-Saraceno, David
Gordon, Robert
Halpern, Erica
Honda, Barry
Louie, Brandt
McArthur, James
Plischke, Michael
Smith, Don
Tilley, Kevin
Weeks, Daniel
Zandvliet, David
Present:
Apaak, Clement
Breden, Felix
Budd, James
Caufield, Sarah
Copeland, Lynn
Dickinson, Peter
Easton, Stephen
Ester, Martin
Gordon, Irene
Grimmett, Peter
Harder, Derrick
Haunerland, Norbert
Hayes, Michael
Heift, Trude (representing J. Driver)
Horvath, Adam
• Hunsdale, Shawn
Javed, Waseem
Joifres, Michel
Krane, Bill
LaBrie, John
Lewis, Brian
Love, Ernie
MacKenzie, Christine
MacLean, David
Magee, Sean
Percival, Cohn
Percival, Paul
Pierce, John
Pinto, Mario
Schellenberg, Betty
Scott, Jamie
Uhlmann, Sasha
van Baarsen, Amanda
Warner, D'Arcy
Waterhouse, John
Williams, Peter
Wong, Josephine
Woodbury, Robert
Heath, Nick, Associate Registrar
Watt, Alison, Director, University Secretariat
Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary
In attendance:
Archibald, Tom
Frisken, Barbara
Gill, Warren
Grieve, Tom
Kirkpatrick, Ted
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1. ?
Approval of the Agenda
The Agenda was approved as distributed.
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Approval of the Minutes of the Open Session of March
6. 2006
Following a brief clarification about the wording of the last full paragraph at the bottom
of page 6
concerning the Chair of the Board of IBT, and a spelling correction, the
Minutes were approved as distributed.
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3.
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Business Arising from the Minutes
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Paper S.06-47 - Revised Coat of Arms
Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by J. Pierce
"that Senate recommend to the Board of Governors the revision of the
University's Coat of Arms to replace each crosslet with a book, with the
corresponding change being made in the University's flag"
W. Gill, Vice-President, University Relations was in attendance in order to respond to
questions. In answer to a question, it was confirmed that the only change being proposed
is to replace each crosslet with a book, and the ribbon would not be changed.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
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Report of the Chair
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Amendment to the University Act
The Chair reported that the clause in the University Act that prevented international
students from being elected as student' representatives on university Boards of Governors
has been repealed by the BC Legislature. Clement Apaak who had worked passionately
over the last few years to obtain this legislative change was congratulated on this
accomplishment.
ii)
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Budget
The Chair advised Senate that the budget reflected a positive commitment from the
Government to sustain the level of competitive excellence of universities on the research
front, but was disappointing in that the Government would not commit to inflation
adjustments to the grant provided for enrolment growth and would not commit to the
funding of graduate studies. The Chair stressed that the University has respected
academic priorities by allocating 80% of growth income (grant and tuition fee revenues)
to academic programs.
At the Federal level, the Chair informed Senate that the Government had not indicated
any particular interest in education as a priority but had indicated during the election a
commitment to dedicated transfers for higher education. Efforts are being made to
persuade the Government to act on this commitment in the near future.
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Question Period
There were no questions.
6.
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Reports of Committees
A) ?
Senate Committee on University Priorities
i)
Paper S.06-48 - External Review - Department of English
Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by J. Pierce
"that Senate concur with the recommendation of the Senate Committee on
University Priorities concerning advice to the Department on priority
items resulting from the external review"
T. Grieve, Chair, Department of English, was in attendance in order to respond to
questions.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
ii)
Paper S.06-49 - New Options: Industrial Mathematics Program
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Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by C. MacKenzie
"that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors, a
revision to the Major and Honors Program in Industrial Mathematics to
include Option A: Operations Research (Surrey), Option B: Scientific
Computing (Burnaby), and Option C: Discrete Mathematics (Burnaby)"
T. Archibald, Chair, Department of Mathematics, was in attendance in order to respond
to questions.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
iii)
Paper S.06-50 - New Program: Major and Honors Program in Biological Physics
Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by C. MacKenzie
"that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors, the
proposal for a Major and Honors Program in Biological Physics"
B. Frisken, Chair, Department of Physics, was in attendance in order to respond to
questions. In response to an inquiry about the impact of this new program on MBB
courses, Senate was advised that enrolments in the new program would not significantly
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impact other courses.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
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B)
Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning
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Paper S.06-51 - Revision to the Policy for Excellence in Teaching
Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by I. Gordon
"that Senate approve the changes to the criteria for the Excellence in
Teaching Award as outlined in the document "Award for Excellence in
Teaching", prepared by the Excellence in Teaching Award Committee"
T. Kirkpatrick, Chair, Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning, was in
attendance in order to respond to questions.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
C)
Senate Graduate Studies Committee
i)
Paper S.06-37 - Frequency of Awarding of Graduate Degrees
Moved by T. Heift, seconded by C. Apaak
"that Senate approve in principle a change to the schedule for the
awarding of graduate degrees so that graduate degrees may be awarded at
any Senate meeting"
Concern was expressed that allowing the awarding of degrees at an earlier point in a
semester creates a continuity problem for student registration, since under the current
system students can only register at the beginning of a semester, and once a degree has
been awarded, the student would no longer be considered registered and thus lose his/her
student status.
Considerable discussion ensued with respect to the registration issue raised. Senate was
advised that since this option would only be implemented at the request of the student,
students could postpone the completion of one degree to coincide with their registration
of another degree, or if they preferred could apply to have the date of degree completion
recorded on their transcript without delay.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
ii)
Paper S.06-38 - Changes to Graduate General Regulations (For Information)
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Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
delegated authority, approved changes to the following Graduate General Regulations:
GGR 1.2 - Senate Graduate Studies Committee, GGR 1.8.2 - Review of Unsatisfactory
Progress, GGR 1.3.12 - English Language Competence, GGR 1.5.1 - Normal Grading
System.
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Paper S.06-39 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Education (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
delegated authority, approved a prerequisite change for EDUC 867 and a change to
Graduate Diploma in Advanced Professional Studies in Education with regard to course
credit transfers.
iv)
Paper S.06-40
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SGSC Annual Report (For Information)
Brief discussion took place with respect to the figures for the doctoral degrees on page 6,
and an inquiry was made about why the SSHRC data was not separated into Post-
Graduate Scholarships and Canada Graduate Scholarships as had been done for the
NSERC scholarship data. The Associate Dean of Graduate Studies indicated that the
inquiry would be passed on and the information provided if available.
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Paper S.06-52 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Health Sciences (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
delegated authority, approved revisions to requirements and existing courses in the M.Sc.
in Population and Public Health program and the Graduate Diploma in Global Health.
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Paper S.06-53 - Curriculum Revisions - Department of Psychology (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
delegated authority, re-defined PSYC 807 and 980 to fulfill accreditation requirements of
the professional program by creating new courses with special identification (807a-e and
907a-f), approved a prerequisite change to PSYC 824, and approved minor revisions to
Calendar wording for existing course and degree requirements.
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Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
i)
Paper S.06-54 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Applied Sciences (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved minor revisions to existing courses and programs in
Engineering Science and Kinesiology.
ii)
Paper
S.06-55 -
Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Business Administration (For
Information)
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Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved the deletion of BUS 131 and the designation of BUS
360 as a (W) Writing course.
iii)
Paper S.06-56 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Science (For Information)
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Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved revisions to existing courses and programs in
Mathematics and Statistics.
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Paper
S.06-57
-Senate Committee on International Activities - Annual Report
(For Information)
Senate received the Annual Report for the period January - December 2005 of the Senate
Committee on International Activities for information.
7.
Other Business
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Paper S.06-58 -
40"
Anniversary Open House (For Information)
Senate received information about the
40th
Anniversary Open House on Saturday, June 3,
2006 including a proposal to have an information table on governance issues that cover
both the Board of Governors and Senate. Senators interested in participating were asked
to contact Alison Watt directly.
8.
Information
The date of the next regular meeting of Senate is Monday, May 15, 2006.
Open Session adjourned at 6:20 pm and Senate moved directly into Closed Session.
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Alison Watt, Director, University Secretariat
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