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President’s Report To Douglas College Board - July 21, 1983

A. EXTERNAL MATTERS - MUNICIPAL

On June 29, I attended the regular meeting of
the Directors of the Downtown Businessmen's
Association in New Westminster. Increasing
interest is being shown in the implications
of TRANSPO '86 and in various alternative
strat2gies for the redevelopment of the
downtown core of the City. I expect that
proposals will be made soon regarding Douglas
College involvement in a number of these pro-
jects.

On th2 same day, I met with Mr. Doug Manning,
and Mr. Ken Winslade, of the City of New
Westminster, regarding the disposition of
Simcoe Park. I assured them that the Col-
lege's position was unchanged in regard to
the use of these lands, and that we were as
anxicus as the First Capital City Development
Compeny to resolve the continuing impasse re-
gard:ag the use of the designated five acres
on t'2 New Westminster waterfront. Mr. Man-
ning stated that every effort is being made
to secure the appropriate changes in legis-
lation that will allow the City to resolve
the matter.

B. EXTERNAL MATTERS - EDUCATION

On June 24, the Lower Mainland Chief Execu-
tive Officers met to compare the results of
thei five-year planning exercise.

It aspears that the effect of the various in-
stit:tional plans is to achieve something ap-
prox mating the Ministry's declared intention
- that is a proposed shift of overall re-
sources in the direction of occupational
training.

A common base of calculation has been agreed
to, and the institutions are now pooling
thei> overall figures onto a comparison grid
whic should be available during the next
two weeks.

On July 7, the heads of Capilano, Vancouver
Comnunity and Douglas Colleges met with mem-

 

bers of staffs to discuss a tele-college con-
sortium, which would involve the pooling of
our individual budgets presently used for
broadcasting non-credit programs over the
Knowledge Network into a "tele-college" co
operative venture.

It is apparent that additional funds would be
required to achieve such an organization, and
discussions are continuing on this matter.

If it proves to be a feasible enterprise, a
full assessment will be carried out, and a
recommendation will be made to the College
Board.

During the last two weeks of June, and the
first two weeks of July, a considerable a-
mount of work has been done in preparing doc-
umentation to support Douglas College ’s con-
tinued stance that we should continue to de-
velop a three-level Dental Auxiliary Program,
which will allow graduates to obtain licens-
ing as dental hygienist.

The staff work has been completed on this pro-
ject,.and formal support of the College of
Dental Surgeons has been obtained. I will be
visiting Ministry staff tomorrow to present
the documents.

On July 11, Dr. Fisher and his staff met with
the Chief Executive Officers of all the col-
leges and institutes of the Province, to dis-
cuss the current budget, provincial legisla-
tion, and financial aid. Documents and an-
alysis relating to these matters are already
current, and therefore I will not comment.

Of other general interest is the fact that
the $5 million addition to the colleges and
institutes budgets announced under Mr. Vander
Zalm's signature in May, apparently no long-
er exists. As a result, our submission to
the Ministry regarding that $5 million will
simply be viewed as our foundation thinking
for development in the area of technological
education.

It is significant that the general intention

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