A REVIEW OF THE MAIN STRATEGIC ISSUES

 

MAIN OBJECTIVE

To provide student-centered training and education in the
Douglas College Region, through a committed and creative
faculty, staff and administration.

MAIN POLICIES

1. There will be a single organization headed by a College
Principal.

2. The organization will be geographically decentralized
primarily in the interest of being more responsive to
community sub-sets and achieving a local identity. At
present there are five campuses.

3. It will provide a broad range of vocational, career/
technical, academic, remedial, and community & continuing
education and training.

4. The smaller campuses will receive proportionately
greater financial and staffing resources to enable them
to achieve the earliest feasible self-sufficiency. |

5. All campuses will aim at greater self-sufficiency and
attempt to reduce the necessity for inter-campus faculty
commuting. ;

6. Consistent standards will nevertheless be maintained
across the campuses, both in terms of course material,
student and support services and major administrative
policies and procedures, recognizing certain qualitative
differences related to scale.

7. The administration will be expected to optimise cost
efficiency within the above constraints.

Recognizing the inherent trade-offs in some of the above policies,
particularly between 5 and 6, and 4 and 7, special emphasis will be
placed on the development of those involved in administrative-faculty
interface relationships.

TIME MANAGEMENT FOR STUDENTS

 

Time is a difficult quantity for students to learn to manage. If you
give an assignment due in December, unfortunately, the student may
not take four months to do it, but the last four days. One device
that might help is a semester schedule for the student to note all
exam and assignment dates. We have drawn one up if you'd like to
request copies.

Of course, the trick to getting things done is not just noting down
due dates, but planning intermediate dates to get parts of the whole
project done. Some students need to be shown how to divide up a
task so they don't view it as one big hurdle, but a series of small
ones.

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