MOTION: 

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"That the paragraph of S.294, 'At least 50% of 

the members of Departmental Graduate Studies 

Committees must be members of faculty who have 

demonstrated high scholastic ability with 

experience in supervising graduate work and must 

not be candidates for higher degrees,' be amended 

to read: 

'At least 50% of the members of Departmental 

Graduate Studies Committees, and the Chairmen of 

Departmental Graduate Studies Committees, shall 

be members of faculty who 

a)

have demonstrated high academic ability 

b)

have had experience in supervising graduate work 

c)

are not candidates for higher degrees." 

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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO . 

MOTION: "That the paragraph of 5.294. 

At ? 

ast 50% of the membersof Departmental 

Graduate Studies Committees must be members 

of faculty who have demonstrated high scholastic 

ability with experience in supervising graduate 

wor. and must not be candidates for higher degrees. 

be amended to read 

At least 50% of the members of Departmental Graduate 

Studies Committees, and the Chairmen of Departmental 

Graduate Studies Committees, shall be members of faculty 

who a) have demonstrated high academic ability 

b)

have had experience in supervising graduate 

work 

c)

are not candidates for higher degrees". 

This motion passed the Executive Committee of the Senate 

Graduate Studies Committee on August 30, 1971 and the Senate Graduate 

Studies Committee on September 13, 1971. 

RATIONALE 

S.294, which is itself an amendment to S.245, specifies, 

among other things, the qualifications for members of Departmental 

Graduate Studies Committees. 

S.245 specified that all members of Departmental Graduate 

Studies Committees shall be "members of faculty who have demonstrated 

high scholastic ability with experience in supervising graduate work 

and must not be candidates for higher degrees". S.294 requires that 

only half the members are so qualified but does not correct the faulty 

grammar. 

Problems come up as follows. It is understood, but not 

legislated, that Chairmen of Departmental Graduate Studies Committees, 

who sit ex-officio on the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, shall. be 

qualified as specified. It seems appropriate, therefore, to legislate 

that Chairmen of Departmental Graduate Studies. Committees shall be so 

qualified and that a 'qualified alternate' shall be someone so qualified. 

I offer an amendment here to achieve the former; the latter is achieved 

in the document 'The Composition of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee 

and the Executive Committee of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee'. 