INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / November 26, 1991

 

 

 

 

New faculty and staff profiles

   

 

 

 

 

 

Administration Receptionist
Sherry Chan

Sherry Chan is the new Administra-
tion Receptionist, but she’s not new
to Douglas College. The Prince
Rupert native completed a univer-
sity transfer diploma here in 1989
after finishing high school and
moving to Vancouver in 1987.
"Prince Rupert was a nice place to
grow up, but | really like Van-
couver," Chan says. She also likes
the open, friendly atmosphere here
at Douglas College. "| was quite im-
pressed that any student, any time,
can see the President. | used to
work in a law firm, and there you
had to bar the door; people
couldn’t just walk in and see the
lawyers." Travelling is in her future
plans, so studying Spanish and
Japanese at UBC part-time should
help. She likes to watch hockey,
she’s learning to swim, and she’s
annoyed at the onset of winter
because it interferes with tennis, her
favourite sport. "I’m thinking of join-
ing an indoor tennis club, if it’s not
too expensive." She also likes read-
ing, especially Agatha Christie
novels. w

Criminology Instructor
Chuck Reasons

Criminology Instructor Chuck
Reasons never intended to become
an academic. His father was an
Arkansas farmer and trade unionist,
and Reasons went to college on
baseball and football scholarships.
He ended up completing a Ph.D. in
sociology with a criminology
emphasis at Washington State
University, but disillusionment with
America led him to quit that country
in 1974. He spent 14 years as profes-
sor of sociology and criminology at
the University of Calgary before
enrolling in law at UBC in 1989.
His legal specialty will be environ-
ment/human rights/labor. "I’ve
always had an interest in these
things, due to my own weird
history," he says. Among his many
interests, Reasons plans to work
with the B.C. Public Interest Ad-
vocacy Centre, a group that acts as
advocates for groups such as the
poor and natives. Meanwhile, he’s
enjoying teaching at Douglas Col-
lege because he’s never taught at
the college level before. "It’s a good
experience for me," he says. "It’s
good to be teaching students that are
my son’s age." &

 

 

 

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Computer Information Systems
Instructor Simon Li

Chat with Simon Li for a few
minutes and one subject seems to
keep cropping into the conversa-
tion: computers.

"You can’t live without a com-
puter," says Li, appropriately for a
Computer Information Systems In-
structor. "| spend a lot of time sitting
in front of terminals." Li teaches the
technology, works as a computer
consultant and is also guiding his
daughter Michelle, who is almost
four, around the keyboard, "just to
get her started."

He got hooked on computers
while attending Simon Fraser Univer-
sity, where he completed both his
Bachelor and Masters in Business
Administration.

Li taught at Lakehead University
in Thunder Bay before being lured
back to Vancouver to work as an
Educational Development Specialist
in Micro-Computer Integration in
1988. He liked that position, but the
classroom beckoned. "I missed the
teaching aspect and direct feedback
from the students, so | feel pretty ex-
cited about teaching again," says Li,
who is married and has two
daughters. m