Actual demand by Program and Discipline
will exceed the capacity of services of-
fered. However in specific cases, ser-
vices may be provided at levels less
than capacity.

It is expected that the Specified Assump-
tions will be reviewed at both the Division-
al and Departmental level for comment. Al]
comment should be forwarded to the Deans or

the Assistant to the President without delay.

 

Academic ‘Layabouts’

EXTRACT FROM WEBSTER SHOW
Monday, January 3, 1983

 

WEBSTER:
Colleges - Does a college instructor really
work, or is he a kind........ lay-about like

some university professors?

VANDER ZALM:

Well, we have several reports which were
commissioned within the Ministry which gave
some fairly detailed factual information re-
garding the workload in the colleges, and to
give you an example, and it is no secret for
anyone involved in the college programs -
they will know about this - an academic in-
structor at the college would work on aver-
age 14 hours per week, would have four clas-
ses - on average 20 per class, would work on
average seven to eight months of the year,
would have possible about two months for
what's called instructional preparations -
whatever that means, I'm not sure - and
would get paid on average perhaps $38,000 to
$40,000 per year. (You're in the wrong job,
Jack )

WEBSTER:

(Certainly am for the amount of effort in-

volved) 0.K. Bill Vander Zalm, I have been

trying to get from your Department, (end of
tape).

 

Mad Hatter Page 2

Mr. Abe Unruh, President British Columbia
Association of Colleges, has given us per-
mission to copy the attached letter.

i
It will be of interest to all personnel.
TO THE HON. WILLIAM N. VANDER ZALM:

Dear Mr. Minister:

In keeping with our policy of dealing with
you as Minister of Education it seems ap-
propriate for me to protest statements con- |
cerning faculty workloads which you made on
the Webster show last Monday. They are
viewed as unfair and misleading by college
people at all levels.

 

|
The need to approach seriously the product-
ivity issue in all sectors of the economy,
including education, is broadly recognized.
Colleges have made significant increases a
productivity already in response to the
Government's restraint program. Particular-
ly, there have been major increases in en-
rolments in many colleges with no corres- |
ponding increase in faculty or staff.

 

Change may be inevitable for a number of
reasons, not all of them economic. However,
your statements gave no recognition to what
has been achieved through the efforts of
faculty and staff in a span of little more |
than fifteen years since the first commun-
ity college was established in British Col-
umbia.

Through full and part-time enrolments in
university transfer, career/technical, col-
lege prep and vocational programs, plus
course reqistration in continuing education,
2.C. colleges and institutes are touching
the lives of some 300,000 people of al]
ages. We see that as a proud record. Its
achievement has been made possible by the
dedication of those who plan and those who
teach.

 

front of a class is the total workload of
any faculty person is seriously misleading.

To suggest that time spent standina in |
Time spent in actual student contact varies |