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Stretching our campus

Colleges, because they are the youngest mem-
bers in the family of post secondary institutions,
are not chained by tradition or atrophied with
age. They are flexible, can try on new ideas.

One of these exciting ideas is called ‘campus
stretching’. This must not be confused with ‘cam-
pus searching’, the game absorbing Capilano at
the moment and a serious one because of high
enrolment and limited space.

What is campus stretching? It is a marriage
of experience and academic training, taking the
student out into the community for part of his
education in an on-the-job training program. He
can apply theory to practise on a campus that
spills out of the college boundary into the world
of business.

Work experience is not new in the field of
education. It was pioneerd in North Vancouver’s
Hamilton secondary school many years ago to re-
motivate students with a record of failure. They
embarked on a program of vocational courses
that taught them theory in the classroom and
practical experience in the business community.

It has been highly successful and is so practical
and realistic one wonders that the idea slumbered
so long, and when it did appear in British Colum-
bia, was trapped at the secondary school level.

The Americans pioneered it in college as long
ago as 1906. The idea grew modestly until 1960
when it caught on like a brush fire, inflaming

... into the Community

business leaders and educators alike with its po-
tential. The internships reached into many fields:
accounting, advertising, banking, data processing,
marketing, real estate, health services, technology
and liberal arts.

We are discussing work experience, or campus
stretching, here at Capilano. It will be a natural
evolution to our career programs, started on a
major scale in September. When the base is broad
enough, we too shall spili out of the campus to
the employing community, And the community
will become part of our college, participating in
the education process by becoming a “field facul-
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COLLEGE COUNCIL

W. J. Wallace, Chairman 1970-71
G. B. Wilson, Vice-Chairman 1970-71

W. E. Lucas
W. V. Manson
T. J. MacDonald

L. D. G. Brooks, Secretary-Treasurer
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

A. H. Glenesk, Principal

L. D. G. Brooks,
Dean of Instruction
T. Hollick-Kenyon,
Dean of

Student Services

H. B. Kirchner,
Assistant Dean

Career Programs

A. P. D. Smith, Ad-
ministrative Assistant
T. W. Donovan, Bursar

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