College Briefs @® Registrar's Office summer hours May 5-7 9:30 am to 7 pm May 8 9:30 am to 4 pm May 11 9:30 am to 4 pm May 12-14 9:30 am to 7 pm May 15 9:30 am to 4 pm Beginning the week of May 18, 1992, up to and including the week of August 7, 1992, the Registrar’s Office will be open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:30 am to 4 pm; Thursday from 9:30 am to 7 pm. ?® Personal Development Day Staff Professional Development Day this year has been renamed Personal Develop- ment Day, to be held on Wednesday, May 27. Based on last year’s evaluations, the P.D. Day Committee has planned a full day of activities for your benefit. There will be a potluck lunch at noon and a wine and cheese at 4 pm, with raffles and prizes. If anyone would like to help plan this day, call Doreen Kreschuk at 5362 or Jean Easton at 5361. The agenda will be circulated in the second week of May. All staff are urged to attend. @® Library summer hours Beginning May 4, the Library will be open on Monday and Friday from 8:30 am to 4 pm, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 am to 8 pm. The Library will be closed on Wednesday, May 13 for the Learning Resources Professional Development Day. ?® Car for sale 1990 Sprint for sale, blue, great mileage, good student/commuter car, has 5-year extended warranty. Call Katherine Albrechtson at 5349. ?® Motorcycle for sale 1982 Suzuki GS 550 cc (4 cycle), 6 speed, 19,000 kilometers, only $500 including helmet and saddlebags. Call 855-9577 (Abbotsford) after 6 pm. Ask for Oran. continued on page 4 This little boy had a starring part in the Making Friends video, which was screened on campus April 9. The video is part of Early Childhood Education Instructor Cathleen Smith’s demonstration project to investigate ways to enhance the social integration of children with special needs into mainstream early childhood settings. President reports on vocational, adult education President Bill Day gave a report to the College April 8 on some of the work he undertook during his educational leave last year. In an interview afterward, Day said the leave al- lowed him to dig deeply into trends and issues in technical and vocational education, and what he found wasn’t encouraging. “There are huge problems involved in the relationship between vocational/technical educa- tion and academic education,” said Day. “There are multiple systems available for vocation- al education but Canada doesn’t have a good industry/enterprise-based training system. The system we have is weak. We fund academic education but not public vocational/techni- cal education. That to me is a big challenge.” But, said Day, the problem seems to be a global one. “In Canada, we assume that we're ter- rible and everyone else knows how to do it. That’s not the case. Problems that we think are unique to B.C. are faced everywhere in the world.” The research, which included social, economic and political analysis, was synthesized into a Country Report to be used by the Canadian government at a meeting of the OECD (Or- ganization of Economic Cooperation & Development) countries in Paris later this year. Five countries, including Germany and Japan, are submitting Country Reports, which will be synthesized into one report on world-wide industrial education trends and issues, says Day. The second part of Day’s educational leave involved research into adult education. The task was to compile a history of the last 10 years of adult education, assess the current state of affairs, and make policy projections. Day was the primary author of a report which found that adult education too is in poor shape. “It's in disarray. There’s been consistent underfunding, which means programs go to where there’s money, aimed at people with money. Not enough of public money has been spent on it. The notion of pay-as-you-go is ludicrous, because few students can afford to pay. Continuing Education units have been saddled with tasks that should be centrally funded and developed. No public money goes into it, which is good in some ways, but not in others. We've come up with policy recommendations that we hope will be imple- mented.” Day said the time on these two research topics was well spent, and important to his role as an administrator at the community college level. “As College President, I need to be able to provide perspectives on these things. I think I understand the problems better. That's why I took the leave.”