Office of ,the ..,Dean..o ... Graduate ... Studi.es 

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.Gen.era.l .... Re.g,u.l.a.tions ... ....Graduate ... Studi.e 

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March .2.6,1.986 

Action undertaken by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee at 

its Meeting on March 24, 1986, gives rise to the following motion: 

MOTION: 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the 

Board of Governors, as set forth in S.86-28 

the proposed change in Section 1.5.1 of the General 

Regulations - Graduate Studies: 

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Delete: The CGPA is the cumulative average of the? 

grade points earned in all the' graduate 

courses accepted towards a Master's or 

Doctoral degree at this University. 

Add: 

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The CGPA is the cumulative average of the? 

grade points earned in the SFU graduate 

courses taken towards a Master's or Doctoral 

degree." 

RATIONALE: 

All courses, whether taken at SFU or transferred from 

another institution, are supposed to be calculated in 

a student's CGPA. In practice, this is impossible in 

some cases due to the variety of grading systems at 

other institutions. As a result, at present, some 

grades are converted and counted into the Grade Point 

Average and others are not. The proposed new policy 

has the advantage that it is possible to implement 

consistently; in the old policy it is not. 

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Bruce P. Clayman 

Dean of Graduate Studies. 

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