DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED BY SENATE
    Minutes of a Meeting of the Senate of Simon Fraser University held on?
    Monday, July 6, 2009 at 5:30 pm in Room 3210 WMC
    Open Session
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    Present
    Stevenson, Michael, President and Chair of Senate
    Agnes, George (representing W. Parkhouse)
    Beale, Alison
    Bezglasnyy, Anton
    Chapman, Glenn
    Chiu, Christina
    Collinge, Joan
    Cormack, Lesley
    Daganais, Diane (representing S. de Castell)
    Dow, Greg
    Driver, Jon
    Easton, Stephen
    Francis, June
    Harding, Kevin
    Haunerland, Norbert (representing M. Pinto)
    Janes, Craig
    Letoumeau, Michael
    Leznoff, Daniel
    MacGrotty, Alysia
    Mundle, Todd (representing L. Copeland)
    Myers, Gordon
    Patel, Ravi
    Paterson, David
    Percival, Cohn
    Percival, Paul
    Peters, Joseph
    Pierce, John
    Rajapakse, Nimal
    Shapiro, Daniel
    Underhill, Owen
    van der Wey, Dolores
    Wakkaiy, Ron
    Williams, Tony
    Zelezny, Joseph
    Absent
    Brennand, Tracy
    Fizzell, Maureen
    Funt, Elliot
    Gibson, Eli
    Godson, Au
    Golnaraghi, Farid
    Gordon, Robert
    Hannah, David
    Hiscocks, Graham
    Joes, Michael
    Krane, Bill
    Laba, Martin
    Lee, Shara
    Li, Fiona
    Louie, Brandt
    McArthur, James
    Moubarak, Cristel
    Nadison, Ada
    Noble, Cameron
    O'Neil, John
    Pavsek, Christopher
    Plischke, Michael
    Popadiuk, Natalee
    Ruben, Peter
    Russell, Robert
    Sahinaip, Cenk
    Scott, Jamie
    Thompson, Steve
    Tiffany, Evan
    Warner, D'Arcy
    Woodbury, Rob
    Ross, Kate, Registrar and Secretary of Senate
    Grant, Bobbie, Recording Secretary
    Approval of the Agenda
    The Agenda was approved as distributed.
    S.M. 6 July 2009
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    2.
    Approval of the Minutes of the Open Session of June 1, 2009
    The Minutes were approved as distributed.
    3.
    Business Arising from the Minutes
    There was no business arising from the Minutes.
    4.
    Report of the Chair
    The Chair welcomed Nimal Rajapakse, the new Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences,
    to his first meeting of Senate and, on behalf of Senate and the University, expressed thanks
    and appreciation to the following outgoing interim Deans: Joan Coilinge, Acting Dean of
    Continuing Studies; Suzanne de Castell, Acting Dean, Faculty of Education; Owen
    Underhill, Acting Dean, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology; and Ze-Nian
    Li, Acting Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences.
    5.
    Question Period
    There were no questions.
    6.
    Reports of Committees
    A) ?
    Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
    i)
    Paper S.09-88 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Applied Sciences (For
    Information)
    Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
    under delegated authority, approved a new course and changes to existing courses in
    Computing Science, as well as a change of requirements for the Geographic Information
    Science (GIS) Major/Honors Program.
    ii)
    Paper S.09-89 - 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 a W designation for a course in the Explorations
    Program.
    iii)
    Paper S.09-90
    -
    Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Communication, Art and
    Technology (For Information)
    Senate received information that the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
    under delegated authority, approved a new course and changes to existing courses in the
    Publishing Program, as well as new courses, course deletions, changes to existing courses
    and program requirements, including the establishment of three new streams, in the
    School for Contemporary Arts.
    S.M. 6 July 2009
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    iv) ?
    Paper S.09-91 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Science (For Information)
    Senate received information that the Senate Comn-uttee on Undergraduate Studies, acting
    under delegated authority, approved changes to existing courses in Earth Sciences and the
    Centre for Dialogue.
    B) ?
    Senate Graduate Studies Committee
    i)
    Paper S.08-92 - Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Business Administration (For
    Information)
    Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
    delegated authority, approved a revision to the course list for the Financial Risk
    Management Program
    in
    the Faculty of Business Administration.
    ii)
    Paper S.09-93 - Curriculum Revisions
    -
    Faculty of Communication. Art and
    Technolog y
    (For Information)
    Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
    delegated authority, approved course deletions in Interactive Arts and Technology.
    iii)
    Paper S.09-94
    -
    Curriculum Revisions - Faculty of Health Sciences (For
    Information)
    Senate received information that the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, acting under
    delegated authority, approved new courses in Health Sciences.
    C) ?
    Senate Nominating Committee
    i) ?
    Paper S.09-95 - Elections
    The Secretary reported that no further nominations had been received so the names as
    shown on Senate Paper S.09-95 were declared elected by acclamation. Outstanding
    vacancies would be carried forward to the next meeting of Senate.
    7.
    Other Business
    There was no other business.
    8.
    Information
    There is no meeting of Senate in August. The date of the next regularly scheduled
    meeting of Senate is Monday, September 14, 2009.
    The Open Session adjourned at 5:34 pm, and Senate moved directly into Closed Session.
    Kate Ross
    Registrar and Secretary of Senate

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