SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Senate Committee on University Priorities

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Memorandum

TO:

Senate

FROM:

John Waterl

Chair, SCUF

Vice PresidE

RE:

Report of the External Review of

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DATE: ?

March 15, 2

English (SCUP 06-13)

At its February 22, 2006 meeting SCUP reviewed the report of the External Review of

English, the response from the department, and the response from the Dean of Arts and

Social Sciences.

Motion

SCUP recommends to Senate that the Department of English and the Dean of Arts and

Social Sciences be advised to pursue the following as priority items:

1.

The Department should continue to review and revise its undergraduate course

offerings to balance pedagogical issues (such as theoretical approaches, course

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credit loads) with administrative issues (such as capping the percentage of

enrolments in Distance education courses).

2.

The Department should continue to examine and address the following issues

related to its graduate programs; graduate student funding and support,

collection and management of data on graduate students, and the promotion of

graduate student research.

3.

The Department should continue to monitor its faculty complement with particular

regard to the workload for mid-career faculty, availability of faculty supervisors to

graduate students, and reliance on sessional teaching. Plans for improvements

in these areas should be developed in consultation with the Dean's Office.

4.

The Department should, with the assistance of the Dean's Office and Human

Resources, review staffing and administrative workload, and implement changes

to better balance the distribution of workload among staff.

encl.

C. J. Pierce

•T. Grieve