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DOUGLAS COLLEGE BOARD March 15, 1984.
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and Ministry intentions regarding funding units to be allocated to
Douglas College. The College has been provided a substantial
increase in "quota" in the Academic field as a direct result of

the dramatic increase in College enrollments during this past year.
College Applied Programs are receiving generally adequate recognition
in the Program Profile. Our group was dismayed at the information
provided at that meeting, of the intent of the Ministry to eliminate
Function 5 monies from the budget. In summary, this removes from
direct funding, the Community Programs subsidy for the College. I
have already registered with Ministry staff my strong concerns
regarding the symbolic as well as fiscal impact of this action.

I will be discussing this matter later with the Board in closed
meeting. Strong recommendations have already been made to Ministry
staff from nepresentatives of the B.C. Association of Colleges, and
from a number of institutions.

The Administration will be monitoring the budget situation closely,
in order to insure that our understandings regarding funding units
and the budget are correct.

On March 1, and March 7, I had the pleasure of making opening
statements at the Adult Special Education Conference in Richmond
and at the Adult Basic Education Workshop in Surrey.

On March 9, the entire day was occupied in meetings with provincial
groups - the Distance Education Working Group, on which I sit as

a Table Officer of the Council of Principals, the Public Information
Committee of the B.C. Association of Colleges, and the Deputy
Minister's Post-Secondary Co-ordinating Committee - an informal
group consisting of representatives of the Council of Principals,
the Colleges and Institutes Educators Association, and the B.C.
Association of Colleges, together with Ministry staff.

On March 5, the first joint School Board/College Board co-ordinating
meeting was held at Douglas College. The meeting apparently achieved
all its objectives. All School Districts have now passed motions of
support in principle to the process. I will be convening a meeting
with the District Superintendents of our four constituent school
districts within the month, in order to carry out initial planning.
As soon as we have agreed upon a basic agenda, I will be involving
the Deans of Douglas College with their counterparts in the four
school districts.

On March 12, the College was privileged to host a meeting and tour of the
Senior Administration of Trinity Western College. Trinity Western

has now been granted University Status by the Association of Canadian
Universities and Colleges, and I believe will be playing a significant
role in the future, both as a user of college resources and as an
institution to which Douglas College students will be transferring.