THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN

NORTH SHORE NEWS
February 18, 1981
page A-15

Access to community
is Cap College ideal
By PATRICH
. Capilano College 1s inten.ding to increase its
• "presence" throughout the region in the next five
years even when this may not be economical.
This is one of the key
elements of the future
development of the college
'T h e
proposed
in
Educational Plan for
Capilano College 1981-1986'
a report prepared for the
Minister of Education.
During the preparation of
the report last year, public
meetings were held in Howe
Sound, on the Sunshine
Coast and on the North
Shore, and over 100 citizens
completed questionnaires
requesting input on the
college's future.
At the very start of the
report, the college makes it
clear that more financial
support is necessary to meet
all needs and provide for
expansion.
"... in the period 1981
through 1986 there will be
·m o r e applicants and
established
post-school
educational needs in the
College community than the
College will be able to
respond to unless it receives
considerably more financial
support than it has received
in the recent report," the
plan's preface says.
"... the College cannot be
assured that it will have the
resources to do well
everything it might wish to
do within the limits of its
mandate and the legislation
by which it is governed."
The report goes on to talk
about the "reluctance" with
which "difficult priorities"
must be set.
Yet the report goes on to
say that "Capilano College
plans to maintain a physical
presence throughout the
college region ... even when
such developments may not
be the most efficient or
economical."
More specifically the
college plans to contruct its
·own satellite facilities in
Squamish by 1982 and
establish a perman�nt

•There will be a substancial
increase in Vocational
programs until 1983-84
•Campus life will be
enhanced by providing
increased space for study
and recreation

primary location in the
Sunshine Coast region by
1984.
The college also plans "to •A study of the feasibility of
provide travel al)d living . establishing a full summer
allowances to residents of term will be prepared
the College region to ensure
an equality of accessibility to •A "child-minding service"
on or near the Lynnmour
College services."
Campus will be established
Although there has been a
Many of the proposed
steady increase in the
number of people attending developments, such as the
Capilano from outside the travel expenses and child­
region, the college "plans to care service will depend on
give enrolment preference to th� availability of funds, the
qualified applicants from its plan points out.
However, the major aim
region except for programs
which are unique to of the college to provide
Capilano College in the a c c e s s i b l e e d u c a t i o n
throughout the region does
Lower Mainland."
not seem to hinge on
The plan says the college available money. "Many
intends to maintain the same desirable directions and
general directions it has activities have been set aside
been attempting since 1968 in the interests of ensuring,
but the following highlights a at the very least, the
number of proposed changes College's highest priorities
for 1981 through 1986."
and additions:

CAP COLLEGE principal Paul Gallagher ovenees the
day-to•day rumdng of the college and Is looking ahead
to the next five yean.