Third exchange successful

The two people posing in front of an

impressive buffet dinner above are Liam

Kearns, English language monitor, and
Miura Yukiko, student, from the Japanese

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Volume Vil No. 16 August 26, 1985

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CASP comes to Cap

New prog. for Native students

There's a new program on campus to
add to the alphabet soup of acronyms—
CASP stands for the College Achievement

and Support Program which is brand

new this fall. Terry Hood is the
coordinator of CASP, which is a one-
year program aimed at preparing
native students for university. CASP
is modelled after a program that has
been operating successfully at Fraser
Valley College for several years and
it involves a set of core support
courses on academic skills,
counselling and support services, and
a Native Student Centre which is
being set up in room L203. Students
enrolled in CASP will take both the
support courses and some regular
academic or career classes, and wil]
receive a certificate on completion
of the program.

An externally funded program, CASP
falls under the jurisdiction of the
Instructional Services division, and
is being offered in cooperation with
the Anderson Lake, Burrard, Mount
Currie, Sechelt, and Squamish Indian
Bands, and the Department of Indian
and Northern Affairs. Although many
of the students will be coming to the
program straight from high school, it
is also intended to encourage mature
students to return for post-secondary
education. Coordinator, Terry Hood,
also emphasizes that among the key
objectives of the Native Student
Centre is providing programs for the
entire college community and increasing
the native presence on campus. Although
CASP has not yet been extensively
advertised, there are already 30 applicants
for the 25 seats available this fall.

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