Events Calendar

January 4, 5 and 8

Fully Loaded Orientation Week 12-8pm New Westminster Campus and David Lam Campus (Coquitlam). For

more information visit www. douglascollege.ca/flow or call Kyle Baillie in the Office for New Students at 604-527-5814.

January 11 to February 8

The Amelia Douglas Gallery presents Land and Rock. Landscapes by Richard Bond and Pottery

by Keith Rice-Jones. Opening Reception January 11, 4:30-7:30pm at the Amelia Douglas Gallery.

Online tutoring service a new reality

A new year brings new opportunities for student success. Starting in January, the Learning Centre is launching a new online tutoring service for students, with support from Client and Learning Services. “The pilot stage of the project is over and we are now ready to offer convenient online tutoring services to students who need help developing strong writing skills,” says Cecil Klassen, Learning Centre instructor. Students can access this support either through myDouglas or from the Learning Centre website. Students email a writing project and an online

tutor reviews and responds with comments within 48 hours. Tutors will also use online tools such as private wiki pages to give feedback. This technology allows students to read the tutor’s comments in their web browser. “Plagiarism is one of the major reasons for offering an in-house online tutoring service for writing,” says Klassen. “Faculty know that students can pay for, and get too much help from many places, including the Internet. The Learning Centre offers a free service using peer tutors who are trained specifically to counteract plagiarism. Tutors provide input as informed readers

January 16

Literature Alive presents Métis Playwright Marie Clements. 11am, Room 1606. New Westminster Campus.

January 18

The Arts at One presents Faculty

Concert. ipm, Performing Arts Theatre.

only and also give guidance without doing the writing for the student.”

The new service uses the kinds of online technology that many students now take for granted. The Learning Centre will continue to provide College students with individual face-to- face tutoring in reading, writing, study skills, math and basic computer skills.

For more information about the Online Tutoring service, contact Brigette McConkey, Online Services Coordinator at 604-777-6266 or email at learnctr@douglas.bc.ca

Financial Advisors, Marie Anweiler (left), and Loretta Milne (right) help play Santa to one of Douglas College's students in need.

Giving from the heart

This year the Financial Aid Office coordinated donations for over 46 student families (including 87 children) from 38 groups of givers (departments and individuals). Sponsors include departments, individual College employees, the Baseball team, students, as well as friends and relatives of

members of the College community.

January 25

The Arts at One presents Stanton Jack, guitar. pm, Performing Arts Theatre.

February 14

Community Music School presents Valentines and Vaudeville 4th Annual Community Music School Fundraiser Concert. With

special guests The Society for the Preservation of Vaudeville. 7pm, Performing Arts Theatre. Tickets

$15. For more information call 604-527-5469.

Employee News/Moves

Partners for Life

Douglas College and the Canadian Blood Services have joined forces for the Partners

for Life campaign. Your next opportunity to roll up your sleeves and donate blood in New Westminster will be on Thursday, January 25. Two shuttle times will be available for early- and mid-afternoon trips. Everyone

is welcome. Get a group of

four or five donors from your department/program, and have a shuttle all to yourselves — or challenge another program/area to match your donation rate. First-timers and old-timer donors most welcome. To reserve a seat contact Meg Stainsby, English instructor at 604-527-5290.

Looking for runners The Sun Run —Temporarily Yours Corporate Team Challenge is set for Sunday, April 15, 2007! Sign up for the Douglas College Team and enter with co-workers, colleagues, friends, family or neighbours. Runners, walkers and wheelchair participants are all welcome. Temporarily Yours awards go to top teams in 14 categories. Sign up by Jan 31 at the Early Bird price of $35 (after Jan 31st it’s $40). For more info, e-mail Kathy Potter, Manager, Employee Relations Systems and Services at potterk@douglas. be.ca:

Eventful happenings Event, the Douglas College Review, wishes to thank outgoing editor Billeh Nickerson for his hard work and artistic vision over the past two years. Nickerson is succeeded by Rick Maddocks, a member of the Creative Writing faculty and award-winning author. Event also wishes to extend congratulations to poetry editor Elizabeth Bachinsky, whose book Home of Sudden Service was shortlisted for the 2006 Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

Seeing is believing Robert Dawson, Lab Technician with the Dispensing Optician program, was featured in the Coquitlam NOW about his work with the Third World Eye Care Society (TWECS) and the North Fraser Pre-trial Centre in Port Coquitlam. Dawson works with pre-trial inmates to sort glasses using a digital lensometer into different prescription categories. Once the eye glasses are sorted, the TWECS team takes upwards of 10,000 pairs to locations

such as Kenya, Cambodia, Mexico, Guatemala, India, Grenada, Malawi, Boliva and the Philippines. If you would like to help support this work, drop off donated glasses at the Douglas College Vision Centre or visit www.twecs.ca for more information.

Moves

In Humanities and Social Sciences, Catherine Elson moves into the newly created position of Administrative Officer and Ebie Guevara moves from auxiliary to regular as a Departmental Assistant.

Deb Ringrose moves from auxiliary to regular as Program Assistant at The Training Group’s Surrey location.

E.K. Kim moves from the Communications and Marketing Office to International Education department as an International Education Advisor.

Maria Morse of Health

Sciences moves from auxiliary to regular as Program Assistant in Continuing Education.

Delta Wong is the new Bookstore Logistics Coordinator.

Anne Brigham moves

from auxiliary to regular as Departmental Assistant in Child, Family and Community Studies.

‘The library welcomes Anne LePage as a Contract Librarian, and also welcome’s back Laurette Walshe from her maternity leave.

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New Dean begins in January

The Faculty of Science and Technology welcomes its new Dean, Dr. Sandy Vanderburgh, who replaces the retiring Des Wilson. Wilson will continue to support Vanderburgh in the transition process.

Award for The Practice Firm

The Practice Firm has won Program of the Year from

the ENET Society for their outstanding contribution

to employment support for

immigrants in the Lower Mainland.

Award winner joins Stagecraft

Paul Moniz de Sa joins Stagecraft where he will be teaching Audio Techniques. Moniz de Sa has received Jessie Richardson Awards for his work as an actor and nominations for best sound design.

Faculty Emeriti announced

Six faculty members have been announced as recipients of the 2006 Faculty Emeritus Award.

Recipients are John Blackwell and Gerard Edwards from Commerce and Business Administration, Jacqueline Gresko and Alan McMillan from Humanities and Social Sciences,

Fran Johnson of Health Sciences and Len Millis of Science and Technology.

Emeriti will be formally recognized at the February College Board meeting.

Scholarly activity funds awarded

Funding to support the growing research community at Douglas College has been awarded to 11 faculty members overseeing nine different research projects.

Faculty receiving research funding are: Bruce Hardy and Alejandra Sanchez in Child, Family and Community Studies; Denise Hawthorne, Anna Helewka, Patricia Rampersaud and Mike Tarko, Health

Sciences; Colin Campbell in Humanities and Social Sciences, and Diana Wegner in Language, Literature and Performing Arts. A group project from Science and Technology includes team members Lucia Fuentes,

Len Millis, and Lynette Sigola-Barreto.

To find out more about these projects, visit the Scholarly Activity group site in myDouglas or contact Tom Whalley, Scholarly Activity Coordinator at 604-527-5582 or whalleyt@ douglas.be.ca

Pickton trial to impact parking

College employees and students driving to the New Westminster Campus during the duration of the Robert Pickton trial are reminded to bring valid Douglas College ID or parking passes to access underground parking.

With higher than normal traffic volumes expected during the proceedings, non-College parking in the Victoria Street parkade will be restricted.

Additionally, cars queued to enter the parkade when the lot-full sign is displayed may be subject to police fines due

INside Douglas College is published by the Communications & Marketing Office the first Tuesday of each month. Submissions and story ideas are welcome; deadline is 10 working days before publication. Send text-only files to INside editor, CMO, Room 4700, New Westminster Campus; e-mail to parryk@douglas.bc.ca; or call 604-527-5048. Printed by the Douglas College Printshop.

INside January 2007