DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE

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Minutes of a Meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on

Monday, December 3, 2001 at 6:00 pm in Room 3120 WMC

Open Session

Present: Stevenson, Michael, President and Chair

Atkins, Stella

Absent: Aloi, Santa

Budra, Paul

Barrow, Robin

Cameron, Rob (representing B. Lewis)

Bawa, Parveen

Chan, Albert

Chang, Jack

Clayman, Bruce

Dempster, Peter

Collins-Dodd, Colleen

Grimmett, Peter

Copeland, Lynne ?

Gupte, Jaideep

D'Auria, John

Heaney, John

Davidson, Willie ?

Jensen, Britta

Deigrande, James

Klymson, Sarah

Dunsterville, Valerie ?

McArthur, James

Gerson, Carole ?

Muirhead, Leah

Gill, Alison

Sekhon, Devinder

Haunerland, Norbert ?

Sirri, Odai

Hill, Ross

Tansey, Caralyn

Jackson, Margaret ?

Warren, Joel

Jones, John ?

Yerbury, Cohn

Krane, Bill

Love, Ernie

Mauser, Gary ?

In attendance:

McFetridge, Paul

Brockman, Joan

McInnes, Dina

Naef, Barbara

Paterson, David

Percival, Paul

Peters, Joseph

Pierce, John

Russell, Robert

Smith, Michael

Steinbach, Chris

Stephensen, Brock

Thandi, Ranbir

Toohey, Kelleen (representing J. Driver)

Van Aalst, Jan

Waterhouse, John

Weldon, Larry

Wessel, Sylvia

Wong, Milton

Wortis,

Heath, Ron, Dean of Student Services and

Michael

Registrar

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Watt, Alison, Director, University Secretariat

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 November

2001

Senate was advised that there was an omission in the Minutes regarding an inquiry with

respect to the reading break and advertising in the Calendar. Following agreement that

the omission would be corrected, the Minutes were approved.

Business Arising from the Minutes

BUEC 333 Revisions

In response to a question raised at. the last meeting requesting details and clarification

with respect to the change of credit hours for BUEC 333, Senate was advised that more

lecture time was needed to provide more detailed examples and applications, and the

change would apply equally to both Business Administration and Economics students.

ii)

Centre for Dialogue Undergraduate Semester

The following revisions were reported with respect to the Morris J. Wosk Centre for

Dialogue Undergraduate Semester:

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credit hours has been changed to

throughout the document

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the program name has been changed to 'Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue'

since courses would not always be held at the Centre for Dialogue

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the project's final publishable paper has been redefined to reflect the possibility

that the project might include radio or video

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the administrative home for the program has been designated as the Dean's Office

in the Faculty of Science

Senate was advised that SCAR felt that the changes were consistent with the tenor of

discussion at the last meeting and that no further action was required. It was noted that

the change from Continuing Studies to the Dean's Office was due to the need to have

internal processes in place for grade appeals etc. which were not available through

Continuing Studies.

An inquiry was made as to whether the program had been approved by the appropriate

committees within the Faculty of Science. It was pointed out that this was not a Faculty

of Science program. The Dean's office was an administrative location strictly to handle

student appeals and other student matters related to the program. The Dean of Science

confirmed that his office would administer the program while Mark Winston (a faculty

member in Science) was in charge of the program but when a new director was appointed

the administrative location should be reviewed. Concern was expressed that a precedent

was being set in that courses in this program do not have an academic home and

clarification was sought as to whether it was possible for the university to have courses or

programs that were not attached to any one Faculty. Clarification was not available at the

meeting but the Vice President Academic stated he would make inquiries and report back

to Senate at the next meeting.

S.M. 3 Dec 01

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iii)

Woodsworth Chair

Senate was provided with a further update on the status of the Woodsworth Chair

appointment. As mentioned in an announcement from the Vice President Academic

dated November 23

, the University Appointments Committee (UAC) reconsidered the

appointment of D. Noble and had sent the nomination back to the Department of

Humanities with a request that a new search be undertaken. The nomination did not have

the demonstrated support of the Humanities Department and the documentation in

support of the nomination was incomplete. The Department, together with the Dean,

would now decide when and what kind of new search would be undertaken.

iv)

Meeting Time for UTC and Search Committees

Reference was made to the concern raised at the last meeting about the specification of a

Friday meeting time in the call for nominations for the UTC and certain search

committees. The Vice President Academic reported that an analysis of the usage of

rooms by half days of the week had found that Friday afternoons appeared to be the time

with the lowest room utilization. In future, meetings of those groups would focus on

Friday afternoons.

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Report of the Chair

As announced in the press, the Chair reported that the University had formed a

consortium to receive a very substantial gift from Finning International of a property in

. the False Creek area. The gift to each of the four members - SFU, UBC, BCIT, and

Emily Carr - was valued at

8.5

million dollars each. The consortium agreement commits

the parties to initiate a planning process within each of the institutions to determine what

use they might make of the site and to integrate those interests across the consortium,

subject to the ratification of each institution's governing bodies. The agreement also

provides a clear exit agreement from the consortium if desired. Emily Carr and BCIT are

prepared to immediately occupy all or most of the buildings at commercial rent which

would pay for the full operating costs of the buildings. Under this arrangement there

would be no cost to SFU unless the university wished to utilize some of the existing

space. The Vice President Academic has been requested to initiate planning as to how

SFU might make use of this property and a sub-committee of SCUP has been set up to

work on this.

Reference was made to recent information in the press concerning Tech BC. The Chair

alerted Senate that there may be consequences to the University as a result of decisions

with respect to Tech BC. It is possible that the Ministry may regard the protection of the

students in existing programs at Tech BC as a priority to ensure satisfactory completion

of their programs. In addition, the shortfalls in enrolment at Tech BC would have a

significant impact on general planning and accessibility. The Chair reiterated that no

official communication had been received from the Ministry with respect to this issue.

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Question Period

There were no questions submitted.

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Reports of Committees

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Senate Nominating Committee

Paper S.01-73 (Revised) - Elections

The following are the results of elections to Senate Committees.

Committee to Review University Admissions (CRUA)

One undergraduate student (alternate) to replace W. Gerwel for term of office to May 31,

2002.

Elected by acclamation: ?

Cynthia Leung

Research Ethics Board (REB)

Two Faculty or Staff Members for terms of office to May 31,

2005.

Elected by acclamation: ?

Kathleen Akins

John Lowman

Two members of the community from outside the University for term of office to May

31, 2004.

Candidates: L. Kennedy, B. Melville, R. Ogden

Elected: ?

Lynne Kennedy

Bill Melville

Senate Appeals Board (SAB)

One (at-large) Undergraduate Student to replace S. Al-Natour for term of office to May

31, 2003.

Elected by acclamation: ?

Cynthia Leung

Senate Committee on Continuing Studies (SCCS)

One (at-large) Student Alternate to replace L. Ho for term of office to May 31, 2002.

Elected by acclamation:

Muneer Esmail

Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUTL)

One Faculty Member (Science) to replace B. Honda for term of office to May 31, 2002.

Elected by acclamation:

Bernard Roitberg

Senate Nominating Committee (SNC)

One Faculty Senator to replace P. Budra for term of office to May 31, 2002.

Elected by acclamation:

Carole Gerson

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University Board on Student Discipline (UBSD) and Senate Committee on

Disciplinar

Appeals (SCODA)

i) ?

Paper S.01-74 - Annual Reports (For Information)

Joan Brockman, Co-ordinator of the UBSD and Joseph Peters, Senator and Chair of

SCODA were in attendance in order to respond to questions. The annual reports were

received by Senate for information.

Senate Library Committee (SLC) including Librar

Penalties Appeal Committee

(LPAC)

Bruce Clayman, Senator and Chair of the SLC and Lynne Copeland, Senator and

University Librarian were in attendance in order to respond to questions. The annual

report was received by Senate for information.

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

i) ?

Paper S.01-76 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Applied Sciences (For

Information)

Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting

under delegated authority, approved new courses in the School of Kinesiology.

ii) ?

Paper S.01-77 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Arts (For Information)

Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting

under delegated authority, approved new courses in the Department of Linguistics and

curriculum revisions to existing courses/programs in the Department of Psychology.

iii)

Paper S.01-78 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Education (For Information)

Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting

under delegated authority, approved new courses and curriculum revisions to existing

courses and programs in the Faculty of Education.

iv)

Paper S.01-79 - Deletion of courses not offered/Temporaril

Withdrawn Courses

(For Information)

Senate regulation states that any courses not offered within a six semester period should

be deleted from the Calendar unless adequate justification for retaining the course is

presented. Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate

Studies, acting under delegated authority, approved the deletion of ARCH 378, CMPT

400, EDPR 347, EDPR 407, EDPR 461, EDUC 420, GEOG

475,

GERM 141, GERM

205, GS 106, GS 410, GS 411, POL

357,

POL 382, POL 427, POL 430.

Senate regulation also provides an option for departments to identify courses that have

not been offered as 'temporarily withdrawn' (mothballed) if they do not wish to delete

the course. Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate

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Studies, acting under delegated authority, identified the following courses under this

provision as being temporarily withdrawn: ARCH 410, BUEC 397, ECON 101, ECON

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459,

ECON 468, EDUC 250, EDUC 342, EDUC 343, HIST 104, HIST

354,

HIST 418,

LING 423, POL 330, POL 311.

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Senate Graduate Studies Committee

Paper S.01-80 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Arts (For

Information)

Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under

delegated authority, approved curriculum revisions in the following departments:

English, Geography, Political Science, and Psychology.

ii)

Paper S.01-81 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Education (For

Information)

Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under

delegated authority, approved new courses in the Faculty of Education.

iii)

Paper S.01-82 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Science (For

Information)

Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under

delegated authority, approved curriculum revisions in the following departments:

Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Geography, and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

Other Business

There was no other business.

Information

The date of the next regularly scheduled meeting is Monday, January

2002.

Open Session adjourned at 6:30 pm. Following a brief recess, Senate moved into Closed

Session.

Alison Watt

Director, University Secretariat