President’s Report

Tripartite Committee—Roslyn

Dixon (DCFA); Paul Taylor, Wendy
Liew and Triena Marples (BCGEU);
Deans Ted James and Bev Miller; Peter
Sanderson (Administration); and Dan
McDonald—for the effective work they
have done in designing a template for
reporting relationships within units of
College administration, especially in
instructional areas. They have
demonstrated the viability of this
collaborative approach to problem-
solving, which all of us would like to see
become typical at Douglas College.

l wish to publicly commend the

School District Liaison

I had a get-acquainted lunch with
Tom Harris, Superintendent of Schools,
Coquitlam, and have arranged a follow-
up meeting with him and his staff and
some of our senior administrators. The
purpose is to explore opportunities for
greater cooperation and coordination of
services. I have also met with Albert
Pasquallato, Assistant Superintendent, in
Maple Ridge with similar objectives in
mind.

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Royal Roads/Ministry

On Friday, November 15, I attended the
installation of Dr. Gerry Kelly as President
of Royal Roads University. While in
Victoria I also visited with Ministry
officials to discuss provincial trends, and
possible implications for Douglas College.
At this point there is very little information
forthcoming regarding anticipated funding
levels.

Intra-College Communications

I have been continuing my meetings in
various parts of the College. Sometimes I
sit in on regularly scheduled meetings of
faculties or departments, and sometimes
we’ ve had more informal opportunities for
discussion of College concerns or broader
educational directions and issues. I have
also continued one-to-one meetings with
Roberta Bend, Education Council, and
Roslyn Dixon, DCFA, as well as the
regularly scheduled meetings of
constituency group leaders with the senior
management group.

Policy re: College Policies

The valuable work done by the
committee - with some editing by John
McKendry and me - has now gone to the
Education Council and to the Education
Committee of the Board, and should
appear on the December Board agenda
with the recommendations of those groups.

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participate in human resource development projects on the subcontinent and other parts of

Asia.

Her colleagues at Centre 2000 in Coquitlam have now also had a taste of what it’s like to

Intersession

Administration is discussing with
Ministry officials the feasibility of
providing some cost-recovery instruction
to defined niche markets during the
Intersession following the Winter
semester. If this appears worthy of
consideration we shall follow up with
development of some proposals.

Decentralization/Devolution

One of the principles being addressed
in the ongoing re-organization of College
administration has been that of
decentralization or devolution of
responsibility, authority and
accountability. Recently, a College
Management Forum (comprising the
Vice-Presidents and mid-managers
reporting to Vice-Presidents) discussed
the operational implications of these
concepts. Both specific examples of
procedures and more general principles
were discussed. Participants are following
up with some specific suggestions that
relate to their positions and areas of
responsibility.

College Management Forum

The next College Management Forum
is scheduled for December 11. This will
be an informal sharing of information
available at that time regarding budget
procedures for 1997-98, and the sharing
of assumptions and possible implications.
Constituency group leaders have been
invited to participate in that session as
well.

Lloyd Morin

 

work globally; they kept in touch with Knowles while she was gone by phone, fax and
e-mail. Now that a lot of those bugs have been worked out, Knowles will be able to jump
right back into things without missing a beat. Anyone who wants to keep in touch while
Knowles is away this winter can email her at: janetk @douglas.infolink.net.pk I