February 7, 1983 ! |

The

Mad Hatter

_A Douglas College Newsletter

      

 

DOUGLAS COLLEGE LIBRARY

ARCHIVES - Special Edition
Douglas College Strategic and Operational Plan

To: All College Personnel
From: Bill Day

This special edition of The Mad Hatter is intended to provide
information to all members of our College community concerning the Ministry
of Education's intentions regarding the Colleges and Institutes of the
Province over the next five years.

The attached summary document, created by Ed Redmond, synthesizes
information from Draft 2 - "System Objectives, 1982-87", and "Guidelines
‘for the Preparation of College Strategic and Operational Plans" dated
December 20, 1982.

The first document has not been formally ratified by the Minister of
Education, and is still under discussion and review by the B.C. Association
of Colleges. However, it provides the only current statement from the
Ministry of Education regarding its intentions, and we are required to
address the document, either through compliance, or clearly stated
alternatives, in the development of the College "Strategic Plan" for the
period 1983-88.

The College Plan, like those of all other Colleges and Institutes
in the Province, must be deposited with the Ministry no later than June 1.

The work carried out last spring and summer on our First Draft Five
Year Plan will provide much of the information required for our document,
although the format of the plan must adhere to the Ministry's Guidelines.
Members of the College community who worked last spring and summer on the
plan, therefore, can be assured that their work will not have been lost.

The Editorial Committee for the plan is composed of myself, your Deans,
and the Bursar, and the staff work and co-ordination of the Committee's
work is carried out by Ed Redmond.

The Committee meets every Tuesday afternoon, for the entire afternoon,
in order to assure that this important task is carried out on schedule.

The entire plan is founded upon certain "Specified Assumptions" and
"Institutional Assumptions". These assumptions are clearly the most
important elements of the plan - the remainder of which then is simply a
working out of an information base - essentially a staff job.