csczere Informer | RRP ae Pe Ea ios Ee ae an Sas or ea A Implemented in Current Practice? Currently, the well-run program at Capilano College can accommodate student demand for day care on a full-time basis only. Concurrent with the present monthly arrangement, access to flexible, drop-in care must also be available for students who attend class part of the day or need flexible study time. ISSUE 8 (Retraining, Upgradin Identification/Definition: Strand, HRD, Premiere Summit reports all call for a greater emphasis on upgrading, workplace training and training in response to labour market developments. A new provincial Labour Force Development Board will be announced soon. New ventures will be forthcoming as the Ministry of Skills, Training and Labour takes responsibility for training and placement programs for social service recipients. Articulated in Mission/Values? Although some of the language in the Mission and Values statement carries a general commitment to this area of post- secondary education, the Three Year Plan does not give any priority to this. Implemented in Current Practice? Capilano College has a high commitment to unique (niche market) degrees and certificates, to strong mainstream career training and to university transfer. This area draws on vocational, ESL, and ABE programming coupled with support (Counseling, etc.) services for persons who have been "restructured" out of the work force or into underemployment. We would have to reorient our policies to make this a priority. ISSUE 9 (Identity, Specialization Identification/Definition: Developing areas of specialization and the College identity. Articulated in Mission/Values? Capilano College's Mission and Values statement commits the College to continue to expand employment oriented or applied degrees and seeks to achieve degree granting status. It does so, however, as only one commitment, others being to teaching excellence, the enhancing of access to students with a wide variety of qualifications and the continued provision of foundation programmes. Articulated in the Three Year Plan? The College's 3 Year Plan seeks to achieve degree granting status and using that status to motivate significant FTE and physical plant growth. The implementation of that plan is proceeding. Implemented in Current Practice? Historically, Capilano College has specialized in unique career diploma programs and in a strong academic transfer division. It describes itself as a college of first choice. As part of its drive to support growth and expansion, the College is seeking degree granting status in specialized, applied and employment related programmes. A question confronting the College today is how it can balance this drive for specialization and excellence against community and provincial needs for foundation programmes and increased access to advanced education? A related question is how it can fulfil its mandate as a community college while, at the same time, defining and developing a specialized niche in the provincial system? ISSUE 10 (Cooperative Education) Identification/Definition: Expanding cooperative education programs. At present, three cooperative education programs exist at 4 Capilano: Asia-Pacific Studies, Computer Systems Management, Tourism Management. There is much evidence to support the concept of cooperative education. Such a program is not only beneficial for the working student, but also for the employing organization. Cooperative education is growing in Canada, and there is every indication it will continue to do so, particularly if more accountability is required of institutions. Articulated in Mission/Values? A review of Cap's Vision for the Future document does articulate "the development and support...of cooperative education". Articulated in the Three Year Plan? However, in the 1991-1994 Three Year Plan, there is no statement, direct or otherwise, in support of cooperative education. We would expect from the College in its' Three Year Plan, some initiative to encourage the expansion of cooperative education into existing and new program areas. Implemented in Current Practice? A cooperative education committee does exist at the College. It deals primarily with operational matters. This committee in the past has tried to foster new cooperative education programs, particularly in the Career division. However, cooperative education is more expensive to operate than the traditional academic course program offerings. We need, therefore, to weigh the benefits for the student against the higher cost of resources for the College. ISSUE 11 (Governance) Identification/Definition: The term "governance" is used in this context to describe the methods and structures which Capilano College uses to make decisions concerning policies, objectives and goals. Governance models range from pyramidal, hierarchical structures to complex and diffuse authority dispersion. Capilano College, with its traditions of collegiality, is probably further towards the dispersed model than the hierarchical model. The College and Institute System is currently undergoing a review of how institutions are governed. The Carter paper offers some recommendations on changes which would further empower college constituencies, including faculty, staff and the community at large. Those changes include adding internal constituency representatives to governing boards and creating college community councils. Articulated in Mission/Values? Neither "The Mission and Values of Capilano College" nor "The Three Year Plan, 1991-94" speak directly to how the college governs itself. The mission and values document does commit to recognize faculty and staff as "...its greatest assets..." and commits to "...effective, responsible administration..." but, beyond those general governance references, it offers no bias towards the values which inform how authority is shared and/or dispersed or exercised. Implemented in Current Practice? Partly as a result of the provincial developments referred to above, the College is involved in consultations, particularly with the faculty association, on how its governance structures should be changed to more accurately reflect the reality of the College environment today. Incorporating language on governance into the Mission and Values Statement or the Three Year Plan would represent a departure from the previous foci of those two documents. Instead of speaking exclusively to outcomes, they would then also address the processes which lead to those outcomes. At best, any statement would concern our values rather than our mission.