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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To:
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Senate
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From: Senate Committee on
Academic Planning
Suject: ?
Enrolment limitation
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Date:
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October 11, 1988
Action taken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning at its meeting of October 5,
1988 gives rise to the following motion:
MOTION:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board
of Governors, asset forth in S.3that the Registrar set targets
of 950 new undergraduate registrants for 1989-1 and 600 for
1989-2. Any resulting reductions will be accomplished following
the methodology employed in September, 1988."
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Memorandum
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from the
Vice-President, Academic Office
Simon Fraser University
To: SCAP, Senate
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From:
J.W. George Ivany,
Chair, Task Force on Univ. Size,
Vice-President, Academic
Re:
Enrolment Limitation
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Date:
October 4, 1988
Senate will recall that decisions were taken earlier in the year to set a target for enrolment
limitation for this September. These decisions, outlined in the two attached memos (lvany to
Saywell, April 21, 1988 and Ivany to Senate, May 26, 1988), set an upper limit of 3,000 new
students for this fall's intake. Projections made by Walter Wattamaniuk of Analytical Studies were
very successful in achieving this objective while maintaining the ongoing mix of students which
we had experienced in recent years. As a result, we made acceptance offers to 6500 students
from approximately 11,000 students. This excluded about 800 students who otherwise would
have met normal admission criteria. From this pool of 6,500, we received confirmation of intention
to register from 3800 new students. By the end of the course change period, we had actually
admitted 2866 new students.
• These data suggest both the difficulty involved in making predictions, and the accuracy
which our modelling worked in the face of such problems. These data are summarized in Table 1,
attached.
Following from this experience I would now suggest actions for the 89-1 and 89-2
trimesters which parallel the September decisions. This would enable intakes of 950 students in
January and 600 in May using the same GPA cutoffs that were used this fall. The results of all of
these actions creates an annual intake for this year of 4,390 new students, which is 14.5% fewer
than last year. For your information, if these actions were continued into the future, our
headcount population would rise to 12,800 which is about 100 more than registered this fall. The
projections underlying the recommendations for January and May, 1989 are modelled in Table 2.
I propose the following motion:
that the registrar set targets of 950 new undergraduate admissions for 89-1 and 600 for
89-2. Any resulting reductions will be accomplished following the methodology
employed in September, 1988 (described in the attach
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memo of April 21, 1988)."
,W. George Ivany
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W.G. Saywell
Memorandum ?
from the
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Vice-President, Academic Office
Simon Fraser Unversty
To: Dr. W.G. Saywell, President
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From: J.W. George lvany
Chair, Task Force on University Size
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Re:
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Date: April 21, 1988
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Your budget model for the 1988-89 fiscal year projected a need for a reduction of the fall
1988 admissions to 3000 new students. As you know, Senate has already approved the use of
Grade Point Averages to effect such a reduction. In order to effect this decision the Task Force
recommends the following procedures:
Appropriate people, (new applicants, school and college personnel),
should be notified as soon as possible of the consequences of this
decision on admission procedures.
For the purposes of the registration process these procedures will have to be
implemented starting on about April 15th, 1988. Information should be sent out as soon
as possible.
The proposed cuts should be applied to the different new student
categories In such a manner that the current, evolving proportions within
the total mix of the student population shall be maintained.
While some might argue that restrictions in opportunity should be applied differentially to
effect changes in Simon Frasers student population, we would maintain that that decision
is part of the larger debate which will follow the final report of the Task Force. For the
moment, we wish only to efficiently control the fall intake rather than to join the larger
debate prematurely. By adopting this principle we are maintaining our historic role as an
accessible institution, being restricted only by a lack of resources which shall impact all
categories of students equitably, excepting for recommendation 3, following.
That the Conditions for
readmission of failed students be more
stringently applied.
The underlying notion here is that restrictions should not deny new, qualified applicants a
place which would otherwise be filled by students who, having had a chance at Simon
Fraser, are unable to demonstrate catch-up or remedial progress subsequent to the time
of their involuntary withdrawal.
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J.W. George Ivany
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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TO: Senate
SUBJECT: Enrolment Limits:
September 1988
FROM: J.W. George Ivany
Chair, Task Force
on University Size
DATE:
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May 26, 1988
The Board of Governors
has approved the limit of 3,000 new admissions
for
the fall term based upon
resources
available now that our overall budget
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known.
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Attached you
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four memos
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the
Board's information and
which summarize the activity of the Task Force
on
University Size.
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The final memo,
dated April 21, 1988 from the Task Force
on University Size to the President
was tabled at the last Senate meeting
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
Memorandum
To: Mr. W.R. Heath ?
From: ?
Jo Lynne Hoegg, Chair
Secretary of Senate ?
Senate Committee on
Continuing Studies
Re:
Editorial Changes to S.88-38 ?
Date: ?
November 8, 1988
Please replace the first two pages of the Report on Credit-Free Activities section of
the SCCS Annual Report with the attached. These pages have been altered to accurately
include the Centre for Systems Science among units participating in the Faculty of Applied
Sciences continuing studies programs, and to correct a couple of typographical errors.
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Senate Committee on Continuing Studies?
Report on Credit-Free Activities ?
May 1, 1987 - April 30, 1988
This report presents the range of credit-free lectures, conferences, symposia, seminars, media
productions, professional development courses and other programs reported by Faculties, schools and
departments of the University. As well, this report includes data on credit-free activities offered to
faculty, students and staff by administrative units on campus. In all cases, the focus for credit-free
activities at Simon Fraser University centres on organizing educational opportunities for adults whose
career, professional or personal intellectual interests cannot be served by the regular credit program.
During the 1987-88 reporting period enrolments in the 523 credit-flee activities listed totalled
20,949. In 1986-87 there were 393 activities with 17,186 enrolments.
Several credit-free activities undertaken by Faculties, departments, schools and other units
deserve special mention.
T
hese activities are singled out either because they are new for this reporting
year, have been awarded some special recognition, or have undergone particularly significant
development.
The Writing and Publishing Program offered through SFU Downtown and overseen by a
cross-faculty committee, has experienced dramatic growth in numbers and substance during the past
year. The number of individual courses offered increased from 20 to 54 and the enrolments grew at
the same rate, going from 328 in 1986-87 to 853 in 1987-88. These courses in business and
professional writing along with workshops on publishing and communications have found a ready
market, people seeking to develop their writing and communication skills and abilities.
An equally impressive growth has occured in non-credit professional development programs
offered through the Faculty of Applied Sciences. During 1987-88, there was a 100% increase in
enrolments (200 to 406) and courses (10 to 22) in the Program of Continuing Studies in Advanced
Systems and in Management Skills in Advanced Technology. Organized by faculty in Engineering
Science, Computing Science, Centre for Systems Science, and Communication, in conjunction with
Continuing Studies, and ranging in content from artificial intelligence to management skills, these
programs attracted a highly professional audience of scientists, technicians, engineers and managers.
The Institute for the Humanities was actively engaged in credit-free activities during 1987-88,
attracting over 1,000 participants to a series of lectures, symposia, workshops and conferences.
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During the year an impressive group of scholars was brought to the Bumaby campus for public
lectures, humanities courses were offered in the downtown community, and the first J.S.
Woodsworth conference was held. Symposia on Isaac Newton and on Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
directed primarily to SFIJ students, faculty and staff, were very successful and several events were
co-sponsored by the Institute and groups at UBC. At the other end of the curricular spectrum, the
inaugural seminar series of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry attracted 1,975 people
to nineteen seminars featuring prominent visiting scholars.
Several of SFU's credit-free programs were acknowledged with distinctive program awards by
the Canadian Association for University -Continuing Education (CAUCE) in 1987-88. These included
the program in Critical Thought and Cultural Literacy (Institute for the Humanities); the Arts and
Cultural Administration in Context program (Centre for the Arts); the Foundation Program in
Occupational Health and Safety (School of Kinesiology); and the New Enterprise Program (Faculty of
Business Administration and School of Engineering Science). Also of special note during the
reporting year
was the publication of
Tourism as
a Generator for Regional Economic Development,
the proceedings of the 1987 First Annual Advanced Policy Forum on Tourism (Natural Resources
Management Program and the Tourism Industry Association of B.C.).
There were several new and innovative developments in credit-free programming during the
year. The Arts and Cultural Administration in Context program (a professional development program
for cultural administrators) was offered first in Vancouver and then at Parksville on Vancouver Island,
the latter version being specially designed to respond to the needs of arts and cultural organizations in
non-metropolitan areas of B.C. This example of SRi's outreach into the community is paralleled in
recent developments in Aquaculture programming. The Institute for Aquaculture Research has
offered credit courses, organized a 7-session workshop and is currently working with the Centre for
Distance Education in developing two non-credit distance education programs, one on salmonoid
nutrition and the other on salmonoid disease.
Finally, the Office of Conference Services provided administrative and program development
assistance to a number of faculty and academic units as well as off-campus groups who wished to
utilize the SFU campus for their event. In particular, Conference Services worked closely with the
Faculty of Education in its very successful and highly enrolled series of institutes and conferences
offered during 1987-88. SFU-sponsored conferences almost doubled in numbers, from 10 in 1986-
87 to 19 in 1987-88.
