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President’s Report Highlights -

December

In early December, Bill Day
participated as part of the Joint Project
Steering Committee assessing and
continuing negotiations for the Canada-
India Institutional Cooperating Project in
Bangalore, India. This ACCC-managed
project is a large international project
worth in excess of $20 million. Bill was
also honored to be asked to be a Canadian
delegate to the OECD Conference in
Paris, France on “Learning Beyond
Schooling - Matching Supply with New
Demands”.

The College and the education
community was saddened with the death
of Dr. Frank Beinder on December |. A
friend of Douglas College and personal
friend of many of us who work here,
Frank was the first Executive Director of
the B.C. Association of Colleges - the
forerunner to the AECBC. Known
throughout B.C. as “Mr. College’, Frank
was an outspoken proponent in the early
60’s for establishing community colleges
to provide “life chances for people”’.

On December 13, the senior
management team held a lengthy budget
meeting in preparation for the 1995/96
fiscal year. All indications are that

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funding will remain very tight - both at
the provincial and national levels. The
College is fortunate that we are in a
growth mode (the new Pinetree campus)
and have strong demand for our services.
Next year will present challenges but one
that the College should be able to deal

with. Budget assumptions and
projections for next year will be
distributed to the College community in
early January.

 

Always nifty, now she’s...

 

 

 

 

 

Maureen Wilkinson got a little older and a lot better on December 12. The
Circulations Assistant in the Learning Resource Centre turned the calendar
on fifty years that day. Colleagues presented her with a cake that looked
about fifty years old, and a book explaining why she’s now better than she’s
ever been. Congratulations, Maureen!