Events Calendar September 20-21 The Library and Student Services annual Open House. Food, games, prizes. Learn how the Library, Student Employment, Learning Centre, Financial Aid, Career Resource Centre, Counselling, Centre for Students with Disabilities, First Nations, Peer Support and the Women’s Centre can help students stay afloat. New Wesminster Wed Sept 20 - 10am to 3pm David Lam Campus Thur Sept 21 - 9:30am to 3pm September 27 and October 4 The Douglas College Alumni Association will be holding its first annual Vendor Fair this fall. The dates and times for the fair are Wednesday, September 27th at the David Lam Campus in the Atrium and Wednesday, October 4th at the New Westminster campus in the Concourse. The fair will take place from 9-4 on both days. Money raised from this event will go to bursaries and awards that will help students attain their academic goals. November 17 The atrium at David Lam will be the setting for this year’s A Class Act, a wine and scotch tasting evening that raises money for HORM, Athletics and the Dispensing Optician programs and well as general bursaries. Hosted by the Douglas College Foundation, the 9th annual A Class Act aims to raise $30,000 with your help. We encourage you to invite your friends and neighbors to attend on Friday, Noy. 17 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. when they will be treated to wine and scotch tastings, gourmet appetizers prepared by the chef of SFU’s Diamond Club and served by our HORM students. Exciting raffles and draws and a live auction round out the evening. Tickets are $55 each and can be ordered by calling Sarah Jenkins at 777-6176. October 19 Meet & Mingle with the New Westminster Business Community Douglas College Co-operative Education and the Foundation are co-hosting a free networking event with the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Oct. 19 from 5 to 7pm on the 4th floor concourse. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Dana or Zebeen at 604-527-5608 or 604-527-5769 by Oct. 5. This is a great opportunity to meet and mingle with business people from New Westminster. Grand Slam It was a grand slam homerun for the hundreds of kids that participated in the 12th Annual Douglas College Summer Camps. Run by Douglas College Head Coach Gehrig Merritt this year’s camp featured computer, baseball, volleyball and soccer. “This week was something special,” said Merritt. “The kids provided so much energy and enthusiasm; it made it an enjoyable week for everyone.” After a successful spring pilot program, the Young Urban Planners camp — or as they like to be known as YUP’ pies — exploded with young budding engineers. This new computer camp allowed participants to create, manage and administer their own cities. Using a popular simulation software, YUP’ pies provided the campers with an opportunity to become a ‘Mayor for a week and use Summer! their creative, engineering and political talents. “T had so much fun this week,” said nine- year-old Vivian who was part of the pilot program during the Spring Break camps. “Sometimes the citizens of my city were asking for things we couldnt’ afford right away because we needed more important things like schools and hospitals,” she said “Tt has been fantastic,” said Dale L., who had enrolled his son Chad in the new Baseball camp. “He has learned so much this week and the coaching has been tremendous... even I picked up a few drills for my little league team.” This year, volleyball and soccer camps were introduced to the Coquitlam community under the direction of Volleyball BC Club Coach, Dave Maclean. He helped to co-create Douglas College’s first high performance volleyball program called Achieve Volleyball Super camp. “The Achieve volleyball camp was a great program,” said lead instructor and Canadian National Youth Team Assistant Coach, James Sneddon. “It was an excellent opportunity for elite athletes to develop their skills and to prepare them for provincial teams, college, university and beyond.” “We are really excited about the potential of this program and look forward to next year’s camp” said Dave MacLean. NSSD’s Alistair Browne, soccer made a grand return to Coquitlam and New Westminster communities as over 50 kids participated in the Douglas World Cup Soccer camp. Working closely with National and Provincial programs, Browne brought a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the future soccer stars. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Douglas College As part of its work with the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) and its partnership with one of the continent's most dynamic post- secondary organizations, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Douglas College has recently been accepted into a new CASTL Leadership Program exploring liberal education. Douglas College is one of only a few Canadian institutions involved in the CASTL Program, including Ryerson, UBC, Queens, University of Alberta, and Malaspina. Douglas College will work in a cluster with the following institutions to explore ways of engaging our students in a rich and robust learning experience based on liberal education: Carleton College (the coordinating institution for the group), Wabash College, the City College of San Francisco, Eastern Michigan University, San Jose State University, the University of Charleston, and the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. Employees from Douglas are invited to take part in a special Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project being launched on September 27th. The project, designed to respect participants’ limited time, will involve monthly meetings during the 4th Wednesday meeting block of each month. A special working session with Richard Gale, Director of the CASTL Institutional Leadership Program has been organized for February 13, 2007. Participants will collaborate with each other and the Project organizers to: identify a tightly- focussed, researchable question about teaching and learning at Douglas; investigate appropriate research methodologies, data gathering instruments, and evaluation measures to examine that question; and make public the results of the study through Departmental, College or conference presentations, published articles or other means that each participant deems appropriate. Who might be interested? People who are asking questions like: How do I know what my students are learning? How does my instruction influence students intellectual and personal development? How can I engage in teaching-based scholarly activity? How can I further develop my research skills? Where can I find a cohort experience Jor completing the post-probationary faculty evaluation? Interested College employees can find more information about the Project by calling Douglas Development at 5411 or by emailing douglasdevelopment@ douglas.be.ca. “This is what I love to do,” said Browne. “I work with over 2000 kids throughout the year all over the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island and it doesn’t get any better than this.” Browne was not the only one enthusiastic about the soccer camps — so were the campers. “The coaches were absolutely great and my son couldn't wait to get to camp everyday,” said Valerie G. who enrolled her son, Brandon in this year’s camp. Story by Brian McLennon Remember: Roll Up Your Sleeves Meg Stainsby of the English Department has signed Douglas College up in the Canadian Blood Services’ Partners for Life Program. ‘The Partners for Life program takes a team approach with Canadian Blood Services (CBS) keeps a running tally of donations from each registered organization. The College sets its annual target based on the size of the organization. Over the course of the Fall semester, Stainsby and Gonzales want to encourage at least thirty College employees to give blood. These can be first-timers or old-timers. All you have to do is remember to identify yourself as a Douglas College employee when donating, to make sure your unit of blood “counts.” You can also get a group of 4-10 co-workers together to donate on the same day. Have a team member call Stainsby at local 5290 to arrange an appointment and transportation for your group to Jamieson Court. The first available clinic date for this shuttle service in New West is November 30th. If you have a group able to commit to this date, please call Stainsby as soon as possible. Grand and Toy Purchasing Program The College is participating in a new purchasing program with Grand & Toy (G&T) for general office supplies, in conjunction with the BC Education Cooperative Purchasing Group. This fall, office supplies for College internal users (faculty and staff) will be available for order on-line through the G&T web catalogue. The Bookstore will continue to carry a selection of stationary supplies tailored to student needs. This change will help the Bookstore focus on better serving the students with textbooks, coursepacks, and other course required materials. Some emergency office supplies for faculty and staff will still be available at the Bookstore. Specialty and hard-to-find items can be requisitioned as usual through the Purchasing Department.