REPORT TO COLLEGE COMMUNITY (Cont.)

four summer session sections, as well
as 5 sections of Marketing, Business,
Electronic Data Processing and
Construction Management in the fall
and spring semesters.

The Social Services and Applied Health
Department met its budget reduction
requirements by cancellation of seven
sections - 3 in Child Care and 4 in
Physical Education. Other cuts were
accommodated by reducing semester
lengths, reducing honoraria and supplies,
and replacement of the Nursing component
in the Mental Retardation Program with

a less comprehensive course.

The Arts and communications Department
has reduced the Music Program by two
sections, and the Theatre Program by
five sections, in addition to cutting
back on supplies and maintenance costs.

The Nursing Department has cancelled

the intake of students for the
Registered Psychiatric Nursing Program,
which has had low enrolments. Other
reductions have been effected by

delayed hiring and contract cancellations
in the area of research, clinical
teaching and summer session courses.

Divisional time assignments for program
coordination has been reduced by the
approximate equivalent of four full-
time faculty postions.

Cammunity Programs & Services

(N.B. Community Programs and Services
are dependent on a narrowly defined
budget from the Ministry, calling for
a major reduction in funding, which we
have partially offset internally.)

The cammunity programming work of the
Division has had a net reduction in
funding from the Ministry of Education.
This is a direct result of (1) the
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Ministry and (2) the application of a
funding formula which has penalized
Douglas College (in part) for its co-
operative programming with school
boards and Institutes. The support the
Division has received from the rest of
the College has enabled us to keep in
place the "integrated" structure of
community programming in which individ-
uals are assigned to other divisions
from Community Programs. There are
not sufficient college resources avail-
able to totally offset the reduction in
funding from the Ministry. Consequently
the Special Programs Unity "Programs
for Wanen" has been given notice of
elimination. Increased fee revenue
from non-credit courses and contracts
must be identified by the end of
October in order to retain the present
organizational structure and faculty/
staff levels.

Educational & Student Services Division

Short-term layoffs have occurred in
Financial Aid, Counselling, and in the
I-Care volunteer program. One counsellor
who is on leave will not be replaced,

and no staff will be replaced during
holidays. This will result in reduced
services in Financial Aid and Counselling,
with resulting waits of up to one month
for counselling, access to counselling in
the evenings of only one night per week,
and up to one-and-a-half months lead
time for testing for students intending
to enter restricted entry programs.

Direct instruction in Adult Basic
Education, Literacy and Basic Skills,
will not be affected, but there will be
no provision for replacement of
instructors during Professional Develop-
ment and Sick Leave, or holiday time.
There will be fewer secondary school
visits, delays of up to one month in
updating career and academic information,
and up to six months delay on revision