SENATE AND ACADEMIC SERVICES
    Student Enrollment, Student Services
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    MEMORANDUM
    ATTENTION
    FROM
    RE:
    Senate
    Stephen Easton, Chair,
    Senate
    Policy Committee on Scholarships,
    Awards and Bursaries
    President's and Dean's Honour Rolls
    TEL 778.782.5350
    FAX 778.782.45732
    DATE
    March 15, 2010
    S.10-72
    At its meeting of March 15 2010 SPCSAB revised criteria for the University's system of term honour rolls. Details of
    the changes are attached for Senate's information.
    REGISTRAR & STUDENT ENROLMENT
    Student Setvices
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    SPCSAB
    10-04
    REVISED
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    MEMORANDUM
    ATIENnON
    Senate Policy Committee on Scholarships,
    Awuds and Bursaries
    CAll!
    March 9,2010
    fROM
    RE:
    Kate Ross
    Registrar
    &
    Senior Director, Student Eruolment
    President's and Dean's
    Honour Rolls
    PAGES 2
    Aftee consulting with the Deans' Council, faculty groups and members of the University community, Registrar and
    Student Enrolment Services is proposing to hannonize the University's system of semester honour rolls.
    Motion #1:
    that SPCSAB approve
    a) the renaming of the University Honour RoU to the President's Honour RoU,
    b) the addition of the criteria that students enroUed in EDUC 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, or 406
    not be eligible for admission to the President's Honour RoU for that semester,
    c) and the removal of the criteria that students obtain a minimnm cumulative GPA of3.60 in that
    semester.
    effective for
    the Spring 2010 semester.
    Rationale
    Renaming the University Honour RoU to the President's Honour RoU pr ... nts a clear delineation from the Dean's
    Honour Roll proposal below. If we left the name as is, it would be unclear which honour is consideeed higher.
    The professional programs in the Faculty of Education consist largely of COUllies taken on a pass/withdraw basis. ;..
    this makes selection via GPA impossible, students enrolled in their professional program selnesters
    wiD
    not be eligible
    for
    the honour roU. In
    aU
    other Selnesters, students enroUed in Faculty of Education programs will be eligible.
    The removal of the cumulative GPA criteria ensures the honour roll is an award that recognizes success
    in
    a given
    semester, regardless
    of how students tared in previous Selnester. Overall acadentic success would be recognized
    by
    students being granted degree stmding (this proposal is currendy before Senate). It should be noted that cumulative
    GPA
    has
    not been used in determining honour roU standing since 1988, though no documentation
    has
    been fOund to
    support
    the change in policy at that time.
    With this motion, the criteria for the President's Honour Roll would be:
    Motion #2:
    Completion of a minimum of 30 units at SFU
    Completion of a ntinimnm of 12 units in the semestee being evaluated
    Minimum selnestee grade point average of 4.00
    Not enroUed in any ofEDUC 401, 402, 403, 404, 405 or 406
    chat SPCSAB approve the creation of a Dean's Honour Roll for each faculty, with identical eriteria to the
    President'5 Honour Roll except that students are required to have a semester GPA at or above 3.50, to be
    similarly shown on the student's permanent record, effective for the Spring 2010 semester.
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    Rationale
    There are currendya number of Dean's honour roDs within taculties that are maintained completely external to the
    University's Student Infonnation Management System. These Dean's honour roDs have varying standards, and there
    is little consistent practice between them, and no consistency between them and the University Honour Roll.
    This system
    is tar from ideal. Should a potential employer or graduate school contact Student Services we would have
    no way to verify that a student was on a Dean's honour roll.
    As
    well, the differences in practice between the different
    honour rolls and the lack of a Dean's honour roll
    in
    some faculties means many exceptional students receive no
    recognition at all. Finally, as the Dean's honour roDs are external to SIMS, they are not currendy recorded on
    transcripts, official or otherwise.
    The honour roDs should be viewed as part of the University's retention strategy. The acknowledgement of
    outstanding student success is one fuetor which can malse students feel like valued members of the academic
    community, and malse them more likely to complete their program.
    The current differences in business practices and
    lack of
    acknowledgement means the honour rolls are much less effective as a retention strategy than they could be.
    This
    proposal
    will
    hannonize the criteria for the President's and Dean's Honour Rolls together into a coherent
    system that is properly recorded and automated, allowing the University to celebrate these exceptional students.
    Students
    on the President's Honour Roll would also be on the Dean's Honour Roll.
    The criteria for the Dean's Honour RoDs would be:
    Completion
    of a minimum of 30 units at SFU
    Completion of a minimum of 12 units in the semester being evaluated
    Minimum semester grade point average of 3.50
    Not enrolled in any ofBDUC 401, 402, 403, 404, 405 or 406
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