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President’s Report toCollege Board

March 17, 1983

A. EXTERNAL MATTERS - MUNICIPAL

In recognition of the visit of Queen Eliza-
beth to New Westminster, the New Westminster
City Council has created a scholarship com-
memorating the Royal Visit for a student
attending Douglas College. The College and
representatives of the city are meeting to
establish the criteria for this scholarship.

B. EXTERNAL MATTERS - EDUCATIONAL

On February 18, the College was host to the
Provincial Anthropology - Sociology Articula-
tion Committee, representing all colleges

and provincial universities.

On March 1, Gordon Gilgan and I met with Dr.
Roy Thordarson of the College of Dental Sur-
gions to discuss further the aspirations of
Douglas College and the College of Dental
Surgeons regarding the offering of Level III
Dental Auxiliary (Dental Hygienist) training.
Agreement was reached regarding continued
efforts in this direction.

On March 2, Gordon Gilgan, Andy Andrews and

I met with the District Superintendent of
Schools in New Westminster regarding the pos-
sibility of joint programming between the
College and the School District in basic vo-
cational preparation (TRAC). I had a similar
meeting with Mr. Ted Killough, the District's
Superintendent of Schools, Maple Ridge, to-
day. I expect to have meetings with the
superintendents of Coquitlam and Burnaby
School Districts in due course.

On March 3, I met with Mr. Frank Beinder of
the B.C.A.C. and Diane Morrison of the Min-
‘istry of Education regarding planning a prov-
incial in-service training program for mid-
management personnel in community colleges.
This meeting was on behalf of the Council of

Principals.

On the same day, the College played host to
the Adult Special Education Conference, in-
volving over 250 persons from around the

province. This conference was organized by
College personnel on behalf of the Ministry

 

 

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of Education. Apparently it was an out-
standing success.

On March 4, the Deans and Directors of Con-
tinuing Education met at the College to dis-
cuss common problems in the field of Commun-
ity Education throughout the province. I
represented the Council of Principals at
this meeting.

On March 7, I met with Jo Mitchell of the
Canada Employment and Immigration Commis-
sion, to explore possibilities of vocation-
al training on behalf of special groups.
Ms. Mitchell has paid another visit to the
College today, and met with members of the
College administration and staff to further
explore possibilities in this direction.

On March 8, the Kwantlen College Board had
an informal tour of the facilities. Mrs.
Casher represented the Douglas College Board
at this event.

On March
Planning
College,
progress
plans of
tions.

On March 16, the College hosted a visit of
Fraser Valley College staff, who spent the
day touring the facilities, and having meet-
ings with their “opposite numbers," exchang-
ing ideas and information on operations in
their respective departments.

11, the Lower Mainland Co-operative
Group had its meeting at Douglas

and shared specifics regarding the
made to date on five-year strategic
the various Lower Mainland institu-

 

C. INTERNAL MATTERS - EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

In late February, I discussed in some de-
tail the College's current status and future
prospects with Dr. Grant Fisher, Associate
Deputy Minister, Post-Secondary, and Mr.
Lorne Thompson, Executive Director of Pro-
gram Services. The meeting was most helpful
from my point of view and is likely to be
repeated by future informal discussions over)
the next few months. Work on the Five-Year
(Strategic) Plan for the College is pro-
ceeding at a satisfactory rate of speed.

This work has included meetings every Tues-
day afternoon by the Deans, Bursar and my-_ |
self, together with Mr. Ed Redmond as staff |
person; meetings with Dr. Fisher and Mr. |
ee