DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE

Minutes of a meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on ?

Monday, November 6, 2006 at

5:30

pm in Room 3210 WMC

Open Session

Present:

Stevenson, Michael, President and Chair of Senate

Breden, Fred

Brennand, Tracy

Caufield, Sarah

Copeland, Lynn

Corbett, Kitty

Dagenais, Diane

Deigrande, James

Dickinson, Peter

Dunnet, Margo

Easton, Stephen

Ester, Martin

Fizzell, Maureen

Fox, Graham

Gencay, Ramo

Gillies, Mary Ann (representing J. Pierce)

Gordon, Irene

Harder, Derrick

Haunerland, Norbert

Hayes, Michael

Heift, Trude (representing J. Driver)

Joffres, Michel

Jones, John (representing B. Lewis)

Kelly, Vanessa

Krane, Bill

Li, Wei

Liljedahl, Peter

MacKenzie, Christine

MacLean, David

Percival, Cohn

Percival, Paul

Peters, Joseph

Routledge, Rick (representing M. Plischke)

Russell, Robert

Schellenberg, Betty

Shaker, Paul

Shermer, Tom

Smart, Carolyne

Smith, Don

Tingling, Peter

van Baarsen, Amanda

Warner, D'Arcy

Weeks, Dan

Williams, Peter

Wong, Josephine

Absent:

Black, Sam

Gordon, Robert

Gregory, Titus

Halpern, Erica

Honda, Barry

Javed, Waseem

LaBrie, John

Lewis, Glynn

Louie, Brandt

McArthur, James

Pinto, Mario

Rebman, Rachelle

Vaid, Bhuvinder

Waterhouse, John

Zandvliet, David

Angerilli, Nello, Associate Vice-President, Students/International, and Acting Registrar

Watt, Alison, Director, University Secretariat

Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary

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Approval of the Agenda

The Agenda was approved as distributed.

2. ?

Approval of the Minutes of the O

en Session of October 16, 2006

The Minutes were approved as distributed.

Business Arising from the Minutes

Referring to the discussion concerning the lack of a mathematics or calculus course in the

B.Sc. program in Health Sciences, R. Russell indicated he had made follow-up inquires

about the math requirements in Ontario. He reported that high school students in Ontario

are required to take a calculus course so the statement that several Ontario universities do

not require mathematics in their B.Sc. Health Sciences programs was inaccurate. He felt

that this was an important omission which should be reflected in the minutes.

4. ?

Report of the Chair

i) ?

Paper S.06-117 - President's Agenda (For Information)

The Chair explained that the document represented an expanded version of his previous

agenda, and included some quantifiable goals requested by the Board of Governors for

the current year. These he had identified as research intensity, enrolment management

and enhancing the University's public profile. In response to an inquiry, Senate was

advised that he would be reporting the results to the Board of Governors, and had no

objection to the results also being reported to Senate.

A question was raised about peer reviewed publications in Education and Business

Administration. The Chair indicated that he was not aware of appropriate citations or

indexes in those fields but would be happy to include them if so advised.

Following discussion, the report was received by Senate for information.

Question Period

In response to an inquiry about the final report of the Faculty Structure Task

Force, Senate was advised that the report, with various motions to Senate, will come

forward to the December Senate meeting.

ii)

A comment was made about the new SFU web site. It was suggested that a

correction would be appropriate to ensure it was clear that schools and departments are

both a level in the organization below faculties. The Chair requested that Public Affairs

and Media Relations should arrange for the appropriate adjustment.

Reports of Committees

Senate Committee on Under

g raduate Studies

Paper S.06-118 - Annual Re

ort (For Information)

The 2005-2006 Annual Report of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies was

received by Senate for information.

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ii) ?

Paper S.06-119 - Curriculum Revisions - Facult

of Arts and Social Sciences

(For Information)

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

under delegated authority, approved course deletions, new courses, and changes to

existing programs and courses in the following programs: Contemporary Arts,

Criminology, International Studies, Psychology, Linguistics, Women's Studies,

Cognitive Science, Economics, English, Geography, Gerontology, and History.

iii)

Paper S.06-120 - Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue (For Information)

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

under delegated authority, approved prerequisite changes and Writing and Breadth-Social

Science designations for the DIAL courses.

iv)

Paper S.06-121 - Curriculum Revisions - Facult

of Health Sciences (For

Information)

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

under delegated authority, approved five new Health Science courses.

Senate Nominating Committee

i) ?

Paper S.06-122 - Elections

Senate was advised that no further nominations had been received. Amanda van Baarsen

was therefore elected by acclamation as the Undergraduate Student on the Senate

Committee on Undergraduate Studies. The remaining vacancies will be carried forward

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to the next meeting.

Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules

Paper S.06-123 - Changes to the Senate Committee on University Teachin

and

Learning

Moved by P. Percival, seconded by L. Copeland

"that Senate approve the addition of the Director of the Student Learning

Commons to the membership of the Senate Committee on University

Teaching and Learning, as an ex-officio voting member of the

Committee"

It was noted that with this addition there would be three ex-officio voting members on the

Committee, and an inquiry was made as to whether having a third administrator as a

voting member was of concern to the committee. Since there was no one available to

respond to the inquiry, the Chair indicated the information would be made available at

the next meeting.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

ii)

Paper S.06-124 - Chan

es to the Senate Nominating Committee

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Moved by P. Percival, seconded by B. Schellenberg

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"that the following revisions to the membership and terms of reference of

the

1, 2007.

Senate Nominating Committee be approved, and take effect on June

that the number of Faculty Senators shall be increased, so that there

is one Faculty Senator representing each Faculty on the Senate

Nominating Committee

that the terms of office of Faculty Senators shall all be two years, and

that the terms should be staggered so that the terms of half of the

positions end each year

that the editorial revisions shown on the attached Terms of Reference

be approved"

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

iii)

Paper S.06-125 - Chan g

es to the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

Moved by D. Harder, seconded by I. Gordon

"that Senate approve the additions to the terms of reference of the Senate

Committee on Undergraduate Studies, as set out in S.06-125, effective

immediately"

An opinion was expressed that the addition of point 7 was unnecessary since it could be

considered as being covered under point La of the terms of reference. A concern was also

expressed about the inclusion of a specific requirement as opposed to the normal more

general reference to university regulations. Senate was advised that since the Task Force

responsible for this initiative had been disbanded, and because the WQB requirements

were considered to be a major undertaking by the University and were implemented for

the first time this Fall semester, SCUS felt it was important for the university community

to understand that SCUS was the committee now responsible to Senate for

recommendations or suggestions for change.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

iv)

Paper S.06-126 - Changes to the Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules

Moved by P. Percival, seconded by B. Schellenberg

"that the following revisions to membership of the Senate Committee on

Agenda and Rules be approved by Senate and take effect immediately:

that a Student Senator (Alternate) position be added to SCAR; and

that the position of Secretary be a non-voting position"

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

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Other Business

i) ?

Paper S.06-127 - SFU Librar

-Annual Re

ort (For Information

L. Copeland, Senator and Dean of Library Services was available in order to respond to

questions.

In response to an inquiry, L. Copeland confirmed that she wrote the unsigned

introduction of the report and advised Senate of a pagination error on page 20 which has

been corrected in subsequent editions of the report.

Following the brief discussion, the Annual Report of the SFU Library was received by

Senate for information.

Information

The date of the next regularly scheduled meeting of Senate is Monday, December 4,

2006.

The Open Session adjourned at

5:55

pm and Senate moved directly into Closed Session.

Alison Watt

Director University Secretariat