INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / August 6, 1991

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCT manager Paul Czesak (standing left) demonstrates the new
Student Information System to registration staffers Debbie
Crowley (left) and Carmen Mahood. Also observing are Marsh
Price, Bev Baldwin, Al Atkinson and Patricia Angus.

 

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more time to react to course needs
and more time to fill or juggle
courses."

The new systems also offer
greater accessibility. Individual
departments will use their own ter-
minals to directly access student
data to aid in program planning
and marketing. The systems can
also allow students to obtain
grades or update information such
as address and phone number,
automatically by phone.

 

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According to Angus, staff will
not find it hard to learn how to use
the systems — those attending a
recent seminar picked it up in two
days — and Carole Nelson of Sys-
tems and Computing will assist in
training.

Angus said she will also inves-
tigate the need to aid students
who may have difficulty using a
tele-registering system, such as
some Basic Occupational Educa-
tion students or the visually
impaired. Hi

Faculty will
not renegotiate

e Douglas College Faculty

Association will not
renegotiate its contract, despite
an order by Compensation Fair-
ness Commissioner Ed Lien.

Lien rejected a new contract
worked out between faculty and
Douglas College last April be-
cause the settlement’s wage
increase of 7.1 percent exceeded
Victoria’s guidelines of 4.89 per-
cent. Lien’s ruling and an order
to renegotiate came despite
Douglas College’s assurance that
it could afford the increase.

Pam Burry, Past-President of
the Faculty Association, said the
contract was fair and reasonable.
“To have it negated by such in-
credible legislation is difficult to
believe and extremely alarming.”

Except to say it will not
renegotiate, the DCFA executive
has not announced its next step
and may wait until after the
provincial election before making
the decision.

Meanwhile, Douglas College
Director of Labour Relations and
Personnel Peter Sanderson said
management would ask Lien to
permit payment of an interim
pay package that falls within the
guidelines, until the matter is
resolved.

 

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