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Minutes of a meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on Monday,
April 7, 1997 at 7:00 pm in Room 3210 WMC
Open Session
Present: ?
Etherington, Lois, Vice-Chair
Absent: ?
Akins, Kathleen
Alderson, Evan
Aujla, Angela
Arnason, Kristjan
Beattie, Suzan
Barrow, Robin
Blaney, Jack
Baert, Jessica
Blazenko, George
Berggren, J. Len
Cellik, Peter
Boland, Larry
Chan, Albert
Clayman, Bruce
Cleveland, William
Crawford, Charles
Coleman, Peter
D'Auria, John
Dahl, Veronica
Dobb, Ted
Gagan, David
Dunsterville, Valerie
Giffen, Kenneth
Emmott, Alan
Howlett, Michael
Hewitt, Kevin
Jones, Cohn
Lewis, Brian
Kanevsky, Larinie
Mathewes, Rolf
Kozminuk, Angela
McInnes, Dina
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Liu, Susan
Osborne, Judith
Luk, Wo Shun
Percival, Paul
Marteniuk, Ron
Peterson, Louis
Mauser, Gary
Pierce, John
Naef, Barbara
Rawicz, Andrew
Nip, Harry
Sanghera, Baiwant
Overington, Jennifer
Shapiro, Stanley
Reed, Clyde
Warsh, Michael
Ross, Douglas
Whitbread, Katherine
Segal, Joseph
Wortis, Michael
Stubbs, John
Wickstrom, Norm
Whine, Phil
In attendance: Beale, Alison
Heath, Nick
Klymchuk, Kai-Lee
Richmond, Stuart
Heath, Ron, Dean of Student Services and Registrar
Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary
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1.
Approval of the Agenda
The Agenda was approved as distributed.
2.
Approval of the Minutes of the Open Session of March 3, 1997
The Minutes were approved as distributed.
3.
Business Arising from the Minutes
The Chair advised that Lay Senators had been contacted and had no
objections to an early start time of 5:30 pm should SCAR decide that there
would be a particularly short agenda.
In response to a request for updated information about the report of the
ad
hoc Committee on Planning Priorities, Senate was advised that the Report
had been presented to the Board of Governors for information last month.
The Deans and the Vice-President, Academic are currently discussing the
implementation of the planning process.
4.
Report of the Chair
The Chair advised that John Stubbs was currently in Asia, and announced
that the Board of Governors has re-appointed him as President for a second
five-year term.
On behalf of Senate, the Chair extended congratulations to John Pierce on his
appointment as the new Dean of Arts effective September 1997. ?
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Reports of Committees
a)
Senate Nominating Committee
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Paper S.97-32 - Elections
Senate was advised that two further nominations had been received for
SCODA and DQAC. Senate was advised that the following nominees have
been elected by acclamation: Albert Chan to the Senate Committee on
Disciplinary Appeals (SCODA) and Diverse Qualifications Adjudication
Committee (DQAC); Jennifer Overington to the Senate Committee on
Academic Planning (SCAP)/Senate Committee on University Budget (SCUB)
and Senate Library Committee (SLC)/Library Penalties Appeal Committee
(LPAC); and Susan Liu to the Senate Committee on Academic Planning
(SCAP)/Senate Committee on University Budget (SCUB). All other positions
remain vacant.
b)
Senate Appeals Board
i) ?
Paper S.97-33 - Annual Report (For Information)
Kai-Lee Klymchuk, Chair, SAB and Nick Heath, Director of Admissions were
in attendance in order to respond to questions.
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is Brief discussion took place with respect to the apparent drop in activity on
behalf of the Senate Appeals Board. Since CRUA has taken on some of the
responsibilities previously handled by SAB, inquiry was made as to whether
or not Senate could be given a report on the activities of CRUA. J. Osborne,
Chair of CRUA, advised that she would be pleased to prepare a report for
presentation to Senate.
K. Amason noted that when SUAB was dissolved and the SAB was re-
organized and CRUA established, Faculties were given the power to deal with
retroactive withdrawals. Concern was expressed at that time that individual
Faculties might deal with similar cases in different ways. Under the current
procedure, since Faculties are not required to report, Senate has no way of
knowing what process is being used by various Faculties or the level of
activity in this area, and the following Notice of Motion for the next meeting
was presented by K. Amason:
"that henceforth when the Annual Report of the Senate Appeals
Board comes to Senate, the Faculty Appeals Committees also
present reports for information at that time"
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Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Graduate Studies
Committee
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Faculty of Education
i) ?
Paper S.97-34 - Proposed Ed.D. in Educational Leadership
Moved by J. Osborne, seconded by B. Clayman
"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.97-34, the proposed Ed.D. in
Educational Leadership"
R. Barrow, Dean of Education and S. Richmond, Chair of the Faculty
Graduate Studies Committee were in attendance in order to respond to
questions.
M. Wortis expressed opinion that programs offered in a distance education
mode (or a partial distance education mode) need to maintain the same high
quality and meet the same high standards as on campus programs, and he
proposed as a friendly amendment that a statement be added to the motion
explicitly stating this principle. Although there were no objections to the
sentiment of the proposed amendment, objections were raised about the
appropriateness of attaching such a statement to a specific program and
concerns were expressed about- the implications to other distance education
offerings. The proposed amendment was not accepted as friendly.
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Amendment moved by M. Wortis, seconded by C. Crawford
"that the following phrase be added to the end of the motion:
with the understanding that (a) this program is expected to
provide an educational experience of the same quality as that of
full time on campus degree programs in Education, and (b) the
standard of work expected for completion of this degree will be
the same as that of on campus PhD programs in Education"
Senate was advised that the proposed program will be offered in a different
venue but otherwise it is no different from on campus programs in Education
in so far as standards, teaching and quality of thesis.
It was also noted that guidelines for delivery of graduate programs in distance
education specify that the quality of such programs must be fully comparable
to that of on-campus programs and opinion was expressed that the
amendment was therefore redundant. It was suggested that the amendment
should be reworded so as not to isolate this particular program but still
recognize that the program had been developed in accordance with approved
policy. Reference was made to the program description and Senate's
attention was drawn to the first paragraph on page 9 of the documentation.
Opinion was expressed that the issue could be addressed by amending the
program description to reflect the sentiment of the proposed amendment is
prior to the documentation going forward to the Board and the Ministry's
Degree Program Review Committee.
Concern was expressed that the amendment, as it stands, implies that what is
being proposed is different from previous proposals, and in order to clarify
that the program does not deviate from policy, L. Boland suggested that the
words
'like all such programs'
be inserted in the amendment. This
suggestion was accepted as friendly by the mover and seconder. The result
was the following amended motion:
"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.97-34, the proposed Ed.D. in
Educational Leadership with the understanding that like all such
programs (a) this program is expected to provide an educational
experience of the same quality as that of full time on campus
degree programs in Education, and (b) the standard of work
expected for completion of this degree will be the same as that of
on campus PhD programs in Education" (amendment in italics)
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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AMENDMENT FAILED
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. Brief discussion followed with respect to resources required for the offering of
the program, and Senate was advised that the Faculty has made a
commitment to this program and if necessary will cut back in other areas but
will not be seeking any additional funding other than that already committed
through the Academic Enhancement Fund.
Inquiry was made as to whether or not the concerns reflected in discussion of
the amendment might be addressed by adding a paragraph at the appropriate
point on page 9 before the documentation goes forward to the Board or the
Ministry's Degree Program Review Committee. R. Barrow advised that he
would be willing to include wording to reflect the sentiment of the
amendment.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MAIN MOTION CARRIED
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Faculty of Applied Sciences
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Paper S.97-35 - Communication - Graduate Curriculum Revision
Moved by J
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Osborne, seconded by B. Clayman
. "that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.97-35, the curriculum revisions in
the School of Communications"
B. Lewis, Director, School of Communication and A. Beale, Chair of the
Graduate Program, were in attendance in order to respond to questions.
B. Clayman advised Senate that any of the changes by themselves would not
have justified Senate action but taken together, they comprised enough
change that he felt they should come to Senate for approval.
In response to an inquiry as to whether these numerous changes imply a
particular direction of change for the School, Senate was advised that there
was no significant change to the graduate program and that the various
changes mainly address housekeeping issues that have arisen over the years.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
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Paper S.97-36 - Resource and Environmental Management - Graduate
Curriculum Revisions
Moved by J. Osborne, seconded by B. Clayman
"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as et forth in S.97-36, the curriculum revisions in the
School of Resource and Environmental Management"
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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ifi) Faculty of Arts
i)
Paper S.97-37 - Criminology - Graduate Curriculum Revisions
Moved by J. Osborne, seconded by B. Clayman
"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.97-37, the curriculum revisions in
the School of Criminology"
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uestion
was called, and a vote taken.
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ii)
Paper S.97-38 - English - Graduate Curriculum Revisions
Moved by J. Osborne, seconded by B. Clayman
"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.97-38, the curriculum revisions in
the Department of English"
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on was called, and a vote taken.
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iii)
Paper S.97-39 - Geography - Graduate Curriculum Revisions (For
Information)
Senate received information that the SGSC, acting under delegated authority,
deleted four courses (GEOG 712, 749, 754, 758) and approved one new course
(GEOG 755), and changes to existing courses within the Department of
Geography.
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iv) Paper S.97-40 - Political Science - Graduate Curriculum Revisions
Moved by J
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Osborne, seconded by B. Clayman
that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.97-40, the curriculum revisions in
the Department of Political Science"
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
IV) Faculty of Business Administration
i) ?
Paper S.97-41 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions (For Information)
Senate received information that the SGSC, acting under delegated authority,
deleted one course (MBA 635) and approved changes to existing courses
within the Faculty of Business Administration.
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Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Committee on
Enrolment Management and Planning
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Paper S.97-42 - Faculty of Business Administration - International
Student Intake Targets for 1997/98 - 1999/2000
Moved by J. Osborne, seconded by S. Shapiro
"that Senate approve, as set forth in S.97-42, that the number of
international students, excluding exchange students, admitted
into the Faculty of Business Administration at SFU in the
academic years 1997/98, 1998/99 and 1999/2000 be limited to a
maximum of 10% of all admissions into the Faculty"
Senate was advised that the limit has been set at 10% for some time and
rather than bring forward the same recommendation each year, SCEMP has
framed a motion covering three years. The limit can be reviewed at any time
over the course of the three years if necessary.
Brief discussion ensued with respect to how the 10% figure was reached, why
the percentage of admissions had decreased over the past several years, and
the number (and consequence) of students admitted in this category who go
on to receive Permanent Resident status or citizenship.
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Question was called, and a vote taken.
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Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies
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Paper S.97-43 - Termination of PBD in Aquaculture
Moved by J. Osborne, seconded by L. Berggren
"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.97-43, termination of the Post
Baccalaureate Diploma Program in Aquaculture"
Senate was advised that the graduate Aquaculture Program no longer exists
and the requisite courses required for the PBD Program are no longer offered.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
ii)
Paper S.97-44 - Faculty of Arts Breadth Requirements (For Information)
Senate received information that SCUS, acting under delegated authority,
approved a change in Calendar language to include Science (SCI) courses as a
separate 'department' under the Faculty of Arts Breadth Requirements
listing.
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Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules
i) ?
Paper S.97-45 - Student Representation on Senate Committees
Moved by L. Boland, seconded by L. Berggren
"that Senate approve the revision of the membership of the five
Senate committees as set forth in S.97-45"
An amendment put forth by K. Whitbread which would empower the Simon
Fraser Student Society to appoint the at-large students to the committees in
question was ruled out of order.
It was pointed out that the Student Society could still solicit nominations
from the student body and Student Senators would still be able to run for the
positions; the motion simply widens the pool of available candidates and
takes some of the burden off the group of Student Senators.
In response to an inquiry as to the amount of student input, Senate was
advised that the Senate Nominating Committee called a meeting to discuss
the issue of student representation on committees and all of the Student
Senators were invited to attend. Three Student Senators attended the
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meeting and a number of possibilities were discussed before this proposal was
put forward.
Brief discussion ensued with respect to the election procedure that would
apply to the at-large positions and concern was expressed that students were
being elected by Senate whose majority of members were not students. It was
noted that the committees in question were committees of Senate. Concern
was also expressed that the at large positions were not widely enough
advertised and that candidate selection was therefore quite restrictive. It was
pointed out that the Student Society is routinely informed of all at large
positions and invited to submit nominations, and on occasion
advertisements have been placed in The Peak and circulated on e-mail.
Question was called, and a vote taken.
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MOTION CARRIED
6.
Other Business
A. Rawicz drew Senate's attention to an article published by the University of
British Columbia which alleges that Simon Fraser University has the third
highest administrative costs of universities in Canada. The Chair noted the
information.
7.
Information
Thedate of the next regularly scheduled meeting of Senate is Monday, May
12, 1997.
The Assembly moved directly into Closed Session at 8:10 pm.
W. Ron Heath
Dean of Student Services and Registrar
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