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FOR

S .89-20

REPORT TO SENATE

SENATE POLICY COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND

BURSARIES

MARCH, 1989

Dr. Peter Kennedy

Chairman

Page

Introductory Comments

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Financial Aid and Awards Budget 1988/89 - Supervised by the

Director of Financial Aid and Awards

III.

Undergraduate Awards Statistics

IV.

Emergency Loans: Graduate and Undergraduate

Private Bursaries and Scholarships, Awards and Prizes: Graduate

and Undergraduate

VI.

Work-Study Program: Undergraduate

VII.

Graduate Bursaries ?

VIII.

1988/89 Financial Aid and Awards Budget - Supervised by

the Dean of Graduate Studies.

IX.

Graduate Awards Disbursements

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Introductory Comments

This report is anomalous in that it is being submitted two months early, in response

to an informal request by Senate. One consequence of this is that because the

financial year has not ended some dollar figures reported herein are estimates.

There has been one change in the composition of this committee since its last annual

report. Two students, one undergraduate and one graduate, now sit on this

committee; in previous years there was only one student member.

Listed below are actions taken by this committee during the past year which are

worthy of being brought to the attention of Senate. The continual stream of minor

modifications to and interpretations of existing policy is not reported here; it can be

examined by consulting the committee's minutes, available through the Financial

Aid and Awards Office.

a) Deans' Undergraduate Entrance Scholarships in Management and Systems

Science, Kinesiology, and Women's Studies were established, along with a

second scholarship in Business Administration.

The minimum CGPA for eligibility for the SFIJ Open Undergraduate

Scholarship was raised from

3.5

to 3.6.

c) The C.D.

Nelson Graduate Entrance Scholarships were increased in number

from "about" six to "about" ten.

The "two semesters free tuition" component of all undergraduate entrance

scholarships was dropped.

All

entrance scholarship winners were made ineligible for the Open Scholarship

Program. Instead, they are eligible for up to six semesters of $850 awards

subject to maintenance of a CPGA of

3.5

and a minimum course load of 12

credit hours.

f) All

entrance scholarships have been made "redeemable", meaning that a student

who has failed to maintain eligibility for continuance of the scholarship can re-

establish eligibility at a later date.

The Dean's Entrance Scholarships in the sciences were increased in number by

10 and were "twinned" with the Canada Science Scholarships i.e., those

winning Dean's Entrance Scholarships will be nominated by SFU for Canada

Science Scholarships.

The number of Chancellor's Entrance Scholarships was increased to "up to 50".

A new category of award, the "SFU Entrance Prize" was established, worth

$500, with "up to

50"

available.

The Open Undergraduate Scholarship: Summary of the Issue

The Open Undergraduate Scholarship provides free tuition to all students meeting

its eligibility requirements. The major such requirement is a CGPA of 3.6. Most

other universities have similar programs which differ in one way or another. For

example, UBC offers scholarship money to the top x% of full-time students in each

faculty.

SF0 does not distinguish on the basis of faculty because students at SF0 tend not

to commit themselves to a faculty until later in their program, making such a policy

impractical. We do not restrict our program to full-time students because of the

high number of part-time students at Simon Fraser. And we set a specific CGPA

figure, rather than a "top x%", because we believe that students wish to know in

advance the exact height of the hurdle over which they must jump to be eligible for

this award.

A major problem with our policy of using a specific CGPA figure is that we have

no control over the cost of this program - if more students obtain this COPA, more

funds are expended. In a report to Senate last year on this issue, we noted that for

five years we had held the CGPA requirement at

3.5,

but warned that we would

soon be forced to raise this grade point requirement for financial reasons. This is in

fact what has happened. For reasons not well understood, the fraction of

SRi

students obtaining CGPAs of

3.5

or better has grown over the past few years,

causing expenditures on this program to be excessive both in terms of the budget

available for it and in comparison to similar programs at other universities.

here remains the question of the best way to cut back on the expenditures of this

program. The committee considered two options. One option was to increase the

required CGPA to 3.6. The second option was to keep the CGPA requirement at

3.5

but reduce the percentage of tuition covered by this award from 100% to

25%

for those with a CGPA of 3.5 and to increase this percentage (as a function of

CGPA) to 100% for those with a CGPA of 3.8 and above. The first option was

chosen; the committee felt that this scholarship program was intended for the very

best students at Simon Fraser and that the second option would compromise this

principle.

II FINANCIAL AID AND AWARDS BUDGET

Supervised by the Director, Financial Aid and Awards

(Open, Emergency and Daycare)

Visa Bursaries and Scholarships

202,375

Challenge Supplement - 88-2

III. Undergraduate Awards Statistics

International Bursaries - Undergraduate

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Note: Students may receive one, two or three Honour Roll designations per year.

IV. Emergency Loans: Graduate and Undergraduate

Short term, interest-free loans are available to students who require some interim

funding while awaiting funds from other sources.

Value: Normally $300 - $500

During 1988/89, 1,439 loans were issued with a total value of $473,000

V. Private Bursaries and Scholarships, Awards and Prizes with specific

terms of reference are listed in the Calendar under the Graduate and

Undergraduate sections respectively

Private

Scholarships and Bursaries, Awards

295

1988/89

VI.

Work-Study Program: Graduate and Undergraduate

The SFU Work-Study Program provides part-time employment which is intended

to be mutually beneficial to students and the University. Every effort is made to

provide career-related job experience, which is primarily of a research nature. The

Work-Study program is intended normally to supplement Provincial and Federal

student loan programs, as per policy requirements of the government funded

programs. However, Work-Study funded through SFU requires only that students

demonstrate financial need to qualify. All students must meet a basic needs test,

must be registered in, and maintain 9 credit hours or more in undergraduate studies,

or be registered in a Graduate Program for Graduates, and must be in

satisfactory academic standing.

VII.

Graduate Bursaries ?

Open Graduate Bursaries

48 ?

17 ?

Graduate International Bursaries

21 ?

14 ?

Graduate Daycare Bursaries

5 ?

3 ?

1 ?

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VIII. 1988/89 FINANCIAL AID AND AWARDS BUDGET

Supervised by the Dean of Graduate Studies

C.D.

Nelson Memorial Graduate Scholarships

68,000

Special Graduate Entrance Scholarships

IX.

Graduate Awards Disbursements

$3950

Graduate Scholarships

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Special Graduate Entrance