Senate Graduate Studies Committee

Standing committee (Reporting Category "B")

Last updated December 10, 2023

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Members	Conditions	Term	Expiry Date	Name
Dean and Associate Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies	Chair Ex-officio			Mary O'Brien
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies	Ex-officio			George Agnes
Associate Director, Graduate Admissions, Records and Registration	Ex-officio			Michelle Grahame
University Librarian (or designate)	Ex-officio			Nicole White
Applied Sciences	Chair, Faculty Graduate Curriculum Committee (or designate)			Parvaneh Saeedi
Arts & Social Sciences				Kate Slaney
Business Admin.				Sudheer Gupta
Communication, Art & Technology				Arne Eigenfeldt
Education				Lucy Le Mare
Environment				Valerie Crooks
Health Sciences				Lawrence McCandles
Science				Vance Williams
Graduate Student	Elected annually in the Spring Semester by and from graduate students. Post-election vacancies will be filled by election by Senate.	1 year	May 31, 2024	Reema Faris
Graduate Student				Adam Walter
Graduate Student (Alternate)				Tyler D'Silva
Graduate Student (Alternate)				Marissa Traversa
GSS Executive representative	Ex-officio			Reese Muntean
Coordinator, Graduate Academic Programs Policy & Curriculum	Secretary, Ex-officio (non voting)
Recording Secretary and Curriculum Assistant	Ex-officio (non-voting)			Stania Juriga (sgsc@sfu.ca)

NOTE: In general an "alternate" member is invited to attend meetings when a regular member is not available. Please confirm the role of the alternate member on this committee with the committee secretary.

2023 Meeting Schedule

Date of Meeting	Material Deadline
January 10, 2023	December 7, 2022
February 7, 2023	January 11, 2023
*March 7, 2023	February 8, 2023
April 4, 2023	March 8, 2023
May 2, 2023	April 5, 2023
**June 13, 2023	May 10, 2023
July 11, 2023	June 14, 2023
September 12, 2023	August 9, 2023
October 3, 2023	September 6, 2023
***November 7, 2023	October 11, 2023
December 5, 2023	November 8, 2023

*March 7, 2023 is the last meeting to clear items for the Fall 2023 calendar
**June 6, 2023 is the last meeting to clear items for the Spring 2024 calendar
***November 7, 2023 is the last meeting to clear items for the Summer 2024 calendar

Purpose

To maintain the academic standards established by Senate.
To review and make recommendations to Senate concerning new graduate programs.
To review and make recommendations to Senate concerning major changes to graduate programs.
To review and approve all proposed new graduate courses, course deletions, and minor changes to programs. These changes shall be reported to Senate in summary form.
To administer, review and make recommendations to Senate concerning Graduate General Regulations.
To consider matters concerning Graduate Studies referred to the Committee, and to make recommendations to the appropriate bodies.
To consider and decide on policy recommendations concerning graduate course registration, course and program withdrawal procedures, and on the administration of graduate records.

Operation

The Committee quorum shall be the Chair and seven members.
A voting member of the committee who cannot attend a meeting may send a qualified alternate. For faculty members, this shall be a member of the same Faculty who is qualified to chair his/her Department Graduate Program Committee, selected by the Faculty Graduate Program Committee. For graduate students this shall be a graduate student so elected at Simon Fraser University.
The Committee may establish sub-committees. With a two-thirds majority vote the Committee may delegate some of its powers defined by the Graduate General Regulations to such sub-committees, or to the Dean of Graduate Studies. Graduate students must be represented on all sub-committees.
Committee meetings shall be open, except when addressing matters related to privacy of individuals.
Committee meetings will be held on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.
The Committee shall report to Senate in March of each year.