Recognizing that it would take a number of months for Senate discussions of the TLQPR Report to result in firm proposals, an ad hoc Committee for Academic Program Enhancement (CAPE) was established administratively in Spring 1997. One of its activities was to carry out a series of consultations with representatives of the students in each of the four Schools. This was intended as an experiment towards a "structured" approach to staff-student consultation. While a several issues of common concern to students were identified in these initial meetings, and followed up by CAPE, it was agreed that the approach lacked the desired immediacy and impact of Department-based channels of input.

This experience strengthened support for the proposal to adopt a uniform policy requiring all Departments to set up student-staff liaison committees. The Senate approved this policy in February 1998, and Departments will be reporting on their compliance to the Committee on Teaching and Learning Quality by the end of the year.

As noted earlier, course evaluation data have been made widely available to students, but the issue of providing feedback on how the results are used by the University has not yet been systematically addressed. There have been discussions of general issues at meetings with student representatives, including the CAPE consultations cited above. The student-staff liaison committees, now that they have been instituted, will serve as a conduit for sharing this kind of information at Departmental level.