lip VANCX HIVliR COMMUNITY COLLEGE Vancouver CommunKy CoISege CITY CENTRE July 28, 1994 City Centra 280 We'r?emiAl)fertletJ "94 Hospitality Division. ORGANIZATION UPDATE 1. Two Acting Division Chairs have been elected to serve their divisions until September 30, 1994: Service Programs Division with the ® September 1. 1994 addition of the Building Community and Career Service Worker and Hairstyling Departments. Education; Employment and Education Access for Women; Sign Language Studies Tricia Hughes - Health & • Institutional Aide and the Pharmacy Technical Assistant programs join the Health Sciences Division. Sciences; and, will move to the Academic/ABE/ASE 3. Postings Steve Stafford - Tourism & Division led by Jean Cockell. Her position title will become Associate The following positions are being posted shortly with a Hans Obec will assume the Acting Department Head Dean at that time. closure date of September role of Food & Beverage Also, the Small Business commencement date of Management to fill in for Development Program will October 1, 1994: Steve. be transferred to the Business and Computer a) Dean of Academic and Hospitality. We appreciate their willingness to assist during this phase of the 9, 1994 and a Applications Division under Associate Dean, Syd Hartley. reorganization. Development Programs; b) Associate Dean - Applied Arts and Technology Division; As of September 1, 1994, Moira MacLeod's title also c) Associate Dean - changes to Associate Dean of ESL Programs. and, continue as follows: • Immediately October 1, 1994 Travel Agent and Retail • The Tourism and Meat Processing programs return to the Tourism & Hospitality Division will These three Associate Dean positions replace the become the Tourism, positions of Division Chair 2. Division reorganization has begun and will Health Sciences Division; d) Associate Dean Tourism, Hospitality and Service Programs Division. Health Sciences, Division Chair Tourism & Hospitality, Division Chair Careers and Division Chair If you have any concerns or questions, call the above-mentioned names. minimum during peak hours (8:00 - 16:30). Technical Programs. J. Chivas There are many people sharing these dial-up lines. your connect time to a 5390 E-Mail 4. Search processes continue for: Applications for a user ID • Registrar; and, • Coordinator - First Nations Education 5. I.R.A. Release Review - scheduled to begin in September. L. Martin, Vice President D. Dorn, Vice President ELECTRONIC MAIL & INTERNET SERVICES The Information and Computing Services department at VCC now provides electronic mail and Internet services for faculty and staff members. These services may be accessed by existing PRIME E-MAIL (VCC6) The current PRIME terminal users, and for new users via dial-up modems. DIAL UP ACCESS INTERNET PDNMAIL system will be discontinued as of August 31, 1994. Would any faculty/staff currently using VCC6 and Access to these services at and e-mail address are available from the I.C.S. department. The electronic mail program we are providing on our system is called "pine". It is an easy to use, menu driven program, developed by the University of Washington. An instruction booklet is available from the I.C.S. Department. File Transfer Files may be transferred to and from your Unix account and your PC using the kermit file transfer City Centre is provided through two telephone protocol. Disk space is numbers, one for on- LIMITED on the Unix PDNMAIL for their campus use (8900) and the Internet access, please contact or leave a message other for external access computer, please keep the size of your Unix account (681-8655). There are to a minimum. with Jim Chivas #5390 or currently two modems Christie Wagner #8368 or attached to each of these Ron Ross #8371 at City lines. These are U.S. Centre. We will be issuing new e-mail accounts on a new Unix Robotics Sportster 14,400 computer running a new e- mail program called 'pine'. During the August time period there will be several bps modems. Your communications software should be set to 8 data bits, 1 stop bit and no parity. We suggest using VT100 terminal emulation. workshops setup to introduce 'pine'. *** Please try to keep INTERNET The I nternet (or "infobahn") is now available to our faculty and staff members! There is a wealth of information out there, and here are the tools we currently provide to access it: Archie Archie (archive searcher) developed in Canada by McGill University, is a command line utility used "point" to other documents on the same computer system, or anywhere around the globe. Telnet retrieved using ftp. Be Ftp (file transfer protocol) is a utility used to transfer files between computer and run programs on other computers connected to the Internet. There are many locations on the internet that you can connect to, and use without charge. Ftp can be used to retrieve Education such resources as public domain and shareware There are many books image files and sound files. Gopher M. Wilson Telnet provides you with the capability to connect to systems on the Internet. software (be careful of VIRUSES), documents, give you one. Counselling to search archives of data by file name which can be one, please drop by the department and a staff member will be happy to available which will help you access the Internet. We strongly recommend purchasing one for yourself or your department if you CAMPUS TOURS We receive at least three or four requests for campus tours each month. Often these requests come from highschools having their students tour various colleges in the Lower Mainland. It is a constant struggle to accommodate tours mainly because we cannot find willing tour leaders. are considering using the Gopher is a utility that Internet for the first time. provides a menu based view of Internet resources, If sufficient interest is guiding you to a variety of locations on the Internet and permitting you to view indicated, I.C.S. will run courses on using the Internet and the tools used to access it. To register your interest in courses or retrieve documents or files. please contact Christie Lvnx Wagner (8368) or Ron Ross (8371). Lynx is a character based C. Wagner interface to the World Wide Web. Information within the WWW is cross linked to other information Please consider the importance of these tours and volunteer two hours of your time. With sufficient volunteers we would call on you only once or twice per year. A prepared script is available. If you are willing to help, please call Parviz at local 8312. If we are unable to attract tour leaders, we will have to refuse all tour requests 1994 CALENDARS in the fall. sources using what is called Hypertext technology. Highlighted available in the words or phrases in a Hypertext document Counselling Department. If anyone is interested in Calendars are now We look forward to hearing from you so that we can continue to offer tours to potential students. K. Kelly Director of College and City Centre. Services Nomination forms should be available and sent to SELECTION OF SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS CHANGED PROCEDURES FOR CITY CENTRE September to select recipients for (November) Fall Awards. The City P. Bullock Financial Services Department Departments concerned in Centre Awards Committee, consisting of Jackie Sandy For the next month, - Chair, Dana Fister, Centricity will be published as needed; of the items on the agenda Financial Aid, Division/Department Representatives Lizz Lindsay, Gus Mullings, Settimio Sicoli, Maciek At the April 1994 meeting of the Council of Educational Managers one was the procedure for Walentowicz, Ginny selecting Scholarship Cathcart and Student recipients. A proposal was Association Executive member, remains an presented by the Financial Aid Advisor and the Chair of the Awards Committee to change the procedure to integral part of the process. If you have any questions or concerns, one Department or G.P.A. is standard in most other please do not hesitate to Colleges; it is clear that Financial Aid Advisor at 8422 or jackie Sandy at 8309. the resources are no longer available to have numerous Departments (Instructional, Financial Aid and Student Records) and the Awards Committee process hundreds of applications. contact either Dana Fister, recognizing our outstanding students. having Departments select Scholarship recipients D. Fister Financial Aid The Scholarship/Bursary policy is being updated to reflect the new policy and procedure, and to. outline consistent practices at KEC requested, the deadline for submissions for the next Centricity is September 5, 1994. The following are the deadline dates to the end of the year: September 19, 1994 October 3, 1994 October 17, 1994 October 31, 1994 November 14, 1994 November 28, 1994 December 12, 1994 Centricity HOLIDAYS Please note that I will be on holidays from July 29, 1994 to August 19 inclusive. In my absence, attendance at the April C.E.M. meeting. therefore, unless otherwise S. Patersonfor A big thank you to all the Faculty members for their past and future efforts in The new procedure of received unanimous consent from those in CENTRICITY DEADLINE FINANCIAL INQUIRIES Please direct any City Centre Financial Aid inquiries to Peter Bullock at local 7108. please refer any enquiries to Fiona McComb at local 8404. W. Keenan Admissions & Scheduling Supervisor CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR GED EXAMINER AND GED INVIGILATORS BACKGROUND: Thome Husband who was appointed by the College in 1988 as GED examiner has decided to not renew his contract with the Ministry of Education. The College is therefore in the position of identifying a replacement for Thome. Thome has indicated that those interested consider the following: 1. Considerable time is required to organize the testing sessions, invigilators and testing materials. 2. A safe place is required to secure the tests. 3. Tests are administered at regional centres 6 (six) times/year, Friday evening and Saturday. Rooms have been booked at KEC for up to 180 candidates. 4. One invigilator per 20 GED candidates is required. 5. The honorarium for the Examiner is $250.00. The honorarium for Invigilators is $150.00. QUALIFICATIONS PLEASE NOTE: Persons instmcting or preparing candidates for GED tests cannot be appointed as Examiner or Invigilators. GED Examiner: • Baccalaureate degree or have an equivalent background in teaching, counselling or testing verified by the GED Chief Examiner (Ministry of Education). GED Invigilators: • Must have Grade 12 or equivalent. If interested in becoming either the Examiner or an Invigilator please submit your name with educational background to Linda Martin, Vice President Educational Support Services, by September 02, 1994. A lottery process will be utilized to make the final determination. Any questions on the positions can be directed to Thome Husband or me.