INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE /AUGUST 21, 1990

 

 

President’s Report: Internal
Matters — Education

our Ministry, to discuss the
development of a Matching
Capital Program for colleges that
would parallel that presently
provided to universities. I am
optimistic that a plan will be
developed and approved during
this year.

On July 5, the formal Douglas
Three-Year Plan was tabled with a
Board sub-committee, and
reviewed in detail. Advice
received from the College Educa-
tion Committee had been incor-
porated.

Myrna Popove, our Board
Chairman, met with myself, Peter
Webster of the Douglas College
Foundation and Mark Crozet,
Director of Resource Develop-
ment, to discuss regional com-
munity relationships, and Douglas
College development.

Three weeks ago I received a
monograph from the Health Scien-

ces Department, relating to the im-
plications of a Bachelors Degree
minimum entry requirement for
practice as a Registered Nurse.
This proposal calls for the termina-
tion of Diploma Programs for nur-
ses and replacement with
Bachelors Degree Programs by the
year 2000. This monograph has
been forwarded to the Board for
their informal review. I have
developed an accompanying com-
mentary to the proposal, outlining
some of the constituencies and is-
sues that must be dealt with, if
such a scheme were to be imple-
mented.

Internal Matters — General

Mr. Stewart Graham is in the
final stages of completing the
Douglas College History. He has
recently met with myself and Bar-
bara Bessey, Hank Naylor, Jack Fin-
nbogason of Kwantlen College,
and a number of other "old timers”
to do detailed checks on the work

 

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done to date. It is likely that the
history will be available for dis-
tribution before the wind-up of
our 20th Anniversary Celebrations
this Fall.

On June 27, the administrative
personnel of the College par-
ticipated in a Workshop on the
DCFA Agreement, and its implica-
tions for operations over the next
academic year.

On June 28, Fei Huang, of the
Wuhan Adult Education Institute,
met with Jim Doerr and myself,
and thereafter has met with a num-
ber of College personnel. Jim has
made arrangements for Fei to
meet with people working at VCC
City Centre Campus (VVI). She
has been participating in the week-
ly informal meetings of senior ad-
ministration and staff, and talking
to personnel throughout the Col-
lege.

On July 13, Pam Burry,
Adrienne Peacock, Peter Green-
wood and I met to discuss some
current problems revolving
around the implementation of the
faculty 78:22 ratio. It was a produc-
tive meeting, which resulted in ar-
rangements of the Fall which
enable a number of faculty re-
quests to be dealt with. There will
be a review of current activity, fol-
lowing which we can plan the
Spring operations for 1991 witha
clearer understanding of implica-
tions.

Wilda Nonewicz and Barb
Offen of the BCGEU met with
Peter Greenwood and I on July 16,
to have informal discussions
regarding enabling staff members
to participate more fully in Col-
lege-mandated consultative and
committee activities. Asa result of
this meeting, Peter Greenwood
will be drafting up some proposed
guidelines that will address the
BCGEU concerns. We hope to
have these clarified and made
operational in September.

W.L. Day

 

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