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For Information

S.95-45

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Office of the Vice-President, Academic

MEMORANDUM

To: ?

Senate Committee on Academic Planning

From:

Alison Watt, Secretary to the Senate Committee on Academic Planning

Subject:

SFU Partnership with University College of the Cariboo - BBA program

Date:

2 June, 1995

Attached is a report summarizing our experience with the SFU/UCC Bachelor of Business

Administration Program. In 1989, Simon Fraser University signed a Memorandum of

Agreement with Cariboo College undertaking to cooperate in the provision of selected

degree programs for a minimum of

years and the SFU Senate approved the Cariboo

College/Simon Fraser University Bachelor of Business Studies program.

The partnership arrangement committed both partners to working together to develop

procedures for the recruitment and selection of faculty to teach the upper-level courses,

and to develop procedures to ensure that the curriculum and grading standards were the

same as those at SFU. It also required that the faculty at Cariboo engage in scholarly work

including creative or appropriate professional activities.

Earlier this year, the legislation covering University Colleges in British Columbia was

amended allowing these institutions to grant their own degrees. The University College

has proposed that the Bachelor of Business Administration start the transition to an

independent degree this fall. This means that students admitted to the third year of the

BBA program in September

1995

will be admitted to the UCC degree program and not to

the SFU/IJCC degree. Students already in the program at the present time will have until

1999 to receive an SFU degree.

We intend to take this report to the July meeting of Senate for information.

Enclosure

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Simon Fraser University

FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

MEMORANDUM

June 14, 1995

TO: ?

Dr. J.M. Munro, Vice President/ Academic

FROM: ?

Stanley J

Shapiro, Dean

RE: ?

University College of the Cariboo BBA Program

For some years, the SFU Faculty of Business Administration has been offering its

BBA program in Kamloops in conjunction with the University College of the

Cariboo. We are delighted to have been able to contribute, however modestly, to

increasing university access in the Interior. It has been ratifying as well to see the

program in Kamloops reach a very credible level of development. The specifics of

that development are spelled out in the accompanying memo from Dean Olesen.

The degree of SFU involvement can now markedly decline as our Cariboo

colleagues take effective control of their BBA offering.

University colleges have recently been given degree granting authority. Both we at

SFU and those at UCC have benefited from our recent partnership. However, we

now see no reason why the formal agreement linking our two institutions should

not be terminated. Although we will continue to provide advice whenever asked,

the time has come for the business program at UCC to stand on its own. I look

forward to that program flourishing in the years to come.

THE. UNWERSITY COLLEGE OF THE CAEJBOO -

S!MC N FRASER UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of

Business

Adthiñisfration

Degree Project

May

31,, 1995

qb-

Bachelor of Business

Ad,ninLctration

Degree Project

BACKGROUND

In 1989

he B.C.

Government announced the Access Program designed to expand the opportunities

for British Columbians living outside the lower ninbnd to complete 4 year baccalaureate degrees

without relocating to Vancouver, Victoria or Burnaby.

the time, four community colleges were

designated to become "University Colleges." Of the four - Cariboo College, Fraser

Valley

College,

Okanagan College and Malaspina College - only Cariboo College had developed over the previous

10 years a strong University Transfer program to UBC and SFU in Commerce and Business

Administration. It was a natural extension of its existing program and faculty strengths that Cariboo

College

(hereafter

referred

as UCC - University College of the Cariboo) would seek to implement

a baccalaureate degree in Business Administration

SFIJ AND THE MENTORSHIP MODEL

To achieve

timely

implementation and ensure the quality of the egrees to be offered at the univeristy

colleges the Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training chose a mentorship model for

implementation of the recommendations of the Access Report. UCC approached SFU to discuss the

possibilities for entering into an association agreement to offer the SFU BEA degree at UCC.

• Professor Stanley Shapiro, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Professor Robert

Rogow, Director of the Undergraduate Program in Business Mministration supported the mentorship

model concept and were instrumental in developing the Memorandum of Cooperation between SF0

and UCC passed at the March 8, 1989 meeting of the SFU Senate Committee on Academic Planning.

(See Appendix 1)

Key objectives of the SFU mentorship program included:

assisting UCC with the development of curriculum and grading standards at

the 3rd

and 4th year of the BBA consistent with those at SFIJ;

assisting UCC to recruit qualified faculty to teach the upper level courses in the

program;

assisting UCC in the development of program policies and procedures that will ensure

the ongoing quality and integrity of the BBA program:

Curriculum and Grading Standards

The initial UCC-SFU BBA program consisted of concentrations in Marketing, Human Resource

Management and General Business. Because of our lower initial enrolments and fewer qualified

faculty we do not offer the range of concentration electives available at SFU.

Bachelor of Business Administration Degree Project

Cijriiculum standards have been monitored, by the: Faculty at SFU through the review of upper level

course packages each semester consisting of course outlines, major projects,, assignments or cases

and final exams. UCC has also designated funds to support faculty, traveling down to Burnaby

Mountain periodically to discuss courses and research projects with SITU faculty.

Final course grade lists and grade distribution reports for

each upper

level BBA course are also

included with each course package. UCC faculty

reference the same grading norms used by the

faculty at SFU. Final grade Uts are reviewed by the Dean of the Business,, Computing and

Malbematics Division at UCC as well as, the Director

of the

Undergraduate Program at SFU. There

have also been cases where we have asked SFU faculty to read student final exams and provide UCC

faculty with feedback on their grading practice.

Recruitment of Qualified Faculty

The SFIJ Faculty of Business. Administration approve all instructors teaching upper level courses in

the BBA program at UCC In recruiting to fill specific faculty positions responsible for teaching and

carrying out scholarly activity, the appropriate, SF13 Area Coordinator or

his/her

designate review the

CVs of shoxtlisted candidates and sit on UCC selection committees. They travel to' UCC and

participate in the selecuon process by attending the presentation of papers and interviewing

candidates.

The participation of'SFIJ faculty in the building of a coreBBA faculty at UCChas beenone of

the

more valuable mentoring functions in

, the current modeL,

Quality Assurance and Program Operations

Professor Robert Rogow, Directoroftbe Undergraduate Prop=

in,

Business .AdministrtiOn at SPU

hasprovided invaluable assistance in the development of

Apiogram policies and procedures that

have prepared UCC to move out from under.-the

nunuring;

guidance of

SRi

and become independent

Our procedures follow those refined over the years at

SRi..

With respect to Ongoing quality assurance faculty are. required. to. prepare: annual Professional

Activity Reports describing their, work in Teaching, Scholarly Activity and Professional Development

and Service over the past year Under

, the

mentorshipprogram, these have; been reviewed by Area

Coordinators at SFU. UCC is currently in the process of impinenting a policy and procedures for

the evaluation of scholarly activity.

In addition, student questionaires areconducted meveryBBA courseeacb:semester. The results of

these evaluations. have been included with the course packages sent to

SRI

for review.

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Bachekr

of Business Administratkn Degree Project -

GROWTH OF THE UCC BBA PROGRAM

What originaJly began as the Bachelor of Business Studies degree program with concentrations in

Marketing and Human Resource Management and General Business has undergone a name change

(to Bachelor of Business Administration) and been

modified

to a more traditional format New

concentrations have been added in Accounting (1993) and Finance (beginning Fall. 1995).

UCC is pleased with the growth of the BBA program under the SF0 mentorsbip model The

following graphs show:

UCC/SFU Graduates 1991

1995

UCC/SFtJ Reported (actual) FrEs compared with the Program Profile (funded)

FFE's.

This graph shows

that

by 1992-93 UCC was exceeding its funded profile for

the B 1A

program. For the current year ending

(1994-95),

UCC is operating at 146% of

Total Course Registrations: BBA and Pre-BBA

in this graph "BBA" includes all upper level BBA courses.

"Pre-BBA" includes the lower level BBA courses only.

UCC/SFU BBA Graduates

Degrees Awarded, b Year

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Bachelor

Business Administration Degree Project

UCC BBA FACULTY

The UCC

BBA

program is delivered by faculty in the Accounting, Management and

Marketing,

and

Economics

and Finance departments of the Business, Computing and Mathematics Division at UCC.

The following b

caly identified with an asterisk have been approved by SFU to teach courses in the

0CC BBA program.

Accounting:

*Roger Collins, B.A. (Hans.) (CNAA), M.Sc. (L,S.E.)

*Berndt Sigloch, DIpL Ing. (T.U. Berlin), M.B.A. (Brit. Col.)

*Dan Thompson, B.Comm., B.Ed. (Man.), M.B.A. (Queens), C.M.A.

Ivan Desjardins, B.B.A. (Bishop's), Dipi. Pub. Ace. (McGill), M.A. (Sherbrooke),

C.A., CMA

*Brock Dykeman. B.A., Lie. Acct. (Brit. Cal.), C.A.

Marketing:

*Ken Blawatt, B.Sc. (Man.), M.B.A. (York), Ph.D. (Cranfield. U.K.)

Ilan Dumouchel, B.Comm. (Concordia), MBA (McGill)

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Tom Mahaffey (visiting P.T. appointment in 1995-96), B.A., (Alberta), M.Ad.Ed.,

(St. Francis Xavier), M.B.A., (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Queen's)

Human Resource Management:

*John Bratton, B.Sc. (Hons. Econ.) (Hull, U.K.), MA. (Leeds), Ph.D. (Manchester)

Judy Wahn, B.A. (Hans.) (Sask.), MBA (Sask.), Ph.D. (U of Alberta)

Finance:

*Philip Russel, B.A. (Delhi), M.A. (Delhi), MBA (Morgan), Ph.D. (U-Mass,

exp. 1996)

*Zna Seldon, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Iowa State), Ph.D. (Man.), Economics

Management Science and MIS:

*Danjng Sun, B.Sc. (Shanghai), M.Eng. (Whorton), Ph.D. (BriLCol)

Warren, B.Sc. (Toronto), MA Sc. (Waterloo)

*Berndt Sigloch, Dipi. Ing. (T.U. Berlin), M.B.A. (Brit. Cal.)

Managerial Economics:

*Robert Androkovich, B.Sc. (Lethbridge), M.A., Ph.D. (West. Ont.)

*James Scidon. B.A. (Hans.) (Carelton),

Ph.D. (Duke)

Law:

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*Gwen Ginter, B.B.A. (SFW, MBA (York), LL.B. (Osgoode)

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Bachelor of

Business AdministroiiOn Degree Project

INDEPENDENCE

IJCC is still in the process of building its BBA degree program. We are committed to attracting

highly professional and enthusiastic faculty committed to quality in their teaching and scholarly

activity. We share the view that we are ready for independence but we would like to maintain a

continuing if more informal relationship with SF(J. Our faculty and administration have developed

effective working relationships with their counterparts at SF11 and we look forward to continuing

this

tradition.

The following, elements of a continuing relationship have been discussed with SFU both formally at

the administrative level and informally among faculty and received support-

Mentorshlp

and Collegiality

BBA Faculty, the BBA Advisor, the Dean and

Associate

Dean at UCC would find it

valuable

to be able to continue to discuss academic issues with and seek the advice of their

counterparts in the Faculty of Business Administration at SFU.

Recruitment

of Faculty

Because we do not have depth across all fields in Business, there may be times

when

it would

be helpful to have SF11 faculty assist us in reviewing CV's and possibly

candidates. 11CC would cover the costs for SFU faculty

participation.

It may be helpful to be able to call upon Area expertise at SF11 to assist us at times in

determining whether or not a faculty member is qualified to teach a specific upper division

course.

BBA Advisor

Consultation

We would like our BBA Advisor to be able to continue consulting SPU's

EBA

Advisor on

questions

that arise concerning program administration, student admissions and records.

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Bachelor of Business Administration

Degree Project

4. ?

BHA Quality Control

0CC plans to continue the practice of preparing upper division BB course packages at the

end of each semester. These packages currently include:

Course outline

Final examination

Major in-course assignment(s)

Final course grade list

Grade distribution report

Course evaluation

The UCC BBA Committee is about to begin the task of developing a regular BBA degree review

process. This process will have an internal component at 0CC and very likely an external component

The external component may involve an external reviewer evaluating the course packages for a

concentration or group of core courses. We might also include with each package samples of

students' final examination (eg. two "A"s, two "B"s and two "C's). The external reviewer would

be paid a small stipend and be appointed for 2 or 3 years.

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Once implemented. we would like to be able to call upon SFU faculty, among faculty from other

universities, to serve as external reviewers.

5. ?

Scholarly Activity

Because of the lack of depth in our faculty at this stage in our development, UCC would like

to continue to be able to consult with SF0, when necessary, on the adequacy of scholarly

activity

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dean Shapiro and Professor Robert Rogow for the

leadersbip, guidance and counsel they demonstrated in this project Our success is in no small

measure a result of their support and assistance, as well as the assistance of the faculty in Business

Administration.

Richard M.M.

Olesen, Dean

Business, Computing and Mathematics

May 31, 1995

/c.

AP1END1X '1'

sIMo:N FRASER UfIIVERSI7fl..

MEMORANDUM

" Senate ?

From: Sente:commthoevn

Aderni&PlannIng

bJect: Memorandum of

06Qper3tIon: ?

Date: 4Aarh9, 1989

(nhnt !rot-i'llcorl i q nd Aimon

4tontàken by the Sena1e ComniiUee.on Academic iPIariiing atits meethg of Marh 8.

1989 ieads;to The following

mOtion:

;MOT1ON:

1hat

Senate approve and rrecommend'approvi to The'Board

oVGovemors, asoUtJned

inS. 89-i5 the rnemorandurnOfcooperatiqn

between

Cariboo

College and Simon Fraser kuhiversity.

043t3ilj

CARI000 COLLEGE and

sn'ct FRASER LVIVERSITY

Cariboo College and Simon Fraser University agree to cooperate so as to 

provide programs of study designed to enable students to complete the 

requirements for selected degrees from the University while in 

attendance at the College. This cooperation shall continue for a 

minimum period of 5 years and is intended to facilitate the achievement 

of degree-granting status for Cariboo College. 

The College and the University further agree: 

1) that the determination of which degree completion programs 

should be offered at the College shall be made jointly by the 

College and the University; 

2) that the degrees offered at the College shall be designated 

as "degrees awarded by Simon Fraser University at Cariboo 

College" and distinguished by unique transcript and diploma 

notations; 

3)

that together they will develop procedures to ensure that the 

. curriculum and the grading standards used in the upper-level 

(3rd & 4th year) courses offered -in a program at the College 

are the same as those in the corresponding courses at the 

University, and that lower-level College courses articulate 

readily with upper-level courses; 

4)

that together they will develop procedures for the 

recruitment and selection of College faculty members to teach 

the upper-level courses in a program at the College. The 

College agrees that it will appoint only persons acceptabale 

to the University to teach and upper-level courses in a 

program at the College; 

5)

that as an essential aspect of 

maintaining

a high standard of 

quality in the teaching of upper division and professional 

courses, teaching loads and assignments will be set to take 

account of the need for faculty to engage in scholarly work 

including creative or appropriate professional activities; 

6)

that tuition fees for upper-level courses will be assessed 

and collected by the College, and that students in 

upper-level courses shall be registered as Cariboo College 

students (but clearly designated as being in upper-level 

courses associated with the University); 

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Memorandum of reement between 

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Cariboo College and Simon Fraser University 

7) that funding the upper-level courses will be separate from 

the general operating budgets of the University and the 

College; that the College will be directly funded by the 

Ministry for all operating costs of upper-level courses; and 

that the University will be directly funded by the Ministry 

at. '  

a level which will cover all its direct and indirect costs 

related to its role in. the prâgräms at the College. 

It is recognized that, it is the prerogative of the University Senate 

to determine the requirements for the degrees which it grants and to 

determine who has satisfied the requirements for such a degree. 

Convocations for the granting of degrees will be held at Cariboo 

College on a regular basis. 

Signed on behalf of Simon Fraser University 

Qualifying comments: 

President 

Signed on behalf of Cariboo College 

Qualifying comments: 

DCPSC/1 .14

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APPENDIX '2'

PROGRAM. STABLE ENROLLMENT, 1994-95

BBA

YEAR 3

& 4 ENROLLMENT HISTORY

424

467

PRE-BBA ENROLLMENT HISTORY

666

16%

336

25%

912

469

22.4

sxB8tJSV2P252

483

269

214

.5%

exB)S272

536

10%

294

130/6 ?

242

BBA &

442

374

26.7 =

BBA

PROGRAM FTE's 1994-95 (Stable Enrollment)

BSA PROGRAM: FTE HISTORY

34.7

1993/94

129.1

101

173

198990

7.1

1994/95

157.4