TO:

FROM:

RE:

MEMORANDUM

March 17, 1988. DOUGLAS COLLEGE BOARD W. L. DAY

PRESIDENT'S REPORT

External Matters - Municipal

During the past month, meetings have been held in Coquitlam and in Maple Ridge regarding development of College facilities in these areas.

Mr. Bill Morfey, Bursar, is coordinating negotiations with the Municipality of Coquitlam, backed up by Dr. John McKendry, Dean of Applied Programs, who is responsible for coordination of educational planning on that project. Similary, Mr. Jim Doerr, Dean of Community Programs & Services, is responsible for the development of joint plans in Maple Ridge, and will coordinate College educational planning for that project. Bill Morfey is providing backup to Jim Doerr in the area of physical plant planning and development.

External Matters - Education

The Council of Principals is working with the B.C. Association of Colleges on a number of educational issues. I have been asked to develop a paper for the BCAC on access issues relating to part-time students throughout the province, and also to develop a paper on problems of planning for support of public adult literacy programs throughout the province. In addition, Adrienne MacLaughlin (President of Kwantlen College) and I are working on a paper for the Council of Principals, dealing with problems of funding non-credit programs; the two of us are also working with Roy Murray, President of BCIT, on the issue of a training policy for British Columbia.

All of these initiatives, and others relating to capital finance, human resource development in the colleges, and concern over the current financial formula, reflect a growing awareness of the need to plan for the longer future of the colleges and institutes - a positive development.