Survey, Safety Audit to address
women’s concerns on campus

Personal safety in and around college and
university campuses is an issue across Can-
ada, and the Women’s Centre at Douglas
College wants to know what you think.

To find out, they’re doing two things; the
first is a Campus Safety Survey, to be re-
leased sometime in September, while the
second is a Safety Audit to be conducted
possibly in October or November.

"All anybody wants is to feel comfortable,
and the survey will help us determine how
safe people feel on campus," says Barbie
Kelly-Derouin, a work-study student who
is coordinating the survey. "We’re urging
everyone to complete it, and hopefully
we'll find out what safety concerns people
have. It may help us identify where the
problems are.”

The Satety Audit is a technique that was
developed and has been used successfully
by police forces and communities in On-
tario. Every area of the campus is

examined to see if it reinforces a sense of
safety, says Kelly-Derouin.

"We're looking for areas that are overly
concealed, where women might feel un-
comfortable, where they wouldn’t be
heard if they call for help. The goal is to
improve the physical environment to re-
duce opportunities for sexual harassments
or sexual assault."

Because the Safety Audit involves an ex-
amination of every area of the College (in
addition to surrounding city streets), de-
partment heads have been asked to attend
one of two meetings so that they can alert
staff in advance and minimize disruption.
The meetings are on September 7 and
September 10 from noon-2pm in the
Women’s Centre, Room 2720. For more
information, call Barbie Kelly-Derouin at
527-5148. &

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facilities the City has planned for adjacent
space.

"It makes good sense to maximize facili-
ties and playing fields. Possible areas to
share could include daycare, food serv-
ices, a recreation centre, building systems
and site development," says College
Bursar Peter Greenwood.

"It’s not one joint facility like the Thomas
Haney Centre. The intent is to develop
separate facilities that complement and
enhance each other."

The new campus is scheduled to open in
September 1996.

"It’s going to be a busy September and Oc-
tober," says Greenwood. "We’re moving
ahead as quickly as possible to get maxi-
mum input from user groups within a very
tight timeline, and also to identify where
the shared opportunities are with the
Coquitlam School District and potentially
the City of Coquitlam."

Strong input from College user groups is
vital to the design phase says Greenwood.
"The intent is that most user groups will
be department or discipline based, but
there will also be some cross-College
groups, such as a user group to deal with
accessibility (for people with disabili-
ties)."

For more information about user groups,
see your department head. A

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with students and faculty in other pro- @
grams, and provides increased transfer
credit to university programs.

The curriculum is particularly innovative
in its approach to teaching and learning.
Critical thinking skills and creativity are
emphasized through a collaborative stu-
dent-centred approach, says Miller.

"The move to integrated curriculum is part
of a provincial initiative that relates to a re-
structuring of health and social services
programs across British Columbia. Pro-
grams vary in length, name and content.
Employers and students were asking for
more consistency as well as program con-
tent that reflects the complexity of issues
faced by practitioners."

Concurrent with the new curriculum is the
plan to award credit for previous work and
life experience that relates to program ob-
jectives. It’s not in place yet, but over the
next year we will do development work in
the assessment of prior learning which will
allow people already working in the field
to gain advanced standing,” says Miller.

Miller wants to acknowledge the hard
work of the Project Team under the direc-
tion of Vickie Cammack, and the entire
Department as well.

"We want to thank the many members of
the College and the external community
for their advice and support. We’re bend-
ing the edges and creating something new,
but we couldn’t have done it without a lot
of help from many people." &

 

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