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The 5th Annual Meeting of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges comes to Vancouver for the first time in early November after previous national conferences in Ottawa, Toronto, Quebec City and Winnipeg.

The ACCC College Canada '75 will take place in the heart of downtown Vancouver, at the stately Hotel Vancouver, November 9-12, and will re attended by an estimated 1, 000 delegates from across Canada,

In addition to their involvement in the ACCC meetings, seminars and exhibitions the delegates will have an opportunity to participate in a number of other related activities, These include an important International Assembly on Community-Based Short-Cycle Higher Education and a series of mini-conferences which will run November 7-9.

These mini-conferences will focus on a wide variety of topics,..... the education of health workers, student personnel services, college council/board members and community college students.

Planning for the ACCC conference has been under way since early in the New Year with George Wootton, Principal of Douglas College and Gordon Thom, his counterpart at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, acting as co-chairmen of a steering committee responsible for program planning, logistics and exhibits, social activities and publicity and promotion.

Allan Goldenberg, Executive Director of the ACCC, is responsible for the overall co-ordination of the conference while the individual committees are headed by Marilyn Smith (Douglas College) program; Valerie Giles (Capilano College) social; Alf Glenesk (Vancouver Community College) logistics and exhibits; and Jerry Lloyd (B.C.1.T. ) publicity.

Key speakers at the conference will include author, journalist and politician Paul St. Pierre, who will be the star attraction at the ACCC annual banquet on Tuesday, November 11 and Dr. Pauline Jewett, President of Simon Fraser University, who will address the luncheon on Monday, November 10, The banquet, incidentally, is pene hosted by the Government of British Columbia.

At the most recent count, delegates to the conference will be able to make a choice between 14 different major program focuses, 16 special forums and at least 20 spotlight sessions at which individual colleges will outline recent innovations and new services.