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SENATE.

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STANDING REQUIRED FOR CONTINUANCE -

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& AC7IMW P1tiXDIbW-

N. HEATH, SECRETARY,

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SENATE

U DEGADUATE AIMIsroN SOARD.

21 OCTOBER 1983.

Date

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Action undertaken by the Senate Undergraduate Admissions Board at

its meeting of 17 October 1983 gives rise to the following motion:

MOTION: "That Senate approve the deletion of paragraph 4.

of the regulations governing standing required

for continuance, given on

pp.

25 & 26 of the 1983-84

Calendar."

The paragraph states:

Students who are on ACADEMIC WARNING or on

ACADEMIC PROBATION will be required to main-

tain a Grade Point Average of 2.00, or higher,

on all courses taken during the warning or

probation period in order to be allowed to

continue until the CGPA reaches 2.00, at which

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time they will be in good academic standing

(reference items 2. and 3. above).

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MEMORANDUM

To.

ACADEMIC WARNING.

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SENATE UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS BOARD.

21 OCTOBER 1983.

Date

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The regulations governing standing for

continuance

were established in

their present form in 1979. Earlier this year,-Senate reduced the assessment

periods

governing

Academic Warning and Academic Probation. without otherwise

changing the regulations. For several years students on Academic

Warning

were

returned to good academic standing on one condition - i.e. that the c.g.p.a.

was 2.00 or higher. About two years ago it was noticed that this led to

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anomalous -decisions -i-n a- small minority of cases where students had duplicated

courses but had performed relatively poorly. The reason this happened was that

only one of the two conditions in paragraph -4. was being checked

4. Students who are on ACADEMIC WARNING or on

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ACADEMIC PROBATION will be required to main-

tain a Grade Point Average of 2.00, or higher,

on all courses taken during the warning or

probation period in order to be allowed to

continue

until the CGPA reaches 2.00, at which

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time they will be in good academic

standing

(reference items 2. and 3. above).

Corrective measures were taken to make both

conditions

operative.

However, subsequent experience has brought to light

1)

para 4 is inconsistent with para 12 which states that

During the warning period, the student must

complete a minimum of 9 SFU semester hours of

assigned grades before reassessment will occur.

A student on ACADEMIC WARNING may not repeat a

course for which a grade of C, or higher, has

been assigned. If, at the end of the warning

period, the CGPA is 2.00 or higher, the student

will be considered to be in cood academic standinq.

Otherwise, the student will be placed on ACADEMIC

PROBATION."

2)

some students were being treated more harshly under Academic

Warning

than they would have been under Academic Probation.

To remedy this, SIJAB determined that only one

condition

should apply to

students on Academic Warning, i.e.

"If at the end of the warning period the CGPA is

2.00 or higher the student will be considered in

good academic

standing.

Otherwise, the student

will be placed on Academic Probation."

Subject.

This change has the advantage of being much more readily understood by

students and for the following reasons is not expected to result in any lowering

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of academic standards

i)

since Fall 1982 restrictions have been placed on the

duplication of courses

ii)

since Fall 1983, the assessment period for Academic Warning

has been reduced from 15 sem. hours to 9 sem. hours

iii)

very few students on Academic Warnilig were in the position of

having a review period gpa below 24bO but a cgpa above 2.00

(Figures for Spring 1983 are 5 out Lf approx. 80 students

reviewed). This proportion is exp6ted to drop further given

the shorter review period.

Deletion of paragraph 4 will not give rise to' further inconsistencies

since the full details of Academic Warning and Academic Probation will be

specified accurately in existing paragraphs 12 and 13.

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