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For Information

S.93.52

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Continuing Studies, Office of the Dean?

Memorandum

To: Ron Heath

From:

Jo Lynne Hoegg, Chair

Registrar /Secretary of Senate

Re:

Date:

I am forwarding to you for submission to Senate, the Annual Report for

1992/93 of the Senate Committee on Continuing Studies.

JLH/lg

Ends.

Senate Committee on Continuing Studies

ANNUAL REPORT

May 1,1992-April 30, 1993

This report describes actions of the Senate Committee on Continuing Studies, the activities

of the extension credit and distance education programs, highlights several areas of program

development by Faculties, departments and schools at Simon Fraser University, and

summarizes course and enrolment data for extension credit programs and credit-free

programs.

Actions of the Senate Committee on Continuing Studies

The Committee met twice during the reporting period

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Credit-Free Program Approval

The SCCS approved and forwarded to SCAP proposals for four new credit-free certificate

programs: Business Writing Certificate Program, Technical Writing Certificate Program, and

Publishing Certificate Program, proposed by the Writing and Publishing Program University

Advisory Committee (Senate Paper S.93-28); and the Certificate Program in Management

proposed by the Faculty of Business Administration (Senate Paper S.93-28). These programs

were approved by Senate May 17, 1993 and have been implemented.

Statistics

Detailed statistical information on all extension credit programs and credit-free programs is

available through the Office of Analytical Studies.

Extension Credit Courses and Enrolments

Extension credit programs include the Burnaby Campus Evening Program (including

Intersession and Summer Session), SFU at Harbour Centre undergraduate programs, the

Faculty of Education Interior Programs, the SCES/SFtJ Program, distance education courses,

the Senior Citizens Program, and the Prison Education Program, as well as the various

certificate and diploma programs. In the period covered by this report, 945 courses were

offered through these programs with a total of 29,577 course enrollees. Enrolments in these

programs accounted for 20% of the total undergraduate annualized FIE for the University in

1992-93.

Compared to 1991-92, there was a decrease of 6.7% in the total number of courses offered

through Extension Credit (from 1,013 in 1991-92 to

945

in 1992-93) and a

5.9%

decrease in

the total number of enrollees in 1992-93 (from 31,421 to 29,577).

One hundred undergraduate courses were available by distance education during 1992-93.

Course offerings totalled 223, with course enrollees of 10,332, an enrolment decrease of 1%

relative to 1991-92.

Eighteen certificate programs involved 2,261 enrollees; post-baccalaureate' diploma

programs had 1,038 enrollees. Ninety-eight people attended classes through special audit in

1992-93.

Distance Education

More than 100 educational telecommunication (video) programs werebroacicastonthe

Knowledge Network in support of the

223 distance.educationccourse.offerings;intheperiod,

covered by this report.

Work on three international outreach programs continued duringi the,

yean—The University,

of the South Pacific

(through CIDA), the

University, ofHavana.(througli

CRAE):and

Commonwealth nations

(through The Commonwealthof Learning). Aswell;copy'e4itihgand.

course instructional design workshops were conducted at theUniversity ofthe: South •Pacific

and the University of the West Indies.

During the year the SFU Centre for Distance Education eceivedinternationaUdelgations

examining viable models for distance education from thePeoples'Republic. of China, CUba,

Australia, Fiji, Malaysia, Kingdom of Tonga, St. Vincent;.Nigeria,,Bahamas,,Maldives,,,

Vanuatu, Philippines, Tuvalu, South Africa, Norway, and Papua New Guinea.

Program Awards

a competition among universities across Canada, two SFU programs.receive& the

, top-

national Awards of Distinction from the Canadian Association fOr University Continuing

Education: the Faculty of Arts' SEC WEPEMC (native studies) CreditProgramn inJCamlbops

(in the."programs leading to diplomas, certificates, and'degrees" categoy);,andtheSchooltof'

Criminology's First Nations Gambling in British Columbia: An: Cpportunityfôr(fhang&and

Improvement

(in the "collaborative programs" category).

Credit-Free

Credit-free

Programs

program initiatives

during the year included:

Summer Instilutefor Union Women

The 1992 Institute, sponsored by the University and College Labor EducationAssociation,

the AFL/CIO Department of Education, and the Canadian Labour Congress, andhostedbythe:

B.C. Federation of Labour and SFU's Labour Program, was the first of theannuallInstitutesto

be held in Canada.

The Institute is a week-long, largely residential program of skills-building andinfomiatibn.

sharing courses. Two hundred and fifty women, sponsored by. their, unions:

1992 program of 30 courses.

Course for International Graduate Teaching Assistants

At the request of chairs in the Faculty of Science, a cross-cultural communiéation course,.

for graduate non-native English speaking teaching assistants was dëveiopedl and piliDt-tested..

The course is aimed at enhancing graduate students' ability to communicate int English to

perform their duties as teaching assistants and to participate fully ini lectures and seminars

required by their degree programs. Following the pilot,, a revised

course was. offerethn the

Spring of 1993 with further offerings planned for Summer

and

Fall. The response has

been

positive and demand for the program continues.

City Program

There were four City Program events during the reporting period:

Architecture in the City:

People and Places; Neighbourhoods in the 1990s; Conserving Architectural Terra Cotta;

and

Seismic Retrofit of Heritage Buildings in Vancouver

(with the Department of Geography).

The City Program, which is based at the Harbour Centre campus, focusses on urban issues

and concerns. Activities include technical discussions, site visits, seminars and public lectures,

and are sponsored by the University's interdisciplinary City

Program Advisory Committee.

Centre for North American Business Studies

During

the reporting period the Centre, which is affiliated with the Faculty of Business

Administration, offered

colloquia on important North American business issues ranging

from U.S. energy policy to labour mobility, for more than 900 senior business and government

representatives.-------

Research Skills for Heath Care Professionals

The

Research Skills for Health Care Professionals

program, sponsored by the Gerontology

Research Centre, began in 1989 with 6 courses. In 1991, the program won an Award of

Distinction from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. There are

now 12 courses in the program, and several have been adapted for in-house presentation to

organizations such as St. Paul's Hospital and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and

Yukon, as well as being offered in locations outside the Lower Mainland.

Writing

and Publishing Program

The first courses from the University's Writing and Publishing Program were offered in

1983. Now in its 10

1 year, the Program has five streams (professional writing, technical

writing, publishing, business writing and strategic communications), three new certificate

programs (Business Writing, Technical Writing and Publishing), and offers more than 100

courses annually.

Conferences

During the reporting period, University Faculties, schools and departments sponsored 28

conferences, involving 3,956 registered participants.

Conference topics ranged from

Electronically Monitored Home Confinement: Operations,

Economics, Ethics; First Nations Gambling in B.C.. An Opportunity for Cooperative Change

and Improvement;

and

Mental Health, Law and Practice Through the Life Cycle,

sponsored by

the School of Criminology,

Montreal & Vancouver: Imagining and Writing Our Cities

(Departments of English and French),

Older Women and Housing: Challenges and Choices

(Gerontology Research Centre),

Very Large Databases

(School of Engineering Science), and

In Justice: Canada, Minorities and Human Rights

(Centre for Canadian Studies).

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APPENDIX

Summary of Credit-Free Activities and Enrolments Reported by

Academic Departments and Administrative Units:

May 1, 1992 - April 30, 1993

Courses/Lecture Series

Educational Telecommunication Programs

*In this instance enrolment means credit student registrations in the distance education

course listed, to whom KNOW programs were directed. The total viewing audience cannot

be determined.

MAY 1, 1992 - APRIL 30, 1993

ACADEMIC UNITS SPONSORING CREDIT-FREE ACTIVITIES

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (1 event/50 enrolments)

Centre for Systems Science (2 events/210 enrolments)

Centre for Tourism Policy and Research (16 events/322 enrolments)

David Lam Centre for International Communication (54 events/74 1 enrolments)

School of Computing Science (9 events/59 enrolments)

School of Engineering Science (15 events/762 enrolments)

Total activities - 97 events/2 144 enrolments

FACULTY OF ARTS

Centre for Canadian Studies (8 events/191 enrolments)

Criminology Research Centre (1 event/80 enrolments)

Department of Archaeology (1 event/460 enroirnents)

Department of Economics (43 events/925 enrolments)

Department of English (3 events/5 1 enrolments)

Department of English and Department of French (1 event/i 19 enrolments)

Department of Geography and

he City Program (1 event/92 enrolments)

Department of Psychology (18 events/445 enrolments)

Department of Psychology and the Mental Health, Law, and Policy Institute

(1 event/25 enrolments)

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (7 events/200 enrolments)

Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies (14 events/473 enrolments)

Department of Women's Studies and Department of Political Science (I event/20

enrolments)

Department of Women's Studies and Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair in

Women's Studies (22 events/682 enrolments)

Division of Interdisciplinary Studies (2 events/I 15 enrolments)

Gerontology Research Centre (14 events/484 enrolments)

Graduate Liberal Studies Program (8 events/302 enrolments)

Institute for the Humanities (6 events/335 enrolments)

Institute for the Humanities, Department of Political Science, Department of

Sociology and Anthropology, School of Resource and Environmental

Management (1 event/30 enrolments)

Institute for the Humanities and English Department (I event/60 enrolments)

Institute for the Humanities and Department of French (1 event/100 enrolments)

International Centre for Criminal Law Reform (I event/300 enrolments)

School for the Contemporary Arts (39 events/2358 enrolments)

School of Criminology (8 events/921 enrolments)

The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation Lecture Series in the Liberal Arts

(4 events/900 enrolments)

Total activities - 207Total enrolments - 9668

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FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

28 events/635 enrolments

Centre for North American Business Studies (25 events/9 19 enrolments)

Total activities - 53/Total enrolments 1554

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

Total activities - 14/Total enrolments - 1927

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Department of Mathematics and Statistics (9 events/810 enrolments)

Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (15 events/850 enrolments)

Total activities 24/Total enrolments - 1660

CROSS-FACULTY PROGRAMS

Cooperative Education (1 event/94 enrolments)

David Lam Centre for International Communication and Faculty of Business

Administration

events/90 enrolments)

Gerontology Research Centre and Faculty of Education (2 events/20 enrolments)

School for the Contemporary Arts and David Lam Centre for International

Communication (2 events/386 enrolments)

Total activities - 10/Total enrolments -

590

INTERDISCIPLINARY ADVISORY COMMITTEES

Labour Studies Program (33 events/1055 enrolments)

The City Program (13 events/945 enrolments)

Writing and Publishing Program (82 events/i 110 enrolments)

Total activities - 128/Total enrolments - 3110

PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

Total activities - 6/Total enrolments - 338

GRADUATE STUDIES

Total activities - 2/Total enrolments - 24

AFFILIATED PROGRAMS

Total activities - 54/Total enrolments - 1677

ADMINISTRATIVE /SERVICE UNITS

Academic Computing Services (155 events/2027 enrolments)

Department of Recreation (52 events/1253 enrolments)

Library (3 events/15 1 enrolments)

Total activities - 210/Total enrolments - 3431

EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Archaeology (2 hours airtimell 1 credit distance education course viewers)

Biological Sciences (4.5/49)

Canadian Studies (31/146)

Communication (18.5/319)

Criminology (46.5/1579)

.Kinesiology (6/1102)

Mathematics & Statistics (3/150)

Political Science (6/53)

Psyëhology (0/272)

Sociology/Anthropology (15/42)

Women's Studies (4/113)

Total hours programming 226.5/Total credit distance education course viewers 5467/Total

number of distance education courses supported 57