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Other proposals under consideration
include a Tourism Management degree
and the SARAW project, which would
offer management skills to people with
physical disabilities.

The Academic division will also be
considering proposals, says Bill, adding
that one suggestion from Pure and
Applied Sciences is to develop a pro-
gram that would help professional
immigrant women. “There are many
immigrants with professional qualifica-
tions who cannot even fill in an applica-
tion because they haven’t got the ability
in English. It’s not even a question of
whether they have the credentials.”

“This whole direction is exciting,”
says Bill. “We have an opportunity that
doesn’t lend itself to other post-second-
ary organizations. We have flexibility
and speed of response.”

Bill says the plan is to hold a forum in
the fall to discuss these ideas and others.
“We want to create groups to work on the
development of existing ideas and create a
format for the presentation of new ideas.”

Look for more on Skills Now in future
issues of the Informer.

CADE Conference

Every two years the people who teach
by phone, fax, video and computer meet
face to face. This year the Canadian
Association for Distance Education
conference (co-sponsored by Capilano
College and Simon Fraser University)
was the biggest ever. Co-chair Jim
Bizzochi says there were some interest-
ing issues raised at the event.

Keynote speaker Heather Menzies of
Carleton University challenged the
audience to consider the social and
cultural implications of relying on the
“information highway’, and the plenary
session on the next day demonstrated
some new capabilities of telephone
technology.

Stentor Co. hosted a three-way
conference between Vancouver, Winni-
peg and Ottawa. Participants could see
themselves and each other on TV
screens. The images and sound were sent

in a compressed form over phone wires.

Jim says distance educators use a
variety of technologies to communicate
with their students: videotape, video-
audio- and computer conferencing,
electronic mail, and print. “It may be
called the information superhighway, but
there’s actually a lot of different high-
ways, and we use all of them.”

A Positive Look at
Change

A dinner hosted recently by the
Association of Women in Post Second-
ary Education (WPSE) offered some
useful insights into one of life’s great
constants: change.

“We learned that crises can lead to
opportunity,” said Pamela Robb, who
was one of several Capilano College
employees attending the event at BCIT.
The speaker, Marie MacDonald from
Langara College, pointed out that there
are three different stages of change:
ending, the neutral zone (acceptance),
and beginning, where planning and new
ideas can be generated.

Pamela says she learned that all
change is stressful, whether negative or
positive, and that it is important to
identify your feelings. “Especially to
look for the positive,” stressed Pamela,
“and to keep a sense of humour.”

She says the evening ended with
laughter, and she looks forward to the
WPSE conference on Bowen Island June
3 - 5. The theme of the conference,
“Transforming Self and Systems” will
encourage positive changes to help
women assume control of their lives and
work.

Recycle Those
Phone Books!

Thanks to BC Tel, Purolator Courier
and The Lupus Society of B.C., you can
get rid of the old and make way for the
new. Recycle your old phone books now
by bringing them to the box provided at
the south entrance of the A building,
next to Central Stores and Receiving.

May 19/94

Resource Development
News

Thanks to an anonymous gift to
the College, three initiatives have
been undertaken to help interna-
tional students at Capilano College
achieve their educational goals.
International students are subject to
higher tuition fees than Canadian
students and are not eligible for
most loan and bursary programs.

1. The Asia Pacific Management
Co-operative Program Outstanding
Scholarship Award will recognize
the student with the highest aca-
demic standing after the first year of
the co-op program, who is undertak-
ing an overseas assignment in his or
her second year.

2. An International Student
Scholarship will recognize high
academic achievement and will help
an international student continue
his/her educational pursuits.

3. The donor has also made
available seed money to assist in
providing an international student
event during the 1994-95 academic
year.

International students at the
College represent such countries as
Japan, China, Hong Kong, Malay-
sia, England, India, Iran, Portugal,
Peru and Australia.

Capilano College is strongly
committed to international educa-
tion. This generous gift will help to
support the International Studies
programs at Capilano. Further
information on supporting interna-
tional programs may be obtained by
calling 984-4983.

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