Vancouver Community College • Volume 1, Number 20 - July 8,1993

One last

budget
appeal to
Ministry

A message from

John Crulckshank
As you know by now the budget infor¬

mation panel scheduled for July 8 has been
cancelled. There is a good reason for this delay
and I'd like to explain it to you.

On Tuesday, July 6, up until midnight,
College administrators met with members of
the Board's Administration and Finance Com¬
mittee, and Education and Student Services
Committee...nine Board members in total.

This is the first opportunity we've all had to
see the whole picture that would be painted by
the reductions required to pay back the deficit
and balance the budget by March 31,1995. It
is a dismal picture.
No matter how we go at this problem,
no matter how many different scenarios we
consider, the effects are quite devastating for

The effects of the budget cutbacks we
are being asked to make affect dozens, if not
hundreds ofemployees.. .hundreds if not thou¬
sands of students. It's crucial that all of the
Board members, who have been so tremen¬

dously supportive of this College, not be
rushed into a decision that has this land of
impact. And equally important that the Min¬
istry clearly understand how educationally
dangerous a path they've placed us on.

Stay tuned to 7099 and watch for other
bulletins....we'll keep everyone as informed
as we can.

—John Cruickshank

Three Division
Chairs appointed
Three Division Chairs have been ap¬
pointed.

our College. In that light, this group of nine
Board members made two decisions late

Wednesday night.

For

daily

duction plans before those plans go to the

news

ondly , the Ministry must be made aware of the

updates

phone

7099
after

2:30 pm
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First, the entire Board must be made
aware of the consequences of the deficit re¬
College community or the public. And sec¬

Moira MacLeod has been named Divi¬

sion Chair for ESL and Jean Cockell has been
appointed Division Chair for ABE. MacLeod
was formerly head of the ESL Department;
Cockell was previously head of the Math De¬
partment. Jackie Sandy proceeded through
the interview process and was re-appointed
Division Chair, Tourism and Hospitality.

damage that will be done by the directives
they are insisting we follow.

To that end, we will be meeting with the
Ministry on July 13 or 14 to lay out all of the
consequences.

Foundation fund

tops $3 million
VCC s Educational Foundation now has

$3.2 million in its scholarship and bursary
It now looks like the Board's meeting on

endowment fund, which surpasses all projec¬

the 15th will be a private one, with a public
Board meeting scheduled for either July 22 or

tions and stands as a notable achievement

29.

years old.

considering that the Foundation is just nine

Continued on the other side...

In fact, the Foundation's just-released
annual report for 1992 points out that VCC

Exchange gets
the message

continues to receive a larger matching fund
contribution from the government than any
other college or institute in B.C
Last year saw the foundation receive its
largest single donation, $150,000 from the

You've told us that you want the Ex¬

change Newsletter printed on recycled, and
recyclable paper. At The Exchange, we be¬
lieve that the customer is always right Seri¬

ously!

CKNW Orphans' Fund That money, along

The only reason we hadn't gone into

with the government's matching contribu¬

the recycle mode is that we were waiting to

tion, established an endowment fund for sin¬

see if the system at KEC would develop to the

gle parent students

point where the coloured paper we print on

The annual truck lottery, which raised

would be recyclable, as it is at Langara That

$50,000 in 1992, is back in business again this

still appears to be a ways off, so we're now m

year. Tickets for a truck valued at over

the process of ordering a year's worth of

$105,000 are priced at $100 each, but with

recycled white paper stock for the Exchange

only 2,000 tickets printed buyers are looking

newsletter... and, of course, those papers can

at far better odds than other

be recycled again once they have been read

lotteries...something like seven times better

(City Centre does not as yet have a paper

than winning an equal amount on 100, "649"

recycling program).

tickets Buyers may get together with others

Because the Exchange is published

and purchase a ticket as a group. There's also

weekly, we wanted to keep some colour on

a second place prize of a trip to Las Vegas and

the cover to differentiate the current week

a third-place stereo system. Phone local 7173

from previous weeks' editions Conse¬

or 7175 to get your application form.

quently, we'll pre-pnnt the masthead in four

There were five new directors elected at

different colours; because the colour goes on

the foundation's AGM on June 28. Denis

only as ink rather than being part of the paper,

Forrestal, General Manager for the Westin

the paper will still be recyclable.

Bayshore, Lizz Lindsay, VCCFA representa¬

And because we're having the Print

tive, Chris Rudge, Vice President of Western

Production Program at City Centre do this

Operations for Quebecor Printing, Bob

work at a cost far below a commercial pnnter,

Faulkner, Vice President of Marketing for

the whole changeover won't cost the College

Metropolitan Press and Jeame Stervnou

any extra money. It will, however, take us a

Brandt Louie, President of H Y. Louie
and Bob Brocklebank, President of the
McElhanney Group, were appointed

short time to get the new stock in, so please
be patient with the old coloured stock for a
while longer.
The Exchange is your newsletter and

honourary directors because of their outstand¬
ing support of the College and Foundation

your newsline . .you set the course with your

ideas
-Chuck Poulsen