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The Douglas College Newsletter m New Westminster Campus, David Lam Campus

 

August 2005

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Ask Jan Carrie what's
helped her 20-year
academic career flourish

and she doesn’t hesitate.

“T couldn't do it without
the family,” says Carrie.

From her start as a
sessional instructor,
through her growth

as an educator and
administrator and right
up to the present, Carrie
has been sustained by
her husband and two
daughters. Family is

important.

Now as the new Douglas
College Dean of the
Faculty of Child, Family
and Community Studies,
Carrie has a whole

new family. And the
approach she plans to
take is consistent with her
philosophy as an expert
educator in Human
Development.

“I think I bring a
leadership style of
collaborating and building
on what's really working,”
says Carrie. “I can bring
the experience of having
worked with degree
programs, which I think
will be valuable as we
move towards getting
degrees for programs like

Therapeutic Recreation.

“Douglas College has such

a great reputation and the

Workers take great panes to fix the roof of the concourse at the New
Westminster Campus. The repairs are slated to be complete by

arrie joins

programs are so great that
we should just build on
them and move forward
with new initiatives that

arise.”

Carrie was

born and raised
in Northern
California, near
the Oregon
border. She
earned a Bachelor
of Arts in Child
Development

at California
State University
(Chico), then
went on to
Pacific Oakes
College in
Pasadena, where
she received her
Masters Degree
in Human

Development

After she
“married a
Canadian,”
Carrie moved
north to
Vancouver in
the early 1980s.
She had her
first experience

at Douglas

College working Jan Carrie: New Dean of the Faculty of Child, Family and Community
Services takes collaborative approach.

as contract
faculty before
moving on to
Red River College in
Manitoba. In 1989, she
went to Camosun College

in Victoria, where she

 

August 29 — if the weather cooperates.

taught early childhood,
chaired programs and
was acting dean. Through

that experience, she

managed to secure a job
g
with Kwantlen University

College as Associate Dean

ollege family

At first, however, she

didn't know exactly what

she wanted to do.

“T have always wanted to

 

work with children, but |
didn't know what aspect of
childcare I wanted to go

into,” says Carrie. “Then |

took a Child Development
course and from then on,
I knew what I wanted to

do.”

As a grad student,
she discovered she
loved teaching
student teachers
and new students
coming into

the program. A
career in child
development

gave her the
opportunity to
teach and learn
from both children

and adults.

Since then, Carrie
hasn't looked
back, working

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in a variety of
settings: pre-school
daycare, hospitals
and special needs

facilities.

Carrie is excited
about coming to
Douglas because
“it’s one of the
few colleges where
there’s a cluster of
programs dealing
with human
services. The
College has a great
reputation and the
programs within
the division all have great

reputations.”

Jan Lindsay, Vice

President, Education, is

delighted to have Carrie
join the Douglas College

community.

“Through her extensive
experience Jan brings with
her a wide range of skills,
experience and vision
related to Human Services
diploma and degree

programs,” said Lindsay.

Carrie’s husband is

a businessman and

their two daughters

are distinguishing
themselves academically
and athletically. Her
eldest daughter has just
graduated from UBC with
a degree in microbiology
and her youngest is going
to a Californian university
ona full basketball

scholarship.

Her eldest daughter also
has a special connection
to Douglas College — as
a toddler, she was one of
the first children in the
College daycare while
Carrie was a sessional
instructor. Mother and
daughter have come a
long way together, along
with the rest of the Carrie
family. And now a whole

new challenge awaits.

“Tt takes a lot of extra
hours at work and it’s so
important to have the
support of those you love

around you,” says Carrie.

Summer inventory Library closures

During the upcoming
Summer Inventory both
campus libraries will
experience brief closures.
To reduce the impact on
the College community,
one campus library will

remain open at all times.

New Westminster campus
Library will be closed
August 15-23. The David
Lam campus Library

will be closed August
24-26. The print and AV

collection housed at the
closed campus will not be
available for borrowing

during inventory.

Both Libraries will be
open August 29. Please
check the Library Web
site for hours of operation
at http://library.douglas.

be.ca/ hours_summer.html
‘To pre-book library
sessions, audiovisual

materials/equipment or to

place materials on reserve
during our closures, please
contact the open library.
From August

15 — 23, call David Lam
at 604-777-6100. From
August 24 — 26, call New
Westminster at
604-527-5467. Please
remember to return

all Library materials
borrowed during the
summer semester by

August 13.

 

Quote of the Month

“Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

Henry James