SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
To:
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Senate
From:
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Alison Watt, Secretary, Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules (SCAR)
Subject:
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Motion to amend the method of electing members to Senate Graduate Studies
Committee
Date: ?
27 June, 2006
The attached memorandum from Dr. Heift outlines a recommendation for electing graduate
students to the Senate Graduate Studies Committee for vacancies that exist or occur after the
regular round of elections by and from graduate students in the spring semester.
The SGSC proposal is to change the conditions for electing graduate students as follows:
From:
"Elected by and from Graduate Students"
SGSC proposal
"Elected annually in the Spring Semester by and from graduate students. Post-election
vacancies will be elected by and from the Graduate Issues Committee at a regular
meeting of the Graduate Issues Committee."
At its meeting on 26 June, 2006, SCAR reviewed this material, and members of SCAR will
propose an amendment to the above motion at the Senate meeting so that the revision would
read:
SCAR proposal ?
To:
"Elected annually in the Spring Semester by and from graduate students. Post-election
vacancies will be filled by election by Senate."
Motion:
"that Senate approve the proposed change to the Conditions of membership of graduate
students to the Senate Graduate Studies Committee
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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MEMORANDUM
TO: ?
Senate
FROM: ?
Trude Heift, Chair, Senate Graduate Studies Committee
SUBJECT: SGSC membership
(GS2006.15)
DATE: ?
May 31, 2006
cc: ?
Mary Catharine Lennon, Graduate Issues Officer, SFSS
At its meeting of
8th
May 2006 Senate Graduate Studies Committee recommends the
following changes to the Conditions of graduate student members of SGSC:
From:
"Elected by and from Graduate Students"
To:
"Elected annually in the Spring Semester by and from graduate students. Post-election
vacancies will be elected by and from the Graduate Issues Committee at a regular meeting
of the Graduate Issues Committee."
Rationale:
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Currently, election is held annually in the Spring Semester by and from graduate students.
Any vacancies cannot be filled until the Summer Semester.
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Modification to the Conditions would allow sufficient student representations on SGSC.
MOTION: "that Senate approve the proposed change to the Conditions?
of membership of graduate students to the SGSC"
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SGSC-Senate-GS2006.15 ?
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5/31/2006
Senate Graduate Studies Committee (SGSC)
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GS2006. 15
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Standing (Reporting Category "B")
Members
Conditions
Term
Expiry Date
Name
Dean of Graduate Studies
Chair, Ex-Officio
Trude Heift
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
Ex-officio
Director, Graduate Admissions, Records
& Registration
Ex-officio
Valerie Ackroyd
University Librarian (or designate)
Ex-officio
Gwen Bird
Applied Sciences
Chair, Faculty of Graduate
Curriculum Committee
Wade Parkhouse
Arts & Social Sciences
Mary Ann Gillies
Business Administration
Carolyne Smart
Education
Tom
O'Shea
Health Sciences
Richard Lockhart
Science
Peter Mustard
Faculty Member, Applied Sciences
Elected
by/from
Faculty-level
Curriculum
Committee
2 years
May 31, 2008
pending
Faculty Member, Arts & Social Sciences
2 years
May 31, 2008
Martin Hahn
Faculty Member, Business Administration
2 years
May 31, 2008
Chris Veld
Faculty Member, Education
on
2 years
May 31, 2007
Allau
MacKinnon
Faculty Member, Health Sciences
2 years
May 31, 2007
Michel Joifres
Faculty Member, Science
2 years
May 31, 2007
Larry Dill
Graduate Student
Elected by/from Graduate
Students
1 year
May 31, 2007
Bhuvinder Singh Vaid
Graduate Student
1 year
May 31, 2007
vacant
Graduate Student (Alternate)
i year
May 31,2007
vacant
Graduate Student (Alternate)
1
year
May 31, 2007
vacant
Graduate Issues Officer, SFSS (or
designate)
Ex-officio
Mary Catherine Lennon
Secretary to Dean of Graduate Studies
Secretary, Ex-officio (non-
voting)
Vivian Blaker
Purpose
1.
To maintain the academic standards established by Senate.
2.
To review and make recommendations to Senate concerning new graduate programs.
3.
To review and make recommendations to Senate concerning major changes to graduate programs.
4.
To review and approve all proposed new graduate courses, course deletions, and minor changes to programs. These changes
shall be reported to Senate in summary form.
5.
To administer, review and make recommendations to Senate concerning Graduate General Regulations.
6.
To consider matters concerning Graduate Studies referred to the Committee, and to make recommendations to the appropriate
bodies.
Operation
1.
The Committee quorum shall be the Chair and seven members.
2.
A voting member of the committee who cannot attend a meeting may send a qualified alternate. For faculty members, this shall be
a member of the same Faculty who is qualified to chair his/her Department Graduate Program Committee, selected by the Faculty
Graduate Program Committee. For graduate students this shall be a graduate student so elected at Simon Fraser University.
3.
The Committee may establish sub-committees. With a two-thirds majority vote the Committee may delegate some of its powers
defined by the Graduate General Regulations to such sub-committees, or to the Dean of Graduate Studies. Graduate students
must be represented on all sub-committees.
4.
Committee meetings shall be open, except when addressing matters related to privacy of individuals.
5.
Committee meetings will be held on Mondays from 2:30 to 4:30 pm.
6.
The Committee shall report to Senate in March of each year.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY - DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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SGSC-LIST
4/25/2006
