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President’s Report To Peages
College Board, June 16, 1983

A. EXTERNAL MATTERS - MUNICIPAL

Mr. Gordon Gilgan, Dean of Academic, gave
the graduating address at the graduation
exercises at New Westminster Senior Second-
ary School earlier this month.

Mr. Emerton and I have been discussing a
systematic program of contact with municipal
government and officials over the next year,
as part of our program of securing closer
relationships with the communities in the
Douglas College region. Mr. Emerton will be
providing further information to the Board
in due course.

B. EXTERNAL MATTERS - EDUCATIONAL

Gordon Thom, President of BCIT, and I are
responsible for the organization of a mid-
management workshop for college and instit-
ute administrators which will be held this
Fall under the auspices of the Council of
Principals and the Ministry of Education.
In due course, I will be recommending that
a number of our Directors and Chairmen be
given leave to attend this event.

Mr. Gilgan and I visited Ken Moore, Director

of the Newton Centre of Kwantlen College, to —

gain information on the methods that Centre
has used to implement the TRAC program. It
was a most helpful visit.

Because of a number of ongoing concerns that
we have regarding the Ministry's handling of
certain program development matters, I paid

a visit to the Ministry of Education in
Victoria on June 7. That meeting, involving -
Dr. Fisher, Mr. Lorne Thompson, and Mr. Sandy
Maclver, proved to be somewhat useful in
clarifying Ministry assumptions regarding the
college's role in the future.

., considerable amount of time during this
past month was taken up in attending major
conferences - one of which was the ACCC Con-
ference in Montreal, from May 29 to June 1,
- the other one being the BCAC Conference

 

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in Fort St. John last weekend. The two con-
| ferences were attended by a total of five
different Board members. They will be re-

| porting on the significance of these confer-
| ences separately.

C. INTERNAL MATTERS - EDUCATION
DEVELOPMENT

On June 3, the Educational Policy and Plan-
ning Committee held a workshop to review
the work done to date on the 5-Year (Stra-

| tegic) Plan. They presented their formal
critique to me at their regular meeting of
June 8. This criticism, coupled with that
received from the Applied and Academic
Divisional Chairmen and Directors, is prov-
ing to be most helpful as we carry out final
work on the Plan.

The bulk of the assembly of information

| for the plan has been completed and is now
in the hands of the Board. Two further
critical documents are under final prepara-
tion - one being the College assumptions
regarding productivity over the next five
years, and the other being our plans for
the program mix of the College, both under
the scenario requested by the Ministry,

and alternatively that requested by the
College Board. The work on these two items
will have been completed within a week.

The College must further develop its rela-
tionship with the CEIC as a significant
federal and local agnecy, and as a source
of potential funding for certain types of
programs. To this end, I have continued
meeting with key officials - the last
meeting being with Ms. Jo Mitchell, Special
Consultant on Women's Programs and Mr. Dan
Henslow, Director of Institutional Train-
ing for the B. c. Yukon Region.

As a result of this meeting, we have been
| encouraged to make submissions to the Min-
istry of Education in certain areas of Bus-
iness Training, and in relation to a Spec-
ial Needs TRAC proposal. In addition, we

will be hosting a special meeting of manag-
ers of CEIC local offices in the College
region, with the support of the regional
headquarters.