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Minutes of a meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on Monday,

July 7, 1997 at 7:00 pm in Room 3210 WMC

Open Session

Present:

Gagan, David, Acting Chair

Bawa, Parveen

Beattie, Suzan

Berggren, J

Len

Blaney, Jack

Boland, Larry

Chan, Albert

-Clayman T

Bruce----

Cleveland, William

Coleman, Peter

D'Auria, John

Dobb, Ted

Dunsterville, Valerie

Emmott, Alan

Etherington, Lois

Gillies, Mary-Ann

Jones, Cohn

Jones, John

Kanevsky, Lannie

Kirczenow, George

Martin, Jack (representing R. Barrow)

Mauser, Gary

Morris, Joy

Naef, Barbara

Nip, Harry

Overington, Jennifer

Parmar, Neelam

Percival, Paul

Perry, Tom (representing E. Alderson)

Peterson, Louis

Reed, Clyde

Shapiro, Stan

Tam, Lawrence

Whitbread, Katherine

Winne, Philip

Absent:

Baert, Jessica

Blazenko, George

Dahl, Veronica

Giffen, Ken

Osborne, Judith

Pierce, John

Sanghera, Baiwant

Segal, Joseph

Stubbs, John

Warsh, Michael

Wickstrom, Norman

Wong, Tim

Wortis, Michael

Yagi, Ian

In attendance:

French, Charlotte

Gee, Ellen

Gerolymatos, Andre

Poole, Gary

Williams, Peter

Hassan, Nany

Howlett, Michael

-------Lewis -Brian-

Mathewes, Rolf

McInnes, Dina

Watt, Alison, Director, Senate Secretariat

Heath, Ron, Dean of Student Services and Registrar

Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary

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Approval of the Agenda

The Agenda was approved as distributed.

Approval of the Minutes of the Open Session of May 12, 1997

The Minutes were approved as distributed.

Business Arising from the Minutes

Referral was made to the item discussed under Other Business, and inquiry

was made about the status of the Draft Policy on Religious Holidays and

whether or not it would be presented to Senate for consideration. Senate was

advised that the policy is still under discussion and that it will be presented to

Senate in due course.

Report of the Chair

D. Gagan advised that as a result of previous arrangements, the President is

currently on leave this semester, and the Associate Vice-President, Academic

will be taking periods of leave until the end of September. He noted he

would vacate the Chair for certain items on the agenda at which time the

Vice-Chair of Senate, L. Etherington, would assume the Chair.

On behalf of Senate the Chair expressed congratulations to re-elected/newly

elected Senators and welcomed the following new Senators to Senate: Dr.

John Jones, School of Engineering Science; Dr. George Kirczenow,

Department of Physics; Dr. Mary-Ann Gillies, Department of English; Dr.

Parveen Bawa, School of Kinesiology; Ms. Joy Morris, Faculty of Science; Mr.

Neelam Parmar, Faculty of Arts, Mr. Lawrence Tam, Faculty of Business

Administration; Mr. Tim Wong, Faculty of Arts, Mr. Ian Yagi, Faculty of Arts;

and Ms. Nany Hassan, Faculty of Applied Sciences.

The Chair was pleased to report and extend congratulations to three faculty

members who have recently been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of

Canada: Dr. Rosalie Tung, Faculty of Business Administration; Dr. Larry Dill,

Department of Biological Sciences; and Dr. Michael Wortis, Department of

Physics and member of Senate.

Reports of Committees

Senate Nominating Committee

i) ?

Paper S.97-55 - Elections

Senate was advised that no further nominations were received with respect

to the Senate Committee on Continuing Studies and the International

Undergraduate Student Exchange Committee. Vacancies would be carried

forward to the next meeting.

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Senate's attention was drawn to the election report attached to S.97-55 which

contained the results of the mail ballots for Senate committee positions and

reference was made to the tie vote in the election to determine

Regular/ Alternate student positions on the Senate Appeals Board (SAB).

Senate was advised that the candidates had agreed on which of them would

be the Regular and Alternate members and there was no need for a second

ballot. Therefore Harry Nip has been declared as the Regular member and Ian

Yagi the Alternate member for terms of office from date of election to May 31,

1999.

With respect to the tie vote in the election of a second faculty member to the

Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUTL), Senate

was advised that R. Mathewes had withdrawn his name and a second ballot

--was required to break the tieb

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nJ. _Gordonand_L.._Weldon.- - [-Elect-ion- - -- - -- - --

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result: 2nd balloting resulted in the election of I. Gordon to SCUlL for term

of office from date of election to May 31, 1999.]

Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUlL)

i) ?

Paper S.97-46 - Annual Report (For Information)

E. Gee, Department of Sociology/ Anthropology and Chair of SCUlL and G.

Poole, Director, Centre for University Teaching and Secretary of SCUTL were

in attendance in order to respond to questions.

Senate was advised that the Committee is currently in the process of

reviewing its terms of reference in order to determine its mandate and was in

the process of organizing a workshop on course evaluations. The workshop,

scheduled to take place on November 14th, is being organized by video

satellite and will have as speakers two. of North America's most recognized

experts in the evaluation of teaching. More details will be available in the

future in terms of promotion of the event. E. Gee advised that she will be

going on leave in September and the Nominating Committee has been

advised that a replacement is needed for the Chair.

K. Whitbread was pleased to see the Committee itself involved in creating its

terms of reference and mandate and encouraged SCUTL to remain active and

to keep up the good work.

Committee to Review Undergraduate Admissions (CRUA)

i) ?

Paper S.97-48 - Report to Senate (For Information)

C. French, Director, Student Academic Resources and Secretary of CRUA was

in attendance in order to respond to questions. Reference was made to the

concerns about workload expressed when the committee was established and

is ?

inquiry was made about this issue. Senate was advised that the division of

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work between CRUA and the Senate Appeals Board has worked out very well

and the workload for CRUA has not been a problem.

At this point, D. Gagan vacated the Chair in order to present agenda items d),

e), and f). L. Etherington, Vice-Chair of Senate took over as Chair.

d) ?

Senate Committee on Academic Planning

Paper S.97-49 - External Review - School of Resource and

Environmental Management (For Information)

P. Williams, Director of the School of Resource and Environmental

Management was in attendance in order to respond to questions.

Senate was advised that academic departments have been asked to prepare an

academic planning report covering a three-year period describing how they

intend to achieve their goals with the resources that will be available in that

time frame. In the meantime, external reviews continue and it is expected

that the outcome of the review will be incorporated in the academic planning

report.

In response to an inquiry about the use of teaching assistants in REM, it was

pointed out that the School has no undergraduate programs but there may be

an opportunity, providing funding is available, for graduate students in the

School to participate in the undergraduate environmental programs in the

Arts and Science Faculties.

ii)

Paper S.97-50 - Centre for the Study of Government and Business

Moved by D. Gagan, seconded by B. Clayman

"that Senate approve an "

' recommend approval to the Board of

Governors, as set forth in S.97-50, the establishment of a Centre

for the Study of Government and Business as a Schedule B

Centre"

Senate was advised that this initiative involves cooperative activity between

Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia and it is of

considerable interest in the public policy area.

Question was called, and a vote taken. ?

MOTION CARRIED

iii)

Paper S.97-51 - SCAP Annual Report (For Information)

Senate received the Annual Report of the Senate Committee on Academic

Planning for information.

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iv) Paper S.97-56 - Research Institute on Southeastern Europe

Moved by D. Gagan, seconded by B. Clayman

"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of

Governors, as set forth in S.97-56, the establishment of the

Research Institute on Southeastern Europe (RISE) as a Schedule

A Institute"

A. Gerolymatos, Endowed Chair in Hellenic Studies, was in attendance in

order to respond to questions.

Senate was

advised that theestab1ishmentof the -Institute--was-elosely -related - - --

to the recent appointment of A. Gerolymatos and provides an opportunity for

a number of scholars at SFU with an interest in this area to develop research

and other initiatives.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

Senate Committee on Continuing Studies/Senate Committee on

Academic Planning

i) ?

Paper S.97-57 - Proposed Non-Credit Certificate Program in Editing

Moved by D. Gagan, seconded by J

Blaney

"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of

Governors, as set forth in S.97-57, the proposed Non-Credit

Program in Editing"

Inquiries were made with respect to the demand for the program and how the

program would operate. Senate was advised that courses in the program are

part of the regular non-credit offerings of the Writing and Publishing

Program and are open to everyone. Students will be allowed to take

individual courses based on their interest or the entire set of courses which

would result in receipt of the Certificate. The program is offered on a cost

recovery basis and will be of interest to people in the business and

professional community as well as people in the publishing industry.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Committee on

Undergraduate Studies

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1) ?

Paper S.97-52 - Curriculum Revision - School of Computing Science

(For Information)

Senate received information that SCUS, acting under delegated authority,

approved the deletion of PHIL 214 as a requirement for computing science

students.

ii) ?

Paper S.97-53 - Curriculum Revision - Joint Honors Program in Physics

and Physiolog y

(For Information)

Senate received information that SCUS, acting under delegated authority,

approved a change to the electives and required courses for the Joint Honors

Program in Physics and Physiology.

D. Gagan resumed the Chair at this point.

g) ?

Electoral Standing Committee

i) ?

Paper S.97-54 - Re

ort (For Information

R. Heath, Dean of Student Services and Registrar was in attendance in order

respond

a member

to questions.of

the Electoral

Standing Committee, S. Shapiro took exception

to paragraph two. He explained that it was his understanding that the

committee had agreed that a different location would be used next year and

that the location in the Southeast Corner of the AQ no longer represented the

central point of campus. Had costs allowed, the Committee would have

wanted more polling stations but saw some merit in rotating locations. He

reiterated that the Committee definitely wanted a change in location and

suggested that perhaps the new Student Services Building was more central.

R. Heath accepted the above comments as a friendly editorial amendment to

the report.

K. Whitbread, on behalf of the members of The Peak Collective, read a

prepared statement to Senate expressing their concern about the wording of

the report which they felt may have led students to believe that the student

newspaper was involved in some wrong doing. R. Heath stressed that this

was certainly not the intent of the report and that the 'Notice to The Peak'

was in fact a desire for The Peak to print the notice in the student newspaper

as a means of communicating the Committee's concerns to the general

student body.

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06. ?

Other Business

i) ?

Paper S.97-58 - Motions for Senate - Harassment Policy

Motion #1

Moved by J

D'Auria, seconded by C. Mauser

"In view of the adverse impact of the present harassment policy

(GP 18) on the academic program of the University, it is moved

that Senate recommend to the Board of Governors that Section

10 of the of policy document (GP 18) be placed in abeyance at this

time"

Senate was advised that the proposers of the motion felt that Senate should

have an opportunity to be involved in policy development in this area, and

that raising the motions provides Senate with a chance to discuss these two

important issues. It was felt that the existing policy had serious flaws and the

motion would place the most serious part of that policy in abeyance while the

University develops a new policy. Opinion was expressed that a serious

weakness of Section 10 was the lack of reference to any mechanism of appeal

from the decision or penalty imposed by the President. It was pointed out

that although not widely publicized, students have the right to appeal to

SCODA and while faculty and staff were afforded some protection through

collective agreements, concern was expressed about the inequity of the appeal

process.

J. Morris, on behalf of the Student Society Executive, read a prepared

statement to Senate which expressed their deepest concern and strong

opposition to the recommendation to place Section 10 in abeyance. They felt

that without Section 10 there would be no disincentive to harassment on

campus, and students whom they felt to be the most vulnerable and

powerless group on campus would have no protection against harassment.

B. Clayman supported the views expressed by J

Morris regarding the power

imbalance between members of the University, and confirmed that removal

of section 10 of the policy would remove the avenue for remedial action. It

was pointed out that there is a legal obligation for an employer to provide an

environment that is free from harassment and having a process in place for

responding to complaints of harassment mitigates or reduces an employer's

liability.

It was pointed out that the University Act also provides to faculty and staff a

mechanism of appeal to the Board of Governors. In other cases, recourse to

the RCMP or the BC Human Rights Council and litigation in civil court are

possible. It was pointed out that these latter processes take an extremely long

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time to reach resolution and the University has no control of the process or

its outcome.

K. Whitbread, on behalf of the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group

(SF PIRG), read a prepared statement to Senate which expressed strong

opposition to any attempt to dismantle the university's harassment policy as

it was felt an attack upon the harassment policy was an attack upon students

and others in less powerful positions on campus.

Concern was expressed about the secrecy, the lack of accountability and the

infringement on academic freedom which some felt existed with the current

policy, and opinion was expressed that a very clearly written and revised

harassment policy was needed, and that suspension of Section 10 at this point

would put in abeyance one of the most serious flaws.

J .

Overington, on behalf of the Simon Fraser University's Women's Centre

Collective, read a prepared statement to Senate which strongly opposed

removal of Section 10. It was felt that a harassment policy without

consequences would be ineffective and would leave students with no

protection against harassment.

It was suggested that the concerns expressed by earlier speakers regarding

Motion 1 were unfounded and that the motion should be adopted for the

following reasons: It was stated publicly that under the present harassment

policy the President simply has no flexibility. Placing Section 10 in abeyance

would give the President that flexibility and would not prevent the President

from taking disciplinary action as the President has authority to do so under

the University Act. Striking Section 10 would not mean that harassers would

not be punished, or that there would not be remedies for those who had been

harassed.

Opinion was expressed that a fiawed policy is not made better by striking out

clauses, and simply putting a clause in abeyance in anticipation of a revised

policy is not advisable. It was stressed that reactions to problems in an

exceptional case should not be allowed to govern University policy, especially

in light of the fact that the current harassment policy has been in use for a

number of years without incident. Senate was advised that 97% of the

harassment complaints that have been brought forward have been resolved

to the satisfaction of the parties without recourse to formal proceedings.

Senators reiterated that no one, including the proposers of the motion, felt

that the University should not have a harassment policy, but because of the

serious flaws in the present policy steps needed to be taken to correct or put

on hold the most serious flaws.

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• It was noted that approval of the motion did not provide any specific

direction and suggestion was made that it would perhaps be better to forward

a summary of the concerns that have been expressed on both sides of this

issue to the Board for consideration.

Moved by A. Chan, seconded by J. D'Auria

"that the question be postponed indefinitely"

Senate was advised that Senate could debate both the main motion and the

motion to postpone but a vote would first occur on A. Chan's motion as it

took precedence over the original motion.

It was stressed that one of the objectives of raising the main motion was to

send a strong message to those responsible for bringing forward a new and

improved harassment policy and to provide Senate with an opportunity to

express its concerns about the existing policy. It was noted that this had likely

been accomplished through the current debate and support was expressed for

the motion to postpone. Others also welcomed the current debate and

expressed disappointment that the procedural motion was being used to

deflect debate on the main motion.

In response to an inquiry about time frame with respect to the draft policy,

Senate was advised that members of the campus community had been

invited to submit their comments /opinions to the President by September 30.

Following that a final draft would then be prepared taking these submissions

into consideration. It is unlikely that a new policy would be available much

before end of the year. Senators were reminded that all members of the

University community could submit comments to the President's office, and

that the draft policy is available on the Web.

Concern was expressed about the impact of recent publicity on SFU's

reputation and considerable discussion ensued with respect to the kind of

message which would be sent as a result of Senate action one way or the

other.

Question was called on the motion to postpone,

and a vote taken.

MOTION TO POSTPONE

FAILED

Amendment moved by L. Peterson, seconded by G. Kirczenow

"to add to the end of the motion on the floor (Motion 1)

'and

that the President use his authority under the University Act

and the flexibility afforded to him to arrive at fair decisions'

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Opinion

the President

was

expressed

arrive at

that

decisions

the University

and he would

Act

provided

longer be

flexibility

constrained

to allow

Section 10 of policy GP 18.

Discussion then focussed on the information that

97%

of the harassment

complaints had been resolved to the satisfaction of the parties without

recourse to formal proceeding. In response it was suggested that it wasn't

clear whether the complaints were in fact resolved to the satisfaction of the

parties. It was also pointed out that Motion 1 was only relevant to the

remaining 3% of cases. Some Senators expressed the view that this meant

that there would be little impact if Section 10 was put in abeyance. Other

Senators argued that the absence of penalties or remedies might dissuade a

person experiencing harassment from pursuing a complaint.

It was pointed out that students needed the direction the harassment policy

provides and might feel uncomfortable having to rely on the University Act

which provides no guidance as to process or consequences.

Discussion continued with respect to the message Senate would send out as a

result of its action and a variety of opinions were expressed. Opinion was

expressed that SFU needed to send a strong message that it believes in having

an effective harassment policy and not be seen to rely on process dictated by

the Government such as the University Act.

Question was called on the amendment,

and a vote taken. ?

AMENDMENT FAILED

(8 in favour, 21 opposed)

A request to have a roll call for the vote on the main motion was ruled out

of order since the Rules of Senate only allow for vote by show of hands or

secret ballot.

J. D'Auria announced that he wished to withdraw his motion.

Moved by P. Percival, seconded by A. Chan

"that Senator D'Auria be allowed to withdraw the motion"

Objection was raised about the legality of withdrawing a motion following

such a lengthy debate and discussion ensued with respect to procedural

process.

The Chair ruled that he would allow a vote on the motion.

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Question was called on the motion to permit withdrawal, and a vote taken.

MOTION FAILED

(13 in favour, 17 opposed)

Question was called on Motion #1 (as it appears unamended in Senate paper

S.97-58), and a vote taken.

MOTION FAILED

(5 in favour, 25 opposed, 2 abstentions)

Motion #2

J .

D'Auria attempted to place an amended version of Motion 2 on the table,

- - _

bu t- this was not

allowed becauseit -was--not-the-version-considered-by- SCAR-

Moved by J

D'Auria, seconded by S. Shapiro

"It is moved that Senate recommend to the Board of Governors

that any new or revised harassment policy be brought to Senate

for consideration before being implemented."

The motion was generally supported as there was a strong belief that Senate

should be involved in developing the new policy.

Due to serious concerns with the existing policy, there appeared to be a feeling

that the new policy should be put in place as expeditiously as possible, and

concern was expressed about the possible delays caused by having both Senate

and the BOG consider the policy prior to implementation. Senators were

reminded that they could be involved in the development of the new policy

by response through direct contact with the President's office. The benefit of

having an open debate on the floor of Senate as opposed to the submission of

individual comments with no feedback was pointed out.

An amendment by A. Chan to add the following sentence to the motion "It is

the intent of Senate that the President should submit the revised harassment

policy to Senate as soon as possible before submitting it to the Board of

Governors" failed for lack of a seconder.

Question was called on Motion #2 and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

Raising a question of privilege and referring to recent reports in the press, P.

Percival requested clarification from C. Jones, Dean of Science, about the

awarding of credit in an incompleted course or promise of a degree to a

student for compensation for harassment. Senate was advised that an

aegrotat grade, a compassionate pass, can be awarded if a student in a course is

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passing the course but is unable to complete the course because of extenuating

circumstances. In such cases the Instructor recommends the compassionate

pass through the Chair and the Chair would then forward it in the normal

way. C. Jones indicated that he was not aware of any exceptions to the

normal practice surrounding the waiving of requirements for a course for a

degree or the awarding of an aegrotat grade.

7. ?

Information

The next regularly scheduled meeting of Senate will take place on Monday,

August 11, 1997.

Secretary's Note: The August meeting of Senate was cancelled due to a lack of

agenda items.

The Open Session adjourned at 9:30 pm and the Assembly took a brief recess prior to

moving into Closed Session.

Alison Watt

Director, Secretariat Services

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Minutes of a meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on Monday,

July 7, 1997 at 7:00 pm in Room 3210 WMC

Open Session

Present: ?

Gagan, David, Acting Chair

Bawa, Parveen

Beattie, Suzan

Berggren, J. Len

Blaney, Jack

Boland, Larry

Chan, Albert

--Clayman7-Bruce----------------

Cleveland, William

Coleman, Peter

D'Auria, John

Dobb, Ted

Dunsterville, Valerie

Emmott, Alan

Etherington, Lois

Gillies, Mary-Ann

Jones, Cohn

Jones, John

Kanevsky, Lannie

Kirczenow, George

Martin, Jack (representing R. Barrow)

Mauser, Gary

Morris, Joy

Naef, Barbara

Nip, Harry

Overington, Jennifer

Parmar, Neelam

Percival, Paul

Perry, Tom (representing E. Alderson)

Peterson, Louis

Reed, Clyde

Shapiro, Stan

Tam, Lawrence

Whitbread, Katherine

Winne, Philip

Absent:

Baert, Jessica

Blazenko, George

Dahl, Veronica

Giffen, Ken

Hassan, Nany

Howlett, Michael

----Lewis,-Brian--- ?

Mathewes, Rolf

McInnes, Dina

Osborne, Judith

Pierce, John

Sanghera, Baiwant

Segal, Joseph

Stubbs, John

Warsh, Michael

Wickstrom, Norman

Wong, Tim

Wortis, Michael

Yagi, Ian

In attendance:

French, Charlotte

Gee, Ellen

Gerolymatos, Andre

Poole, Gary

Williams, Peter

Watt, Alison, Director, Senate Secretariat

Heath, Ron, Dean of Student Services and Registrar

Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary

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Approval of the Agenda

The Agenda was approved as distributed.

Minutes were approved as distributed.

Business Arising from the Minutes

Referral was made to the item discussed under. Other Business, and inquiry

was made about the status of the Draft Policy on Religious Holidays and

whether or not it would be presented to Senate for consideration. Senate was

advised that the policy is still under discussion and that it will be presented to

Senate in due course.

4 ?

Report of the Chair

D Gagan advised that. as a result of previous arrangements, the President is

currently on leave this semester, and the Associate Vice-President, Academic

will be taking periods of leave until the end of September. He noted he

would vacate the Chair for certain items on the agenda at which time the

Vice-Chair of Senate, L. Etherington, would assume the Chair.

On behalf of Senate the Chair expressed congratulations to re-elected/newly

elected Senators and welcomed the following new Senators to Senate: Dr.

John Jones, School of Engineering Science; Dr. George Kirczenow,

Department of Physics; Dr. Mary-Ann Gllies, Department of English; Dr.

Prveen Bawa, School of Kinesiology; Ms. Joy Morris, Faculty of Science; Mr.

Neelam Parmar, Faculty of Arts, Mr. Lawrence Tarn, Faculty of Business

Administration; Mr. Tim Wong, Faculty of Arts, Mr. Ian, Yagi, Faculty of Arts;

and Ms. Nany Hassan, Faculty of Applied Sciences.

The Chair was pleased to report and extend congratulations to three faculty

members who have recently been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of

Canada: Dr. Rosalie lung, Faculty of Business Administration; Dr. Larry Dill,

Department of Biological Sciences; and Dr. Michael Wortis, Department of

Physics and member of Senate.

5. ?

Reports of Committees

a) ?

Senate Nominating Committee?

Paper-S.97-55 - Elections

Senate was advised that no further

nominations

were received with respect

to the Senate Committee on Continuing Studies and the International

Undergraduate Student Exchange Committee.

Vacancies

would

be carried

forward to the next meeting.

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• Senate's attention was drawn to the election report attached to S.97-55 which

contained the results of the mail ballots for Senate committee positions and

reference was made to the tie vote in the election to determine

Regular/ Alternate student positions on the Senate Appeals Board (SAB).

Senate was advised that the candidates had agreed on which of them would

be the Regular and Alternate members and there was no need for a second

ballot. Therefore Harry Nip has been declared as the Regular member and Ian

Yagi the Alternate member for terms of office from date of election to May 31,

1999.

With respect to the tie vote in the election of a second faculty member to the

Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUTL), Senate

was advised that R. Mathewes had withdrawn his name and a second ballot

- ------was--required--to--break-the-tie-between--L-Gordon-and--E Weldon; [Election

result: 2nd balloting resulted in the election of I. Gordon to SCUTL for term

of office from date of election to May 31, 1999.]

Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUTL)

i) ?

Paper S.97-46 - Annual Report (For Information)

E. Gee, Department of Sociology/ Anthropology and Chair of SCUTL and G.

Poole, Director, Centre for University Teaching and Secretary of SCUTL were

in attendance in order to respond to questions.

Senate was advised that the Committee is currently in the process of

reviewing its terms of reference in order to determine its mandate and was in

the process of organizing a workshop on course evaluations. The workshop,

scheduled to take place on November 14th, is being organized by video

satellite and will have as speakers two of North America's most recognized

experts in the evaluation of teaching. More details will be available in the

future in terms of promotion of the event. E. Gee advised that she will be

going on leave in September and the Nominating Committee has been

advised that a replacement is needed for the Chair.

K. Whitbread was pleased to see the Committee itself involved in creating its

terms of reference and mandate and encouraged SCUTL to remain active and

to keep up the good work.

Committee to Review Undergraduate Admissions (CRUA)

i) ?

Paper S.97-48 - Report to Senate (For Information)

C. French, Director, Student Academic Resources and Secretary of CRUA was

in attendance in order to respond to questions. Reference was made to the

concerns about workload, expressed when the committee was established and

inquiry was made about this issue. Senate was advised that the division of

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work between CRU4 and the Senate. Appeals

Board

has worked opt very well

and

the

workload for CRUA has not been a problem.

At this point, D. Gagan vacated

the

Chair in order to present agenda items 4),

), and 0 .

.... Ftheringtpr,

Vice-Chair

of Senate took over as Chair.

Senate Committee on Academic Planning

Paper S.97-49 - External Review - School of Resource and

Environmental Management (For Information)

P. Williams, Director of

the

School of Resource and Environmental

Management was in

attendance

in order to respond

questions.

Senate was advised that academic departments

haye

been asked to prepare an

academic planning report

covering

a three-year period describing' how they

intend to

achieve

their goals with the resources that will be available in that

time frame. In the meantime, external reviews continue and it is expected

that

the

outcome of the review will be iicorporated the academic planning

report.

In response to

inquiy

about

the use of

teaching

assistants in REM, it was

pointed out that the Sçhqql has no

4er

g r a du

ate programs but there may be

an opportunity, providing funding is available, for

graduate students in the

h oo

participate

in t

i4e rg r

n v

i r

nment

programs in the

Arts and Science Faculties.

i) ?

Paper S.97-50 - Centre for the Study of Government and Business

Moved by D. Gagan, seconded by B. Clayman

hat

Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of

Governors, as set forth in S.97-50, the establishment of a Centre

for the Study of Government and Business as a Schedule p

Centre"

Seflate was advised

that

this initiative involves

cooperative

activity between

Simon Fraser University and

University of British Columbia and it is of

considerable interest in

the

public policy area

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

iii) Paper S.97-51 - SCAP Annual Report (For Information)

Senate received

the

Annual Report of the Senate Committee on Academic

Planning for information,

S.M. 07/07/97

Page 5

0 ?

iv) Paper S.97-56 - Research Institute on Southeastern Europe

Moved by D. Gagan, seconded by B. Clayman

"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of

Governors, as set forth in S.97-56, the establishment of the

Research Institute on Southeastern Europe (RISE) as a Schedule

A Institute"

A. Gerolymatos, Endowed Chair in Hellenic Studies, was in attendance in

order to respond to questions.

Senate was advised that the establishment of the Institute was closely related

to the recent appointment of A. Gerolymatos and provides an opportunity for

a number of scholars at SFU with an interest in this area to develop research

and other initiatives.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

Senate Committee on Continuing Studies/Senate Committee on

Academic Planning

i) ?

Paper S.97-57 - Proposed Non-Credit Certificate Program in Editing

Moved by D. Gagan, seconded by J

Blaney

"that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of

Governors, as set forth in

S.97-57,

the proposed Non-Credit