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This activity has -born fruit. As
a direct result of these efforts,
some 15 student jobs have been created
over the past two summers, and our
range of community contacts has
expanded to the point where we are
getting great support in such
activities as the College Foundation
and in applications to Federal and
Provincial Governments for special
Funding.

The College has become recognized
by both the Ministry of Education
and the Ministry of Industry and
Small Business as one of a few schools
in the Province that are working
systematically on the creation of
formal curricula in the field of
entrepreneurship. We have received
two major grants over the past year,
which have allowed Al Atkinson's
Student Services and Developmental
Fducation Department, and latterly
Jim Sator's department of Commerce
and Business Administration, to get
involved in systematic curriculum
development.

The latest contract, which has just
been announced, came from the Ministry
of Industry and Small Business, via
the Business Educators Association
of BoC. Pies; ii think, is an
indication of the respect in which
our peers are holding us as well
as the support of the provincial
government.

On the community front, the college
is now involved in New Westminster
and in Coquitlam, in the development
of economic strategies at the municipal
level. Aside from the jobs’ that
have spun off for students, it has

placed us in an enviable position of
easy communication with members of
the business community.

This relationship has in turn given
us excellent support for our efforts
in the area of cooperative education,
and was of great assistance in obtaining
for us a very substantial grant that
will allow us to field an Enterprise
Development Centre this year. This
centre is expressly aimed at the general
public - a contribution to the community,
as it were, and is intended to provide
assistance to members of the general
public who wish to learn the things
they need to know in conceptualizing
and planning a business to the point
of searching for finance.

It is important to note that these
activities will not create pressure
on the Douglas College budget, as we
have been funded for these externally,
and in fact, the management and operation
of the centre is the responsibility
of a community based board of directors
and an external administration.

Once more, the College will be acting
as a social partner, and levering its
resources out into the community, to
address commonly felt needs. The linkage
with the Enterprise Development Centre,
is through Jim Doerr, Dean of Community
Programs and Services who is acting
as the interim president of the Board
of Directors of the Douglas Centre
for Enterprise Development. Lt - will
interest you to know that on the Board
of Directors are represented the city
government, a banking official, a major
real estate developer, several small
business owners, the Douglas College
Board, and the New Westminster and
District Labour Council. Two of the