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DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE

MINUTES OF THE SENATE OF SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

HELD IN THE BOARD AND SENATE ROOM

ON MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1967, AT 1:30 PM.

PRESENT:

P.D. McTaggart-Cowan

D. Berg

T.B. Bottomore

A.E. Branca

Candelaria

J.L. Dampier

A.J. Ellis

C.J. Frederickson

W.M. Hamilton

R.J.C. Harper

g. Sperling

Kirchner

Kcerner

E.S. Lett

S.K. Lower

A.R. MacKinnon

Mills

K.E. Rieckhoff

A.M. Unrau

W. Vidaver

W.H. Whiteley

W. Williams

D.P. Robertson

M. Dawson

ABSENT: R.J. Baker

M. Bawtree

J.F. Ellis

A.F.C. Hean

C.H. McLean

G.N. Perry

G.M. Shrum

IN ATTENDANCE

D. Roberts, Information Officer

Chairman

Secretary

Recording Secretary

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APPROVAL OF MINUTES

On page 4, Item 3E (1), add:

"History 491-3 (Honors Seminar) - Research Methods"

On page 5, Item 3E (2), add:

"Calendar changes;

Department of Economics and Commerce. change semester hours

credit of 370-5 Business Management from 5-to 3

Department of Modern Languages. Change vector of French 100-3,

French 101-3, Spanish 100-3, Spanish 101-3, Russian 101-3,

German 100-3, German 101-3 from (1-5-2) to (1-1-3).

Change vector of 220-3 (Linguistics) and 221-3 (Linguistics)

from (2-1-0) to (2-1-1).'

These amendments to the course offerings for the Spring Semester 1967

were approved at the Meeting of Senate on December 5, 1966, but inadvertently

left out of the Minutes. With these amendments the Minutes as distributed were

approved.

2. BUSINESS ARISING

The Faculty of Education Committee on General Education put forward a

proposal to establish a University Coordinating Committee on General Education,

and a paper setting out its proposed makeup and terms of reference was distributed:

"1. NAME -

The

Committee shall be known as the Coordinating Committee

on General Education.

2. MEMBERSHIP - The Committee shall consist of seven faculty members

and the Coordinating Secretary. The coordinating Secretary shall be

a non-voting member. The faculty members shall serve on the Committee

for a period of two years. The Committee shall elect its own chairman.

METHOD OF APPOINTMENT - Each of the three Centres of the Faculty of

Education shall elect a representative to the Committee. To

representatives shall be elected by the Faculty of Arts, and two by

the Faculty of Science.

DUTIES - The Committee shall review the programs being offered in

General Education in the University, and be responsible for

recommending extensions or revisions to the existing General Education

Program. The Coordinating Secretary shall disseminate information

about the General Education Program to faculty and students, assist in

locating facilities within the University for General Education

offerings, survey programs being offered, solicit recommendations for

extensions to the Program, and act as secretary to the Committee.

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5. OPERATION - The Committee shall meet as often as necessary to perform

its functions as in (4) above. The Committee's recommendations

regarding the General Education Program will be made directly to the

Faculties or to the Department or Centre concerned.

The Faculty's Committee on General Education recommends the immediate

establishment of a University Coordinating Committee on General Education

and the immediate appointment of the Coordinating Secretary. "

Moved by A.R. MacKinnon, seconded by K.E. Rieckhoff

"that the proposal to set up a University Coordinating

Committee on General Education be adopted"

CARRIED

Moved by K.E. Rieckhoff, seconded by S.K. Lower

"that the composition of the Committee should include one

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of Arts and Science, instead of two elected representatives"

CARRIED

Moved by S.K. Lower, seconded by K.E.Reickhoff

"that the Committees terms of reference be extended to include

discussion of the general problem of liberality of the curriculum

of the three faculties and to coordinate the activities in the

three faculties and develop general University policy in this area"

CARRIED

3. NEW BUSINESS

Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Interdisciplinary Programs

The Ad Hoc Committee on. Interdisciplinary Programs had been unable to

conclude its deliberations and report to the Senate within the time

limit set owing to the absence from the campus of several members.

The Senate reserved its discussion for Item 3B, but enjoined the

Ad Hoc Committee to report to Senate at its meeting on February 6 1967.

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B. Undergraduate Calendar 196768

The following amendments to the draft presented by the Registrar

were proposed:

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La3e 13

It was proposed that the names of senators holding temporary

office during the absence of the elected holder should be

annotated in some way. It was also suggested that before the

next issue of the Calendar Deans should consult their Faculties

to see if they were in favour of including given names in

Calendar listings of Faculty.

It was proposed to delete a reference to "Two General Education

courses are required before graduation, but there are no semester

hours credit attached to them." The Registrar said that General

Education is mentioned throughout the Calendar and if the

Faculty of Education proposal were approved there would be a great

deal of editing required. It was agreed to decide the question

of deletion after a decision had been made about the entry under

General Education.

Chapter I was agreed with no further amendments.

Chapter II - Admission and Registration

Page 32 -.Mature Students

A discussion took place on the wording requiring two letters of

reference from close acquaintances. It was felt that close acquaintances

were not the best people to give letters of reference for academic

studies. However, after discussion the meeting agreed that this

phrase met the requirement of pointing out to the applicant that he

should ask people who know him reasonably well and are also able to

assess his academic ability, to write letters of reference for him.

It was further agreed that the statement of the reasons why the

applicant wishes to proceed to a university degree and an indication

of the program which he wishes to pursue should be combined.

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Pages 35,36 and 37

It was agreed that the composite table listing the courses to be

offered in the summer and fall and spring semesters be deleted

from the Calendar. It was felt that this table had now grown so

large that it was not a very useful guide for the student, and

in fact may serve to confuse him.

Chapter III - General Regulations

Page 40

There was some discussion on the deletion of the requirement of

the $5.00 fee to accompany requests for re-reading of answer papers.

It was pointed out that the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of

Education had both agreed to this deletion. The Registrar

supported the move to eliminate the $5.00 fee as experience has

shown that more students bypassed the $5.00 fee than paid it.

Instructors were willing to look at a student's paper and term

work and check his grades without him paying the fee, and it was

therefore an injustice to those students

observed the regulation

and paid the $5.00.

A vote was taken and it was agreed that the $5.00 fee should be eliminated

and that the wording submitted by the Registrar for the reconsideration

of grades should be accepted.

Page 41 - Letter Grade DEF

D. Berg questioned the wording of the paragraph referring to the

letter grade DEF and asked why it had been changed from the 1966-67

Calendar. It was pointed out that the wording had been changed by

the Senate in May of 1966 and that a supplement to the 1966-67

Calendar containing this new wording had be issued by the Registrar.

The Registrar repotted that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate

Admissions and Standings had discussed the problem arising from the

letter grade DEF and was preparing a proposal for Senate. Essentially,

the proposal will be that instructors be permitted to give the

gre DEF without having to consult the Registrar and that the grades

DEF be removed from the student's transcript and automatically converted

to N's after a certain period of time had elapsed.

The Registrar reported that there were difficulties in administering

the wording as it stood at the moment, inasmuch as the short period

of time allowed to process the examination grades did not leave room

for consultation between the instructor and the Registrar as was the

intention of the wording.

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Page 41 - Credit for the Semester

It was agreed to add the words "credit may be granted for a course

once only." This was a recommendation of the Undergraduate

Calendar Committee in order to point out to the students that if

they re-register in a course which they have already passed, they

may be able to raise their grade but they will not e able to add

additional credits to their total.

Chapter IV - Fees

Page 45

The statement that students who are applying for a Canada Student

Loan should try to make arrangements to pay fees from other sources

as loans cannot be authorized until the student is officially

registered was queried. After discussion, it was agreed that the

wording of this paragraph gave the Registrar and the Bursar the necessary

discretion in dealing with students who cannot complete payment of

fees at registration and that the system works well now and wording

should therefore remain the same.

The Registrar pointed out that the Bursar now allows students to

who do not have the $75.00 and who are applying for a Canada Student

Loan are usually allowed to go to the Bank and complete their Canada

Student Loan form so that their fees can be paid later on in the

registration period.

Page 46

A.R. MacKinnon requested that the reference to Stage 1 and Stage 2

of the Professional Development Program be altered as the Stage 1

and Stage 2 reference had now been dropped.

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It was pointed out that the fee schedule seems inconsistent in that the

fees for students registered for a program of 11 or less semester hours

of credit is $15.00 per semester and that as soon as they reach

12 semester hours, the fees jump to $214.00. The President explained

that this had probably arisen as a result of a last minute change in

fee schedule prior to registration in the fall of 1965, and that no

adjustment had been made in the per semester hour fee. He requested

that Senate not recommend any changes to the fee schedule at this time

as the University was committed to holding the line on fee increases

unless absolutely necessary, which he took to be an increase in part-

time student fees as well as full time student fees. It was agreed

that the schedule should stand as it is.

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Chapter 5 - Faculty of Arts

Pag 52

A lengthy discussion took place on the number of semester hours which a

department may require in the first four levels of the general and

honors program. T.B. Bottomore reported that the Faculty of Arts had

considered allowing the departments to require no more than 18 hours

but that the Faculty meeting had changed this to 24 hours in order to

accommodate the Department of Modern Languages and the Department of

Economics and Commerce.

A suggestion was made that the requirement should remain at 18 hours

and that a footnote should be inserted pointing out that the Department

of Modern Languages and the Department of Economics and Commerce

required more than the 18 hours recommended by the Faculty.

It was decided, however, that since the Faculty meeting had agreed

on 24 hours that this should stand.

Moved by T.B. Bottomore, seconded by G. Sperling

that Senate should express extreme concern at the amount of

time that may be required by a Department in the first four

levels and would like the Faculty of Arts to discuss this

matter further and at the same time to consider whether, if

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the need for a greater number of hours relates only to one or

two departments, those departments should be specifically

identified as exceptions to a general rule."

CARRIED

Page 56

It was agreed that the last sentence after the Faculty Listing

such as several additional appointments to be made before September

1967" should be deleted. This statement has some meaning for

graduate student applicants perhaps, but not for undergraduates.

Page 76 - Department of English

It was pointed out that the Department of English course numberings

at the 400 level w'e in error and it was agreed that the Department

should be requested to consult with the Registrar to straighten out

the confusion. The difficulty arises because the 400 level English

courses are offered in two parts, one as a 3 credit lecture, and the

other as a two credit tutorial. The course numbers should therefore

read something as follows:

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English 401-3 Chaucer

English 451-2 Chaucer tutorial.

This will convey to the student and to anyone reading the

transcript the way in which these courses are offered. J.Mills

pointed out that most students will take both of them for the

five credits but that the odd student does take the lecture

in one course and a tutorial in another. With the change in

the course numbers, it will be necessary to change the honors

seminar numbers from the 450 series to the 490 series.

Mved by T.B. Bottomore, seconded by LMills

"that Senate approve this method of numbering English

courses in the 1967-68 Calendar and also approve the

offering of these courses in the Summer of 1966 and the

Fall of 1966, and request the Registrar to make the students'

records conform to this new method of numbering the courses."

CARRIED

It was

also

suggested and agreed to that the Department of English

submit these proposals to the Arts Faculty curriculum Committee

for endorsement and transmission to the Faculty 'of Arts and that

meanwhile, these proposed amendments be approved by Senate.

Page 91

W. Williams pointed out that there was an error in the typescript

for the requirements for majors and honors students in the 5th to

8th levels in the Department of History: rather than honors students

requiring 42 hours of course work in History, it should read

52 hours, and rather than being divided into six 400 level courses

and four honors courses, it should read divided into eight 400 level

courses and four honors courses. This amendment was agreed to.-

Page 104 -

tment of Modern Languages

The Department of Modern Languages submission was discussed with

respect to the number of hours which the department requires a

student to take during the first four levels. It appeared from the

typescript that the Department was asking for 25 hours rather than

the minimum of 24 hours which they are permitted to do under the General

Regulations. It was agreed that T.B. Bottomore should discuss this

matter with the Department of Modern Languages and request that the

Department reduce the requirements to the minimum permitted under the

General Regulations.

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The Senate also questioned the comment in brackets after the

introductory Hindi course description, namely

'The introduction

of this program is in the nature of an experiment'. It was

commented that all courses are somewhat experimental and while the

note seemed to be intended to convey that there would be no

guarantee made that further Hindi courses would be offered, it did

provide an opening for misinterpretation. TB, Bottomore was

requested to consult with the Head of the Department of Modern

Languages about this comment.

The rest of the Faculty of Arts departmental section was approved

without amendment.

Page 166- Faculty of Education. Physical Development

A lengthy discussion ensued on what to do with the Calendar material

for the Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Human Movement

as the Committee set up to discuss this matter had not been able

to prepare the report for this meeting

The main bone of contention

seemed to be the type of degree that could be offered for such a

program It was suggested that the copy as presented by the Faculty

of Education be included in this draft Calendar and that by the

time the Committee had reported and Senate had met again the Calendar

should be at the page-proof stage and it would be a simple matter to

delete or alter this program if the Committee recommendation was that

this should be done.

It was agreed to follow the above course of action with the understanding

that the inclusion of t:iis material in the draft Calendar in no way

conveyed Senate's approval of the program or of any degree for the program

but was an expedient taken by Senate in order to let the Calendar go

forward to the printer.

Page 173 - Faculty of Science

There was considerable discussion on the differnces in requirements for

an Arts degree as compared to a Science degree.

Moved by T.B. Bottomore,seconded by G.Sperling

"that Senate express its deep concern to the Science Faculty

with the fact that there appears to be no limitation on the

requirements which a department in the Faculty of Science can

impose on a student in the first four levels and requests

the Faculty of Science to reconsider its program with a view to

liberalizing it".

CARRIED

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Moved by LB. Bottomore, seconded by G.Sperling

"that the Science Faculty and in particular the

Departments of Physics and Chemistry be asked by

Senate to examine the course requirements, particularly

in the first four levels and see what positive action

they can take to secure greater freedom of choice for the

students in Science".

CARRIED

Page 179 - Department of Biology

It was agreed to change the title of course 202-3 Human Genetics

to Genetics, and to change the title and description of

402 - Physiological Genetics - Advanced Problems in the Nature

and Function of Genetic Material.

Chapter XI - Financial Aid to Students

The question of scholarships with restrictive conditions was

discussed. The Registrar said that it had been pointed out to

him that the Leonard Foundation Scholarship has the following

provisions:

'That those eligible must be of the white race,

of British nationality, and of the Christian religion in its

Protestant form'.

Moved by A.E. Branca, seconded by R.J.C. Harper

"that scholarships with restrictive conditions such as those

of the Leonard Foundation Scholarship not be listed in

the Calendars of Simon Fraser University".

CARRIED

Approval of Undergraduate Calendar

Moved by K.E. Rieckhoff, seconded by R.J.C. Harper

that the Undergraduate Calendar as amended be approved'.

CARRIED

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3. C. Graduate Calendar 1967-68

The draft Calendar was approved with the changes suggested

by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee and other editorial

amendments.

The following new graduate courses were aproved for offering

in the Spring Semester 1967:

History 800-5

Seminar in Historiography

Physics 871-4

Nuclear Physics. Selected Topics from

Modern Nuclear Theory.

Developent of Graduate Work at Simon Fraser

The President said that he had received a memorandum from

C.D. Nelson regarding the development of graduate work and

had subsequently had a lengthy discussion with him on this

question.

As a result of this he wanted to pose some questions for

Senate that he felt should be tackled soon. One of these was

the extent to which graduate students at Simon Fraser should

be involved in the challenges and tribulations of academic instruction.

Some of them were involved as Teaching Assistants, but this

• may not go far enough. All students at the master's and doctor's

level could be exposed to discussion on where education is going.

Could this be done without lengthening the degree program?

It was suggested that the need might be met by holding a general

seminar for students of all faculties, and by holding frequent

meetings with Teaching Assistants on the technique of tutorial

leadership; encouragement of innovations by Teaching Assistants

themselves in running their tutorials; and exposure of graduate

students to large classes when they feel they are ready to lecture

to groups.

Members felt that what was required was a coordinated program and

it was questioned whether there was any organisation for adminstering

the programs within each department, and whether there was any

administrative machinery for exchange of views between departments.

It was agreed that the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies should

explore the subject further and perhaps prepare discussion papers for

the Faculties.

3. D and 3.E.

It was agreed to carry these items over to the next Meeting.

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OTHER BUSINESS

New appointments to the Joint Board of Teachers

The President said that for the past three years Mr.Frederickson and

Professor Baker had been Senate members appointed by the Board, and

President's alternate, and now wished to be relieved of these duties.

Moved by K.E. Rieckhoff, seconded by G.Kirchner

• "that Dr;W.Vidaver replace Mr.C.J. Frederickson as the

Senate's nominee to the Joint Board, and Professor F.Cunningham

be the President's alternate".

CARRIED

Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees

Moved by G. Kirchner, seconded by R.J.C. Harper

"that W. Williams replace T.H. Brose as a member of this

Coninittee".

CARRIED

Academic Planning

The President said that agreement had been reached to establish

an Advisory Committee on Long Range Academic Planning, consisting

of the Dean of each Faculty, one additional member from each

Faculty, one member from the Board of Governors, one lay member

of the Senate, and the Director of University Affairs.

Moved by A.R. MacKinnon, seconded by K. Rieckhoff

"that the Hon.Wm.Hamilton be appointed as the Senate's

representative on the Long Range Academic Planning Committee".

CARRIED

Program for Convocation Founders

The President told Senate that there had been no official visit

from the Visitor, Lt.Governor the Hon.George R.Pearkes, since the

installation ceremonies, and also nothing had been done to bring

Convocation Founders on campus for well over a year.. Now that two

or three candidates had qualified for the Master's degree it was

felt that this should be a suitable reason for arranging a program

for Convocation Founders. A date in February had been tentatively set.

Senate agreed that the matter should be taken to the Board of

Governors.

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E. Convocation in May

- Speaker

It was agreed that everyone in the University should inform the

Registrar of the name of the best speaker that they know. A

speaker would be drawn from this list by the Senate Committee

on Honorary Degrees. The deans were asked to disseminate this

information.

DATE OF NEXT MEETING

The next Meeting of Senate will be Monday 6 February, 19'7, at

1.30 PM.

The Meeting adjourned at 7 PM.

D.P. Robertson

Secretary