DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE
Minutes of a meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on ?
Monday, November 6, 2006 at
5:30
pm in Room 3210 WMC
S
Open Session
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Present:
Stevenson, Michael, President and Chair of Senate
Breden, Fred
Brennand, Tracy
Caufield, Sarah
Copeland, Lynn
Corbett, Kitty
Dagenais, Diane
Deigrande, James
Dickinson, Peter
Dunnet, Margo
Easton, Stephen
Ester, Martin
Fizzell, Maureen
Fox, Graham
Gencay, Ramo
Gillies, Mary Ann (representing J. Pierce)
Gordon, Irene
Harder, Derrick
Haunerland, Norbert
Hayes, Michael
Heift, Trude (representing J. Driver)
Joffres, Michel
Jones, John (representing B. Lewis)
Kelly, Vanessa
Krane, Bill
Li, Wei
Liljedahl, Peter
MacKenzie, Christine
MacLean, David
Percival, Cohn
Percival, Paul
Peters, Joseph
Routledge, Rick (representing M. Plischke)
Russell, Robert
Schellenberg, Betty
Shaker, Paul
Shermer, Tom
Smart, Carolyne
Smith, Don
Tingling, Peter
van Baarsen, Amanda
Warner, D'Arcy
Weeks, Dan
Williams, Peter
Wong, Josephine
Absent:
Black, Sam
Gordon, Robert
Gregory, Titus
Halpern, Erica
Honda, Barry
Javed, Waseem
LaBrie, John
Lewis, Glynn
Louie, Brandt
McArthur, James
Pinto, Mario
Rebman, Rachelle
Vaid, Bhuvinder
Waterhouse, John
Zandvliet, David
Angerilli, Nello, Associate Vice-President, Students/International, and Acting Registrar
Watt, Alison, Director, University Secretariat
Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary
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Approval of the Agenda
The Agenda was approved as distributed.
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Approval of the Minutes of the O
p
en Session of October 16, 2006
The Minutes were approved as distributed.
Business Arising from the Minutes
Referring to the discussion concerning the lack of a mathematics or calculus course in the
B.Sc. program in Health Sciences, R. Russell indicated he had made follow-up inquires
about the math requirements in Ontario. He reported that high school students in Ontario
are required to take a calculus course so the statement that several Ontario universities do
not require mathematics in their B.Sc. Health Sciences programs was inaccurate. He felt
that this was an important omission which should be reflected in the minutes.
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Report of the Chair
i) ?
Paper S.06-117 - President's Agenda (For Information)
The Chair explained that the document represented an expanded version of his previous
agenda, and included some quantifiable goals requested by the Board of Governors for
the current year. These he had identified as research intensity, enrolment management
and enhancing the University's public profile. In response to an inquiry, Senate was
advised that he would be reporting the results to the Board of Governors, and had no
objection to the results also being reported to Senate.
A question was raised about peer reviewed publications in Education and Business
Administration. The Chair indicated that he was not aware of appropriate citations or
indexes in those fields but would be happy to include them if so advised.
Following discussion, the report was received by Senate for information.
Question Period
i)
In response to an inquiry about the final report of the Faculty Structure Task
Force, Senate was advised that the report, with various motions to Senate, will come
forward to the December Senate meeting.
ii)
A comment was made about the new SFU web site. It was suggested that a
correction would be appropriate to ensure it was clear that schools and departments are
both a level in the organization below faculties. The Chair requested that Public Affairs
and Media Relations should arrange for the appropriate adjustment.
Reports of Committees
A)
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Senate Committee on Under
g raduate Studies
i)
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Paper S.06-118 - Annual Re
p
ort (For Information)
The 2005-2006 Annual Report of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies was
received by Senate for information.
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ii) ?
Paper S.06-119 - Curriculum Revisions - Facult
y
of Arts and Social Sciences
(For Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved course deletions, new courses, and changes to
existing programs and courses in the following programs: Contemporary Arts,
Criminology, International Studies, Psychology, Linguistics, Women's Studies,
Cognitive Science, Economics, English, Geography, Gerontology, and History.
iii)
Paper S.06-120 - Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue (For Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved prerequisite changes and Writing and Breadth-Social
Science designations for the DIAL courses.
iv)
Paper S.06-121 - Curriculum Revisions - Facult
y
of Health Sciences (For
Information)
Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
under delegated authority, approved five new Health Science courses.
B)
Senate Nominating Committee
i) ?
Paper S.06-122 - Elections
Senate was advised that no further nominations had been received. Amanda van Baarsen
was therefore elected by acclamation as the Undergraduate Student on the Senate
Committee on Undergraduate Studies. The remaining vacancies will be carried forward
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to the next meeting.
C)
Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules
i)
Paper S.06-123 - Changes to the Senate Committee on University Teachin
g
and
Learning
Moved by P. Percival, seconded by L. Copeland
"that Senate approve the addition of the Director of the Student Learning
Commons to the membership of the Senate Committee on University
Teaching and Learning, as an ex-officio voting member of the
Committee"
It was noted that with this addition there would be three ex-officio voting members on the
Committee, and an inquiry was made as to whether having a third administrator as a
voting member was of concern to the committee. Since there was no one available to
respond to the inquiry, the Chair indicated the information would be made available at
the next meeting.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
ii)
Paper S.06-124 - Chan
g
es to the Senate Nominating Committee
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Moved by P. Percival, seconded by B. Schellenberg
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"that the following revisions to the membership and terms of reference of
the
1, 2007.
Senate Nominating Committee be approved, and take effect on June
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1.
that the number of Faculty Senators shall be increased, so that there
is one Faculty Senator representing each Faculty on the Senate
Nominating Committee
2.
that the terms of office of Faculty Senators shall all be two years, and
that the terms should be staggered so that the terms of half of the
positions end each year
3.
that the editorial revisions shown on the attached Terms of Reference
be approved"
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
iii)
Paper S.06-125 - Chan g
es to the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
Moved by D. Harder, seconded by I. Gordon
"that Senate approve the additions to the terms of reference of the Senate
Committee on Undergraduate Studies, as set out in S.06-125, effective
immediately"
An opinion was expressed that the addition of point 7 was unnecessary since it could be
considered as being covered under point La of the terms of reference. A concern was also
expressed about the inclusion of a specific requirement as opposed to the normal more
general reference to university regulations. Senate was advised that since the Task Force
responsible for this initiative had been disbanded, and because the WQB requirements
were considered to be a major undertaking by the University and were implemented for
the first time this Fall semester, SCUS felt it was important for the university community
to understand that SCUS was the committee now responsible to Senate for
recommendations or suggestions for change.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
iv)
Paper S.06-126 - Changes to the Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules
Moved by P. Percival, seconded by B. Schellenberg
"that the following revisions to membership of the Senate Committee on
Agenda and Rules be approved by Senate and take effect immediately:
1.
that a Student Senator (Alternate) position be added to SCAR; and
2.
that the position of Secretary be a non-voting position"
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
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Other Business
i) ?
Paper S.06-127 - SFU Librar
y
-Annual Re
p
ort (For Information
L. Copeland, Senator and Dean of Library Services was available in order to respond to
questions.
In response to an inquiry, L. Copeland confirmed that she wrote the unsigned
introduction of the report and advised Senate of a pagination error on page 20 which has
been corrected in subsequent editions of the report.
Following the brief discussion, the Annual Report of the SFU Library was received by
Senate for information.
Information
The date of the next regularly scheduled meeting of Senate is Monday, December 4,
2006.
The Open Session adjourned at
5:55
pm and Senate moved directly into Closed Session.
Alison Watt
Director University Secretariat
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