DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE

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

Monday, February 4, 2008 at 5:30 pm in Room 3210 WMC

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Open Session

Present: Easton, Stephen, Vice-Chair of Senate

Absent

Atkins, Stella

Abdulwahab, Kamal

Copeland, Lynn

Brebner, Sarah

Corbett, Kitty

Brerinand, Tracy

Cormack, Lesley

Dagenais, Diane

Driver, Jon

Dickinson, Peter

Fizzell, Maureen

Francis, June

Fox, Amy

Gordon, Robert

Gencay, Ramo

Hannah, David

Harder, Derrick

Javed, Waseem

Harding, Kevin

Li, Paul

Hayes, Michael

Liljedahl, Peter

Hemingway, Alex

Louie, Brandt

Krane, William

McArthur, James

Laba, Martin

Percival, Colin

LaBne, John

Pinto, Mario

Lee, Benjamin

Stevenson, Michael

Lein, Adam

Tiffany, Evan

Letoumeau, Michael

Tse, Karen

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Lewis, Brian

Vaid, Bhuvinder

Malcoe, Lorraine Halinka

van Baarsen, Amanda

O'Neil, John

Warner, D'Arcy

Paling, Joe

Weeks, Daniel

Percival, Paul

Williams, Peter

Peters, Joseph

Plischke, Michael

Popadiuk, Natalee

In attendance:

Russell, Robert

Dench, Sarah

- Shaker, Paul

di Francesco, Concetta

Shapiro, Daniel

Hatala, Marek

Shermer, Thomas

Li, Ze-Nian

Smith, Don

MacAlister, David

Thompson, Steve

Rahilly, Tim

Wakkary, Ron

Waterhouse, John

Williams, Tony

Ross, Kate, Registrar and Senior Director

Student Enrolment

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 January 7. 2008

Following an amendment to add the name of A. Hemingway to the list of Senators

present, the Minutes were approved.

Business Arising from the Minutes

There was no business arising from the Minutes.

Report of the Chair

There was no report from the Chair.

Question Period

Questions surrounding the implementation of a change to the assessment of tuition fee refunds for

graduate students who drop classes after the semester had started were addressed by the Dean of

Graduate Studies in written documentation (5.08-26) presented to Senate at the meeting.

Reports of Committees

Paper S.08-19 Annual Report on Student Discipline (For Information)

D. MacAlister, Co-ordinator, University Board on Student Discipline, C. di Francesco,

Secretary, Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals, K. Ross, Registrar, and T. Rahilly,

Senior Director, Student and Community Life, were in attendance in order to respond to

questions.

Senate received the 2006/2007 Annual Report on Student Discipline for information.

The report includes a summary of cases dealt with by the University Board on Student

Discipline and the Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals, as well as a statistical

summary of incidents of academic dishonesty and non-academic dishonesty dealt with by

the Registrar and by the Senior Director, Student and Community Life.

Brief discussion took place with respect to UBSD case 07-6 concerning the student's status

in the graduate program. An opinion was expressed that the 36 cases of plagiarism

reported by the Registrar appeared to be very low. Senate was advised that a new process

for reporting incidents of academic dishonesty was put in place and the report reflects the

cases reported under this new procedure which only covers a partial year.

Senate Committee on University Priorities

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Paper S.08-20 —Joint Major Program in Interactive Arts and Technolog

and

Business Administration

Moved by J. Waterhouse, seconded on K. Harding

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

for a Joint Major in Interactive Arts & Technology and Business

•Administration in the Faculty of Applied Sciences and the Faculty of Business

Administration"

M. Hatala, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, and M. Fizzell, Faculty of Business

Administration, were in attendance to respond to questions.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

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Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies

Paper S.08-21 - Faculty of Science: Honors component to the Joint Major

between Computing Science and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Moved by B. Krane, seconded by K. Harding

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

of an Honors component to the Joint Major between Computing Science and

Molecular Biology and Biochemistry"

Question was called and a vote taken.

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ii)

Paper S.08-22 - WOB Requirement Substitution Request for Computing Science

Dual Degree Program

Moved by B. Krane, seconded by M. Letoumeau

"that Senate approve the WQB Requirement Substitution Request for

Computing Science Dual Degree Program"

Z. Li, School of Computing Science, and S. Dench, Director, University Curriculum and

Institutional Liaison, were in attendance to respond to questions.

Question was called, and a vote taken. ? MOTION CARRIED

iii)

Paper S.08-23 - 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, program changes, and changes to

existing courses in the following areas: Interactive Arts and Technology, Engineering

Science, and Kinesiology.

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Senate was advised that the course numbers for KIN 477/479 (cross listed with

Psychology courses) had to be changed to 457/459 because 477/479 were already in use

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for existing courses in Psychology, and that the credit value of 459 should be nine instead

of three.

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Paper S.08-24 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (For

Information)

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

under delegated authority, approved new courses in the Department of Psychology.

Senate was advised that the course numbers for PSYC 477/479 (cross listed with

Kinesiology courses) had to be changed to 457/459 because 477/479 were already in use

for existing courses in Psychology, and that the credit value of 459 should be nine instead

of three.

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Senate Nominating Committee

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Paper S.08-25— Elections

Senate was advised that a nomination was received for the Senate Committee on Agenda

and Rules - Stella Atkins who is elected by acclamation to SCAR for term of office to

May 31, 2008. With respect to the International Student Exchange Committee (ISEC)

Steve Corber is elected by acclamation as the Faculty Member from the Faculty of Health

Sciences; the vacancy for the Faculty of Business Administration is withdrawn, and the

vacancy for the Faculty of Applied Sciences remains vacant and will be carried forward to

the next meeting.

Other Business

There was no other business.

Information

The date of the next regularly scheduled meeting of Senate is Monday, March 3, 2008.

The Open Session adjourned at 5:45 pm, and Senate moved directly into Closed Session.

Alison Watt

Director, University Secretariat -