DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE

MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE SENATE OF SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY HELD

ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1985, KLAUS RIECKNOFF HALL, 7:00 P.M.

Present:

Saywell, W.G., Chairman

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Berggren, J.L.

Clayman, B.P.

Dobb,T.C.

Geen, G.

Hoegg, J.L.

Kazepides, A.C.

Marx, R.

Rainey, R.

Saunders, R.

Verdun-Jones, S.

Absent:

Archer, B.

Brown, R.C.

Cleveland, W.

Fellman, M.

Goodman, D.

Holweg, B.

Kennedy, P.E.

Lo, N.K.

McAllister, H.

Rieckhoff, K.

Scott, I.

Tuinman, J.

Vining, A.

Almassy, E.

George, D.A

Nielsen, V.

Strate, G.

Basham, G.

Coleman, P.

DAuria, J.

Flynn, G.

Graham, G.A.C.

Ivany, J.W.G.

Kimball, M.

Love, C.E.

Pinfield, L.

Salter, L.

Singh, M.

Valentine, C.

Warsh, M.

Cercone, N.

Hamilton, W.M.

Tay, P.

Chant, J.F.

Muscroft, J.C.

In attendance:

N. Heath

Heath, W.R., Secretary

Grant, B., Recording Secretary

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ove Item 4-b (S.85-35 - Membership on Senate) into Closed

3.

Business Arising

There was no business arising from the Minutes.

a)

The Chairman reported that this major, ongoing fundraising effort has been well

received with approximately 75 members. He explained that the association, which people

may join who give $1,000 a year or $5,000 for a life membership, provides the President

with discretionary funds for the enhancement of endeavours which come forward through

the Deans and Vice-Presidents.

b)

Senate was advised by the Chairman through a letter he had received from C. Jones,

Chairman of the Chemistry Department, that SFU ranks first in Canada, and fourth overall in

North America, in the performance of its students on the MCAT, the examination which

students must take to enter a medical school. Many of these students take their training in

Biochemistry and acknowledgement for this success was extended to the Departments of

Chemistry and Biology. Statistics for the actual Canadian rankings are available on request

from the Secretary of Senate.

c)

The Chairman reported that five-year plans for NSERC and SSHRC, which are critical to

academic life in Canada, are currently under consideration by the Federal Government and a

Cabinet decision is expected to be made within the next month. Senators and faculty

colleagues were urged to write to anyone at the Federal level, particularly in the current

Government, in support of these two granting agencies as the level of funds for the next five

years will be based on the forthcoming decision.

d)

In response to an inquiry, the Chairman advised that he had no definite information

wi.ii regard to the recent announcement concerning the possible creation of a new institute

to handle computing science but it was his feeling that if the Ministry was assured of major

funding through URDA and industry for enhancement in this very high pressure area in

terems of equipment and students, he would have no objection as long as it was not a

degree-granting institute competing with the Universities for Ministry funds.

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e)

PaDer S.85-36 - 1986 Convocation Dates

Senate received information that the 1986 Convocation Dates were as follows: Friday, June

6th in the afternoon and Saturday, June 7th in the morning and afternoon.

Convocation dates for the University of Victoria are Friday and Saturday May 30th and 31st;

the University of B.C. - Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, May 28th, 29th and 30th.

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i)

Paper S.85-37 - Senate Nominating Committee - Elections

Following are the results of elections to fill vacancies on the undernoted Senate

Senate Committee on Academic Discioline

Senator at-large to replace A.C. Kazepides, as Chairman, for a one-year term of office,

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Elected by acclamation: A.C. Kazepides

One Faculty Member to replace J

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Elected by acclamation: E. J

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Wells

One Faculty Member to replace T. Kameda for a two-year term of office, from October 1,

Elected by acclamation: M. Roberts

One Faculty Member Alternate to replace

E.J

.

Vacancy - No nominations received

Senate Committee on Academic Plannina/Senate Committee on University Budget

Two Senators at-large to replace K. Okuda and J

.

Dickinson for balance terms of office, from

date of election to September 30, 1986.

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J.M. DAuria

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Three Senators at-large to replace W.L. Cleveland, J.M. DAuria and K.E. Rieckhoff for two-

Elected by acclamation: D. Goodman

S. Verdun-Jones

One Lay Member Senator to replace V. Nielsen for a two-year term of office, from October 1,

Elected by acclamation: V. Nielsen

One Student Senator to replace M. Noonan for a two-year term of office, from October 1,

1985 to September 30, 1987.

Ballots Cast:

41

Ballots Spoiled:

5

Individual Totals:

Steele

24

Senate Committee on A

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enda and Rules

One Senator at-large to replace D. McDonald for balance term of office, from date of election

Elected by acclamation: M. Feilman

One Senator at-large to replace E.J. Wells for a two-year term of office, from October 1, 1985

Elected by acclamation: E.J. Wells

One Student Senator to replace G. Flynn for a two-year term of office, from October 1, 1985

Senate Committee on Continuin

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Studies

Two Faculty Senators to replace C.B. Crawford and A. MacPherson for balance terms of office,

Vacancy - insufficient nominations received to fill

all

vacancies

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from October 1, 1985 to September 30, 1987.

Elected by acclamation:

M.

Kimball

E. Love

1985

to September 30,

Elected by acclamation: M. Warsh

One Student Senator to replace S. Dalby for balance term of office, from date of election to

Elected by acclamation: A. G. Steele

Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees

Elected by acclamation: J.F. Chant

Elected by acclamation: R. Marx

Senate Library Committee

Two Senators at-large to replace G. Flynn and M. Noonan for two-year terms of office, from

October 1,

1985

to September 30, 1987.

Ballots Cast:

41

Ballots Spoiled:

3

Individual Totals:

Flynn

21

Salter

28

Strate

20

Tay

Two individuals receiving the higher number of votes and declared elected:

L. Salter

G. Flynn

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Senate Library Committee/Library Penalties ADDeaI Committee

One Student Senator and one Student Senator Alternate to replace K.C. Chin and P. Zell

Senate Nominating

Committee

Four Senators at-large to replace A.C. Kazepides, J

.

Elected by acclamation: G.A.C. Graham

M.C. Roberts

S. Verdun-Jones

One Student Senator and one Student Senator Alternate to replace M. Noonan and H.

McAllister respectively for one-year terms of office, from October 1, 1985 to September 30,

C. Valentine (Alternate)

Senate Committee on Scholarshios. Awards & Bursaries

One Faculty Member (Applied Sciences) (replacing D.K. Maclntyre, F.I.DS.); One Facul

Member (Arts) to replace A. MacPherson; one Faculty Member (Business Administration)

replace D. McDonald; one Faculty Member (Education) to replace A.C. Kazepides; one Faculty

Member (Science) to replace C.Y. Shen. Terms of office are for two years, from October 1,

C.E. Love (Business Admin.)

M. Singh (Science)

One Lay Member Senator to replace V. Nielsen for two-year term of office, from October 1.

Elected by acclamation: V. Nielsen

Senate UnderRraduate Admissions Board

Two Student Senators and one Student Senator Alternate to replace M. Noonan, J

.

Tham and

P. Zeller respectively for one-year terms of office, from October 1, 1985 to September 30,

Elected by acclamation: R. J. S. Rainey

I. M. Scott (Alternate)

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One Senator at-large to replace B.T. McGeer for balance term of office, from date of election

Elected by acclamation: J.F. Chant

Senate Committee on Under

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raduate Studies

Three Student Senator Alternates to replace K.C. Chin, J

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5. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

i)

a)

Moved by G. Ivany, seconded by A.C. Kazepides,

'That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board

of Governors, as set forth in S.85-38, the proposed

CRIM 314-3 -

CRIM 331-3 -

CRIM 333-3 -

CRIM 343-3 -

CRIM 4313 -

CRIM 442-3 -

cRIM 490-5 -

CRIM 340-3 -

CRIM 341-3 -

Psychotherapy with Offenders: Current

CRIM 441-4 -

Psychotherapy with Offenders:

New Directions

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K. Riecklioff expressed concern over the fact that seven new courses were being added

while only three were being deleted and questioned the statement that additional

resources were not necessary. He also noted that the addition of CRIM 490 to the Honors

thesis increased the total Honors thesis to 13 units which he felt was somewhat heavy. In

response, S. Verdun-Jones explained that Criminology now requires their Honors students

to take a five-credit Directed Studies Course so in fact there is no increase in workload,

- just a shift from a directed studies course to a formal honors thesis course. He also

pointed out that the new courses represent a collaspe of three courses into two and that

other upper division seminars would be offered less often. This would make a greater

degree of variety to faculty and students while not increasing the total number of upper

level offerings.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

b)

Paoer S.85-39 - LanRuaRes. Literatures & Linguistics

Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

acting under delegated authority approved a change in prerequisite for FREN 303 - PROM:

French 206 or equivalent - TO: French 301 and French 306 or equivalent (or permission

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Moved by G. Ivany, seconded by H. Weinberg,

That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board

of Governors, as set forth in S.85-40, the proposed

Deletion of

Processes

B. Archer pointed out that at its next meeting, SCAP would be considering a new program

on Cognitive Science which included the question of whether or not the course - PSYC 460

- Social Psychology, would be deleted from with the program and he questioned the

wisdom of deletion of the course by Senate prior to the decision of SCAP on the new

program. An inquiry was made as to how the proposed split of PSYC 460 into 461 and

462 would affect the paper before SCAP. Brief discussion ensued following which the

motion was withdrawn on the understanding that paper S.85-40 would be brought

forward at a subsequent meeting of Senate, pending the approval of the Cognitive Science

Program.

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e)

Paper S.85-41 - Languag

Moved by B. Clayman, seconded by K. Rieckhoff,

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board

of Governors, as set forth in S.85-41. the proposed title

FROM: Computational Linguistics

TO: Linguistic Theories and Computational Logic

Grammars"

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

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Moved by B. Clayman, seconded by C. LeBon,

That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board

of Governors, as set forth in S.85-42, the proposed Day MBA

The Calendar entry for Fields of Concentration be modified as

follows:

1.

Accounting and Management Information Systems be

renamed Accounting and that Management Science be

renamed Management Science and Information Systems.

2.

That BUS. 876, Decision Support Systems, be added to

the list of field courses for Management Science.

3.

That BUEC 823, Business and Economic Forecasting, be

removed from the list of field courses for Management

Science but that it be considered an acceptable course in

fulfilling the Research Methods requirements

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

a)

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iv) SENATE UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS BOARD

a)

Pacer S.85-43 - En1isb re

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Moved by G. Ivany, seconded by K. Rieckhoff,

"That Senate approve the changes to the English language

requirements for non-native speakers who are applying for

admission to undergraduate programs of the University, as

given in SUAB 148

N. Heath, Director of Admissions, joined the meeting to answer questions and provide

further information.

G. Ivany pointed out that experience had shown that some minimum competence in

English was required to handle university level instruction in English and the proposed

motion addressed the appropriate and equitable means of assessing that competence. He

reminded Senate that the earlier proposal had been referred back to SUAB to obtain legal

opinion and the motion under discussion resulted from that equiry.

Referring to the guidelines outlined on page 3 of the SUAB document which will be use to

assess an applicants facility in the English language, N. Heath briefly provided further

details as to interpretation, how they will be applied, and what procedures will be used

to communicate this information to students. Concerns were expressed that there were

no exemptions, i.e. French immersion students, built into the proposal and that there was

no specific guideline for appeal. N. Heath explained that students had the option to

appeal to the Senate Appeals Board. In response to a suggestion that all students should

be allowed to register regardless of their competence in the language, it was pointed out

that since their chances of success would be doubtful, it was unfair to the student and a

waste of time and resources for both the student and the University. In response to an

opinion that a general University test be imposed for all students, G. Ivany noted the

Moved by R. Rainey, seconded by B. Archer,

That the matter be referred back to the Senate

Undergraduate Admissions Board for further

discussion"

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION TO REFER FAILED

Discussion ensued on the main motion in which opinion was expressed that rather than

refusing students admission, they should be better advised that their probability of

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ccess is very limited and then if they still wish to proceed it was their own decision.

It was pointed out that the proposal allowed students to arrive and provided a

mechanism to get assistance, if needed, via the remedial program. Brief discussion

• continued.

Question was called on the main motion,

and a vote taken.

There was no other business.

7.

The next regular meeting of Senate is scheduled for Monday, November 4, 1985.

Following a brief recess at 8:20 p.m., the Assembly moved into Closed Session.

W.R. Heath