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OFFICE OF THE 

DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES 

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STUDIES 

S.71-64 ( 

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REVISION 

MOTION 

tThaL Senate approve the rewording of Section 

10.4 of the General Regulations for Graduate 

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as outlined in Paper S,71-84 

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SIMON FRASER 1JNT.V1RSIT 

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To: Senate 

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From: Office of the 

Dean of Graduate 

Studies 

Subject: Rewording of Section 10.4 

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Date: June 17, 1971 

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of the General Regulations 

for Graduate Studies 

The Senate Graduate Studies Committee, at their meeting on 

June 14, 1971, approved the following rewording of Section 10.4 of 

the General Regulations for Graduate Studies: 

Residence 

"The Ph.D. degree requires that a student be registered 

in an approved program and undertaking full-time study 

at this University as a Regular Student for a minimum 

of five consecutive semesters following completion of 

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the Master's degree. At least eight consecutive 

semesters are required for those students who are 

permitted to proceed from the Bachelor's First Class 

Honors level without completing the Master's degree. 

Any modification of this must be approved by the student's 

Supervisory Committee and the Senate Graduate Studies 

Committee." 

Rationale 

The question which originally concerned Senate was which body 

or person should have the authority to modify the residence requirement 

for graduate students in particular cases. The original paragraph 

provided that this authority should lie with the Senate Graduate Studies 

Committee with no requirement that anyone else should he consulted. 

Objections in Senate were to two points: 1) That modification 

of the residence requirement should originate with the student's 

Supervisory Committee. 2) That there was too much red tape involved 

in going to the Senate Graduate Studies Committee and that, as a 

consequence, authority should lie either with the student's Supervisory 

Committee or with the Dean of Graduate Studies acting in the light of 

the recommendation of the Supervisory Committee. 

The first point has been taken account of by writing in a role 

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for the student's Supervisory Committee. On the second point, the? 

Committee felt that, for the sake of uniformity between departments, 

final authority should lie at the University level.. As the standard 

way of dealing with individual cases at the University level is 

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through the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, this was the body chosen. 

The point was reinforced by the Dean saying that if authority in this 

matter did lie with him he would, in any case, refer it to the Senate 

Graduate Studies Committee. The Committee rejected the red tape argument, 

as leveled against itself, on the grounds that it is a highly efficient 

committee which meets regularly and generates no undue delay. 

S. Wheatley 

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