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RESTRUCTURING OF SENATE COMMITTEE 

Subjet..... ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES ? Date DECEMBER 13, 1972 

MOTION: 

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"That Senate approve the restructuring of the 

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, as 

set forth in S.73-14, with membership and quorum 

requirements as follows: 

The Vice-President, Academic or his designate, Chairman 

Registrar as non-voting Secretary 

The Academic Planner, non-voting 

The Chairmen of the Curriculum Committees for Arts, 

Science, Education, and Interdisciplinary Studies 

The Deans of the Faculties 

Two student Senators, elected by Senate. 

Quorum: One half of the voting members of the 

Committee with at least one member of each Faculty 

(which could include deans)." 

MEMBERS OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON 

To ....................UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES................................ 

RESTRUCTURING OF SENATE COMMITTEE 

ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 

As amended and approved 

by scus November 21, .. 

ASSISTANT VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC 

OCTOBER 19, 1972 

IAN MUGRIDGE 

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I would like to present the following proposal for restruc- 

turing this Committee. At present it consists of twenty members, of 

whom seventeen are voting. This membership is as follows: 

The Vice-President Academic, or his designate, as Chairman 

The

Registrar as non-voting Secretary 

The Academic Planner, non-voting 

The Deans of the four Faculties 

Two faculty elected by and from the Curriculum Committees 

of each of the Faculties 

Two student Senators elected by Senate 

One student each from Arts, Education and Science, elected 

by and from the Faculty Curriculum Committees 

The Librarian 

The President's appointee. 

The principal problem with this Committee is that it is 

far too large and unwieldy. Since I have been Chairman, there have 

been no meetings which the full membership was able to attend; and 

there has been at least one when it proceeded in the presence of 

about a third of the members. I would therefore suggest the follow- 

ing composition which would cut the total membership of the Committee 

to twelve and the voting membership to nine: 

The Vice-President Academic, or his designate, as Chairman 

The Registrar as non-voting Secretary 

The Academic Planner, non-voting 

The Chairmen of the Curriculum Committees for Arts, Science 

and Education (and of General Studies when this Division 

should have a Curriculum Committee) 

The Deans of the Faculties 'and the Dean of the Division of 

General Studies 

Two student Senators elected by Senate. 

In the present Committee, a quorum exists when one repre- 

sentative from each Faculty is present. I would propose that, if 

the new Committee along the lines I have suggested is established, 

a quorum consist of half of the voting members of the Committee with 

at least one member of each Faculty or Division (which could include 

Deans). 

To

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SENATE 

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SENATE COMMITTEE. ON ... UNDERGRADUATE-STUDIES 

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RESTRUCTURING OF SENATE COMMITTEE 

ON UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES      

DECEMBER 13, 1972 

The Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies has 

considered the restructuring of the Senate Committee on 

Undergraduate Studies, as set forth in SCUS 72-34, and 

recommends to Senate that this restructuring be approved. 

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Members of Senate 

tructuring 

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Senate Committee on. 

Undergraduate Studies 

I. Mugridge 

Chairman 

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies 

December 18, 1972 

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It should be noted that the motion presented to Senate for 

its approval is 

not that passed by the Senate Committee on Under- 

graduate Studies. The question of restructuring SCUS was discussed 

by that Committee before the establishment of the Faculty of 

Interdisciplinary Studies; but it was the Committee's understanding 

that should this Faculty be established, appropriate changes would 

be made in the proposal. 

One of the principal questions raised in the discussion of 

this proposal was that of including a provision which would allow 

Deans to send designates to meetings of the Committee. It is 

currently the practiceto permit Deans to do this; but such a 

provision has been omitted from this proposal. The Committee was 

divided on this question, but a majority approved the proposal as 

originally written. 

I. Mugridge 

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