CITIZEN

P 10, July 26, 1978

MARKS 10TH
ANNIVERSARY
This year Capilano College will be celebrating
its 10th anniversary as the centre of post secondary
learning for the North Shore and Howe Sound. The
College employs over 225 full and part-time instructors, a support staff of 150 and has a student enrollment of over 4000.
Among the College's offerings are academic
and career/ vocational programs as well as community education, non-cr~dit classes. More and
more of its courses are being accepted for transfer
credit at U.B.C., S.F.U. and the University of Victoria. Many of its facilities, including its libraries
and physical fitness centre, are open to the public.
To mark this first decade, the College community is preparing a wide variety of special events
to be presented next fall, winter and spring. They
range from science fairs to literary contests to
music competitions to invitational sporting tournaments to seminars, lectures and symposiums. All
topped off with a college wide open house in midMarch of 1979.
Paul Gallagher, Principal of Capilano, in talki,ng of this important year ahead, said "One major
area of expansion ( to answer demand) will be the
Vocational programming of the college with accent
on construction related subjects. This wiil require
opening up a new facility in the industrial Harbor
Street area of North Vancouver to house heavy construction and gerneral maintenance shop classes
and equipment. We also expect an increase in the
number of general course offerings presented in
West Vancouver. At present, the Municipality of
West Vapcouver is investigating the feasibility of
the School Board, various community groups and
the College participating in a 'shared usage' plan at
the Inglewood Secondary School.
In further summary for The Citizen, the Principal pointed out the previously announced
Squamish Satellite plans of the College which call
,for the establishment of a full time facility there to
serve the Howe Sound community; with gradual
"phase-in" of the operation to start this fall.
"At the Lynnmour campus we will be tocreasing our second year academic programming to
give more emphasis on accreditation requirements
for students who plan to attend university after
leaving our college," Gallagh~r said, "And, we
seriously expect approval from Victoria for capital
funds to start replacing some of the inadequate,
temporary buildings of the main cami:1us. ''