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Inter Office Memo Date: __November 20, 1986.

 

To: DOUGLAS COLLEGE BOARD

 

From: __W. L- DAY

Re: PRESIDENT'S REPORT

 

A. External Matters - Municipal

 

Over the past three years, the College has assisted with efforts
to coordinate and encourage economic redevelopment in New Westminster.
This evening is the first full meeting of the Executive Committee
of the New Westminster Economic Development Association which is
the successor to the Royal City Community Development Association.
This Association is now fully independent and free of any need to
depend on College services. This is an excellent example of community
development. The Executive Committee has expressed the gratitude
they feel toward the College for enabling the Association to come
into being. It is viewed in certain quarters around the province
as a model of co-operative effort involving labour, management,
municipal, provincial, and federal governments, as well as social

ro) service agencies.

On November 18th, I was asked to pinch-hit at the Burnaby Chamber
of Commerce for Jack Munro, who was otherwise engaged. I told them
about a system that does seem to be working, the community colleges
of the province.

B. External - Educational Matters

 

We had a visit on October 17th from a team of people from the Wuhan
Adult Education Institute, Wuhan, China. We exchanged a lot of
mutually beneficial information on adult education and found that
the needs in Wuhan are very similar to those that we have been
struggling with here.

On November 6th, I was a member of an ACCC team who spoke with The
Hon. Benoit Bouchard, Minister of Manpower and Immigration, to talk
about the Canadian Jobs Strategy and how it is working at the
Municipal level. The Hon. Benoit Bouchard is concerned with how
certain aspects of the Canadian Jobs Strategy are not working. I
think all of us felt very satisfied that we had received a fair
hearing. He has promised that there will be a national consultation
in February or March directly involving the colleges across the

© country. He does intend to invite in business, and labour as well,
to look at working out problems in that area.