Non-Standard Admissions & Programs Committee

Overview

​The Non-Standard Admissions and Programs (NSA&P) Committee (PDF) is a standing committee of Graduate Education Council (GEC) and is governed by a by-law. The Committee has the power to waive, or modify in individual student cases, the application of:

• a General Regulation of the School, where it concerns admissions standards and procedures, registration policies and procedures, enrolment policies and procedures, and policies on good academic standing and satisfactory academic progress;
• a Degree Regulation of the School; or
• a program requirement governing a graduate program.

In addition, the Committee will consider requests from graduate units on other cases requiring exemptions, including, but not limited to:

• non-standard admissions;
• leaves of absence that do not fall within the provisions of the School’s leave policy;
• the School’s deadlines for course extensions;
• grade revisions and grade reporting procedures;
• the School’s time limits for the completion of program requirements; the School’s time limits for the completion of degrees; and
• posthumous degrees.​

Committee Members

The membership of NSA&P consists consist of eight members, plus an alternate student member, the secretary to the committee (non-voting), and the Director of SGS Student Academic Services (non-voting), as follows (members listed below having voting privileges unless otherwise noted):

The Manager, Front-line Student Academic Services will serve as secretary to the Committee (non-voting) for the purpose of annually establishing the committee and its schedule of meetings and any other general business.