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The Douglas College Newsletter

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New Westminster Campus looking up

The New Westminster Campus is adding some higher
education.

Douglas College's New Westminster Campus will grow
higher by 2004 with the addition of fifth and sixth floors
to a portion of the building’s North Wing. This expansion
was one of 12 public post-secondary education capital
projects announced in September by the BC Ministry of
Advanced Education.

“The New Westminster campus has been over-crowded
for years, so this is great news!” said Douglas College
President Susan Witter. “The expansion and the existing
spaces it will free up will allow us to better serve the

educational needs of the community. I am pleased to
thank the many people around Douglas College who are
working to help make it a reality.”

The 2,260 sq. metre expansion will feature a new
Learning Technology Centre, consolidating most campus
computer labs into eight 40-seat rooms. The area will also
feature two seminar rooms, two breakout rooms, technical
facilities and bookable faculty offices. The expansion will
create space for about 750 additional full-time equivalent
students, and is budgeted at about $5.3 million. In
addition, existing labs and facilities freed up by the
changes will be reallocated for other uses, with the .
emphasis on learning spaces.

    

“When computer labs are moved to the Sth and 6th floors

we'll be able to create some general purpose classrooms

and address dedicated-learning needs such as the new

Bachelor of Nursing Degree Program which we hope will
be approved in the next year,” said Witter.

The planned expansion, which will be built over a
portion of the Royal Avenue side of the north building,

had been postponed when the provincial government
announced its capital freeze in September, 2001. The next
steps include the development of working drawings and

tendering so that a building contractor can be chosen.
Construction is slated to begin in Spring, 2003, with the
new facilities being operational by Fall, 2004.

 

Learning lessons in the orphanage

 

Coaching instructor Alison Gill gained new perspectives after a month

working with orphans in Romania.

College holds fifth recognition

dinner on October 25

The fifth annual

Recognition Reception

employees will also be
honoured. The 2002
and Retirement Dinner Awards of Educational
will be held October
25, 2002. This year,

58 employees will be

Excellence will also be
presented during the
recognition reception.
recognized for 15, 20,
25 and 30 years of

service. Sixteen retired

The Recognition
Reception will be held in
the main cafeteria of the

 

Coaching instructor Alison
Gill has fallen in love with

teaching all over again.

After hearing Stephen
Lewis’ inspirational keynote
address at the College's
professional development
day, Gill decided to
volunteer her time through
World Vision, working in

an orphange in Romania.

“Tt was an experience that
has challenged my beliefs,
made me re-think my
priorities and allowed me
to fall in love with my
profession as a teacher all
over again,” says Gill.

Gill and five other
volunteers were chosen for
the trip to Craiova,
Romania, where they
worked in an orphange
that was home to 90
children ranging from
newborns to four-year olds.
Gill worked in the toddler

room for one month,

New Westminster
Campus from 4:30-
playing with and caring for
25 children.

6pm. The Retirement
Reception and Dinner
will follow, beginning

“As a teacher it broke my

at 6pm. For more heart to see these children

information, please fight for survival due to

contact Kris Remmem

at 604-527-5339.

their inability to trust and
their huge motor

development delays,” she
says. “And, as educated
professionals often do, I
went in armed witha
soapbox under one arm
and a map for change in
the other. World Vision
staff were quick to orient us
to the fact that the
problems run deep, but
the obstacles to change run
even deeper. After a couple
of days working in the
orphanage, I became armed
with compassion and
respect for a group of
caregivers that make less
each month than my
newspaper carrier, but have
an inner strength that I
could only dream of. I had
a changed vision. I went
away asking myself, who
am I to judge?

“This semester when I face
a challenge I will remember
something one of my
Romanian friends said: ‘If
you puta pail undera
dripping faucet, eventually
it will amount to
something.”

For more information on
Gill’s experience, call her at

604-777-6029.

 

News from
the College
Board

The College Board
would like to say
thank you and
farewell to Edward
Inoue and Catherine
Willems, both
student
representatives, who
completed their
terms of office on
August 31 (Edward
served for one year
and Catherine for
two years) and to
Janet Allwork,
former Education
Council Chair who
served three years as
an ex-officio Board
member.

Welcome to their
replacements Trevor
Tombe and Carly
Turner, student
representatives, and
to Education Council
Chair Penny Swanson.

 

Quote of the Month

“Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.”

First Nations Proverb