College fears cutbacks
Hilda Rizun, chairman of the Capilano
College council, expressed her fears last
week that the college will not be given ade­
quate funding to carry out the program­
mes it hopes to mount.
"We receive funding from three provin­
cial councils," Rizun said, "the academic
council, which handles academic and
technical; occupational training which is
vocational and management advisory
which looks after capital requests and in­
structional services."
"Each college gets a portion of the
monies allotted," Rizun added saying that
at Capilano College all the fat left to be
cut from the budget has been removed;
there's nothing left.
"If any further cuts have to be made,
they will be in the programmes."
"We have a five year education plan
laid out to cover the years f98 l-86," she
� said. "We've laid out where we see the
[ college going. This was presented by the
board and developed after a great deal of
internal consultation. We held public
meetings, got community input and also
N issued a missions and goals statement."
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"Now we are finding that plan has to be
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looked at in view of annual financing, so
..; long term projects may suffer. This makes
.--1 the existing planning process imprac­
>-. tical."
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Despite the threat of a cutback in fun­
;:, ding Rizun says Capilano College intends
to keep operating in Squamish and on the
Sunshine Coast. If there is not enough
money available it may be necessary to
scale down some programs.
"We intend to maintain all our pro­
grams," she added "but some may have
� to be changed to different packages."
"We have to maintain a balance bet�
ween our academic, occupational _and
technical programs."
She said it would be difficult to make
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any reductions in faculty in less than a
year as the faculty is covered by a collec­
tive agreement. Time lines for reducing
the faculty are nine months to nine month
and a year. The faculty was reduced by
seven this year.
The board is concerned with financing

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Capilano College Council, talks
about the Impact funding cut­
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and at present the finance committee is
going through the budget process discuss­
ing alternatives in order to have a logical
sequence of events. We have to work with
the money we receive and to use our funds
as reasonably as possible.
"We are looking at alternative financ-

ing services," she added. "When tile
government doesn't know how much
money is available or where it is coming
from and we don't know either, we are
going to have to be prepared to respond
and make reasonable decisions regarding
priorities."
Rizun said that Capilano College is
known as one of the most cost-efficient
colleges in the province. The budget plan­
ning process is as advanced as any and
take a pro-active stance and does the most
with whatever it receives.
"We may have to look at alternate
forms of funding if conditions become
too difficult," she said. "We have set up a
committee to do a feasibility study to look
at industry, societies and the public and
review other methods of funding."
"We have to be realistic," she added,
"and we have to have funding to continue
our work."
She touched on the moratorium on
capital building and how it might affect
the Squamish campus.
"We don't know any more than you
have seen in the papers," she said, "but
we do anticipate a delay. But again, there
is no point in having buildings i.f no
monies are available to mount program­
mes in them."
Regarding the Women's Resource Cen­
tre she said that although there is no full
time coordinator, women's educational
programmes will still be offered in
Squamish under another form of delivery.
Referring to the North Vancouver cam­
pus she said the college would be moving
into the new multi-purpose building on
time and within budget. The new building
has a new vocational area, new science
labs and a new business m,anagement area.
"But," she said, "even with the new
building there isn't lots of empty space sit­
ting around, even with our present enroll­
ment."

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