APPROVED BY SENATE

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

M onday, September 13, 2010 at 7:00 pm at the West M all Complex (Room 3210)

Open Sessi on

Present: Petter, A ndrew , President and Chair

A cier no, K y le

Bezgl asnyy, A nt on

Bl

ack,

Sam

Brand horst, Bruce

Br ennand , Tr acy

Cameron, Rob (representing N . Rajapakse)

Cr ai g, John

Cuppl es, Cl ai r e

Cyr, Dianne

Dhillon, Arinder

Dow, Greg

Dri v er, Jon

East

on,

Stephen

Fizzell, M aureen

Gar neau-Scott, Chr i sti

Geisler, Cher yl

Gordon, Robert

Janes,

Cr

ai

g

Kong, Shuyu

Kopahi, Moe

K r ane, Bill

Kropinski, M ary Catherine

Laitsch, Dan

L ee, Benjami n

Leznoff, Daniel

M acGr otty , A l y si a

Magnusson, Kris

Mann, Geoff

M oghaddamjoo, Sar ah

M or r i son, John

M undle, Todd (representing Charles Eckman)

M yers, Gordon

O’N eil, John

Par k house, Wade

Patel, Rav i

Patidar, Risha

Patidar, Trisha

Pavsek, Christopher

Per civ al, Coli n

Per ci v al , Paul

Peter

s,

Joseph

Ross, Kate, Registrar & Executive Director Student Enrolment

Gair, Shelley, Recording Secretary

Pi

er

ce,

John

Pinto, M ario

Ruben, Peter

Russell, Robert

Saif, M ehrdad

Shapir o, Daniel

Somers, Julian

van der Wey, Dolores

War ner, D ’A rcy

Woodbury, Rob

Wussow, Helen

A bsent:

Beale, A lison

Chapman, Glenn

Fr anci s, Ju ne

Golnaraghi, Farid

Law, Mona

Lew is, Cynthia

Li, Fiona

Loui e, Br andt

McArthur, James

Paterson, Dav id

Sahi nal p , Cenk

I n attendance:

A nderson, Gail

Bud r a, Paul

Canac-Marquis, Rejean

Gu, Qianping

Gut hri e, L arry

H ibbitts, Patr ici a

Legris, Louise

Li, Ze-Nian

Lindsay, Wil li am

Lougheed, Pat

M ellow , Dean

Perry, Tom

Pochurko, M artin

Sabat ier , Cecile

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1. Approval of the Agenda

The Agenda was approved as distributed (moved by Steve Easton and seconded by Paul Percival).

2. Approval of the Minutes of the Open Session of July 5, 2010

The Minutes of the Open Session of Jul5,

y 2010 were approved as distributed (moved by Peter

Ruben and seconded by Maureen Fizzell).

3. Business Arising from the Minutes

There was no business arising from the Minutes.

4. Report of the Chair

The Chair, on behalf of Senate, welcomed the following Senators to their first meeting of Senate:

John Craig, Dean of Arts and Social Science(Pro

s

Tem) and Claire Cupples, Dean of Science. The

Chair expressed thanks toth e SFU communityfor making him feel welcomd e and supported as the

new President of SFU. The Chair acknowledged the loss and contributions of Warren Gill, Vice

President of University Relations and Peter Kennedy, Professor emeritus in Economics who have

recently passed away.

A) Annual Financial Report (For Information)

S.10-101

P. Hibbitts, Vic-ePresident, Finance and Administration, M. Pochurko, Associate V-iPcreesident,

Financial Services, and L. Guthrie, Director, Accounting Services, were in attendance in order to

respond to questions.

The Annual Financial Report was received by Senate for informtioan. Clarification was requested

on the Statement of Operations and Changes in Operating Net Assets as well as the Income

Stabilization Reserve found within the report.

5. Question Period

There were no questions in Question Period.

6.

i) Closure of the Collaborative Major Program with Thompson

Rivers University

Paul Budra, from the Faculty of Social Sciences, was in attendance in order to respond to

questions.

Moved by Jon Driver, seconded by Ravi Patel

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“that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the permanent closure of

the Collaborative Major Program with Thompson Rivers University within the Faculty of

Arts and Social Sciences, effective January 2011.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

ii) Creation of the First Nations Language Centre

S.10-103

Tom Perry, from the Department of Linguistics, was in attendance in order to respond to

questions.

Moved by Jon Driver, seconded by Ben Lee

“that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the creation of the First

Nations Language Centre within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences as a Research

Centre for a five year term.”

The question was raiseda s towhy there are two separate advisory boards. It was explained that

one will have a more political function with infrequent meetings and the other will be more

operational in nature with greater meeting frequenc. yClarification was requested on the use of the

term centre as opposed to institute. It was explained that this was intentional since it is believed

there would not be enough cross faculty membershiap t this time due to the expertise being fairly

localized and specialized.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

iii) New Programs in the School of Criminology:

S.10-104

Gail Anderson, from the department of Criminology, was in attendance in order to respond to

questions.

There was some discussion around the proliferation of cefrictiates and the VP Academic agreed

that this needs to be reviewed. Representatives from the School of Criminologexplay ined that the

certificates, minor and PBD contained in paper S.10104,

- were designed to appeal to different

markets and to show a focusedstu dy topic on student’s transcripts.

a) Certificate in Correctional Studies

Moved by Jon Driver, seconded by Arinder Dhillon

“that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the Full Program Proposal

for a Certificate in Correctional tSudies in the School of Criminology within the Faculty of

Arts and Social Sciences.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

b) Certificate in Forensic Studies

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Moved by Jon Driver, seconded by Ravi Patel

“ that Senate approve and rceommend to the Board of Governors the Full Program

Proposal for a Certificate in Forensic Studies in the School of Criminology within the

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

c) Certificate in Legal Studies

Moved by Jon Driver, seconded by Anton Bezglasnyy

“that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the Full Program Proposal

for a Certificate in Legal Studies in the School of Criminology within the Faculty of Arts

and Social Sciences.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

d) Minor and PBD in Police Studies

Moved by Jon Driver, seconded by Steve Easton

“that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the Full Program Proposal

for a Minor and Post Baccalaureate Diploma in the School of Criminology within the

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

iv) Certificate in French and Education

S.10-105

Rejean Canac-Marquis and Cecile Sabatier, from the Department of French, were in attendance in

order to respond to questions.

Moved by Jon Driver, seconded by Kris Magnusson

“that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the Full Program Proposal

for a Certificate in French and Education within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and

Faculty of Education.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

v) SFU/ZU Dual Masters of Science and PhD Degrees in Computing ScienceS.10 -106

Ze-Nian Li and Qianping Gu, from the School of Computing Science, were in attendance in

order to respond to questions.

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Moved by Jon Driver, seconded by Joseph Peters

“that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the Full Program Proposal

for a SFU/ZU Dual Masters of cSience and PhD Degrees in Computing Science within the

Faculty of Applied Sciences.”

A question was raised regarding the policie, sspecifically academic freedom, that will govern the

dual degree program. The Dean of Graduate Studies responded that the program requires students

to meet the regulations and policies at this university. If a student was not able to do their research

at ZU, they would revert back to an SFU student and only complete a PhD at SFU.

Reference was made to p. 6 which states, “U

SFstudents must complete three credits from the

course China Survey at ZU”. The question was raised regarding whether or not students who

have completed the undergraduate dual degree program will be required to take the China Survey

course again. The response was that those students would be exempted from taking the China

Survey course again at ZU.

Minor clarifications were requested on the topics of the program start date, essay topics,- op co

placement, parchments, and transition issues.

Concern was expressed over the statement on p. 20 that “students with Chinese citizenship who

wish to join the GDDP programs must first apply for admission at ZU.” The issue was raised that

if a student has dual citizenship then according to that statement they must st fairpply to ZU as the

“home” university. According to the Dean of Graduate Studiess, tudents are required to apply for

admission to each university. A

friendly amendment

was proposed and accepted that the

wording in the document, regarding admission to “home” university, be resolved before the

motion goes to the Board of Governorfor

s approval and if a resolution cannot be obtained, that

the motion be returned to Senate.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

vi) Notices of Intent for Program Proposals (For Information)

S.10-107

Senate received information that SCUP reviewed and approved the proposal to have Notices of

Intent (NOI) for program proposals to be brought forward to SCUS for consideration before being

forwarded to SCUP.

B) Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (SCUS)

i) Degree Designation – Introduction of the designations “with distinction” S.10-108

and “first class with distinction” for students in honours and non-honours

programs

Pat Lougheed, Director, Policy & Business Analysis, was in attendance in order to respond to

questions.

Moved by Bill Krane, seconded by Peter Ruben

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“that Senate approve the alteration of the designation

First Class Honour

int

s

o the

designations

with distinction

and

first class with distinction

for students graduating from honours

programs, with requirements as detailed in the attached table, effective for students entering

honours programs during the 2011 Spring term.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

Moved by Bill Krane, seconded by Julian Somers

“that Senate approve the introduction of the designations

with distinctio

a

n

nd

first class with

distinction

for students graduating from nonh-onours programs, with requirements as detailed

in the attached table, effective for students graduating from the 2010 Fall term.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

ii) Aboriginal Undergraduate Admission Policy

S.10-109

William Lindsay, Director of Aboriginal Peoples, and Louise Legris, Directof rA odmissions, were

in attendance in order to respond to questions.

Moved by Bill Krane, seconded by Ravi Patel

“that Senate approve the Aboriginal Undergraduate Admission Policy effective September

2010.”

Discussion followed regarding the necessity f ooffering this policy. It was pointed out that

mechanisms are in place to retain the students that are expected to be recruited under this policy.

An opinion was expressed that the issue of lower Aboriginal enrollment should be addressed at the

high school leveland that students in this category could be betteserr ved using the diverse

qualifications admission process.

Moved by PaulPe rcival, seconded by Colin Percival

“that this matter be referred to the Diverse Qualifications Adjudication Committee

(DQAC) to consider whether they need to propose any changes to their policies to make

them more encouraging to applicants of Aboriginal descent.”

A problem noted with this optionis that the diverse qualifications admission policy does not apply

to all faculties and therefore is not a relevant alternative to the proposAanl . opinion was expressed

that this policy would be more appealing and more likely to attract Aboriginal students than the

DQAC process. It was noted that some

other major universities ni BC and across Canada have

similar admission policies to address some of the inequities in education within thAboe riginal

population.

Question was calledon motion to refe, r and a vote taken

MOTION TO REFER FAILED

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Reference was made to the committeec onsisting of a member from each of Indigenous Student

Centre, University Admissions and the specific faculty applied to, which evaluates each application.

A request was made to consider including an additional faculty member on this committee since

the single faculty member does not have a majority votAe.n amendment to the policy was

proposed.

Amendment moved by Colin Percival, seconded by PauPel rcival

“that the faculty representative on the committee be given veto power on whether a student

is admitted.”

A problem noted with this amendment is that typically undergraduate students take a range of

courses across different faculties and have the option of changing their program. An opinion was

expressed that giving one faculty membe, r from the faculty that the student intends to study, veto

power would not be appropriate. It was commented that at some point the committee, with three

areas of expertise represented, needs to be trusted that they will apply their expertise in making

good admission decisions around these students.

Question was called on the amendment, and a vote taken.

AMENDMENT FAILED

A

friendly amendment

was proposed and accepted to change the wording on item 6 in section

5 to read “a committee composed of members

comprising an gsile member from each of

Aboriginal

Services…” to help specify that there is a single member from each of those units.

Senate was reminded that this proposed policy allows applicanats dmission to the University,

provided they are willing to talk about eithr heritage and their personal experiences. Those

individuals, who do not wish to do that, can apply through the regular application process or

through the diverse qualifications process. This policy essentially creates more options rather than

forcing students to take a particular route into the University.

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

iii) Linguistics Honours Program

S.10-110

Dean Mellow, from the Department of Linguistics, was in attendance in order to respond to

questions.

Moved by Bill Krane, seconded by Steve Easton

“that Senate approve the change to the requirements for admission to the Linguistics

Honours Program effective September 2010.”

A

friendly amendment

was proposed and accepted to change the wording int he motion to read

“effective September 13, 2010.”

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Amended motion now reads:

“that Senate approve the change to the requirements for admission to the Linguistics

Honours Program effective September 13, 2010.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED

iv) Curriculum Revisions – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Studies, Linguistics, Political Science, World Literature, French Cohort

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

delegated authority, approved new courses and minor revisions to existing courses and program

requirements in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

v) Curriculum Revisions – Faculty of Business Administration

(For Information)

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

delegated authority, approved a minor revision to a program requirement in the Faty culof

Business Administration.

vi) Curriculum Revisions – Faculty of Education (For Information)

S.10-113

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

delegated authority, approved minor revisions to rogp ram requirements in the Faculty of

Education.

C) Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules (SCAR)

Discipline (For Information)

It was questioned whether the VP Legal Affairs has the authority to make the proposed changes

and stated that this change should be approved by Senate.

Moved by Paul Percival, seconded by Steve Easton

“that this information item be changed into a decision item.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

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Moved by Paul Percival, seconded by Colin Percival

“that Senate approve the proposed changed policy S.10.03 as set out in Senate paper S.10-

114.”

Question was called, and a vote taken.

MOTION CARRIED

i) Elections

S.10-115

A revised Senate paper was distributed prior to the start of the meeting. The Secretary reported

that additional nominations were received before the deadline and that an election was required for

a Senator (at large) to the Senate Committee on University Honours (SCUH). An online ballot

would take place from September 14, 2010 to September 16, 2010. All other names, as shown on

Senate paper S.10-115 revised, were declared elected by acclamation. Outstanding vanccaies would

be carried forward to the next meeting of Senate.

7.

Information

The date of the next regular scheduled meeting of Senate is MondayOc, tober 4, 2010 in the West

Mall Complex (Room 3210).

Open Session adjourned at9:00 pm and Senate moved directly into Closed Session.

Kate Ross

Registrar and Secretary of Senate