September 24/99

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EVERY
YEAR, A
CANADIAN

INVENTS
A WAY TO

MAKE
$100,000

THE
MANNING
INNOVATION
AWARDS

Nationwide search for innovators

right ideas make money, and if you
have one that has been developed

and marketed in Canada, then the Ernest

C. Manning Awards Foundation wants
to hear about it.
Since 1982, the Manning Innovation

Awards have been recognizing flashes of

Canadian brilliance (the artificial knee,
the flat electrical plug) with honours
ranging from the $5,000 Innovation
Award to the $100,000 Principal Award.
So, regardless of how big or small
your developed innovations are, we

encourage you to submit them. And
who knows, you may have to invent
new ways to spend $100,000.

Nominations close on February 15,
2000. To receive a nomination
pamphlet or for more information, visit
the Foundation’s Web site at:
www.manningawards.ca, or contact The
Manning Awards, 3900, 421 — 7 Avenue
S.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2P 4K9. The
telephone number is (403) 266-7571,
fax (403) 266-8320. Nominees must be
Canadian citizens.

New executive to lead posrseconaary council

t its annual general meeting June

19 at the Justice Institute, the
council representing most of B.C.’s
post-secondary institutions elected a
new executive to lead the organization
into the next millennium.

“T look forward to working with the
new executive over the challenging
year ahead,” said re-elected president
Neal Nicholson. “The Advanced
Education Council of B.C. is in the
process of reinventing and renewing
itself to meet the challenges of the
coming millennium. We will provide
an increased level of services to our
members, work more closely with
national partners, and be more
proactive in advocating the value of
post-secondary education in British
Columbia.”

The executive for 1999/2000 is:
Neal Nicholson, board chair, Douglas
College (president); Greg Lee,
president of Capilano College (vice
president); Navnit Shah, board
member, Kwantlen University College
(treasurer); and Berry Calder,
president, College of the Rockies
(secretary).

Five directors at large were also
elected. They are: Katy Bindon,
president, Okanagan University
College; Ann Frost, board member,
Open Learning Agency; Linda

Holmes, president, Langara College;
Brenda Matthews, board member,
University College of the Cariboo; and
Michelle Phillippe, board member,
British Columbia Institute of
Technology.

The Advanced Education Council of
B.C. is a voluntary, non-profit
association, which represents all of
B.C.’s 22 publicly-funded colleges,

Dr. Greg Lee,
president, Capilano
College, has been
elected vice president
of the AECBC
executive for 1999/
2000.

university colleges, institutes and the
Open Learning Agency.

The mission of the AECBC is to
provide advocacy, leadership and
support to its members. Established in
1990, the Council was formed to act as
an agency of advocacy for the post-
secondary system. It is governed by its
executive committee, which is elected
every year.

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