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.Activities ofth....xecutive 

CommIttee, Senate Graduate 

Studies Committee. 

Report to Senate of the Activities of the Executive 

Committee, Senate Graduate Studies Committee from January 1982 

to December 1982. 

Number of meetings - seven 

The Executive Committee acted with delegated power from the 

Senate Graduate Studies Committee to:- 

Approve: 

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i. All recommendations for the award of graduate degrees. 

In 1982, 141 graduate degrees were awarded. 

2.

Recommendations for Admission involving substantial 

doubt. There was one recommendation which was approved. 

3.

All new graduate courses. There were (6) new courses 

approved; two in the Master of Natural Resource 

Management Programme; two in Computing Science; one in 

the Department of Biological Sciences; one in the 

Department of Economics. 

4.

Graduate Curriculum Changes in the Faculty of Business 

Administration MBA Programme; in the Departments of 

Psychology, Geography, History, Languages, Literature 

and Linguistics, Biological Sciences, Computing Science, 

Natural Resources Management and in the Faculty of 

Education. 

5.

Approval of changes in the General Regulations for 

Graduate Studies. 

6.

Discussion of Proposed Revised Procedures for Curriculum 

Approval - forwarded to the Senate Graduate Studies 

Committee. 

7.

Discussion on Special Student Status - forwarded to the 

Senate Graduate Studies Committee. 

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8.

Discussion on the problems surrounding the scheduling 

of graduate. courses. 

9.

Discussion on re-admitting students to the MBA programme. 

Authority delegated to the Dean of Graduate Studies by the 

Executive Committee of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee:.- 

Approve: 

1.

Recommendations for Admission meeting University 

requirements. 

2.

Recommendations to approve credit for courses taken at 

another institution. 

3.

Recontmendatiôns to complete courses atanother institution 

for credit at Simon Fraser University. 

4.

Approval of Master's Examining Committees. 

5.

Approval of Ph.D. Examining Committees. 

6.. Approval of Supervisory Committee membership and changes. 

7. Approval of recommendations for extension beyond the five 

(masters) and eight (Ph.D.) year time limit and for 

deferred grades. 