SQUAMISH TIMES

May

5, 1981 page 3

Cap Satellite planned for Squamish
The designing for a new satellite
centre in Squamish is anticipated
to start early this year for completion in 1982, the five-year education plan for Capilano College
states.
The centre will consolidate most
of the Squamish activity. Currently the main Howe Sound facilities
are the old forestry service
building used for basic education
programs, the service centre on
Cleveland Avenue, and a learning
centre on Second Avenue.
The plan, which encompasses
^ h e years from 1981 to 1986, lists
lecial projects to 1986. These
are:
• A child-minding service
established on, or near, the Lynnmour Campus in North Vancouver to increase accessibility for
older, part-time learners.

• Services required to ensure accessibility for disabled adults will
be augmented.
• Some development of learning
materials to assist students to
learn at their own pace and in
their own homes will take place.
• The feasibility of offering a full
range of summer programs and
services will be explored.
• Co-operation with other institutions and community agencies will
be secured until the college is able
to provide the programs and services expected of it.
• Institutional and management
information research will be
developed to keep pace with the
growing need for informationbased planning.
• Information services will be expanded for better communication
with the community serviced by
the college.

• Additional library/media centre
services will be automated to permit more service to patrons by
personnel.
• Increased education leave opportunities will be made available
to personnel, to ensure that programs and services remain current.
Institutional priorities to 1986
are:
• Preference for enrolment will
be given to qualified applicants
from the college region, except for
programs unique to the lower
mainland.
• More full-time students will be
admitted to programs leading to
certification, both to respond to
demand and to provide a broader
curriculum base for part-time
students.
• Plans to expand accessibility of
part-time students to certificate

programs will be pursued
vigorously.
• There will be a significant increase in vocational training until
1983. Further program development will take place in all curriculum areas in balanced fashion
in response to community and
provincial need.
• Campus life will be enhanced by
the provision of increased space
for study and recreation.
• Instructional services, particularly counselling, will be expanded in proportion to the increase in courses and programs.
• The current single day/evening
timetables will be maintained,
with substantial increase of evening and weekend programming,
with adequate support services.
• The Lynnmour campus will be
developed further by the construction of a multi-use teaching
building, a gymnasium and a
theatre and by upgrading of existing portable buildings.
• Travel and living allowances
will be provided to students in
more remote parts of the college
region to improve their accessibility to post-secondary education
opportunity.
• Campus facilities will be built in
Squamish and a permanent,
primary location on the Sunshine
Coast will be selected.