AGENDA – OPEN SESSION

Monday, October 1, 2012 –

5:30 pm

Room 3210 West Mall Complex

1. Approval of the Agenda

2. Minutes of the Open Session on September 10, 2012

3. Business Arising from the Minutes

4. Report of the Chair

5. Question Period *

6. Reports of Committees

A) Senate Committee on University Priorities (SCUP)

i)

Terms of Reference for the Beedie Professorship Endowment Fund

S.12-139

ii)

Graduate Certificate in Business in the Americas

S.12-140

iii)

Joint Major in Philosophy and Health Sciences

S.12-141

iv)

External Review of the School of Communication

S.12-142

v)

External Review of the Department of English

S.12-143

vi)

Name Change for the Institute for Research on Early Education and Child Health S.12-144

B) Senate Graduate Studies Committee (SGSC)

i)

Curriculum Revisions – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (For Information)

S.12-145

ii)

Curriculum Revisions – Faculty of Education (For Information)

S.12-146

iii)

Curriculum Revisions – Faculty of Health Sciences (For Information)

S.12-147

iv)

Curriculum Revisions – Faculty of Science (For Information)

S.12-148

C) Senate Nominating Committee (SNC)

i)

Senate Committee Elections

S.12-149

7. Other Business

8. Information

i)

Date of the next regular meeting – Monday, November 5, 2012.

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Agenda items and papers for the November meeting will be required by the Secretary at noon on Thursday,

October 18, 2012. Submissions may be emailed to

shelley_gair@sfu.ca

but must be followed up by a signed paper

submission. These items will be considered by the Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules on Tuesday, October

23, 2012 with Senate distribution on Friday, October 26, 2012.

The Senate agenda and papers for this meeting are available on the Senate website at

http://www.sfu.ca/senate/agenda.html

.

Detailed curriculum papers can be found on Docushare at

https://docushare.sfu.ca/dsweb/View/Collection-12682

Kate Ross

Registrar and Secretary of Senate

*

Questions should be submitted in writing to Kate Ross (email

kuross@sfu.ca

) with Senate Question in the

subject line by Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 9:00 am.