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DOUGLAS COLLEG® BOARD
JANUARY 21, 1982

External Matters - Municipal

Discussions have continued with Mr. Wright of the First Capital City
Development Company regarding his assistance in obtaining alternate
siting for the Beacon Industries Workshop on the Simcoe Park Site.
Beacon Industries has viewed’ the McBride Site buildings, and is
having an architect's sketch done, in order to identify the feasi-
bility of the proposed move. Both Mayor Tonn and Mayor Evers

have not been available over the past two weeks for further dis-
cussions regarding the Douglas College presence in Coquitlam, and
the eventual acquisition of Simcoe Park in New Westminster.

External Matters - Education

Mary Fewster and myself met with representatives of the Ministry
and Vancouver Community College regarding future relationships
between our Nursing Program and that offered by Vancouver Community
College. These discussions are continuing at the faculty and
administrative levels.

We have been informed by the Ministry of Education that it is
their intention to cancel the current commitments to the offering
of a dental hygiene level in dental assisting. Furthermore, they
recommend that Douglas College eliminate its present Dental
Assisting Program, and request us to add 100 FTE to our present
Nursing Program. Staff work is in progress in this regard, and
discussions will be occurring with Ministry personnel over the
next week. A special report will be made to the Board as soon

as I feel that we have assembled and analyzed all available
information in the matter. Needless to say, this is a major
problem for us to deal with at this stage of the building con-
struction, not to mention the impact on the Douglas College pro-
file, and students, staff and faculty.

I am participating with the principals of most tertiary institutions
in the lower mainland. in an attempt to devise a means of co-operative
rationalization and integration of educational programs in the lower
mainland region. The assumption underlying this, is that knowledge
of local needs and situations should enable lower mainland insti -
tutions to do a more adequate job of rationalizing public expendi-
tures in post-secondary education on the lower mainland than would

be the case by fiat from the Ministry - however well meant.