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Senate Committee on Scholarships 

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The Scholarship Committee has recently completed procedures 

in the granting of the summer semester scholarships and awards. The 

members of the Committee particularly noted the distribution of grades 

and the amounts of scholarship funds available and were very distressed 

by their inability to adequately reward high levels of scholarship which 

was particularly evident among the summer semester applicants. The 

members of the Committee, therefore, wish to provide the Senate with 

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some information pertaining to the above and cite what are believed to 

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be some very urgent needs in the scholarship area. 

When Simon Fraser University first opened its doors in the 

Fall of 1965, a limited number of scholarships funded by private donors 

were available. With the unexpected heavy enrolments in the succeeding 

semesters, the lack of sufficient scholarship funds became critical. 

About one year ago, this situation was at least partly alleviated by 

the institution of the G.M. Shrum Entrance Scholarships (thirty @ $300) 

and an annual fund of about $31,000 for Simon Fraser University Open 

Scholarships. Undoubtedly, due to the discouraging results which were 

encountered for applications lodged in previous semesters (when a very 

limited number of scholarships were available), the infusion of the above 

scholarship funds allowed the Committee to consider what were in retrospect 

a probably superficially low number of applicants with G.P.A.'s in the 

3.4 to 3.5 range and students with G.P.A.'s of 3.7 to 4.0 could be awarded 

significant scholarships ($250 to $275). 

Due to probably a number of factors (depressed local economy, 

greater number of applications), the Committee finds that it cannot 

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adequately reward similar scholarship as noted above. In order to 

at least afford some recognition to students with C.P.A. 's of 3.5 to 

3.6, the number of scholarships of $250 had to be extremely curtailed 

(limited to applicants with G.P.A.'s of 3.97 or higher - five scholar- 

ships were awarded). In order to extend scholarships recognition as 

far as possible, applicants with C.P.A. 's between 3.74 and 3.96 received 

$156 (16 applicants) and those with GJ'.A.'s of 3.50 to 3.73 received 

$75 (31 applicants). All the members of the Committee are, needless 

to say, extremely concerned that, for example, students with G.P.A.'s 

of 3.70 and above on a full course program, could not be adequately 

recognized. 

We feel that high levels of scholarship and adequate recog- 

nition thereof should be of vital concern to the University. We urge 

Senate and members of the board to address themselves to this matter 

of considerable urgency. The necessity for greater resources from 

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private and University sources appears more than obvious to the 

Committee and we urge the expenditure of greater efforts on behalf 

of the scholarship program at Simon Fraser University. 

Dr. A.M. Unrau, Chairman 

Senate Committee on Scholarships 

Bursaries and Awards 

AMU/ws 

cc: Members of Scholarship Committee 

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