S.96-6
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
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MEMORANDUM
To:
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Senate
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D. Gagan, Chair
Senate Committee on Academic
Plalining
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Department of Biological Sciences -
Master of Aquaculture Program
Date:
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December 11, 1995
Action undertaken by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee and the Senate Committee
on Academic Planning gives rise to the following motion:
Motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.96-6 , that the Master of Aquaculture
Program be terminated as of September 1996."
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Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
email: breden@sfu.ca
tel: (604) 291-5647, -4475
fax:
(604) 291-3496
October 6,
1995
Faculty of Science
Simon Fraser University
In May, 1995 the Department of Biological Sciences voted to not support the Masters of
Aquaculture degree within the department. This followed a review of the role of
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:professional programs within the department by the Professional Programs COmmittee. -
This decision was based on the belief that the department no longer had the core faculty
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brought serious concerns to the Graduate Studies Committee in Biology, including
difficulty finding senior supervisors, excessive reliance on sessional instructors, and
required courses not being available. The Professional Programs Committee recommended
to the department that either sufficient resources had to be directed to the aquaculture
program to improve it, including expanding the faculty in this area, or that the program
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should be disbanded. After lengthy discussion the department voted to not continue the
program.
Sincerely,
Felix Breden
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Chair
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USIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
TO: C.H.W. Jones
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FROM: ?
Brian A. McKeown, Chair
Dean of Science
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Dept. of Biological Sciences
RE: M.Aq. PROGRAM
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DATE: ?
June
7,
1995
Last April the Department of Biological Sciences voted to terminate the M.Aq.
program. Since that time there have been efforts to find an alternate home base for
this program. This is still an ongoing process. New applicants have been informed of
the status of the program and their files have been kept on hold. We will now inform
them that they will not be admitted for the fall,
1995.
There are presently eleven
students in the
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and they will require one more year to finish. The
Department will do all it can to assist these students to graduate.
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Brian A. McKeown
BAM/mc
cc: M. Winston
B. Hartwick
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