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THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

6328 MEMORIAL ROAD
Olek OF THE VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA
PRESIDENT V6T 283

June 16, 1986

Mc. William L. Day, President
Douglas College, Box 2503
New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5B2

Dear Mr. Day:

I am writing to inform you of actions taken recently by our
Senate and Board of Governors on the advice of the Faculty of
Arts.

New admissions to the Faculty of Arts are to be controlled
essentially at the current level. Demand for admission
surged in 1985/86 and it was felt necessary to prevent
further surges in order to ensure that we could effectively
serve those who are admitted. We also felt it important to
reserve places for college and university transfer students.
We have set limits of 1500 new admissions to first year, 450
to second year and 300 to third year. Thus of 2,250 places
for new students in Arts, 750 or fully one-third are saved
for transfer students.

The numbers of 450 and 300 represent a slight decrease in
second year transfers and a complementary increase in third
year transfers. We do wish to encourage the maintenance of
viable second year academic programs at. the colleges.
However, the split between second and third year transfers is
approximate, specifically to accommodate students whose
preferred second-year programs are not available at their
colleges.

At the same time our Faculty of Arts has made its own
promotion regulations more stringent to ensure that UBC
students advanced to second and third year are as able as
those admitted by transfer.

Demand for admission to UBC's Faculty of Arts next year may
equal, or it may exceed, the number of places we are planning
to provide. In any event, we have reserved a substantial
number of places for students transferring from colleges, and
good college students, like good secondary school students,
can be confident of admission.