Vancouver Community College • Volume 1, Number 1

f Transition
Council

With a spirit which was described as

of the whole which are each happier with

"Impressively co-operative", members of the

themselves and each other than they were as
one.

0to

new Transition Council have held the first of
what will be weekly Monday meetings to
determine the structures ofVCC and the new

be heard in this process. Money considera¬

impressively

Langara College,

tions must be made with a clear criteria and

co-operative'

The TC is comprised of the regular
membership of the old College Executive

cast widely to the college community."

Committee (CEC), plus a representative from
each major VCC union. The TC now in¬

A guiding consideration for the coun¬
cil's discussions over the next 14 months

cludes: VCC President John Cruickshank,

(Langara will separate on April 1,1994) will
be how much—if any—additional money will

Added Kremer: "Everyone's voice must

reliable data. And our decisions must be broad¬

Acting Langara Principal Linda Holmes, Act¬

ing KEC/City Centre Principal Joan Horsley,
Richard Pearce, Acting Director of College
Resources, Acting Continuing Education Di¬

be available from the ministry to accomplish

rector Gail Rochester, Tom Toulson, Direc¬

ing of advanced education, Warren and others

tor of International Education and Contract

called for a "fair and equitable" approach to the
split,

Services and Acting Bursar Fred Wylie, In
addition, Langara Faculty Association Presi¬

the task. Although the government is stress¬
ing "zero-inflationary" increases in the fund¬

dent Lawrence Warren, VCC Faculty Asso¬

"Both of the institutions which are about

ciation President Dalton Kremer and Van¬

to be formed must stand on a strong financial

couver Municipal and Regional Employees
Union representative Jo Hansen join the group.

suffers a loss, they must also know that they

foundation," said Warren. "When one part
will make a gain in another area."

It was also noted that the separation has

a solid legal basis with approval in principle
from both the ministry and cabinet.

Cruickshank said he saw TC as a "hop¬
per" into which all of the concerned constitu¬
encies would place information, ideas and

In an opening comment, Holmes asked

concerns. TC would then refine the input and

H/lQOtlil&S that past quarrels be left behind in favour of a

present subsequent decisions to the College
Board for approval.

to be held
Monday

"I hope we will develop a process that
not only appears to be fair, but, in fact, will be
fair," said Holmes, "AH of the people of both
parts (KEC-CC and Langara) need to be in¬
volved and we all need to pull together. At the
end of this exercise, I hope we have two pieces

The first TC session was devoted largely
to a philosophical view of the issues, but
several specific resolutions were adopted to

support the "fair and equitable" approach.
Continued on the other side...

Among those:
• Concerns from students and the general public must be actively sought and
accepted. (It was decided that student representatives would not sit on the
TC, but that a mechanism to involve them would be constructed, as a

priority).
• Provide for total participation of all college constituencies in the process of
developing two colleges from one.
• The emphasis would be on "open" meetings ofTC. Private sessions will be
kept to a minimum. Contributions to meetings from administration members
and union staff will be welcomed.
• There will be full communications of TC discussions and actions to all
constituents: employees, students, government and the public.
• To ensure that fair treatment occurs in each college and centralized service
area relative to release time, professional development funding, curriculum
development funding and other common elements, the budgetary allocation
process will be based on clear criteria and concise data.
• Cruickshank will chair the TC, with deputy chairpersons acting on a
rotating basis.