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OFFICE OF THE VICE—PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
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MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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D. Gagan, Chair
Senate Committee on Academic
Planning
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Admission to the Faculty of Business Administration
(SCAP Reference: SCAP 99- 11)
Date: ?
February 11, 1999
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Enrollment Management and
Planning and the Senate Committee on Academic Planning gives rise to the
following motion:
Motion:
"that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors, as set
forth in S.99 -30 that the 15% cap on Category 1 admissions to the Faculty
of Business Administration be removed'
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Senate Committee on ?
FROM W. Wattamaniuk, Director
Academic Planning ?
Analytical Studies
RE:
Admission to the Faculty of Business DATE: January 29, 1999
Administration
At its December 1997 meeting, Senate approved a proposal outlining new
admission criteria for undergraduate students seeking entry to the Faculty of
Business Administration. The proposal called for the admission of students to the
Faculty from four streams:
'Category 1 Direct from Secondary School
*Category 2 Direct from College
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Category 3 Internal transfer for students who have taken all their courses
at SFU.
'Category 4 Internal transfer for students who have taken some courses at
SFU and some courses from other post-secondary institutions.
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However, at the time of approval, the Senate motion was amended to include a 15%
limit on students admitted from the Category 1 stream-direct from secondary
school.
The Senate Committee on Enrollment Management and Planning, having been
charged with recommending to SCAP annual targets for the admission of new
students into undergraduate programs and Faculties at SFTJ, believes that the 15%
cap on Category 1 admissions into the Faculty of Business Administration
unnecessarily ties its hands in terms of its role in setting annual targets,
particularly since no other Faculty at SFU has such limits imposed on it.
Furthermore, Senate now reviews admissions targets and proportions of
admissions by category on a regular basis and therefore the stated restriction is no
longer necessary.
Motion 1.
"That SCAP approve and recommend approval to Senate that the 15% cap on
Category 1 admissions to the Faculty of Business Administration be
removed."
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Memorandum
To: ?
Walter Wattainaniuk
From: Maureen Fizzell
Date:
29/1/99
Re
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Future Faculty Admission Plans
In response to your request about the future admission plans for the Faculty of Business
Administration, I am sending you my plans up to 2000/2001. You will notice that the total
admissions in 98/99 and 99/00 are higher. The reason for this increase is that the direct
admissions from high school do not have any impact on our FTEs until they start taking 300
And 400 level courses These two years represent the faze in of these students into our
admission level In 2000/2001, we will reduce the number of students we will admit in
Category
:3 to recognize the students that were admitted two years earlier as Category 1
students
Actual
1997/98
Actual
1998/99
Target
1999/00
Target
2000/C
Category 1
N/A
88
100
100
Category 2
N/A
46
70
70
Category 3
N/A
240
245
160
Category 4
N/A
2il1
12
Total
503
575
590
500
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FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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NEW ADMISSION CRITERIA
Admission Information
Criteria
Students
will be selected
competitively from one of four streams:
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Category 1- Direct from Secondary School:
A portion of the annual admission will be selected from secondary school graduates based
on the general SFU admission requirements plus Mathematics 12*.
Category 2- Direct from College:
A portion of the annual
2rIrni 1 on
will be selected from stunts transferring from
community colleges or technical instimtes These sn*"ts must have com p
l
eted
all of the
lower division requirement courses (except BUS 201 and 254 which may be com p leted
after Faculty admission"). Students
will be selected competitively based on
the SFIJ
admission grade point average.
Category 3. All courses at SPU:
A portion of the annual 2
dmission will be selected from students who have completed all of
their
courses
at SF1.1 including the lower division requirement courses (except BUS 207
and 254 which may be completed after Faculty dmi,zion*).
Shident
will be selected
competitively based on the cumulative grade point average.
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Category 4- Some courses at SFU and some
courses at other
post-secondary institutions:
the
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portion
of annual
admission will be selected from students who havecompleted some
Courses at SPU and some courses
at other
post-secondary
mitiWions
incl
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ding the luw-
division requirement courses (except BUS 207 and 254 which may be completed after
Faculty admission**).
Smdnt
will be selected based on a grade point average which will
be a combination of grades earned at SFU and at other institutions.
To be
considered for
adm i ss i
on to
the Faculty, s
tudents
in Categories 2,3 and 4 must have
completed each lower division requirement course with
1mimm
C- (C
rnimt)
grade.
The number of
nndrgrvInr
students
granted entry to the Faculty is Iinnri1 to 400 to 600
new students per academic year.
or equivalent Advanced Placement or
In ternati
ona l Baccalaureate
courses as
listed
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Gehera1Abnission Requirements for
British Columbia
Secrmdary
Schools.
'kf BUS 207
and/or 254
have
been taken,
they will
be calculated into
the OPA used for
2i4niciOfl to the Faculty.
Application Procedures
Students applying under Category 1 or 2, should apply to the Faculty at the same time that
they apply for admission to SFU.
Students
applying under Category 3 or 4, should apply to
the Faculty after completing their
thirtieth
semester hour
and
before completing the
sixtieth hour.
Students should apply
during the semester in which the lower division requirements, as listed below (
except BUS
201 and 254) are completed.
Students not accepted upon
initial application may re-apply.
Unsuccessful applicants may appeal through the Faculty Appeals Committee.
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Rationale:
Currently the Faculty of
Business
Administration admits students
after they have completed
the lower division courses. Their
admi
sion is based
solely on
their cumulative OPA with
the COPA for SPU courses taking precedence over the CGPA of transferred
in courses.
Grades earned
on courses
taken via Letters of Permission are not included in either the
SP y
CGPA or the transferred in COPA This criteria for
adn'Ofl
has resulted in some
inequities that we want to correct.
The Faculty used the facilities of the Analytical Studies department to better
undtstand
the
educational background
of our admitted stu
An
Ls.
That research determined that students
who came to
SFU directly from Secondary School did better on average in our Program
than those who camefrom Colleges. We therefore want to Capture the Secondary School
students
quicker by
n
dmi
rtin
g them directly to the Faculty. We think that this change will
allow us to attract more Secondary School
Stu ntc
who will be scholarship
winners.
The
research also revealed that the grades
tamed in
courses at the colleges tend
e
d to be
higher than the
grades
earned in
to equivalent
courses taken at
y
SP
. Min created an
inequity in our
hnca
i
nn
criteria. Studnr who take all of
their courses at
y
SP
recognize
that students who have take
n
some comes a college have a be= chance of being
adnti
rr
ed into the Faculty. To help control
this
inequity, we are allocating a
segment of our
dn"
sions to students who have taken all
of their courses at SFU.
For those
S
r
%u IPntc
who have taken some courses at
SF11 and some at a college we want to
calculate a GM which will indnd
all
of the
coes
tdMn at the
various
institutinns.
Beca n
c
of the
bigher grades from the colleges we
want
to rerbre
each
college grade
slightly beket calcnithg
the global GM. This will
bring
d two sets of grades
Cl
os
into
lignTnt
The GPA usedadmission will
inn
grades earned on courses taken
at SFTJ,
thoce
transferred in from other institutions and those
tIn
under Letters of
Permission.
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We also want to amact
S1fl1ts
from the colleges who have completed all of the required
lower
division
curses. A portion of the
annual admission will,therefore, be reserved for
these
studen
ts.
Most stud .4t
' who start at a college do not complete all of
the
required
courses before coimn
g to SFU. The number of students who would fall into this category
is
therefore not very large.
The appmmmiatepumtaps
suggested
for each group will be adjusted over time
as the
pool of smta from which the selection is
madechanges. These percentages as well as
other i
formation with
respect
to
application criteria will be made
available
to studam via a
web page and information brochures.
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