President’s Report Highlights -

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Services Coordinator Betsy Senyk (left) and Student Society
Representative Berdy Mack (right) at the opening of the new First
Nations Student Services Office on September 19.

During the last month, work has
continued on the formal agreements
between Coquitlam City, Coquitlam
School District and Douglas College with
reference to the Pinetree Development. We
are on the verge of having achieved a
complete umbrella agreement.

Meetings of the Pinetree Steering
Committee have been occurring regularly
throughout August and September. On
July 29, Assistant Deputy Minister Shell

 

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Harvey and Devron Gaber, Director of
Urban Colleges, visited to discuss general
directions of the College. At that meeting
Shell confirmed our mutual understand-
ings regarding FTE allocations for
Pinetree.

On September 15, I participated in the
final editing of a System Mandate
Statement for B.C.’s Colleges. It will be
reviewed by the AECBC, and
recommended to the Ministry in the
immediate future.

On September 16 and 17, I
participated in an Executive meeting of
the National Adult Literacy Database in
London, Ont.

On September 19, I had the pleasure of
attending a ceremony involving First
Nations students and representatives from
First Nations communities, celebrating the
opening of First Nations Student Services.

This event reflected well on the initial
work done by Betsy Senyk and Berdy
Mack, the First Nations Services
Coordinator and Student Society
representative, respectively.

On September 20, sub-committees of
the Foundation met to consider money-
raising activities and organization for this
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Douglas College graduates of Child,
Family and Community Studies (CF&CS)
programs will soon be able to step directly
into third-year classes at the University of
Victoria. In June, a university Senate
subcommittee approved accepting the
transferability of two years of course work
from CF&CS into its School of Child and
Youth Care baccalaureate degree program.

The transferability provisions will
extend to four programs - Early Childhood
Education, Community Support Worker,
Child and Youth Care Counsellor, and
Community Social Service Worker.
CF&CS Director Beverley Miller expects
fine tuning of transfer details to be
completed by fall, 1995. The development
is clearly good news for CF&CS, but it
also signals the real possibility of similar
agreements for other career programs, said
Dean of Applied Programs John
McKendry. Outside of Nursing, the @
agreement is the first granting two full
years of university transferability to
College Applied Programs.

“Tt is a large step forward,” said
McKendry. “If we are fully recognized for
two years of degree-track credit courses
then that will be acknowledged by other
universities in Canada and abroad, and we
can take a lead from that.”

McKendry noted that the University of
Victoria is already reviewing
transferability for Douglas College
courses in Computer Information Systems
and Health Information Services. He
added that providing programs which
meet university-level criteria could
eventually lead to more significant
developments.

“Based on the information coming out
about post-secondary education from all
levels of government and industry and the
continuing need to train highly skilled
people, it is conceivable that in the years
ahead we might offer full degree programs
in some specialty fields where the College
programs can demonstrate clear
educational strengths and credibility.” 4