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RE:

Faculty of Education: Suspension

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Sciences Specialization

(SCUP

11-49

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At its November 23, 2011 meeting SCUP reviewed and approved the proposal to suspend admission and

to dissolve the

Mathematica

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Sciences Specialization program within the Faculty of Education.

(effecti.ve

May 2012)

Motion 1:

That Senate approve the suspension of admission to the Mathematical Sciences Specialization program

within the Faculty of Education.

Motion

2:

That Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the dissolution of the Mathematical

Sciences Specialization program within the Faculty

of

Education.

Encl.

c: S. Richmond

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

THINKING OF THE WORLD

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MEMORANDUM

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FROM

SCUP 11-49

OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIA1E VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC AND

ASSOCIA1E PROVOST

8888 University Drive,

Burnaby, BC

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Senate Committee on University Priorities

Bill Krane, Chair

Senate Committee

on Undergraduate Studies

Faculty

of Education (SCUS 11-45)

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October 14, 2011

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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at its meeting of October 13,

2011, gives rise

to the following recommendation:

Motion:

That SCUP approve and recommend to Senate the dissolution of Mathematical Sciences

Specialization

in

the Faculty of Education.

The relevant documentation for review by SCUP is attached.

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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UNIVERSITY

Program Dissolution Process

1. Program to be discontinued: Mathematical Sciences Specialization

2. Location: Burnaby

3. Although this program is offered by the Faculty of Education the majority of

the courses

are in Mathematics with a few in Statistics and MACM.

4. Anticipated final dissolution date: summer 2012

5. Reasons for discontinuance and dissolution of the program:

a. There is virtually no demand for this program. In the past five years

there

were three students, currently there is one.

b. The program is composed of coursework taken almost entirely in

another faculty, which makes

it difficult to keep up to date (e.g. when

courses will be offered, when courses are deleted and new ones

added) and advising for students is difficult.

c. There is a successful alternative program running for preparing

secondary mathematics teachers

that is preferred by the mathematics

education faculty and by students. Students with a degree in

mathematics take the secondary mathematics education minor as

part

of the PDP program, to attain the BEd after degree. Last year this was

the preferred route of fifty-five

PDP students.

6. Plan for phasing out of program:

a. Currently the one student enrolled in the program is being advised

that he will be grandfathered through. Any upcoming prospective

students will be advised

that the Specialization is phasing out.

Students intending to become secondary mathematics teachers will be

advised to see the Math advisor, the

PDP advisor, and one of the Math

Education cognate faculty members.

b. The Undergraduate Programs Committee, the Faculty of Education

executive committee and the Faculty

Council, all have approved the

dissolution.

c. The Chair of the Mathematics Department Dr. Manfred Trummer, has

approved the dissolution.

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