DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE

MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE SENATE OF SIMON

FRASER UNIVERSITY HELD

ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1995 IN ROOM 3210

WMX,

7:00 P.M.

OPEN SESSION

Present: ?

Stubbs, J.O., Chair

Alderson, E.

Absent: ?

Cohen, M.

Amason, K.

Dean, C.

Bacanl, J.

Dobb, T.

Barrow, A.

Einstein, D.

Beattie, S.

Giffen, K.

Blaney, J.

Mathewes, A.

Boland, L.

Mauser, G.

Bullock, D.

Naef, B.

Chan, K.

Osborne, J.

Ciria, A.

Segal, J.

Clayman, B.

Warsh, M.

Crawford, C.

Wickstrom, N.

D'Aurla, J.

Wideen, M.

Dhir, R.

Wu, S.

Driver, J.

Dunsterville, V.

Eaton, C.

Etherington, L.

Hater, L.

Heinrich, K.

Hoeflich, K.

Jones, C.

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LeMare, L.

In attendance:

Lord, T.

Gee, E.

Luk,

W.S.

Gutman, G.

Marteniuk, R.

Wister, A.

McAskiII, I.

McInnes, D.

Morrison, T.

Munro, J.

Percival, P.

Perry, T.

Peterson, L.

Rawicz, A.

Sanghera, B.

Shapiro, S.

Stewart, M.L.

Swartz, N.

Vining, A.

Winne, P.

Heath, W.A., Secretary

Grant, B., Recording Secretary

Approval of the Agenda

The Agenda was approved as distributed.

Approval of the Minutes of the Open Session of January 9. 1995

The Minutes were approved as distributed.

Business Arising from the Minutes

There was no business arising from the Minutes.

Report of the Chair

The Chair reported that budget concerns continue to focus in two areas. Firstly,

funding for research councils might be substantially reduced, and secondly, it is

difficult to assess the effect the Federal budget will have on transfer payments to

the provinces in 1996/97.

Reference was made to the recent announcements regarding Government

funding for the establishment of a technical, degree-granting institution in the

Fraser Valley at Cloverdale, and the degree-granting status given to Kwantlen

College. The Chair wished to correct a story which appeared in a local

newspaper that the former Dean of Arts, A. Brown, was a member of the

Advisory Committee for the new university. H. Brown was on a number of

committees that looked into this matter before the Government made its

decision but he is not on the Advisory Board of the new institution.

Report of Committees

a) ?

Senate Nominating Committee

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i) ?

Paper S.95-9 - Elections

The following are results of elections

Senate committees:

conducted by Senate to the following

LUniversity

Budget

One Lay Senator to replace M. Warsh for balance term of office, from date of

election to September 30, 1996.

Candidates: V. Dunsterville, B. Naef

Individual receiving the higher number of votes and declared elected:

V. Dunsterville

Two Student Senators to replace K. Chan and J. Bacani for balance terms of

office, from date of election to September 30, 1996 and September 30, 1995

respectively:

Candidates: K. Amason, R. Dhir (Nomination of T. Morrison withdrawn)

Individual receiving the higher number of votes and declared elected for term of

office from date of election to September 30, 1996:

K. Amason

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Runner-Up declared elected for term of office from date of election to

September 30, 1995:

A. Dhir

Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals (SCODA)

One Student Senator to replace K. Chan for balance term of office, from date of

election to September 30, 1995.

Elected by acclamation: ?

R. Dhir

Senate Library Committee (SLC)/Library Penalties Appeal Committee (LPAC

One Student Senator to replace K. Hoeflich for balance term of office, from date

of election to September 30, 1996.

Vacant

No nominations received

b) ?

Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Graduate Studies

Committee

MEW M

INT-T.M.T.

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Moved by J. Munro, seconded by B. Clayman

"that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of

Governors as set forth in S.95-10, approval of the Master of

Arts in Gerontology.

Dr. G. Gutman, Director of the Gerontology Program, and Drs. A. Wister and E.

Gee were in attendance in order to respond to questions.

Opinion was expressed that the proposal contained vague language,

euphemisms, and specialized jargon and concern was expressed about the

use of words such as 'older persons', 'older adults', and 'built environment', It

was suggested that precise language should be used with terminology such as

'the elderly', 'seniors' or 'accommodating the elderly', being recommended.

It was pointed out that, as a field, Gerontology does not deal exclusively with

persons age .65 and over. It is concerned with adult development and aging.

The use of words like 'older persons' is used to distinguish individuals and is

the choice of experts in the field. Many older persons object to being called

seniors or the elderly because they feel that homogenizes them as a group and

doesn't recognize individual distinction. It was also noted that some publishers

even refuse to publish articles using terms such as the elderly. Comment was

made that perhaps other Calendar material should be edited to reflect this. The

term built environment is quite clearly understood in the field to designate

housing and the design of care facilities and other places in which older

persons tend to gather, and using the word built clearly disthgulshes it from

those programs that are concerned with the green environment.

It was noted that the concept of the program appeared to be Well presented and

suggestion was made that too much attention was being given to specific

words.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

c) ?

Senate Committee on University

Budget

i) ?

Paper S.95-11 - Annual Report - For Information

J. Munro extended congratulations to K. Heinrich, Chair of SCUB, and her

colleagues for the improved format of this 'ear's annual report. However, he

wished to clarify that before any enrolment funding or any' budget allocations

were done last year the Library received an off-the-top allocation of $500,000

for acquisitions. This is not reflected in the Annual Report.

At the request of the Chair, K. Heinrich explained procedures that SCUB wished

to follow for this current budget cycle

. In December, SCUB met

'with the Vice-

Presidents to talk about their portfolios and to ask a variety of

.questions, some

of which were based on last year's report and input received from the

university,

community. Further meetings will be held and

it is expected

that

they will be

concluded by the end of February. Next month, SCUB hopes

'td ,

send a letter to

the community describing, one or two scenarios based on the University's

best

guess as to what is likely to happen with respect to the budget allocation. The

Vice-President, Finance and Administration, has prepared, for distribution, a

guide to the budget to clarify the various' components of the

, budget and those

items where funds can be moved from one component" to aflother. The

guidelines from the Government, for the way in which funds can be used within

the University will also be distributed. The university. community, should then

have a. much broader picture and better understanding of the budget process.

Hopefully in March or early April SCUB will

meet with each

Faculty and the

Library, and will also hold a' general meeting in order to gather input from the

community. SCUB's goal is for the university community to work together to find

a long term strategy to deal with. the changing budget situations..

6. ?

Other Business

There was no other business.

Information

The date of the next regularly scheduled meeting of' Senate is Monday, March

6, 1995.

The Assembly moved directly into Closed Session at 7:25 p.m.

W. R. Heath

Secretary of' Senate