THE MAD HATTER

A Douglas College Newsletter
published weekly during the spring
and fall semesters, bi-monthly in
the summer semester

by
Douglas College Technical
and Vocational Institute
P.O. Box 2503, New Westminster, B.C.

Editor: Judie Steeves, Surrey Campus
Telephone: 588-4411, Local 283

 

 

 

MS. ED'S NOTES

Happy summer! This also means the Mad Hatter
will be published every 2 weeks until fall,
instead of every week. The deadline for sub-
mission is Thursday noon, before Monday pub-
lication...Must be typed on standard 8 1/2" x
11" paper (left or right side).

Now I'd like to introduce Cornerstone Planning
Group: Jay Bancroft, Simon Richards, and Dave
Whetter. Cornerstone is a group of facility
programmers and social planners who have been
working with Hank Naylor at Douglas since May
of 1977 on planning for a permanent N.W. campus.
Here are some notes from Cornerstone to bring
you up to date:

The active process of planning the proposed

New Westminster Permanent Campus has been
underway since 1977. A point is being approach-
ed where the architects can begin their initial
design studies.

The planning process has gone through several
stages during this time:

- several submissions to the Ministry of
Education have been made concerning the
regional delivery of Douglas College
services and approval in principle was
granted to the Douglas proposal in April,
1978.

- submissions to the Ministry of Education
concerning the Education Plan for the
New Westminster campus have been made and
approval in principle was granted in Jan.,
1978 for a first stage of development
for 3500 FTE students.

 

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- a preliminary program of space requirements
for the New Westminster campus was produced
in August, 1977 as the first ball-park
estimate of facilities, in consultation
with ad hoc instructional representatives,
services and administration groups.

- an updated preliminary program of space
requirements for the New West. campus was
submitted to the Ministry in March, 1978.
This was made at Ministry request, and was
a companion with the Langara Campus of VCC-
the closest equivalent to the size for the

N.W. Campus.

This has been the basis for a preliminary
approach to Treasury Board for a capital
funds commitment based on total floor area.
The College is currently waiting for confirm-
ation of this funding.

- during this time, extensive studies and
negotiations have taken place regarding the
downtown New Westminster site as an alterna-
tive to the Queen's Park site. A final
resolution of the site issue is expected
by the end of May.

Y The remaining stages of the planning —

as currently envisaged will be characteri

by active user group (people chosen by their
division or component to represent their
interests re their facility requirements)
involvement which will continue during the
detailed requirements programming stage and

the architectural design phase. User groups
have been formed for most of: the components

of the New Westminster campus and the remaining

groups are expected to be constituted by the
end of May. .

This phase of the programming ends about
mid-June. A detailed space requirement
programming process will resume in September.

 

NOTICE

 

Wed., May 24 & Thurs. May 25 for divis

Douglas College Libraries will be close
@
development days.

David Williams