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President's Report to the D.C. Board

A. EXTERNAL MATTERS - MUNICIPAL

Mr. D. Cocke, MLA, New Westminter, made
an informal visit to the Royal Avenue
site on January 18. He was most inter-
ested in the capabilities of the new fac- -
ility.

The Rotary Club of Maple Ridge was most
interested to hear of current develop-
ments at Douglas College in early Janu-
ary at one of their regular meetings.

They expressed keen interest in and sup-
port for the operation of the Maple Ridge
Centre. Mr. Davies, Director of the
Maple Ridge Centre was also in attend-
ance.

B. EXTERNAL MATTERS - EDUCATION

A complete set of current program infor-
mation has been developed by Mr. Redmond
for the use of the Lower Mainland Co-
operative Planning Commitee, and was pre-
sented to them at their meeting of Janu-
ary 14. Staff people from all the co-
operating institutions are now combining
the information into a full report.

I attended a meeting of the B.C. Associa-
tion of Colleges Executive.on January 14,
in order to assist them in analyzing the
Draft II document ‘Post-Secondary System
Goals and Objectives'. A critique will
be going forward to the Minister from

the B.C.A.C. in due course.
President, and Mr. F. Beinder, Executive
Director of the B.C.A.C., paid an infor-
mal visit to the Royal Avenue site on
January 19. They spent three hours on
site discussing current college programs
and the general nature of Douglas Col-

involvement in the B.C.A.C. This visit
was informal, and simply a means of as-
sisting Mr. Unruh to gain an understand-

of a program of activities being carried
out by the B.C.A.C. executive.

 

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Mr. A. Unruh,

lege's role on the lower mainland and its

ing of the lower mainland region, as part

 

A letter has been received from Dr. Grant
Fisher, Assistant Deputy Minister Post-
Secondary, indicating that the forecast
further reduction in continuing/community

education grants for the 1982/83 fiscal

year, will likely not come to pass if a

recommendation being made to Treasury

Board by the Ministry of Education is
accepted.

Should this prove to be the case, this can
an only be viewed as good news indeed!

The Management Committee will be assess-

ing the implications of this statement,
and will be making comment or recommend-
ation in due course.

C. INTERNAL MATTERS - EDUCATION
DEVELOPMENT

On Thursday, January 27, the Management
Committee will be having a full day work-
shop on the subject of the 5-Year Plan
directives from the Ministry of Education.
To assist in this activity, Mr. Redmond
has done summaries of the major important
documents provided by the Ministry, which
will be put into open circulation as soon
as possible in order that all college con-
stituencies can have an understanding of
the nature and content of the planning
process. We expect that the work already
carried out during this last academic
year by the College will be of major val-:
ue, and that the majority of the work re-
quired will be simply repackaging exist-
ing information. The "critical assump-
tions" that will "drive" the Douglas Col-
lege plan will be reviewed by the Manage-
ment Committee and by the Education Policy
and Planning Committee over the next four
weeks, with recommendations to go te the
Education and Services Committee prior to
the next meeting of the College Board.

The Education and Services Committee of
the Board is strongly of the opinion that
the assumptions upon which the 5-Year Plan
is built are far more important than the
specifics of the plan. For this reason,
Board approval will be required before any
new work is carried out on the plan other
than editorial planning.