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Record W337273074

Student Services: A Student's Eye View

2006· article· en· W337273074 on OpenAlex
Angela Runnals

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCollege and university · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCharterCertificateHigher educationCompetition (biology)SociologyPolitical sciencePsychologyMedical educationManagementLawMedicine
DOInot available

Abstract

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Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2005. A relatively new university, it has nevertheless seen tremendous changes over the past four decades. As admissions officers, registrars and other student services professionals know, the rate of change is continuing to increase dramatically. But, fortunately, the focus is returning to the student; it wasn't always clear that was the case. Let's look at what the world of admissions officers and registrars has looked like from the point of view of a Simon Fraser University (SFU) student who started school in 1965, 1975, and so on. The Sixties Jane applied to SFU in the spring of 1965 and was accepted for the fall semester. As the University opened its doors for the first time in September 1965, she was deemed a Charter Student and received a commemorative certificate. Although Jane didn't think much about it, it was a tremendous feat for SFU to admit and enroll 2,500 undergraduates in 1965. A January 1963 report to the BC Minister of Education recommended the creation of a new provincial university. A chancellor was appointed in May 1963, and the firm of Erickson and Massey won the campus design competition. Construction began in spring 1964 and the University's physical structure was essentially completed in the summer of 1965. It was built to allow for a future enrollment of 18,000 students. The new university was designed academically to complement the other universities in the province without unnecessary duplication of programming. It was planned to operate all year round, using a trimester system with intake possible in September, January, or May. ADMISSION As a grade 12 graduate of the BC secondary school system, Jane needed an average of 60 percent for basic regular admission. The admission requirements were comparatively simple and consequently easy to understand! She was required to submit two passport-type photographs with her application form. Upon acceptance, she had to have a medical examination and provide evidence of smallpox immunization before completing registration. Those of Jane's friends who didn't qualify for regular admission could apply under the Special Entry category. They had to submit references, write entrance exams, and appear before the Admissions Committee. REGISTRATION What were Jane's program choices as an undergraduate 40 years ago? She could choose from 27 100- and 200-level courses in the Faculty of Arts, 17 courses in the Faculty of Science, and two courses in the Faculty of Education. How did she register? With keypunched cards, of course (remember those?). She lined up at a table to get her registration cards from staff and lined up again at the cashier's office to pay. She paid a total of CAN $214 for tuition for the semester, plus a $5 student activity fee. Certified check, bank, or postal money orders were acceptable forms of payment. As a young woman active in the Girl Guide movement, Jane obtained a scholarship of $100 from the Vancouver Girl Guides Council. With the scholarship, she accepted her stated moral obligation to maintain her ties with the Guide movement. A TIME OF CHANCE As a female student in 1965, Jane did not worry too much about the fact that documents like the University Academic Calendar/Catalog used the third person masculine to refer to students. And she did not worry too much about gender imbalances in programs. She was a good, practical student who handed in her assignments on time, progressed through her program, and graduated with a respectable B.A. in English. However, over the course of her studies she became rapidly aware of social changes going on both inside and outside of the University. Eight years after graduating, she came back for a couple of years as a Special Student, to take women's studies courses in the new program administered by the Women's Studies Coordinating Committee. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.810
Threshold uncertainty score0.962

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it