The Informer Page 10

February 28, 1989

Faculty should note the support the Programme is
receiving from the President and Deans, and their
willingness to search for funds to assist excellent
proposals. As Dr. Jardine put it to me, “if there are
good projects that deserve funding, I am predisposed
to try to fund them if at all possible.” The
administration has taken an a priori position of
support for us in allowing an over expenditure of the
Faculty Development budget before the year end
figures are fully known, and, even if we think the total
funds allocated to professional development and
faculty leave are too low, we should, I think, regard
this action as a positive statement of support.

Because each grant/conference request was
equally evaluated by the committee, with special input
from the appropriate area representative, and then
the allocation proceeded from a careful, mathematical
process, we believe the fairest possible treatment was
accorded all requests. There are, of course,
similarities in this process and that used by the Paid
Educational Leave Committee for its allocations.

Grants have been made to all areas of the college
and for a wide variety of purposes. Here is the list of
awards:

GRANTS:

Bernardo Berdichewsky, Anthropology. Research on
the Ethnic Composition of the North Shore.

$850.00

Jolene Bordewick, ASE Transition. A Study of
Transition Needs and production of a Transition
Handbook. $900.00

Paul Avery, Psychology. Course work: Introduction to
Family Origin. $550.00

Alan Gilchrist, Chemistry. Creation of a textbook of
1st Year Chemistry problems based on Canadian
source materials. $900.00

Beverley Reid, Communications and Media
Resources. Preliminary research toward the making
of a film, “Sisters.” $1,000.00

Keith Wade and Malcolm Fitz-Earle, Biology.
Research for book in progress: “Organic and
Technological Evolution-A Study in Parallelism.”
$1800.00 J

Mark Battersby, Philosophy. Research in computer
assisted education: purchase of software needed in the
research. $650.00

CONFERENCES:

Brian White, Tourism Management. Speaking
participant in a conference on World Tourism and
Environmental Development. $1,000.00

Paul Avery, Psychology. Non-speaking participant in
a conference on Music Therapy. $600.00
Dorothy Jantzen, English. BC nominee to the Board;
participant to the Association for Canadian Studies
conference at the Learneds. $850.00

Al Zimmerman, Marion Llewellyn, and John Long,
Graphic Design and Illustration. Non-speaking
participants in “Envision 15,” a graphic design
conference. $1,425.00 total for three

Members of the ABE Faculty. Non-speaking
participants at a BC conference of ABE instructors (not
an articulation meeting.) $1,500.00 total for ten.

“FACULTY YELLOW PAGES”

The brief forms requesting data for our “Faculty Yellow
Pages” Project have been distributed to all
coordinators. Please take a moment to complete your
form and return it to your coordinator by the deadline
of 2 March, 1989.

DIPLOMA COURSES

A call is out for faculty interested in becoming adjunct
instructors of the Langara Diploma Programme. If you
are interested, please drop a note to Reid Gilbert. For
information call Reid: 2414/E-Mail 737.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE GRANTS

A call is out for applications to the Faculty
Development Centre for funds for grants. If you are
interested in seeking funds for a project, or of
attracting funds to the College, itself, for particular PD
activities, obtain a form from your Dean and return it
to Reid Gilbert for collating with other College requests
and forwarding to the Centre. For information call
Reid: 2414/E-Mail 737.