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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
MEMORANDUM
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Trude Heift, Chair, Senate Graduate Studies Committee
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Graduate General Regulation 1.5.1 - Normal grading system
(GS2006.12)
DATE:
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April
25,
2006
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At its meeting of
10th
April 2006 Senate Graduate Studies Committee approved the
following changes to the graduate general regulation 1.5.1 - Normal grading system, and
recommends these changes to Senate for approval:
15.1 Normal grading system
Add the following after the list of grades and points:
"The CGPA is the cumulative average of the grade points earned only in Simon Fraser University
graduate courses taken towards a master's or doctoral degree."
Rationale:
Similar language was in the Calendar until 2002/03, but was inadvertently removed. This
needs to be restored due to numerous cases of students asking that undergraduate courses
taken during the graduate program be included in the CGPA calculation.
Motion:
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"that Senate approve the above-noted revision to Graduate General Regulation
1.5.1
Normal Grading System"
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
MEMORANDUM
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Chairs of facult
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graduate program committees
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Jonathan Driver, Dean of Graduate Studies
SUBJECT: ?
Two
proposed changes to graduate regulations
DATE: ?
181h January 2006
cc:
At the SGSC meeting of January 16th 2006 two changes to graduate general regulations
were discussed, and it was recommended that these first be presented to the graduate
program committees in each faculty for comment. I will therefore bring these two
proposals to the April SGSC meeting for a decision. This should give the faculty
representatives time to discuss these issues and to receive some direction from graduate
program chairs on whether or not to support them when SGSC votes.
1.
Graduate General Re
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1.8.2 "Review
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2.
Graduate General Re
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ulations
1.5.1
After the first section that lists the grades and their points,
add
the following:
The CGPA is the cumulative average of the grade points earned in the Simon Fraser
University graduate courses taken towards a graduate diploma, or towards a master's or
doctoral degree.
Rationale:
very similar language was in the Calendar until 2002/03. We need to restore
this language, because there have been cases of graduate students asking that
undergraduate courses taken during the graduate program be included in the CGPA
calculation. I have been back through the documents pertaining to the review of graduate
regulations in 2000/2001, and I believe that this language was inadvertently removed.
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Proposed Change to Graduate General Regulations
Proposal:
That the following sentence be added to the end of the first
paragraph under the list of possible graduate grades in section 1.5.1 of the
Graduate General Regulations:
The CGPA is the cumulative average of the grade points earned
in the Simon Fraser University graduate courses taken towards a
master's or doctoral degree.
Rationale:
This sentence was present in the calendar until the 2002-03
calendar. The current policy appears to be that undergraduate courses can
be counted towards the CGPA if the student asks that this happen. Such
a policy encourages abuse. In any case the current calendar language must
be made clear since the current policy is neither affirmed nor denied by any
explicit calendar language. The suggested language has the advantage that
all courses used in the computation will have been graded on the same basis.
Respectfully submitted,
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Richard Lockhart, Graduate Chair
Faculty of Health Sciences
9 January 2006
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