DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE

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

Monday, December 6, 2004 in Room 3210

WMC at

Open Session

1.00

Present: Stevenson, Michael, President and Chair of Senate

Absent:

Beynon, Peter

Apaak, Clement

Blackman, Roger

Breden, Felix

Brennand, Tracy

da Silva, Gisele

Budd, James

Gordon, Robert

Collinge, Joan (representing C. Yerbury)

Grimmett, Peter

Copeland, Lynn

Gupta, Kamal

Dean, Charmaine

Higgins, Anne

Delgrande, James

Honda, Barry

Dickinson, John

Horvath, Adam

Driver, Jon

Li, Ze-Nian

Dunsterville, Valerie

McArthur, James

Easton, Stephen

McFetridge, Paul

Fizzell, Maureen

McKinnon, Stephanie

Fung, Edward

Rozell, Sara

Giacomantonio, Chris

Sears, Camilla

Gordon, Irene

Scott, Jamie

Harder, Derrick

Smit, Bernard

Haunerland, Norbert

Smith, Don

Hayes, Michael

Weeks, Daniel

Hunsdale, Shawn

Wessel, Sylvia

Johansen, Elinor

Zandvliet, David

Krane, Bill

Lewis, Brian

In attendance:

Love, Ernie

Daminato, Cathy

MacKenzie, Christine

Dench, Sarah

MacLean, David

Frisken, Barbara

Mauser, Gary

Iverson, Rick

McInnes, Marcia

Percival, Paul

Perry, Tom (representing J. Pierce)

Pinto, Mario

Plischke, Michael

Schellenberg, Betty

Shaker, Paul

Tombe, Trevor

Waterhouse, John

Wong, Josephine

Wong, Milton

Woodbury, Robert

Heath, Ron, Dean of Student Services and Registrar

Watt, Alison, Director, University Secretariat

Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary

S.M. 6 December 2004

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Approval of the Agenda

The Agenda was approved as distributed.

Approval of the Minutes of the Open Session of October 4, 2004

The Minutes were approved as distributed.

Business Arising from the Minutes

There was no business arising from the Minutes.

Report of the Chair

Paper

S.04-85 -

President's Agenda (For Information)

The President's Agenda which included a statement of objectives for the coming year

was received by Senate for information.

ii)

Fundraising Campaign

"Reaching New Heights"

At the request of the Chair, C. Daminato, Vice-President Advancement spoke to Senate

about the launch of the $125 million dollar campaign 'Reaching New Heights'. Senate

was advised that the official kick off of the campaign took place the previous Thursday at

which time it was announced that $80 million dollars had been achieved towards the

campaign goal which hopefully would be reached by December 2006.

5. ?

question Period

D. Harder raised a question about declining entrance averages for college and high school

students in relation to a reduction in admission applications and wondered if there was a

specific explanation for the decline in admission averages. Senate was informed that the

overall admission averages for college and high school applicants this year were very

similar to last year. Admissions by diverse qualifications were evaluated by a new

adjudication process which might account for a discrepancy with previous years.

The Chair suggested that the question be formally submitted in writing so that the

appropriate administrative office could investigate the issue more fully and have specific

details available at the next meeting of Senate.

6. ?

Reports of Committees

A) ?

Senate Committee on Universit y

Priorities

i) ?

Paper S.04-86 - PhD Program in Business Administration

Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by E. Love

"that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the

proposal for a PhD Program in Business Administration, as set forth in

S.04-86"

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R. Iverson, Faculty of Business Administration, was in attendance in order to respond to

questions.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

B) ?

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

Paper S.04-87 —Undergraduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Applied

Sciences (For Information): Kinesiology

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

under delegated authority, approved one new course, one course deletion, and minor

revisions to existing courses and program requirements in the School of Kinesiology.

ii)

Paper S.04-88 - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - List of Certified '0' and

'B' Courses (For Information)

S. Dench, Director, University Curriculum and B. Frisken, Chair, Undergraduate

Curriculum Task Force were in attendance in order to respond to questions.

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

under delegated authority, approved the certification of 'Q' and 'B' for the courses listed

. in the above-noted paper. Question arose about courses with cross postings and

particular reference was made to CRIM

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that showed the breadth science with a

question mark. Senate was advised that this was an oversight in the document and that

the B.Sci designation should have been removed. It was also pointed out that when a

course was double or triple designated, a student must choose one of the designations

since one course cannot be used to satisfy two or three different requirements.

Following the above discussion, the paper was received by Senate.

iii)

Paper S.04-89 - Undergraduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Arts and

Social Sciences (For Information): Contemporar

Arts, BA Requirements for

Mathematics Program

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

under delegated authority, approved minor revisions to existing courses and requirements

in the Dance program in the School for the Contemporary Arts, and changes to the BA

requirements for the Major and Honors Mathematics program.

iv)

Paper S.04-90 - Under

raduate Curriculum Revisions - Facult

of Education

(For Information)

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

under delegated authority, approved two new courses, two course deletions, and minor

revisions to existing courses in the Faculty of Education.

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C) ?

Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules

Paper S.04-91 - Revision to SCUP Membership

Moved by J. Wong, seconded by P. Percival

"that Senate approve the addition of one student senator to the

membership of the Senate Committee on University Priorities"

Senate was advised that this motion was brought forward by the Student Senator caucus

as a result of the recent addition to the SCUP membership of one faculty senator to

represent the new Faculty of Health Sciences. This change increased the number of

faculty members to six while the student senator members remained at two, and since the

Alternate Student member could only attend SCUP if both the regular members were

absent, students were generally only represented by one person. It was suggested that

students were being asked to pick up more of the budget shortfall through tuition fee

increases, and since SCUP was the only Senate committee empowered to provide formal

input into the university budget, students should consequently have a greater voice in that

process.

Brief discussion took place with respect to the role of the Alternate student member. It

was stressed that the motion before Senate called for the addition of a full student

member, and that the position of Alternate would not change unless revised by a

subsequent motion or revised procedures approved within the committee.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

ii)

Paper S.04-92 - Revision to SCUS Membership

Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by R. Blackman

"that Senate approve the addition of the following members to the Senate

Committee on Undergraduate Studies:

• a representative from the Faculty of Health Sciences, and

• the Director, University Curriculum, Ex officio (non-voting)"

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

iii)

Paper S.04-93 - Senate Dinner Location (For Information

Senate was advised that due to renovations the Diamond University Centre would be

closed and, during this period, Senate dinners would have to be held in a different

location as noted in Senate paper S.04-93.

Suggestion was made that Senate dinners be relocated to the Highland Pub. The Chair

indicated that the suggestion would be taken under advisement.

S.M. 6 December 2004

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Other Business

There was no other business.

Information

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

January 10,

2005.

Open Session adjourned at 7:30 pm. Following a brief recess, Senate moved into Closed

Session.

Alison Watt

Director, University Secretariat