TO: All Interested Faculty Members ~
FROM: Bill Day
RE: WIESMAN SUB-COMMITTEES

A number of people from Douglas
College are members of program articu-
lation sub-committees working as part of
Brahm Wiesman's program of Lower Mainland
educational integration. These sub-
committees deal with the following
fields:

- Adult Basic Education, Language
and Preparation for Further
Training;

- Applied Visual and Performing Arts;

- Engineering, Construction and

Other Technologies;

- Social and Community Services;

- Health;

- Academic;

- Business.

The institutions involved are P.V.I.,
B.C.1.T., Capilano, Douglas and \V.C.C.

I am the College representative on
the "Academic" committee.

Dr. Wiesman, with my enthusiastic’.
support, is attempting to encourage
colleges to regain some of the imaginative
and creative dynamism that existed in the
early stages of our community colleges.

He is anxious to assist the colleges in
convincing our Ministry that the terms
"academic" and "university transfer" are
not coterminous and that the time is
overdue for deliberately creating disci-
pline-based programs that are not
necessarily transferable on a course for
course basis. Brahm feels that if the
colleges deliberately create new programs,
the universities will, in time, acknow-
ledge them for block credit, if not course
credit, and in any case he feels that
some clienteles will respond tu academic
type programs whether or not they have
transfer recognition.

Dr. Wiesman is holding cial
meeting of the Academic Sub-Co.ittee in
about six weeks time in order to © “ry
out a brain storming submis= on t “he
Ministry as evidence of the ea §
continuing development of a ods .c svudies

at colleges in their own ri, .. ro the

than as a mechanical adjunct | p. . sed
short falls in university ca ~ ty to
provide lower division instr tion J

 

brain storming session to which the é
Curriculum Committee, Community Consul-
tants and Divisional Directors are _ "4
invited, as well as any other persons
with ideas for academically based new
programs. These programs can be occupa
tional in nature, as well as geared to &
social and personal development. For
example, the Social Sciences proposal for
an Urban Planning Technician is a good
illustration of what I would view to-be an
imaginative way of using the traditional
academic disciplines through an inter-
disciplinary program. .

This meeting will be held on Monday
February 20th, at 4:00 p.m. in Rooms
308 C & D, New Westminster Campus.

I hope
you will find this time convenient.

 

COMMUNITY COLLEGE EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM
FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS

and the Community College Cooperative for
International Development is offering four-
week intensive educational study programs
as follows:

The Consortium for International Education
|

European Studies Program in Law Enforce-@
ment - June 25 - July 24, 1978

European Studies Program in Business
Management - July 1 - 28, 1978

European Studies Program in College
Administration - July 1 - 28, 1978

. European Studies Program in Humanities -

June 25 - July 24, 1978

European Studies Program in Automotive
Research, Development and Repair -
July 1 - 28, 1978

European Studies Program in Western
Civilization & World Literature -

June 25 - July 24, 1978

European Studies Program in Allied Health
and Nursing - July 1 - 28, 1978

Costs range from about $1500 to $2,000.
Information is available in my office if )

anyone wants to look at it.

George Wootton

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