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President’s Report highlights - July

Intensive work continues on the evolution
of the Pinetree partnership. The City,
Coquitlam School District, and the
College have made excellent progress in
their relationships with government and
with each other over the past six weeks.
We have been given assurance of every
consideration and assistance by the City in
furthering the plans for the partnership
and for our own campus. As we are
entering a period of a multitude of
licenses and permits from the City, these
assurances are very heartening.

On June 24, I represented Jim Doerr at a
meeting organized and managed by
Marian Rossell in Maple Ridge, involving
representatives of Coquitlam School
District. Marian is managing the
development of joint School District-
College curriculum initiatives in
Coquitlam and Maple Ridge. As a result
of this meeting, proposals were made

- under the new job skills category of
program, that have since been approved
internally and dispatched to Victoria for
approval.

Beverly Miller has returned from a six-
month educational leave in England
where she worked with Wakefield
College and other institutions involved in
the post-secondary reform movement.
Beverly focused on the development of
prior learning assessment techniques, and
more generally, the move to national
vocational qualifications in England and
Scotland. The current moves in the U.K.
have placed the United Kingdom in the
forefront of reform in the whole area of
technical, vocational and academic
education at the tertiary level. Thus, the
visit was most timely, and will be of great
assistance to the College over the next
few years. It is important to pay tribute to
Pat Brown in this report who very ably
acted as Director of the Department of
Child, Family and Community Studies in
Bev’s absence.

The month of July has seen an intense
amount of ongoing activity in three areas:
budget; the development of the Pinetree
project; the matter of organizational
change in the context of the present
College challenges, and those presented
by a multi-campus operation within three
years’ time. On the first item, the Board

will be seeing the end product of the

budget and expenditure plan activities
that have been going on continuously
since January of this year. The Board
should note that the budget is less and

Kids, police continued from page 1

 

Coaching kids is part of the concept of
community policing, says Knight.

“Tf I run into these kids when I’m in
uniform, they’re going to be a lot more
receptive. In those problem situations,
they’re going to be comfortable right
away. If I’ve coached them in
soccer, and then I see them on the
street there’s an immediate rapport
that may not be there otherwise.”

Now in its thirteenth year, the
Summer Soccer School is really
more of a fun camp, with different
contests and prizes. Kids usually see
police officers only when there’s a
problem or on a working basis, says
Sergeant Young, but children at the
camp get to know them ona
different level.

“Here, they call the officers by their
first names, see them having fun, see
them as human beings. The officers
see that there’s lots of good kids out
there, and even the kids who are in
trouble can be helped and
supported.”

And, says Knight, the non-
competitive philosophy of kids’

 

 

less on of a specific “‘product-approval”,
than that of an ongoing management
process, during which the Board is asked
to look at the current state of affairs - “a
snapshot”. A

“Tt’s always a tie at the end of the game.
A lot of kids come here with a very
competitive attitude, but here, when
someone scores, everyone celebrates.” A

 

 

sport promoted by the Douglas
College Sports Institute is practised
at the soccer school.

The soccer school gives kids a chance to see
police officers in other roles. The Douglas College
Sports Institute’s Chris Johnson teaches a Level
One Theory coaching course that gives the
officers better skills to work with kids.

 

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