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Highlights

To encourage wider awareness of the
Education Council and the issues it deals
with, INside will report regularly on
meeting highlights. Full meeting minutes
are posted monthly outside the Library,
and Council Chair Roberta Bend can be
reached for more information at local
5384.

Chair Roberta Bend reported that she
attended conferences of the Association
of Canadian Community Colleges
(ACCC) and the Advanced Education
Council of B.C. (AECBC). Those
interested in the range of information
gathered at these meetings may contact
her directly. For anyone interested, the
submission deadline for papers to the
1997 ACCC Annual Conference 1s
September 27, 1996.

Vice Chair Bill Main congratulated
Roberta Bend on being elected
Provincial Chair of Educational Council
Chairs.

As Bill Main will start educational
leave in September, Sandra Hochstein
was nominated and elected by
acclamation to fill the Vice Chair
position. Mia Stainsby from Language,
Literature and Performing Arts will
replace Bill on the Council.

After some discussion, a motion to
approve in principle the Police Science
Studies Program was carried. The
Diploma Program in Tourism and Hotel
Management, scheduled to begin in
September 1996, was also approved.

Trish Angus reported that Douglas
College will officially recognize
associate degrees on students’ transcripts

Yvonne Mostert was successful in persuading well-known “Man-in-

Motion”, advocate for people with disabilities and motivational speaker
Rick Hansen to make the graduation address at this spring’s June 13
ceremonies. Hansen also took the time to visit Athletics Instructor Tim
Frick, a key player in Hansen's wheelchair basketball and world-tour
career.

The Faculty of Health Sciences

invites friends, students and colleagues
of Jan Farrell of the General Nursing

and diplomas as of January 1997.

Several questions arose from
discussion of the B.C. Open University
Concept Paper; further discussion was
deferred until the September Education
Council meeting. Also deferred to the
September meeting were a presentation
on Technological Requirments
assessment and discussion of the
Douglas College Educational
Technology Plan. |

Program, Jan Greenhow of the Resident
Care Attendant Program, Betty Nelso
of the Health Information Services ©
Program to

come say farewell

on Monday, September 16, 1996
3:00pm to 5:00pm
in the Douglas Room

 

No-host bar

Please call Kathy Danbert at local 5077 for more
information