INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / NOVEMBER 27, 1990

® Douglas College Completes Its First Comprehensive Review

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he Unit Review System forms the heart of the
Douglas College system of program and service
evaluation. This self-study system was in-
itiated in 1989, and is staffed by the Office of Institu-
tional Research and Development. Unlike a review
by an external team, this system is based within the
College and the core membership of the review com-
mittee consists of some people from the unit under
review. The intent of unit reviews is to promote
ownership by the people who will implement chan-
ges, and who will live with their consequences.
There are three levels of review in this system:
® the basic level or Status Review
® the intermediate level or Achievements Review
® the most thorough or Comprehensive Review.

During the last year six programs or services
have been reviewed. These reviews are either com-
pleted or close to completion. These are:

Visual Language Interpreter Training
Comprehensive
Developmental Studies - Maple Ridge

Academic Division Administration
Comprehensive

Print Shop
Achievement

History
Status

Part-Time Programs in Social Services
and Allied Health
Status

During this academic year eight additional
reviews are planned.

The Visual Language Interpreter Training pro-
gram is the first program in the College to have been
the subject of a comprehensive review. The College is
grateful to the following individuals who committed
time and energy to this review:

Committee Chairperson

Eugene Hrushowy

Faculty, Child & Youth Care Counsellor Program
External Members
Karen Malcolm

Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Donna Scoular
Deaf Community Representative

Eileen Edgar
Jericho Hill School for the Deaf

Rob Robertson
Freelance Interpreter

Dale Rusnell
Evaluation Consultant
Douglas College Members
Dottie Rundles
Coordinator, Visual Language Interpreter Training
Program
Gladys Loewen
Adult Special Education Counsellor, Division of
Student Services and Developmental Education
Ex Officio Members
Beverley Miller
Director, Department of Social Services and Allied
Health, Douglas College

Bob Cowin
Office of Institutional Research and Development,
Douglas College

Although this Committee directed the work of
the review, a large number of stakeholders were con-
sulted. These included the Deaf community, instruc-
tors, former students, working interpreters,
practicum site supervisors, institutions with related
programs and representatives of the Ministry of Ad-
vanced Education, Training and Technology.

An Executive Summary of the final Report was
tabled at the September 4th meeting of the College
Management Committee. The report will be tabled
also with the Department Education Committee and
subsequently referred to the new College Education
Council and then the Education and Services Subcom-
mittee of the College Board. The Dean of Applied
Programs will have a period of three months from the
date of first tabling with College Management, to
report to the Education and Services Subcommittee
on actions taken or intended as a result of the review
process. The entire report of the Unit Review is avail-
able from the Office of Institutional Research and
Development.

The following is the report submitted to Manage-
ment Committee on 4 September 1990.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This is the Final Report of the Visual Language In-
terpreter Training Program, one of 10 programs of-
fered by the Department of Social Services and Allied
Health. The Comprehensive Review was completed
between October 1989 and May 1990 by a committee
of ten people, including five from within Douglas Col-
lege and five external members.

Description of the Unit

The VLIT program is relatively new at Douglas
College; it was first offered in January, 1988.

As a new program it experienced a number of

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