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© Inter Office Memo Date : —__October..20,. 1986.

 

To: All College Employees

From: Bill Day

Re: ORGANIZATION OF THE APPLIED PROGRAMS DIVISION

In the August 11th edition of the MAD HATTER, I announced the creation
of a committee, comprised of Ross Cameron, Director of Personnel & Labour
Relations, Terry Clement, retiring Dean of Applied Programs, and Gordon Gilgan,
Dean of the Academic Division. Its task was to review the structure of the
Applied Programs Division in the light of the opening of two administrative
positions - Dean of Applied Programs, and Director of Nursing.

The comittee was required to respect the basic integrity of Programs
presently operating in the Division. Recommendations were not to increase
overall administrative and support costs of the Division.

The committee heard presentations from the 3 Directors of the Division,
who also presented views of interested faculty. It has now made its
recommendations to me.

The committee's primary recommendation was that the present Nursing
Department be divided into two departments - General Nursing, and Psychiatric
Nursing, each with its own Director, answering to the Dean of Applied Programs.
| have accepted this recommendation. The organizational implication of this
will be to clarify and simplify operations in the field of Nursing. Some
reductions of present time allocations at the Coordinator level will be dictated
as a result of these changes. These will occur in consultation with the faculty
involved, and within existing budgetary limits.

| have instructed the Personnel Department to post the two new
positions immediately, on the understanding that the actual division of the
existing Department will occur following the naming of the two new Directors.
The major curriculum project in which the present Nursing Department is currently
involved, involving a separation and clarification of the General Nursing and
Psychiatric Nursing Programs, will continue as a staff function, as planned,
under the authority of the Dean, and with the collaboration of the two new
Departnents .

Simultaneously, we are advertising for the position of Dean of Applied
Programs. I am naming Jim Sator as Acting Dean of Applied Programs, effective
November 1. Terry Clement continues in the position nominally, until then,
although Jim will be acting on his behalf during that period.

‘An Acting Director of Business and Administration will be named as
oO soon as possible. A specific announcement in this regard will be made shortly.

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