. DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE

Meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on

Monday, April 3,2006at5:30pm in Room 3210 WMC?

Open Session

Stevenson, Michael, President and Chair of

Senate

Absent:

Black, Sam

Brennand, Tracy

Corbett, Kitty

Dickinson, John

Fizzell, Maureen

Fleming-Saraceno, David

Gordon, Robert

Halpern, Erica

Honda, Barry

Louie, Brandt

McArthur, James

Plischke, Michael

Smith, Don

Tilley, Kevin

Weeks, Daniel

Zandvliet, David

Present:

Apaak, Clement

Breden, Felix

Budd, James

Caufield, Sarah

Copeland, Lynn

Dickinson, Peter

Easton, Stephen

Ester, Martin

Gordon, Irene

Grimmett, Peter

Harder, Derrick

Haunerland, Norbert

Hayes, Michael

Heift, Trude (representing J. Driver)

Horvath, Adam

• Hunsdale, Shawn

Javed, Waseem

Joifres, Michel

Krane, Bill

LaBrie, John

Lewis, Brian

Love, Ernie

MacKenzie, Christine

MacLean, David

Magee, Sean

Percival, Cohn

Percival, Paul

Pierce, John

Pinto, Mario

Schellenberg, Betty

Scott, Jamie

Uhlmann, Sasha

van Baarsen, Amanda

Warner, D'Arcy

Waterhouse, John

Williams, Peter

Wong, Josephine

Woodbury, Robert

Heath, Nick, Associate Registrar

Watt, Alison, Director, University Secretariat

Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary

In attendance:

Archibald, Tom

Frisken, Barbara

Gill, Warren

Grieve, Tom

Kirkpatrick, Ted

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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

6. 2006

Following a brief clarification about the wording of the last full paragraph at the bottom

of page 6

concerning the Chair of the Board of IBT, and a spelling correction, the

Minutes were approved as distributed.

Business Arising from the Minutes

i) ?

Paper S.06-47 - Revised Coat of Arms

Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by J. Pierce

"that Senate recommend to the Board of Governors the revision of the

University's Coat of Arms to replace each crosslet with a book, with the

corresponding change being made in the University's flag"

W. Gill, Vice-President, University Relations was in attendance in order to respond to

questions. In answer to a question, it was confirmed that the only change being proposed

is to replace each crosslet with a book, and the ribbon would not be changed.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

4. ?

Report of the Chair

I) ?

Amendment to the University Act

The Chair reported that the clause in the University Act that prevented international

students from being elected as student' representatives on university Boards of Governors

has been repealed by the BC Legislature. Clement Apaak who had worked passionately

over the last few years to obtain this legislative change was congratulated on this

accomplishment.

ii)

Budget

The Chair advised Senate that the budget reflected a positive commitment from the

Government to sustain the level of competitive excellence of universities on the research

front, but was disappointing in that the Government would not commit to inflation

adjustments to the grant provided for enrolment growth and would not commit to the

funding of graduate studies. The Chair stressed that the University has respected

academic priorities by allocating 80% of growth income (grant and tuition fee revenues)

to academic programs.

At the Federal level, the Chair informed Senate that the Government had not indicated

any particular interest in education as a priority but had indicated during the election a

commitment to dedicated transfers for higher education. Efforts are being made to

persuade the Government to act on this commitment in the near future.

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Question Period

There were no questions.

Reports of Committees

A) ?

Senate Committee on University Priorities

Paper S.06-48 - External Review - Department of English

Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by J. Pierce

"that Senate concur with the recommendation of the Senate Committee on

University Priorities concerning advice to the Department on priority

items resulting from the external review"

T. Grieve, Chair, Department of English, was in attendance in order to respond to

questions.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

ii)

Paper S.06-49 - New Options: Industrial Mathematics Program

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Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by C. MacKenzie

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

revision to the Major and Honors Program in Industrial Mathematics to

include Option A: Operations Research (Surrey), Option B: Scientific

Computing (Burnaby), and Option C: Discrete Mathematics (Burnaby)"

T. Archibald, Chair, Department of Mathematics, was in attendance in order to respond

to questions.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

iii)

Paper S.06-50 - New Program: Major and Honors Program in Biological Physics

Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by C. MacKenzie

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

proposal for a Major and Honors Program in Biological Physics"

B. Frisken, Chair, Department of Physics, was in attendance in order to respond to

questions. In response to an inquiry about the impact of this new program on MBB

courses, Senate was advised that enrolments in the new program would not significantly

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impact other courses.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

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Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning

i) ?

Paper S.06-51 - Revision to the Policy for Excellence in Teaching

Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded by I. Gordon

"that Senate approve the changes to the criteria for the Excellence in

Teaching Award as outlined in the document "Award for Excellence in

Teaching", prepared by the Excellence in Teaching Award Committee"

T. Kirkpatrick, Chair, Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning, was in

attendance in order to respond to questions.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

Senate Graduate Studies Committee

Paper S.06-37 - Frequency of Awarding of Graduate Degrees

Moved by T. Heift, seconded by C. Apaak

"that Senate approve in principle a change to the schedule for the

awarding of graduate degrees so that graduate degrees may be awarded at

any Senate meeting"

Concern was expressed that allowing the awarding of degrees at an earlier point in a

semester creates a continuity problem for student registration, since under the current

system students can only register at the beginning of a semester, and once a degree has

been awarded, the student would no longer be considered registered and thus lose his/her

student status.

Considerable discussion ensued with respect to the registration issue raised. Senate was

advised that since this option would only be implemented at the request of the student,

students could postpone the completion of one degree to coincide with their registration

of another degree, or if they preferred could apply to have the date of degree completion

recorded on their transcript without delay.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

ii)

Paper S.06-38 - Changes to Graduate General Regulations (For Information)

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

delegated authority, approved changes to the following Graduate General Regulations:

GGR 1.2 - Senate Graduate Studies Committee, GGR 1.8.2 - Review of Unsatisfactory

Progress, GGR 1.3.12 - English Language Competence, GGR 1.5.1 - Normal Grading

System.

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iii) ?

Paper S.06-39 - Graduate Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Education (For

Information)

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

delegated authority, approved a prerequisite change for EDUC 867 and a change to

Graduate Diploma in Advanced Professional Studies in Education with regard to course

credit transfers.

iv)

Paper S.06-40

SGSC Annual Report (For Information)

Brief discussion took place with respect to the figures for the doctoral degrees on page 6,

and an inquiry was made about why the SSHRC data was not separated into Post-

Graduate Scholarships and Canada Graduate Scholarships as had been done for the

NSERC scholarship data. The Associate Dean of Graduate Studies indicated that the

inquiry would be passed on and the information provided if available.

V) ?

Paper S.06-52 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Health Sciences (For

Information)

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

delegated authority, approved revisions to requirements and existing courses in the M.Sc.

in Population and Public Health program and the Graduate Diploma in Global Health.

vi)

Paper S.06-53 - Curriculum Revisions - Department of Psychology (For

Information)

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

delegated authority, re-defined PSYC 807 and 980 to fulfill accreditation requirements of

the professional program by creating new courses with special identification (807a-e and

907a-f), approved a prerequisite change to PSYC 824, and approved minor revisions to

Calendar wording for existing course and degree requirements.

E) ?

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

Paper S.06-54 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Applied Sciences (For

Information)

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

under delegated authority, approved minor revisions to existing courses and programs in

Engineering Science and Kinesiology.

ii)

Paper

S.06-55 -

Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Business Administration (For

Information)

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

under delegated authority, approved the deletion of BUS 131 and the designation of BUS

360 as a (W) Writing course.

iii)

Paper S.06-56 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Science (For Information)

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

under delegated authority, approved revisions to existing courses and programs in

Mathematics and Statistics.

F) ?

Paper

S.06-57

-Senate Committee on International Activities - Annual Report

(For Information)

Senate received the Annual Report for the period January - December 2005 of the Senate

Committee on International Activities for information.

Other Business

i) ?

Paper S.06-58 -

40"

Anniversary Open House (For Information)

Senate received information about the

40th

Anniversary Open House on Saturday, June 3,

2006 including a proposal to have an information table on governance issues that cover

both the Board of Governors and Senate. Senators interested in participating were asked

to contact Alison Watt directly.

Information

The date of the next regular meeting of Senate is Monday, May 15, 2006.

Open Session adjourned at 6:20 pm and Senate moved directly into Closed Session.

Alison Watt, Director, University Secretariat