For Information
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Senate
S.92-35
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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Nick Heath
Secretary, SAB
Subject:
Senate Appeals Board (SAB)
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Date: ?
March 18, 1992
Annual Report 1991
The Senate Appeals Board met 15 times in 1991.
El
F. Riahi - Chair
Membership
Resigned as Chair effective December 18, 1991
(S. Bukovac nominated as Chair by SAB and ratified by SUAB
on 20 December 1991)
From SUAB -1 Member
D. Ryeburn
(Faculty member)
R. Rogow
(Alternate member)
From Senate - 1 Member
P. Winne
(Faculty member)
E. Palmer
(Alternate member)
From Student Societ y
- 2 Members
T. Pagliacci
(Student member)
S. Bukovac
(Student member appointed by Student Society July, 1991 -
was Student alternate from Oct. 1990)
J. Flores
(Alternate member appointed by Student Society July, 1991)
E. Chapman
(Alternate member appointed by Student Society July, 1991)
T. MacPherson
(Temporary absences resulted in this student
member appointment from May to Sept. 1/91)
T. Hendrickson
(Student member resigned June 30/91)
D. Belado
(Student alternate resigned May 27/91)
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In addition to the appeals shown on the attached table, between 1 January and 8 October, the Secretary
of the Senate Appeals Board handled cases through delegated authority as follows:
Sustained
Denied
Total
Admission
15
94
109
Readmission
12
1
13
Early Readmission
6
1
7
Retroactive withdrawal
33
0
33
Selective Retroactive withdrawal
12
0
12
Other
2
0
2
Total
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96
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176
Special Semester 91-2 ?
41
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41
Effective October 1991, revised procedures were implemented and the Secretary of the Senate Appeals
Board no longer exercised delegated authority. Instead, each appeal was first screened by the Chair and
the Secretary of the Senate Appeals Board, as approved by Senate in the revised SAB Terms of
Reference and Procedures for Appeal. This has resulted in the following action:
'Leave to Appeal'- Appeal forms screened by Chair and Secretary of the SAB to determine if special
circumstances are present:
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0
Appeals - cancelled (no special circumstances)
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25
Comments on revised Drocedures
Currently, the workload of SAB has been reduced by the new procedures, approved by Senate in
October 1991. Many cases are settled at Stage 1, requiring no personal hearing and taking relatively little
time. Frivolous or groundless cases are effectively screened from taking up the time of SAB by the 'leave
to appeal' process described above. The readmission criteria set by Senate are clear to former students,
and, although not popular, appear to have been accepted. Considerable efforts were made to advise
some 2000 former SFU students who had been placed on withdrawal status in the years 1986 to 1991 of
the new criteria for readmission.
SAB members look forward to the remainder of 1992 with more confidence than they displayed a year
ago, when procedures and workload were presenting intolerable stress on them and on the students/
appellants. Some appeals now take longer to complete, but this is seen as a small price to pay for a
smoother process, while still guaranteeing the right of a personal appeal to all.
ADDeal Forms
Revised appeal forms were discussed but were not issued during 1991.
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