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MEMOR AND UM
Paper S-87
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It is a recognized possibility that because of space
constraint and financial restriction enrolment will have to be
limited in the near future.
Limitation of enrolment has important academic
implications. I therefore submit that Senate should discuss these
implications now, because the period between knowing that limitation
will have to be enforced and themaking of the decision will of
necessity be short, too short, then, for Senate to be able to discuss
the matter adequately.
Senate is concerned with maintaining academic standards'
which could suffer through less efficient and less stimulating
instruction, and through diminution in frequency of contact between
faculty and students.
Possible action which ought to be considered by Senate
will include:
I. Restriction of available courses;
2.
Intermission of course offerings;
3.
Postponement of new programs;
4.
Arrest of the normal development of existing undergraduate and
graduate programs;
5.
To what number enrolment should be limited;
6.
In what way enrolment should be restricted--by raising of entrance
qualifications, by independent departmental decisions, or by pro rata
limitation based on previous enrolments.
My submission is that, given a firm forecast of space
available,and the faculty to be available,for September 1968, each
department should be requested to submit a maximum figure for enrolment
of new. students, undergraduate and graduate, In each course, based on a
forecast of courses offered and predicted enrolments at all leveis,with
the proposed allocation of duties to faculty, teaching associates and
teaching assistants.
It is possible that this could be done for the Spring
semester enrolment; if not, then for the Fall semester enrolment.
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