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President’s Report Highlights - March

Over the past month, considerable energy
and time has been spent in discussions
with Coquitlam Municipality regarding
the status of the College site in the
Coquitlam Town Centre. Expressions of
concern have been received from the
Municipality regarding the lack of
construction activity on the site. In this
connection, meetings have been held in
Victoria, in Coquitlam, and at Douglas
College involving officials from the
School District, our Ministry and
Coquitlam Municipal Government.

I visited the College of New Caledonia at
Prince George between March 9-11,
looking at their model of administration of
multi-campuses. The visit was most

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Britain and the U.S. for information brief-
ings before being assigned to a polling
area to monitor election procedures.

"T have already been given the guidelines
and in essence we will be sent into a small
village where women might be intimi-
dated while voting. It could be a village
any where in South Africa. We had to
agree to go anywhere we are sent."

After previously representing the B.C.
chapter of the women’s internationalist or-
ganization at a convention in Bolivia,
Jones was nominated by her branch and
was ultimately selected by the IWLPF’s
international headquarters in Geneva. Her
submission was given final approval by
the World Council of Churches in Johan-
nesburg, which has been given authority
to establish election monitoring by the
South African government.

enlightening. Having now visited five
institutions, I think I have a fair grip on
the feasible range of organization, and the
advantages and disadvantages of different
forms of organization relating to
multi-campus operation.

The ACCC regional consultation in B.C.
occurred at Douglas College on March 14.
One of the topics discussed was the role of
the ACCC in the developing field of
competitive contracting with the federal
government on the part of colleges and
college consortium.

It is clear that increasing amounts of
money that formerly were transferred to
colleges via contract and ongoing
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Sylvia McFadyen Jones

While in South Africa, Jones is also slated
to provide updates on events through long-
distance phone reports on CBC Radio’s
morning Almanac show. Jones was also
prominently featured in stories in the Prov-
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at all, through competitive bidding with
the private sector and other institutions.

The ACCC role is critical in ensuring that
colleges and institutes have fair access to
competition for public expenditures on
training and education. It is also clear that
the move taken by Douglas in developing
our Centre 2000 has been a timely one,
and that we are increasingly in a solid
position to compete for what dollars are
available in federal training.

On March 17, I visited George Gaffney of
the Royal Bank, in order to commence
discussions regarding the Royal Bank
participation in funding our Institute of
Urban Ecology. &

Rossell named
Thomas Haney
Director

Marian Rossell, the new Director of
Douglas College’s Thomas Haney Centre
campus, says her focus at Maple Ridge
will include increasing course offerings in
Commerce and Business and encouraging
laddering of curriculum from the secon-
dary to post-secondary levels.

In her new position, Rossell, formerly Co-
ordinator of Co-operative Education, will
not only have different responsibilities,
she’ll have a new community to work with.

"The two biggest challenges I face are get-
ting to know the Maple Ridge community
and gaining the confidence of its mem-
bers,” she says.

Rossell is also planning to respond crea-
tively to programming. She will be asking
the community for input on the kinds of
credit and continuing education courses
that should be offered at Thomas Haney
Centre.

"Our mandate is to set up a community
based advisory committee to work on of-
ferings,” she says. "Over the next six
months I’ll be meeting with appropriate
groups and community members and hope
to have the committee active within a
year."

Rossell replaces Pat Floyd, who left to be-
come Executive Director of the Private
Post-Secondary Commission of B.C.&