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SENATE.. UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS BOARD 

ACADEMIC COURSES FOR SECONDARY 

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6TH APRIL, 1978 

.......SCHOOL...STUDENTS•)•.....SUAB •79......................... 

The Senate Undergraduate Admissions Board, at its 

meeting of April 5, 1978, approved the following 

motion:-- 

MOTION: 

That Senate approve Simon Fraser 

University's participation in the 

• Post-Secondary Link Pilot Project, 

as set out in the attached paper, 

SUAB 79. 

The paper, SUAB 79, has been reviewed by the Faculty 

Undergraduate Curriculum Committees. The reports of 

these committees have been considered in the drafting. 

of this paper. 

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Attach: 

ACM:bc 

SUAB 79 

TO: SENATE UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS BOARD 

SUBJECT: POST-SECONDARY LINK (ADVANCED ACADEMIC COURSES 

FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL.STUDENTS) 

In. May of 1977, the Ministry of Education announced a "pilot 

project" which would allow secondary school students to en-. 

rol in college level (university transfer) courses. This 

proposal was discussed at the Post-Secondary Co-ordinatiflg 

Committee of the Universities CoUncil in the Spring and the 

university representatives indicated that further discussion 

was necessary before they could state their positions on the 

granting of transfer credit for such courses. There was no 

further discussion between the Ministry and the universities 

until late in the Fall, when we were advised that a number 

of courses were being taught during the 1977 Fall Semester. 

Mr. Jim Carter, Associate Deputy Minister of Education, 

attended a SUAB meeting and indicated that the Ministry had 

been remiss in not conducting proper articulation with the, 

universities before commencing that part of the project which 

affects them. The overall pilot program was intended "to 

assess the effectiveness of linking the secondary school 

graduation program more with post-secondary pre-apprentice- 

ship training, career training and advanced academic studies. 

Although the pre-apprenticeship and career training packages 

have no effect on the universities, the advanced academic 

studies package will allow the more able students to enrol 

in college courses that have been assessed and given trans- 

fer credit toward our undergraduate degree programs. 

Students who enrol in these courses will be in the process 

of completing their secondary 'school , graduation. It should 

be understood that students in the pilot program will be 

able to timetable the college course(s) into their schedules 

by virtue of having been allowed to accelerate in one or 

more of their secondary school subjects. 

It is anticipated that nine regional colleges may be 

involved in offering academic courses over the period of the 

two years. We have been advised by the Ministry that the 

following courses were offered in the 1977 Fall Semester:-- 

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College Secondary Student 

.. Total 

College      

Centre  Course   

Enrolment 

.... 

Enrolment 

College of New        

Math 101     

3 ?

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Caledonia    

Quesnel Psyc 101     

1 ?

)

18

Hist 101     

1 ?

)

in existing 

College of New.   

Prince  Psyc 101 

)

College 

Caledonia     

George 

Psyc 102 

)

classes 

Malaspina     

Powell 

Geo

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110

12

College      

River 

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In the Spring, 1978, courses are to be offered at the following 

Colleges:-- 

College ? 

Centre 

Capilano      

North 

College      

Vancouver 

East Kootenay 

College     

Cranbrook 

Vancouver 

Community    

Vancouver 

College 

Douglas College. ? 

Surrey 

The Ministry of Education's pilot project to offer advanced 

academic courses" to. secoñdaryschoól students should not be 

viewed as a totally new approach. In the past, secondary 

school students have been allowed to register for college 

courses and the universities of the Province have granted 

credit to these students, provided.they have completed the 

appropirate admission requirements. The appointment, by the 

Colleges, of qualified secondary schôôl Instructors to teach 

college level courses and the use of secondary school facili- 

ties for college classes, has been a reality fora number of 

years. 

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The intent of the Ministry in establishing this pilot pro- 

ject is to make these opportunities more accessible to 

students throughout the Province and also to formalize 

the granting of transfer credit by the universities. 

Following a full discussion of the'proposal by SUAB, it 

was agreed to recommend the acceptance of the Post 

Secondary Link (Advanced Academic Courses) Pilot Project, 

for transfer credit, providing the following conditions are 

met:-- 

1.

The ' 

! advanced acadeplic qUssu must coincide dth 

the college cpInter 

p

rtS and the Upivers]ty courses 

on in coflteflt'trüdture and 

standards.'' 

2.

The instructor of each course must be approved by 

the appropriate College. 

3.

Adequate library resourses, teaching aids, and 

appropriate laboratory facilities must be made 

available for these courses. 

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4. ? 

Advanced Academic Courses are seen as courses in 

addition to the courses used for high school 

graduation and, therefOre, will not be used for 

credit toward secondary schOolgraduation and will 

be recorded on the appropriate college transcript 

only.. 

5.

A set of criteria will be established by the' 

appropriate College to ensure that only the acade- 

mically talented students are selected for enrol- 

ment in these courses. The students' grade point 

averages should be considered as the most relevant 

criterion. 

6.

Normally, the class profile and learning environment 

should parallel that of a re 

g

ular first year college, 

or university class. A class of secondary school 

students and regular college students would be 

desirable. 

7.

Secondary school students will be allowed to-trans- 

fer to Simon Fraser University a maximum of two 

(advanced academic) courses (six semester' hours) 

completed prior to secondary school graduation. 

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8.

Advanced Academic Courses should include only 

courses at the introductory level. 

9.

This project will be a two-year pilot study and 

shall be under constant review by the Ministry, 

with a report being published following the 1979 

Spring Semester. 

10.

This is considered an experiment and Simon Fraser 

University will conduct a rigorous review of the' 

project following the' 1979 Spring Semester. 'This 

approval isfor the two-year experimental period 

(September, 1977 to May, 1979.) only. 