Vancouver Community College• Volume 1, Number 6• March 16, 1993

College Board has stayed with its not behind picket lines and they have the
·�soard JanuaryThecontract
offer to the VCC Faculty support of their respective executives.

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Association to avoid "massive" program cut­
backs forstudents, PresidentJohn Cruick.shank
told The Exchang� in an interview following
lytoridafs Transition Council meeting.
"Th«rBoardhas southtalternate funding
solutions with the Minister and Ministry offi" cials, but they were told there would be no
new mopey available for 1993-94," said
Cruickshank. .
1'Board members are aware that a Minis­
. tr;- r�p�rt shows that instructor workloads in
ESL and ABE are comRetitiv.e with other
" . Lbw�r Mainland colleges. But after a long and
si�cere djscussion on March 11th, they de­
pded th}l.t they must continue their position
on .$aliry anq workloads or students would
face massive program cutb�cks."
The College has received strike notice
from the YCCFA. The unfon has told the
College that unless an agreement is reached,
a stdke will begin on all campuses in the
VCCFAjurisdictionon March 18. Those cam.pus�sinclu<ieCity Centre, KEG, KEC North
ano. KEC West.
M�anwhile, during the public session of
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Monday's TC meeting, Cruickshank said that
·he bad been told by the VCCFA's Dalton
J(remer that the union would not participate
ip TC meetings or VCC Planning Steering
Committee �eetings if there is job action.
Representatives of the other two unions on
theTC--Lawrence Warren of the LFt\ and Jo
Hansen of the VMREU--said that they possi­
bly would continue to participate, but only if
the TC.meetings were held at a site that was

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The TC will also be recommending to
the Board that, in the event of job action, the
Board's March 25th meeting be held at a site
other than the fifth floor boardroom, possibly
Langara.

Centre$ of Excellence

The 9ollege has received a letter from
Gary Mullins, Deputy Minister of Advanced
Education, stating that his staff is reviewing
VCC's proposal for Centres of Excellence
and that the Ministry's thoughts will be made
available by March 25.
The letter was in reply to a College
request for details on the Centre of Excellence
concept.
Mullins wrote that while no additional
money would be available for 1993-94, there
may be extra revenues for the following year.
Wrote Mullins: " ... this should not be
taken as a commitment that additional funds
will be forthcoming (in '94-95). Ministry
staff are prepared to analyze the financial
aspects of the proposal...subject to the Legis­
lature's approval of our 1994-95 budget."
Added Mullins: "The issue will have to
be considered within the context of the modi­
fications required to the funding formula that
are necessary to accommodate the two new
institutions. The formula was designed to
meet the needs of comprehensive colleges and
since neither of the new institutions (VCC or
Langara College) will fit that definition, modi­
fications will be required."