From ..........

John Matthews

Dean of Arts

Date ...........

5.......

.967

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Paper S-78

Certain students in the Faculty of Arts who have just

graduated have expressed serious dissatisfaction at being awarded

Honors Second Class.

Their complaint is that the calendar contains

no reference to classes of honors and that, had they known that this

distinction between first and second class would be made, they would

have spread their studies Into an extra semester in order to try for

first class honors.

The Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee on January 31, 1967,

recomended "that the present system of recording either the major degree

or the honors degree on a certificate should stand and that no further

classification was needed" and this was endorsed by the Faculty of Arts

Son April 6, 1967, and in turn submitted to the Registrar as a Senate

agenda item on April 17, 1967.

The Registrar informs me that there Is a Senate ruling that

classes

of honors be recognized but I can find no record of this in

Senate minutes.

I submit that, In the circumstances, this is a matter of

urgent business for Senate and I ask that this be dealt with as such

at the next

Senate meeting on December 4, 1967.

JM:els

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cc. The Registrar

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