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To: AL 

IvllMBERS 

OF SENATE 

Subject: REORGANIZATION OF GRADUATE 

STUDIES 

From: U. M. Evans 

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Secretary of Senate 

and Registrar 

Date: June 27, 1969 

Attention is drawn to Paper S.245 - "Reorganization of Graduate Studies" 

submitted to Senate by the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies. 

I have been instructed to provide general background information for members 

of Senate. 

1) At a meeting of the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies held on May 23, 1968, 

an Ad Hoc Committee was established to examine the present organization of 

Graduate Studies and to prepare a report for the Senate Committee. Dr. R. J. C. 

Harper was Chairman. 

In October 1968 the "Report of Ad Hoc Committee on Reorganization of Graduate 

Studies" (Harper Report) was submitted to the Senate Committee on Graduate 

Studies and considered at a meeting of that body on October 25, 1968. 

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At the meeting of the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies held October 25, 

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1968, it was agreed that further consideration need be given the report 

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instructions were issued to issue a copy of the Harper Report, with copy of 

all papers to which reference was made thereIn, to be sent to the Heads! 

Chairmen of all Academic Departments, to the Deans of Faculty, and to members 

of the Senate Committee on Graduate. Studies. 

Distribution was made on October 31, 1968, with covering memorandum, providing 

a supply of copies of the Harper Report such that each member of faculty of 

each department could be provided with the report through the department con•- 

cerned. Copies of all of the papers to which reference was made in the Harper 

Report were not provided to all members of faculty, but indication was given 

that copies would he provided of any of the papers on the request of a 

department chairman. 

The covering memorandum indicated that the report was being circulated "to the 

Heads/Chairmen of Departments for full consideration and discussion where 

necessary in preparation for the next meeting" of the Senate Committee on 

Graduate Studies (the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies provides for member-- 

ship on the committee through the Head/Chairman of each department or his 

delegate). 

3)

A number of submissions were made and these were considered at meetings of 

the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies, and the Executive Committee of the 

Senate Committee on Graduate Studies, at the latter part of 1968 and through 

the Spring of 1969. A major submission was made through the Faculty of Science 

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following discussion in that body, and through the Faculty of Education. 

Paper S.245 represents the final recommendations of the Executive Committee of 

the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies as approved by the Senate Committee on 

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Graduate Studies with its recommendation to Senate for action. 

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4) Should any Senator wish to review the Harper Report, the supporting 

papers pertaining thereto and the other submissions considered in the 

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preparation of the recommendations now provided from the Senate Conunittee 

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on Graduate Studies, a file is available in the Office of the Registrar 

for this purpose. 

H.. M. Evans 

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Secretary 

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