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Douglas College

January 2007

 

The Douglas College Newsletter = New Westminster Campus, David Lam Campus

 

Making a new commitment

to students

Signature will prepare graduates
for further studies, the job
market, and service as responsible
citizens. It’s a commitment to
providing curriculum that ensures
attainment of core learning
outcomes that complement course
and program-specific learning
objectives.

To date, the Academic
Signature’s core competencies and

 

The Academic Signature will
enable Douglas College to stand
apart from other institutions,

learning elements have influenced
the development of new College
programs. The core competencies

says Jan Lindsay, Vice President,
Education.

include: information literacy and
technological literacy; quantitative
and analytical reasoning;
What learning outcomes do spoken, written and intercultural
communication; teamwork and
social responsibility.

Infusion of the Academic

Signature throughout existing

we want all students to achieve at
Douglas College? The question
seems too broad to answer
succinctly, but the Academic
Signature is now allowing us to
respond with clarity.

The Academic Signature
defines broad educational
outcomes that will apply to all

programs will continue over
the next three to five years, as
academic programs are updated as
part of a regular review cycle.

The Academic Signature is
acommitment to a learning-
centered environment that

College credit programs. The
learning elements in the Academic

A year of excellence

In 2006, Douglas College first Post-Degree Diploma in
Physical Education Instruction,

a full program proposal for a
Bachelor of Applied Sport Science
& Coaching, and collaboration
with the Therapeutic Recreation

Department to complete a five

celebrated the contributions of
hundreds of employees who have
served the College with their
skills, passions and talents.

We said goodbye to 23 people
from 19 departments at the
annual Retirement Dinner. year diploma program with the
Shanghai Teachers University .
The four-member Uganda Field

Learning team were recognized

Our colleagues were also
recognized with awards given to
144 employees who collectively
celebrated 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35
years of service at the Recognition
Reception on November 30.

for their innovative student
practicum project in Masaka,
Uganda Africa.

Watch for a full display of

honoured employees in the

During the Recognition
Reception, two teams of
employees were awarded Douglas
College Team Excellence
Awards. The 10-person Sports
Science department received the

coming month. Displays will be
mounted at the New Westminster
Campus (beside the Bookstore)
and the David Lam Campus

award for the development and (near the Board Room).

emphasizes socially responsible
citizenship, intercultural and
international perspective, breadth
of learning, and achievement of
broad learning outcomes.

A framework document
provides targeted levels of learning
relative to each competency
and length of credential. The
Academic Signature Steering
Committee, composed of
faculty and a liaison Dean,
has been established to steer
implementation and regular
review of the Academic Signature.

“Our Academic Signature
will enable Douglas College
to stand apart from other
institutions through our broader
commitments to learners. In
addition to discipline-based
curriculum, we are committed to
graduates leaving with outcomes
that help them as citizens, in the
job world, and in other studies,”
says Jan Lindsay, Vice President
Education.

Douglas College is already
being recognized for its
commitment to the Academic
Signature learning outcomes.
Through the Degree Quality
Review process, each of four
site-visit panels that have reviewed
newly developed Douglas College
degrees have made positive
comments on the commitment
to the Academic Signature core
competencies and learning
environment elements.

For more information on the
Academic Signature go to www.
douglascollege.ca/academic-
signature or email the Academic
Signature Steering Committee
Chair, Bruce Hardy, at hardyb@

douglas.bc.ca

 

Call for
innovative
proposals

January 22 is the deadline |
to submit your proposals
to the College Educational
Technology Forum (ETF)

Innovative Proposals

Committee.

“An innovative project is
one that uses educational
technology to substantially
advance the work of an area or
discipline,” says Sarah Stephens,
Coordinator, Educational
Technology.

Individuals or groups putting
forth a proposal will be required
to present their submission to
the ETF Innovative Proposals
Committee on January 26.

The committee then reviews
the proposals and decides which
one will be recommended for
funding.

For more information
contact Sarah Stephens, at
604-527-5443 or stephens@

 

implementation of the college's

Call for distinguished alumni

Two General Nursing students team up with Library staff to make a healthy change in a downtown
community (I to r): Art Doza; Helen Clarke, Circulation Technician; Carole Compton-Smith, Director of
Learning Resources and Kim Smart.

Fishy fines feed the homeless

The Douglas College Alumni Association has the Distinguished
Alumni Award Nomination packages available for 2007.

This award recognizes the quality of our graduates and their
contributions to the community. It also represents the high-calibre
of students who have attended Douglas College, and the education,
training and inspiration they received here.

To receive your Distinguished Alumni Award nomination package
call Andrew Senjack at 604-777 — 6171 or e-mail senjacka@douglas.
be.ca

The closing date for nominations to be submitted is February 1
and the award will be presented during the June 2007 Graduation
Ceremonies.

A drop-in centre in the
Downtown Eastside will be a
lot healthier thanks to Douglas
College library fines.

Towards the end of last
semester, two dedicated General
Nursing students, Kim Smart and
Art Doza, decided to combine
coursework with good citizenship.
They approached Library staff to
help set up a project that would

benefit The Door Is Open Centre,
a day shelter for homeless people
in Vancouver.

Developing an idea dubbed the
Tuna Project, the pair proposed
that students be given the option
of donating a can of tuna for
the shelter, instead of paying a
cash library fine. Library staff set
up boxes at both campuses and
collected over 70 cans of tuna.

The seafood will be used to
provide nutritious sandwich
fillings at the shelter, which serves
more than 400 patrons per day.

To find out more about The
Door is Open Centre visit its
website at www.thedoorisopen.ca.
or call 604-669-0498.

 

Quote of the Month

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”

— Cavett Robert