APPROVED BY THE DCUGLAS
COLLEGE BUARD - JUNE 21, 1984.

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DOUGLAS COLLEGE GOALS

The Goals of Douglas College are:

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To provide, within the resources available, a wide range of
full-time and part-time organized learning opportunities of
excellent quality, primarily at the post-secondary level.

To recognize the needs of students with a wide diversity of
age, background, experience, interests and special needs, and:

(a) Assist in developing a social awareness and conscience.

(b) Prepare students to pursue, with success, studies at
other post-secondary institutions, or careers in
business, industry, or professional fields.

(c) Provide a broad, general education that will develop the
student’s capacities and creative talents that enable
them to grow as human beings and good citizcns of their
community in aesthetic and/or applied pursuits.

(a) Provide an opportunity for people who are employed, or
have been in the work force, to upgrade their skills.

(ce) Offer both credit and non-credit patterns of learning.

(£) Maintain an atmosphere in which a spirit of inquiry,
learning, personal challenge, and a commitment to
excellence, can flourish.

To serve and maintain an appropriate balance between:

(a) the College's defined region and its constituent
communities; and

(b) residents of the province as a whole by providing
programs of provincial significance under the
direction of the Ministry of Education.

To provide, through its curriculum and facilities, oppor-
tunities for the College to be a major community centre
for academic, occupational, athletic, cultural and social
activities.

To lessen the dependence of students upon the College as
an institution and encourage the development of a society
of self-teachers as the ultimate goal of organized learnings.