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Accepting congratulations
on the receipt of the
Program Excellence Award
from ACCC Board member
Cheryl Dahl (far right) are,
from left, Dr. Greg Lee,
College president, Nigel
Beckmann, president of the
APMCP Alumni Association,
and Scott MacLeod, APMCP
coordinator.

Asia Pacific Management Co-op
Program Wins Major Award

lhe Asia Pacific Management

Cooperative Program (APMCP) at
Capilano College is this year’s winner
of the Association of Canadian
Community Colleges’ (ACCC)
Program Excellence Award.

The ACCC awards are presented
annually in six categories: staff,
teaching, program, student leadership,
leadership, and internationalization
excellence. The awards were presented
on May 27 at the ACCC 1996 annual
conference in Toronto. Another
presentation was made locally at a
dinner at the North Vancouver campus
on September 12.

“The departures that the APMCP has
made in education are important ones,”
says Scott MacLeod, program
coordinator. “We’ve always felt that we
have been a ‘best kept secret,’ so it’s

gratifying to receive affirmation from a
wider audience that we’re doing a good
job.”

The APMCP is celebrating its tenth
nniversary this year. Since 1987, it has
placed approximately 250 associates
who came to the program to study
management skills and gain practical
experience in international business and
languages. More than 97 per cent of its
students have completed assignments in
14 Asian countries. Most of the
graduates remain in Asia for at least
three years after the completion of their
placement period.

“Tt is a testament to the program, its
management, staff, trainees, alumni
supporters and coop employers that they
have combined to make the Asia Pacific
Management Program into one of the
most successful management

cooperative programs in Canada,” says
Tremain Tanner, a 1987 APMCP
alumnus and president and founder of
Tanner International Consulting, based
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “The 10
year legacy of the program is that with
vision, determination and a lot of hard
work from talented people, Canada’s
place in the ‘Asia Pacific Century’ is
measurably more certain and secure.”

The Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade Canada and the
Canadian International Development
Agency support the APMCP through
funding and placements for
management associates. The program
also receives some funding from the
B.C. government’s Ministry of
Education, Skills and Training, and is
actively seeking bursary funds from the
private sector.

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Vol. XVIII No. 8
September 20/96