Vancouver Community College ÿ Volume 2, Number 4 - February 1,1994 Government may alter Immigration Canada may be willing to modify the demands which are threatening VCC's LINC contract. Community Festival at KEC, May 20 through the 22. The College will join the Vancouver Com¬ LINC VCCFA President Dalton Kremer told the College Board Thursday that the federal government has backed away from its LINC munity Festival Society in sponsoring the event, demands demands in awarding a new contract to Toron- poetry, theatre and other performing arts in¬ to's George Brown College. volving 43 multi-cultural groups. Cruickshank said City Festmaybe the first Canada would restrict the ways in which VCC step toward Vancouver developing a multi-cul¬ can allocate funds received from the LINC con¬ tural festival that would be on par with those in tract, which is up for renewal on September 1. Edmonton and Toronto. In short, Immigration Canada has decided to control how much the College pays for em¬ "Green paper" On Thursday the Board approved a pro¬ news updates phone 7099 after 2:30 pm hiui- I taking shape The VCC Planning Team will meet Friday posal to Immigration Canada that the College to finalize its draft statements of vision, values enter into the contract at the government's andmission. The draft statements, whicharethe maximum rate of $6 per student contact hour, result of the recent Futures Conference, will but with the caveat that the College has the flexibility to allocate the funds as it deems appro¬ priate, while remaining fiscally accountable for all of the expenditures. daily Diversity. The festival will feature music, dance, The new regulations from Immigration ployee salaries and benefits. For entitled City Fest...a Celebration of Cultural then be circulated among the College popula¬ tion for further comment prior to being pre¬ sented to the Board on February 17. The statements--along with proposals for A second part to the motion states that all a new organizational structure, a Board govern¬ constituent groups, including the unions, KESA ance model for VCC and Langara College, a and the Board, lobby every level of government to enable VCC's LINC proposal to be accepted. funding plan and an external environment scan- will form a "green paper" for further discussion. "We can successfully operate this pro¬ Meanwhile, the Advanced Education gram on our own if the College has flexibility in Council of B.C. has issued for discussion a draft the area of reducing some overhead costs and mandate statement for colleges, the final version shifting some of the program instruction to less of which will be presented to the provincial senior instructors," said President John government. Cruickshank. He added that there are no plans to reduce VMREU support staff costs. Here is the first draft of the AECBC man¬ date statement: "B. C. colleges are community based teach¬ In other business, the Board agreed that ing institutions committed to life-long learning VCC would co-sponsor and host the Vancouver for adults of all ages. They shall provide continu- ing educational, developmental, career, techni¬ Linda Martin stated that given changing societal cal, vocational and academic programs. values "it's probably as good a time as any for us "These programs, both formal and non- formal, shall address the needs of the geographic, social, economic and cultural communities of the college region. "Colleges shall emphasize provision of ac¬ to really get going with some solutions to the issue." In Victoria, Women's Equality Minister Penny Priddy has announced that a government policy involving campus harassment will soonbe developed as "a matter of some urgency." cessible full and part time programs and serv¬ ices. Programs shall range from short cycle to Better, multi-year education and training, enabling not bigger learners to enter and leave at various levels of formal recognition and accomplishment. "Colleges shall connect and articulate ac¬ The Exchange Line has reduced thenumber of reports to four times a week, Mondays through Thursdays. tivities in order to ensure recognition of previ¬ ous learning. Programs shall reflect community There are two reasons. First, the recent needs, respect community values, and shall be survey of Exchange listeners told us that five recognized by other institutions. "Colleges shall base their services and pro¬ grams on continuing contact with advisory groups and constituencies, and on ongoing evaluation of the relevance and quality of programs and serv¬ ices. These consultative and evaluative proc¬ esses will guide College development and re¬ source allocation.'' Equity issues studied at CC reports a week was more than most of you were prepared to call in for, or perhaps remembered to call m for. And second, as with any news media, the Exchange also has slow news days The eveningnews hour may have to be produced every day--even during slow days--but it's cer¬ tainly not our wish to waste your valuable time with anything other than information that's up to standard. After a year's experience with the Exchange, it looks to us like four days a week will better meet that goal. We're also going to be adding one or two City Centre has struck a committee which new features to the Exchange Line. Both are is looking at a wide range of social issues: gender designed to provide added value to callers .We'll equity, race equity and related education for tell you about them when they're ready to go, both students and employees. Vice President probably by April 1. If you have any comments or questions, please send them to Chuck Poulsen, Manager of The Exchange, in care of College Administrative Services.