Web registration for College Employees College employees can get their early registration date/time for Summer 2007 registration starting March 27. If you have attended classes or applied for admission for the Summer 2006, Fall 2006 or Winter 2007 semesters, contact the Registrar's Office and identify yourself as a College employee planning to register for the Summer 2007 semester. If you have a student number but did not attend classes or have not applied for admission for the Summer 2006, Fall 2006, or Winter 2007 semesters, complete an Application for Readmission form to reactivate your student number. Employees who have not yet taken academic courses at Douglas College should complete an Application for Admission form and return it to the Registrar's Office as soon as possible. Contact the Registrar’s Office at local 5527 and identify yourself as a College employee planning to register for the Summer 2007 semester. All applicants and re-applicants must meet the College Entrance Requirement of English 12 with a grade of C or equivalent as well as any additional program requirements. Please contact Employee Relations regarding application and applicability of fee exemptions as a College Employee as well as the Education Training and Accord Applications for Funding. Stars in the making Janice Penner (centre) and her EASL 150 and 160 classes show off t-shirts and caps donated by City-TV. The class has been studying English by watching and analysing daily newscasts. Students in the class come from over a dozen countries, including Bulgaria, Albania, Iran and Mexico. Briefly Event magazine's popular book sale is set for March 19 to 22 at the New Westminster Campus. This annual event is a great chance to stock up on books and magazines and support our award-winning literary journal Donate books, CDs, VHS tapes, DVDs and magazines at room 3308A at the New Westminster Campus or room B3080 at the David Lam Campus. All money raised will be matched by the Douglas College Foundation. For more information, please call Event magazine at 604-527-5293. 2 ww Print Futures has launched a series of Best Practices Workshops designed to tackle a broad range of communication tasks — from researching a topic and designing a business card to proofreading a document and using plain language. These one-day workshops are held on Saturdays from 10am to 4pm at the New Westminster Campus. The registration fee is $75 for each workshop. Details at www. douglas.bc.ca/pf under “Special Events”. Ww Planning for the future? The Douglas College Foundation partners with SHARE ona free estate planning session entitled 50 Ways to Love Your Leaving. The seminar features Diane Skidmore, a well-known TriCities CGA and Richard Rainey, a Tri-Cities lawyer. INside Douglas College is published by the Communications & Marketin text-only files to INside editor, CMO, Room 4700, New Westminster Ca Topics to be covered include common pitfalls to avoid when preparing your will and estate planning with a view to leaving most of your estate to your family, friends and the community. The session will be held on Thursday, March 15 at 7:30pm in the Lecture Theatre at the David Lam Campus. To register, call SHARE at 604-540- 9161 or email info@sharesociety. ca mentioning the March 15 estate planning session. °, “ Rosemary Small, Manager of Payroll Services and Systems and President of the Barnet Lions, is selling raffle tickets for a seven-day cruise for two (outside cabin) on a Five-Star Holland America Line Cruise Ship. The winner has their choice of one of the following cruises: the Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico, or Canada/New England. Tickets are just $20 and only 250 tickets will be sold. If interested, please contact Rosemary at 604- 527-5375 or smallr@douglas. be.ca. All proceeds go towards purchasing a dog guide for a person with special needs in BC. “se Debbie Lawless, Payroll Officer, and her team, the Inlet Sapphire Masters, won Gold at the 2007 Skate Canada Western Regional Festival of Synchronized Skating on Saturday. February 3 in Chilliwack at the Prospera Centre. Therapeutic Recreation instructor Julie Roper offers Douglas College employees the chance to rest, relax and unwind while helping students succeed. She has recently renovated an ocean-front guest suite at her Pender Island home Morning Moon. Roper will donate 10 percent of all rentals booked by Douglas College employees to the Douglas College Foundation to be used for student aid. For more information visit www.morningmoon.ca. 2 “ After nearly 25 years at Douglas College, Tad Hosoi, Director of the Centre for International Education, will retire at the end of March. Under Hosoi’s leadership, Douglas College has seen a steady increase of international students, both as independent students and contract groups. As a result, the Centre has grown from a one- person operation to the current staff of 10, serving more than 400 international students from nearly 30 countries. The revenue of more than $5 million dollars a year from the Centre’s operation is an important part of the annual College budget. Hosoi'’s retirement plans include a lecture and a showing of his photographs on Northwest Coast Indian culture at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, followed by a trip to Spain and Portugal with his wife, Mitsuko, to pursue their passion in art and history. 2, * 4 Andrea MacPherson, Reviews Editor at Event and Writing Historical Fiction Instructor, has her first collection of poetry, Natural Disasters, coming out in Spring with Palimpsest Press. ° “ye Dr. John Higenbottam, Chair of Psychology, has been appointed to an expert panel selecting community mental health evaluation instruments for the Ontario Ministry of Health. He is also currently serving as the UBC Department of Psychiatry representative on UBC's Clinical Research Ethics Board. RP “se Don Valeri, Business Instructor, has been granted his PhD with Distinction in Leadership and Administration from Greenleaf University. His dissertation was on The Origins of Servant Leadership. o, “ John Ritchie, much-loved member of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, passed away in February. He was a 30-year employee of the College, contributing strongly to the nursing program, its faculty, staff and students and to the College throughout these years. .%, “ye Tim Frick, Sport Science Instructor and Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Coach, is a finalist for the Coach of the Year Award from the True Sport Foundation which runs the Canadian Sports Awards. In addition, both the men’s and women’ national wheelchair team, who practice at Douglas College are nominated for team awards. RN Sam Cheng, Borrower Services in the Library, gave birth to baby girl Kate on January 27. . “ Librarian Valerie Patrick returns to the College after a two-month position in a small library in Guatemala. o, “ Csilla Tamas, Math Teaching Assistant, had a baby boy, Uku Zoltan, on January 19. “ New employees Reza Haleem and Janna Kim join CLS as Website Designer/Trainers. Rob Nemec moves into the position of Computer Tech - Help Desk. Sapna Singh moves to regular as Departmental Assistant II in Health Sciences. “wy The deadline for Strategic Development Fund proposals is Wednesday, March 28 at 4:30pm. For information contact Laureen Dailey, CPS/CAP Administrative Assistant to the Vice President, Education at local 5491 or daileyl@douglas.be.ca. “Ww Applications for Scholarly Activity Funds are due Thursday, March 15. For more information contact Tom Whalley, Scholarly Activity Coordinator, at local 5582 or whalleyt@douglas.be.ca. , “se g Office the first Tuesday of each month. Submissions and story ideas are welcome; deadline is 10 working days before publication. Email mpus; e-mail to parryk@douglas.bc.ca; or call 604-527-5547. Printed by the Douglas College Printshop.