VOLUME 2 : NUMBER 21 : MAY 25, 1984

MAY 2 8 1984
CONGRATULATIONS
To Peggy (Central Files) Alexander and Bruce who are the proud parents of
Dynise, an '8' pound baby girl! Their bundle of joy arrived May 19th at
11:39 at Grace Hospital. Best wishes from all your friends at WI!

RB

VCC-VANCOUVER VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE
ASSESSMENT FEES LIBRARY
In accordance with Policy No. 2.4.2.3, all applicants wishing to be
assessed by a Department for the purpose of determining insert status

will be charged a ten ($10.00) dollar assessment fee.
To date, this policy has not been strictly enforced, but due to the
increasing budget and increasing workloads, the application of this
policy is necessary. Please ensure that all insert students are charged

an assessment fee of $10 prior to their making an appointment with the
Department concerned.

JV
ACCC/CVA CONFERENCE
The week of May 28, President Tony Manera acts as host to more than 800
instructors and administrators from across Canada at the joint conference

of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges and the Canadian
Vocational Association. The three day conference is built around the
theme "The Future is Now!" The keynote address by Ontario's Deputy

Minister for Citizenship and Culture, Bernard Ostry, looks at the
question: What Kinds of Futures? Sessions will examine learning
resources for the future, instructors and trainers in the future, and the

workplace in the year 2000.

BURSARY PRESENTATION
David Parnell, a blind student in the Clerk Typist program, was awarded a
$300 bursary from the International Order of the Daughters of the Empire
recently. David, who hopes to get a job as a draft dicta typist when he
graduates in August, masters his studies in dicta typing and business
communications through the use of audio tapes and a brailler to take

notes. IODE representatives Marilee Pollack and Shirley laci commended
David for his courage and perseverance.

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COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
Vancouver

Xfocational Institute

LIBRARY FILMS May 29 (11:45 in the Library Screening Room)

BAKERY
Art Perlmutar Bakery, operating since the early 1900's is a family
business located in the Kensington market area of Toronto. It was
started by the father, an immigrant from London, and is now being run
by his sons. The third generation of Perlmutars is not interested in
becoming bakers; their interests lie elsewhere, mainly because they
have had access to higher education.

LEISURE TIME PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography, according to professional Freeman Patterson, provides
people with an accessible creative outlet while improving their

appreciation for their surroundings. While strolling through the
wooded groves and lanes around his home, he and his students
elaborate further on these principles. Lively and informative.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES
OPEN LEARNING INSTITUTE - Director of Financial Services/Controller.
Applications should be forwarded to the Open Learning Institute,
Personnel Services, 7671 Alderbridge Way, Richmond, V6X 1Z9. Closing
date is May 28, 1984.
WT - Division Chairman : Business § Health Division. Closing date is
1984 06 15. Apply to the Personnel Department, Central Administration.

LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS Publications and Audio Visual Material
Managing Behaviour in Organizations

Patient Teaching: A Nursing Process

Approach (A/V)
- The Medical/Dental Secretary (A/V)
New Dimensions in Decimals (A/V)'
^ . Tw-f Telephone Communications (A/V)

Trace Elements, Hair Analysis § Nutrition
Secretaries Who Work With Numbers (A/V)
Percussion and Auscultation of the Lungs

and Thorax (A/V)
,-^7/j , Daily Business Communications (A/V)

Academic Preparation for College
The Executive Secretary (A/V)

Auscultation of Heart Sounds (A/V)

Machine Technology (A/V)
Office Experience: A Little Bit of

Math Skills for Business (A/V)

Everything (A/V)
The Legal Secretary (A/V)
Filing Systems (A/V)

Filing Skills (A/V)

¦Secretaries Who Work with Manuscripts(A/V)

Relevance in the Education of

Business Education: Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow

Wills for British Columbia

Today's Business Student

NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE BOARD
The College Board, at its meeting on 1984 May 23, approved the 1984/85
Operating Budget and the new tuition fee structure. The operating budget
will require the generation of tuition fees in the amount of $7,272,000.

This is an increase of approximately 30% over 1983/84*5 generation of
tuition fees which were in the order of $5,700,000.
The new tuition fees, effective 1984 September 01 will be:
$71.00 per month for full-time vocational students at the WI
$2.50 per hour for part-time vocational courses at the WI

a doubling of the fees for Power Engineering Tutorial and
Correspondence students from $0.42 to $0.84 per hour.

The College Board considered the serious impact of the level of tuition
fee increases and its impact on the accessibility to programs by
students. However, the alternatives would have been to reduce

instruction, further reducing the accessibility. Therefore, the College
Board reluctantly approved the new fee structure.

On the Expense Plan for 1984/85, the Board examined all significant
changes between 1983/84 and 1984/85 and, after some discussion, passed
the proposed Expense Plan retroactively to 1984 April 01.
The College Board passed the implementation of a $1.00 per course
athletic fee in support of intramural and Totem Conference activity at
the Langara Campus. This fee will be charged to registrants at the
Langara Campus only.

At the same meeting the College Board approved the Skills Growth Project
in the amount of $244,111 for the Job Core project to be offered by
Continuing Education at the WI. The major portion of this allocation is
for the acquisition of computer equipment and renovations of rooms 308

and 309 at the WI.
The College Board, at its meeting, approved the secondment of Mr. Jim

Camm, for a period of six months to Pakistan during 1984.

PUBLIC RELATIONS
The public relations efforts of the College depend on you providing your
input of ideas and newsworthy stories.

Please keep the Public Relations Network going by feeding your items to
Deborah Dresser in the Public Relations Department.

HWR

PRESIDENT'S REPORT TO THE BOARD May 23, 1984
1. DISTANCE EDUCATION WORKING GROUP
This working group, with representatives from the colleges,
institutions and universities has completed its report and submitted

it to the Minister of Education and the Minister of Universities,
Science and Communications. A copy is available from my office if
requested.
The report makes a number of recommendations intended to achieve
greater cooperation among colleges and institutes and universities in
the delivery of distance education activities. There are also some
areas of concern to us, such as the recommendation that the
development function for distance education courses be centralized.

2. 1984 CVA/ACCC CONFERENCE
As the Board knows, the Conference will be taking place next week at

the Holiday Inn Harbourside. As Chairman of the Planning Committee I
will be very heavily involved in overseeing the entire Conference

from preliminary activities on Saturday, May 26 to Friday, June 1. A
large number of volunteers from VCC and other colleges and institutes
in the lower mainland area are assisting and I am confident that the

Conference will be found worthwhile by all participants.

3. SUPPORT SERVICES FOR DISABLED STUDENTS
At the request of the Ministry of Education, Vancouver Community
College has drawn up a submission for a special purpose grant for

support services to disabled students. This grant would apply to
those students who are enrolled in programs not specially designed

for the disabled. It would apply to full-time programs and relate to
costs of direct instruction only.

Some of the services that will be provided are: special needs
counselling, pre-registration assistance, college orientation,
special facilities, education materials and equipment, readers,
tutors, classroom and lab assistants and such other services as may
be appropriate to the student's specific needs.

4. KNOWLEDGE NETWORK
The Knowledge Network recently had the largest audience ever for a
pre-registered telecourse. 3,525 students received certification in
C.P.R. (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation). V.C.C. Continuing Education

Division and Telecollege developed this course over the preceding two
years. Other cooperants were the B.C. Heart Foundation, Justice
Institute, and some 50 organized groups/service clubs, etc.

5. DONATION TO KING EDWARD CAMPUS
Cullen Detroit Diesel Allison Limited have donated two CMC Hydraulic
Marine Gears to King Edward Campus for the Diesel Mechanics training
program. One of the gears is new, valued at about $10,000; the other
has been used. The two additional pieces of equipment will be used
regularly for demonstration and hands-on training purposes.

Cullen Detroit Diesel Allison Limited have donated to VCC
previously. For the 1983 King Edward Campus Open House last fall,
the firm donated a new 8V-92 Diesel Engine, valued at over $20,000;
it is receiving optimum use.

6. STUDENT ASSISTANCE
The College is in receipt of a letter from the Hon. J. Heinrich
stating that, due to a delay in completing loan arrangements with
financial institutions, the College is requested to provide advances

against loans to specified eligible students. VCC has been provided
with lists of students for each campus, together with the total
amounts approved for loan and the wheels have been set in motion to
provide the necessary advances.
As soon as the Ministry completes the loan agreement with the

financial institutions, loan certificates will be forwarded to each
campus. The Ministry has undertaken to guarantee the amount of the
loan, plus interest at prime, as of June 1, 1984.

7. COOPERATIVE GRAPHIC ARTS PROGRAMMING

WI/MINISTRY OF LABOUR/CEIC
With the demise of the Columbia newspaper, the Ministry of Labour and
Canada Employment and Immigration Commission agreed that the
terminated individuals should be given an opportunity to upgrade
their printing production skills so that re-entry into the labour
force would be enhanced. The VCC/WI Printing Production Department
was asked to develop a program plan and training schedule.

This plan and schedule has been developed and delivered to the
Ministry of Labour. It is expected to be approved and the journeymen
should be entering their upgrade training during the month of June,
1984.

8. NATIONAL TOURISM DINNER MEETING AT WI
On May 28, 1984, the WI Food Trades Department has been selected to
prepare a banquet for the Canadian Tourism/Hospitality Advisory
Council on Human Resources. The major speaker will be Mr. Duncan
Holmes, Vice President Marketing, Keg Restaurants.
Ninety-five representatives from across Canada will be attending this
dinner. It is expected that this national exposure for the College

and WI's Food Trades Department will constitute a major recognition
of our quality programs.

9. UNION EDUCATORS MEETING AT V.V.I.
For the first time in recent memory, the education directors of at
least twenty B.C. unions, will be meeting at VCC/WI to plan their
educational strategies for the next two years.

The workshop will be co-sponsored by the VCC/WI Technical/Industrial
Division in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour and CEIC.
It has become recognized that journeyman upgrade training must

constitute a high priority over the next few years and VCC/WI's
record has been firmly established relative to this objective.
10. STUDENT BURSARIES - K.E.C.
In this past academic year (September '83 to April '84), fifty-six
students received merit awards totalling $10,500. An additional
$2,000 in bursary funds will be given out over the summer semester.

11. TRAC (COMMON CORE) COMES TO K.E.C.
On Monday, April 16, after months of planning and preparation, a
program which is new to VCC started at King Edward Campus. As the
Board is aware, TRAC is an individualized, competency-based training

program providing the first step in trades training.
For the time being, the program will fall within the jurisdiction of
the Vocation Preparation and Work Readiness Department. Class

registration will,be built to over forty and that number will be
maintained.

12. CONTRACTS FOR SERVICE
a) Contract 84-17
Summer English Language Program
Continuing Education June 20, 1984 to June 28, 1984
To provide 20 hours of English Language Instruction each (One

group of SELP)
Japan Air Lines/JALPAK $8,910.
b) Secondment of Instructor J. Kamm

Vancouver Vocational Institute July 1, 1984 to December 31, 1984
(International Education Contract) Secondment of J. Kamm to

Canedcom for a 6-month project in Pakistan for Pakistan
Polytechnic.
Canedcom

$5,624.

A.S. Manera