SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
MEMORANDUM
TO: ?
Senate
FROM:
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Trude Heift, Chair, Senate Graduate Studies Committee
SUBJECT: ?
Graduate General Regulation 1.9— Preparation for Examinations
DATE:
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June 1, 2006
cc:
At its meeting of 8
th
May 2006, Senate Graduate Studies Committee approved the
following changes to the graduate general regulation 1.9 - Examining committees, and
recommends these changes to Senate for approval:
1.9.1 Examining committee for a master's degree candidate (GS2006.20)
Add the following paragraph at the end of item
C:
"For a thesis defence in the Faculty ofArts & Social Sciences, a master's examiner may
not be a member of the same department as the one granting the degree, unless a waiver is
granted by the Dean ofArts & Social Sciences or his/her designate."
1.9.3 Examining committee for doctoral thesis (GS2006.19)
Add the following paragraph at the end of item
C:
"For a thesis defence in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, the 'internal external'
examiner may not be a member of the same department as the one granting the degree."
Rationale:
This is a reinstatement of similar language in the graduate general regulations, and
applicable to examining committees of graduate students in departments of the Faculty of
Arts & Social Sciences.
LLLJ-
MOTION: "that Senate approve the proposed change to Graduate
General Regulation 1.9 - Examining Committees"
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SGSC-Senate-GS2006.19,20 ?
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GS2006. 20
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
MEMORANDUM
To:
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Jon Driver, Dean
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From: ?
Mary Ann Gillies, Chair
Graduate Studies ?
FASS Graduate
Studies Committee
Subject: Calendar Revision
Graduate Regulations ?
Date: ?
April 11, 2006
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Studies Committee, at its
meeting of September 29, 2005 passed a motion to change the Graduate
Regulations as follows:
"That the PASS Graduate Studies Committee approve the reinstatement into the
Graduate Regulations that External Examiners for M.A. thesis defences be from outside
the department offering the degree unless a waiver
of
this regulation has been requested,
and granted by the Dean
of
Arts and Social Sciences or his/her designate."
Would you please place this item on the agenda of the next SGSC
meeting?
Thank you.
Mary Ann Giffies, Chair
Faculty of Arts Graduate
Studies Committee
Attach.1
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GS2006.19
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Office of
the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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MEMORANDUM
To:
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Jon Driver, Dean
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From: ?
Mary Ann Gilhies, Chair
Graduate Studies
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FASS Graduate
Studies Committee
Subject: Calendar Revision
Graduate Regulations
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Date: ?
April 11, 2006
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Studies Committee, at its
meeting of September 29, 2005 passed a motion to change the Graduate
Regulations as follows:
"That the FASS Graduate Studies Committee approve the reinstatement into the
Graduate Regulations that the Internal Examiner for Ph.D. thesis defences be from
outside the department offering the degree."
Would you please place this item on the agenda of the next SGSC
meeting?
Thank you.
Mary Ann
Ann Gfflies, Chair
Faculty of Arts Graduate
Studies Committee
Attach.1
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