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FRA SER

UNIVERSITY

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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