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Bookstore Hours

Due to budgetary and staff constraints
the bookstore hours for the period
January 10 to January 21 will be:

Mon. Jan. 10 & 17 1100 to 1845 hours
Tue. Jan. 11 & 18 1100 to 1845 hours
Wed. Jan. 12 & 19 1100 to 1845 hours
Thur. Jan. 13 & 20 1100 to 1845 hours
Fri. Jan. 14 & 21 1000 to 1700 hours

Would all faculty teaching night classes
please make their students aware of the
extended hours for this two week period.

Thank you,
Louis De Verheyen

 

Job Action Club

Douglas College's Community Programs

and Services division has received a con-
tract from the local Ministry of Human
Resources Region to offer a Job Action
Giup.

The Job Action Club is a supervised,
group job-finding program. Students
spend three to five weeks in the class
learning and putting into practice job
search skills, particularly the job in-
terview. The program has a very high
success rate across the province.

The Job Action Club will run from Jan-
uary 10 to April l. Chris Petty is the
instructor. Chris has taught employment
orientation programs at Douglas College
and Kwantlen College for the past five
years. ‘The class will be based in

Room 1807. Drop by and visit if you are
interested in seeing this imnovative
program in action.

 

 

 

 

Educational Leave

TO: BILL DAY
FROM: NICK MANSFIELD

I would like to thank the Educational |
Teave Committee and the College for grant- |
ing me educational leave for the spring
semester.

|
I will be engaging in a study of Douglas |
College students who are presently en-

rolled in non-academic transfer programs . |
The thrust of my research is to analyze |
the socio-econamic backgrounds of these
students, their past educational and
occupational experiences and their career
ambitions. I am also interested in this
diverse student grouping's perception of |
academic students and academic education |
as a whole. These data will be used to
compare the sampled population using the |
Demnison studies as the population for
comparison.

In these times of cutbacks and program

re-evaluation, I believe this study will
have some important implications for cur>
riculum re-development and reorientation.

|
American and European studies have indi- |
cated that as technological deve lopment !
has increased there has been a greater need |
for open-ended education and training. In |
the earlier part of this century such per-
ceived needs gave rise to the development |
of quasi-universities that were given such
names as A& I, A&M, I.T., etc. They |
have developed as institutions that are
based on the practical development of skills
but have the advantage of the longitudinal
development of theoretical skills also. My |
approach will be to investigate the practi-
cality of such for our career students.

 

Colleagues interested in the complete re- |
search design can obtain a copy from me.

I would be most happy to have input or
critical comment.