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MEMORANDUM
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Senate
From: Nick Heath, Secretary
Senate Undergraduate Admissions Board
Date:
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1991 09 19
Subject: Enrolment limit of International Students to the Faculty
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of Business Administration
As a result of action taken at today's meeting, the Senate Undergraduate
Admissions Board recommends that Senate give consideration and approval to
the following motion:
"That approval be given to the proposal that the quota for
International Student entry to major, minor and honors
programs In the Faculty of Business Administration be raised
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from ten percent to fifteen percent, as set out in the enclosed
document, SUAB 221, and approved by the Senate
Undergraduate Admissions Board.'
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SUAB 221
MEMORANDUM
August 19, 1991
TO: ?
Nick Heath, Secretary, SUAB
FROM: ?
Robert Rogow, Undergraduate Program Director,
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Faculty of Business Administration
SUBJECT: Enrolment limit of International Students
The Faculty of Business Administration requests Senate Undergraduate
Admissions Board approval of its proposal that.the international student
quota for Business be raised from its present ten percent to fifteen percent of
Business majors, minors and honors students.
Rationale
[11 During the years that there has been excess visa student demand for -
Business the University-wide seven percent quota has not been filled.
This suggests that the initial Senate prediction that Business's ten
percent and the University-wide seven percent would be in balance
hasn't quite materialized. A higher Business percentage would still be
compatible with the over-all seven percent quota.
121 Unofficial past practice has resulted in a visa student proportion of
Business majors that has fluctuated around fifteeen percent. For
example, for the six semesters through 91-1, that proportion ranged
from 12.7 to 18.8 percent. This has seemed to have worked well, and
has generated no problems or objections of which we are aware.
131 Fifteen percent would mean that the spread between Canadian resident
and visa student CGPA cut-offs would be reduced moderately, which
would be more equitable.
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MEMORANDUM
October 28, 1991
To: ?
Nick Heath, Secretary, SUAB
From:
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Robert Rogow, Undergraduate Program Director,
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Faculty of Business Administration
Subject: ?
Enrolment Limit of International Students
J'he following provides a fuller rationale for our proposal, approved by
SUAB, o raise the international sudht quota for the Faculty of Business
Administration from its existing ten percent lève
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I. In 193 Senate established a University wide quota of seven percent of new
admissions for international tudents. Subsequently, in 1984, Senate
approved a sub-quota of ten perce
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there has been consistent excess international
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student demand for admission
to Buiness at the same time that University-wide percentages of such
students have almost always been below the seven percept quota. An
expectation that Business's ten percent and the University's seven percent
would be in balance hasn't quite matenalized A higher Business percentage
could be established without putting pressure on the
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existing University wide
seven percent quota.
In the last two years on which we have information, international students
have been well under seven percent of all SFU students, . During
Those
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years international students were roughly fifteen percent of all Business
majors:
International Students as a Percentage of All Students:
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University
Year through 90-1 ?
153 ?
5.5
Year through 91-1
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5.8
An increase of the Business quota would thus involve little or no
increase in the actual number of international students admitted to Business,
and would not threaten the maintenance of the University-wide seven
percent quota.
2. The past figure of fourteen or fifteen percent of international students in
Business resulted from a number of factors:
(A) problems in estimating attrition rates of pre cleared international
students
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(B) a compassionate desire on the part of personnel making admission
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decisions not to reject outstanding students who had failed to receive
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the Admissions Office pre-clearance
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(C) poor information about and controls over admission of
international students within the Faculty
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Problem (A) disappears with the new admission procedures already
passed by Senate. (The new procedures shift admission to Business from the
time of inital admission to SFU to a later time, after completion of all lower
division prerequisite courses.)
Problem (B) largely disappears with the new procedures. 'Hie
admission system will no longer compel us to accept some international
students with cgpas of 2.8 and reject others with cgpas of 3.8, a situation that
tempted personnel making Business admission decisions to exceed the ten
percent quota on equity and compassionate grounds. There will now be a
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single gpacut-off applying eUally tall international students
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Problem (C) disappears, with the recent improvement in information
and controls established within the Faculty.
Fxcept for the possibility of special adjustments for some of those in the
pipeline during the period of transition to the new procedure, the Faculty Of
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Business Administration is committed to observing and enforcing the quota
percentage established by Senate, whatever that quota may be. It should be
noted, however, that a failure to increase to 15% would mean that we would
be cutting actual admission of international students by about one third from
previous levels. This seems harsh, especially since the previous admission
levels have not posed serious problems, internally or externally.
3. A change to fifteen percent would modestly narrow the gap between
international and resident students in minimum cgpa required, a
development that seems more equitable. For example, if international
students had been admitted solely by SFU cgpa rank in the last two semesters
the following cgpa cut-offs would have applied:
September 1991
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May 1991
Ten percent quota
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(13 students) 3.10
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(19 students) 319
Fifteen percent quota
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(21) students) 3.03
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(27 students) 3.06
Resident student cgpa cut-off
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2.70
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As a related equity concern, a change to fiteen percent would also modestly
reduce the spread in rejection rates between resident and international
students. In September 1991, for example, we rejected thirty-six percent of
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resident students. A ten percent quota would have yielded an eighty-two
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percent international student rejection rate; a fifteen percent quota would
have reduced this percentage to seventy-two percent.
4. A change to fifteen percent for the Faculty of Business Administration also
would be more consistent with and helpful to its efforts at globalization of its
programs and its effort to forge closer ties with educational and business
organizations in Pacific Rim countries.
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