Date:

March 9' 1979

To:

OPEN HOOSE VISI'IDRS

Fran:

capilano College Faculty Association

Welcare to Open House!

'We are pleased you are joining us in celebrating

the College's Tenth Anniversary.

During the next two days, sane of you

will be neeting Capilano College faculty rrembers; many of you have net
us already - in classes or in camrunity activities - over the past decade.
But, for those of you who haven't, we hope this will be an opportunity for

you to get to know us and to learn what the Faculty Association is, wb:m
it represents, what it does and what its goals are.
The Capilano College Faculty Association came into being February 5, 1969

at a neeting at West Vancouver Secondary School where the College was
located terrporarily.

Nineteen instructors attended that neeting.

By

Wednesday, March 12, 1969, the Association had its first constitution and
bylaws.

The faculty recognized early that an organization or collective

voice was necessary to ensure educational excellence and to provide optimum
learning conditions.

In November 1973, shortly after the College's nove

to the Lynnrocnrr campus, the Faculty Association was certified as a Trade
Union; as a Union, we regulate the relations between the College Board
and instructors, counsellors, librarians and lab supervisors through collec-

tive bargaining.

Moreover, as rrembers of the Union, we are obliged, by

mutual interest and concern, to protect the quality of education, professional
standards and the future of the carprehensive carmunity college.
OVer the past ten years, there have been significant changes in Capilano

College - in location, in administration, and in the number of the faculty,
(today, close to 300 faculty are employed in offering and teaching programs
throughout the College Region) .

Regardless of change, the Faculty Associa-

tion has remained carmitted to its original objectives:

to praoote, rraintain

and defend independence of thought and teaching; to advance the professional

status of the teaching faculty of Capilano College; to help define, foster
and implerrent the role of Capilano College as a post-secondary educational

CAPILANO COLLEGE FACULTY ASSOCIATION,

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institution and to seek effective representation on all ccmni.ttees, boards
and other tx:xlies dealing with policy matters concerning members of the

Union.

We are carmitted to maintaining and pranoting a salutary educa-

tional climate at Capilano College.

We do this through serving an the

Instructional Board, the Principal 1 s Advisory Ccmnittee, Student Appeals,
Placerent Review, Health and Safety, Physical Planning, Mediation Procedures, Professional Developrent and Working Conditions Ccmnittees and
a myriad of other bcxlies.

Furthennore, faculty have an interest not ooly

in the welfare of the College as an institution but also in the \\lellbeing
of their students.

Hence, we worked with students to obtain a central

campus (Lynrnrour} rather than to oontinue holding classes in church base:rrents and various locations throughout the North Sh:>re and \\19 have fought
concertedly against provincial cutbacks in educational ftmding.
The Faculty Association is proud of its nanbers.

The creative, diverse,

superior programs offered by the College reflect the thought, ocmni'brent,
tiire, and energy faculty have spent in both teaching and developing them.

Unique programs of study such as the Music Therapy Programs, Legal Assistant, labour Studies and Career Alternatives Programs and innovative courses
such as self-paced learning packages in Chemistry and Political Science are
just a few of the contributions of Capilano College instructors.

Faculty

ca:rpetencies range fran internationally-noted biologists to world faroous
artists.

r.anbers 1 accanplishrrents and activities include scaling M::>unt

l'Vaddington, sailing the Pacific (in a dugout or single-handedly), authoring
books, and publishing a well-known North American literary review, '!he
capilano Review.

In other wards, individually and oollectively, we hope

we serve as catalysts for beneficial change and progress within the canmunity while protecting the eccnanic and working oonditians of our oolleagues.
Now that \\19 have introduced ourselves, \\19 hope you will remain friends and

ranain interested in what 1 s happening at capilano College - a goal \\19 all
have in canron is to maintain the "c:onmmity" in Ccmnunity College.
behalf of the Faculty Association, I hope you enjoy OPEN HaJSE.
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Wanda Tilley, President,
capilano College· Faculty ASE;;oc.

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