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Paper S-22

Senate

From: Senate Committee on

Undergraduate Admissions

and Standings

26 July, 1967

Subject: Applicants from recognized Regional Colleges.

In January 1966 the Senate approved the following statement for inclusion

in the Calendar:

"A student who chooses courses at a recognized Regional College

which are appropriate to his academic objective at university

and who obtains adequate standing in them, may be accepted for

further studies at the University under the same conditions

that apply to a student who has taken all his post-secondary

studies at the University"

In order to give effect to this statement, the Admissions Committee,

through the Registrar's Office, has:

a. Received written statements from each department of the

University as to which college courses in its discipline

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it considers transferable to a degree program at the University.

Many departments have had discussions with their

counterparts at the Colleges in order to arrive at this

judgment.

Held a number of meetings with senior members of the staff

of Vancouver City College to try to understand the goals

of the College.

Reviewed the files of hundreds of applicants from Vancouver

City College,

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Studied the. progress at the University of those who were

admitted on transfer from Vancouver City College.

It has not been possible to make any reasonable assessment of the progress

of Regional College transfer students in the short period we have been

operating due to three factors:

The small number of students admitted (143 to date).

A number of transfer students switch their field on admission

to Simon Fraser and it is therefore difficult .to say at this

point how well the college prepares them for advanced

university studies.

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A number of transfer students take courses which are almost

duplicates of those which they took at the college, some for

which they received credit and some for which they did not

receive credit on transfer.

The Admissions Committee does wish, however, to receive Senate

ratification of its interim operating procedures with respect to transfer

students from Regional Co]leges. The Committee requests, therefore,

Senate iatification of the following:

Normally, students who were eligible for admission prior to

attending the College will be admitted with full credit for

all approved courses in which they received a "C" or better.

Normally,students who were not eligible for admission prior

to attending the College may be admitted upon successful

completion of at least four courses in one semester at the

College. On admission such students will be granted full

credit for all approved courses in which they received a "C"

or better.

Normally, students whose record at the College is such that

had they been at the

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University their academic status would be

"on probation", will not be admitted until this condition is

removed.

D.P. Robertson

Chairman

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