CAP COLLEGE lOSES
112 TEACHING STAFF
AT LEAST 112 teachers have received layoff last day at the college before
to Vancouver
notices from Capilano College as a result of the transferring
Community College, prin$1 million cut to the college's operating budget.
cipal Paul Gallagher said the
Fourteen of the teachers and for the lost expertise in problems Capilano is facing
are the same problems other
are full-time and the rest the classrooms.
**It's not a small number colleges face.
temporary, often teaching at
"We have to attempt to
the college for a semester at of people," Stewart said.
"It's an incredible pool of maintain the same level of
a time.
Capilano faculty member expertise, a serious deprecia- service," Gallagher said.
Walter Stewart says he sees tion of the community's "It's not pleasant at all. We
are attempting to solve the
the layoffs as tragic — for resources."
Speaking Wednesday, his best we can, continually
the teachers losing their jobs

l o o k i n g f o r resources." living within our budget,
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Gallagher said the college because we've been using a
is receiving 96 per cent of
their 1984 budget. The other
four per cent will go into an
We made a mistake
ongoing fund towards new
In the Friday April 26 Janurary, 1981. In fact
programs aimed at economic
edition of the North Hartford Holdings purbenefit to the community,
Shore News a front page chased the property in
which the colleges will later
story stated that Sussex J a n i a r y , 1 9 8 1 . W e
bid on.
Realty purchased Stoker apologize to Sussex for
"One of the problems
Farm property at 29th any inconvenience this
we're facing is that the last
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Stewart said the demand
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for education at Capilano
C o l l e g e is i n c r e a s i n g .
surplus we had before. The "Enrolment is u p , " he said.
s u r p l u s is n o l o n g e r "Participation is up. There
available. A four per cent are long waiting lists for
decrease doesn't sound like classes. There is every inmuch less, but with the ac- dication that enrolment for
cumulative affect, and the the forthcoming year will inlack of the surplus, it is."
crease. We can't afford to
Stewart said the province's lose these people.
total allocation to funding in
"We're not prepared to
1984-85 was $252 million sacrifice the quality of
and for 1985-86 $240 mil- education, and we're going
lion.
to fight against the cuts."
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