President’s Report
Highlights - June

Douglas College President Bill Day
addressed the College Board meeting on
June 18. Following are some of the
highlights from that report.

= On June 9, the Douglas College Foun-
dation Annual General Meeting and
the annual "I Care" Dinner were held.
The Foundation now has close to $2
million dollars capitalization. The "I
Care" gathering was, as always, a great
success and was attended by
several Board members.

= The past six weeks have centered
around budget development and fiscal
fine tuning for this school year.

The assumptions upon which the Adminis-
tration and the Board have been acting
over the past nine months have proven
to be substantially accurate and, as a
result, the "action plan" (to cut costs and
reduce expenditures) approved by the
Board in principle in January has been
implemented. The good news is that as a
result of implementation of the action
plan, the Administration is able to recom-
mend to the Board not only a balanced
budget, but one in which most College
Departments will not feel untoward
pressure.

It must be pointed out that the two
Nursing Departments and Community
Programs and Services will be feeling a
great deal of pressure this year and next,
as these three sectors have borne the

largest burden in budget cuts. The full
effect of this will be felt next year, rather
than during current operations.

a Mr. Al Atkinson, Dean of Educational
and Student Services, has applied for
educational leave for the academic
year 1992-93. Mr. Atkinson’s leave has
been adjudicated by a committee of
his colleagues and has gained their sup-
port. I have granted Al leave commenc-
ing September 1, 1992 and finishing
August 30, 1993. We are calling im-
mediately for applications for the posi-
tion of Acting Dean of Educational and
Student Services.

u The Advanced Education Council of
B.C. has designated access to post-sec-
ondary education and governance as
the two primary issues for analysis
and advocacy during this activity year.
Bob Cowin, Director of Institutional
Research, has been asked to staff the
committee. A

Did you know?

Several groups in Ontario are advocating
the establishment of private universities
based on the American model. Propo-
nents argue the benefits would include:
more higher education options, different
higher eduation and "in a sense better"
higher education. To find out more, see
The Canadian Journal of Higher educa-
tion, Issue XXI-2 in the library. «A

 

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CP&S courses
ready to run at
new facilities

Community Programs and Services
courses will be offered this fall at new
Douglas College facilities at the Thomas
Haney Centre in Maple Ridge and the
Lincoln Centre in Coquitlam.

Many of the courses being offered at the
Thomas Haney Centre emphasize special-
ized social service and health training, in
courses such as Working in Integrated
Classrooms and Orientation to Commu-
nity Support. There will also be six
sections of preparation for General Equiva-
lency Development Testing - exams in
which mature students earn secondary
school equivalency - as well as several
general interest courses.

Director of Continuing Education Marga-
ret Mahan said the emphasis on
workplace-oriented courses will continue
at all Douglas College campuses in the
future.

"In general we will see more Continuing
Education certificates that serve retail,
transport, food services and the horticul-
tural/gardening sectors. There will also be
more work in community health and com-
munity-based social services for local
delivery agencies," said Mahan.

"We are also going to examine workplace-
based literacy training programs. We have
had several inquiries from employers
about this."

The temporary campus at Lincoln Centre
is presently offering 10 general interest
courses.

"In Coquitlam this fall we have a limited
presence because only two learning
spaces were available. However, we shall
spend time over the fall to make clear
determinations of the community needs
for career, vocational and professional
training which we hope to start offering
next January." A