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THE DOUGLAS COLLEGE NEWSLETTER Wf NOVEMBER 1995

 

 

Fiscal
tremors
headed
toward
College

he epicentre of the fiscal

earthquake may be in Ottawa, but

Douglas College will feel the
tremors soon.

When the anticipated $300 million cut
in the 1996 federal transfer payment hits
an already cash-strapped Victoria, what
happens to provincial funding for post-
secondary education? At this point it’s
unknown, because the cut could be spread
out over other key provincial spending
areas like social services and health.

But Victoria has already asked post-
secondary institutions to prepare for fiscal
aftershocks. The request came in
September in the form of a Ministry letter
asking Douglas College (and all other
colleges in the province) to prepare for
several scenarios, all of which involved
cuts to our operating grant.

The question: how would we deal with
a cut of: 2 percent, 5 percent, or 10
percent? Unfortunately, the question is
not hypothetical, says College Bursar Peter
Greenwood.

“We have been asked to provide an
action plan detailing how we would
respond to those kinds of cuts. The
College Board is disturbed with
responding to multiple scenarios - we did
this in the early 1980’s and
disenfranchised many of our existing

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Top Girls

 

 

 

 

 

Yolanda Buchan plays the lead role of Marlene in the Douglas College
Theatre Department’s upcoming production of Top Girls. The play follows
a woman's rise through the management ranks of an employment agency in
Margaret Thatcher’s England in the 1980’s, and the price that she pays to
get to the top. Top Girls runs November 10-12 and 14-18 at Spm, with a
2pm matinee on November 18. For information and tickets, call 527-5488.
See story on page 6.