Hoop hopefuls

Students and staff shot free-throws for prizes at a Douglas College Vancouver Grizzlies Fan Club promotion on February 10 in
the concourse. The club is organized by the College Foundation and Athletic Department. It offers reduced-price NBA ticket
packages with partial proceeds to support College athletics. All ticket packages purchased by May 5 make the buyer eligible for
a Grizzlies Starter jacket draw. The club will also offer an NCAA tournament pool beginning March 12 in the concourse. For

more information visit the Foundation Office (Room 4002) or Room 1317 in Athletics.

Skills Now funds D.C. projects

Douglas College has received funding
for Skills Now Innovations projects
through the Ministry of Skills, Training
and Labour.

A proposal requesting funding was
presented late last year to meet the final
deadline of December 30 for Innovations
projects. Six Douglas College projects
were previously approved in 1994, out of
14 submitted by the College. Funds were
available one-time-only in either 1994/95
or 95/96.

The first set of four to be accepted
were forwarded in July. They were:
$40,000 for Prior Learning Assessment
pilot projects, primarily within the
Department of Child, Family and
Community Studies; $12,500 to develop
an articulation process linking studies in
Coquitlam secondary schools with
Coaching and Physical Education courses
at the College; $12,500 for an articulation
process linking studies in Maple Ridge

secondary schools, and subsequently
those in Coquitlam, with College
Commerce and Business programs;
$8,000 to offer College-level academic
courses at New Westminster Secondary
School for access by students on a
concurrent studies basis.

Two other submissions presented in
October were also approved. The first
was $90,000 for three Prior Learning
Assessment projects offered through the
College. The second was $38,200 for
Specific Training Assistance and
Remediation of Skills (STARS), a project
which allows students to access specific
academic-skills development programs
through computer-based instruction.

Phase I of a project to implement
Interactive Television/Video
Conferencing has received tentative
funding approval of $88,000. Phase II
will be part of submissions for next year’s
Innovations funds, although the final

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amount of funds available to Douglas
College has not been approved.

“These funds have allowed the College
to implement some new activities that we
couldn’t normally fund,” says Mia
Gordon, Vice-President of College
Development. “We’ve been able to do
some innovative kinds of things and
implement some very good ideas within
the College.”

General guidelines for the types of
projects the Ministry was seeking
included those which focus primarily on
the learner and the learning process, those
which concentrate on employment skills
and ones which encourage innovative
program delivery systems. Other
considerations were programs which
increased cost effectiveness, those which
supported full participation of equity
group members and which generally
increased educational effectiveness. ll