The Informer Page 3 September 13, 1988 Women’s Centre News The Women’s Centre Steering Committee invites you to participate in a name change (The Capilano College Women’s Centre), a new direction, and the tenth anniversary of a Women’s Centre on campus. The Centre will stay open this next academic year, but in a greatly changed form. It will continue to have a half- time staff position to keep the Centre open and to assist people with library books. The major change will be that the Centre now has an active advisory committee that will determine to a large extent the direction of the Centre. Join us September 15 to share your ideas. (See Informed Choices for details, p. 10) The hours will be: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday 4 to 8 p.m. Evening College Supervision For the month of September, while our Evening College gets off the ground, an Associate Dean will be available as evening administrator to help resolve any problems that might arise. Jon Jessiman, Mondays, September 19, and 26; John Potts, Tuesdays, September 13, 20, and 27; Bill Gibson, Wednesdays, September 14, 21, and 28; and Bev Harnett, Thursdays, September 15, 22, and 29. Administrative support for the balance of the term will be announced in September. If you have any questions regarding the functioning of the Evening College, please feel free to call your Associate Dean. Internal Evaluation Forum "A lot of people have been touched by this evaluation," asserted Karen Ewing, at the all-college forum held last month where over 90 people gathered to air their views on the exhaustive 18-month study of the college's human and physical resources. The chairs of the communications, human resources, environment, and services to students task forces reported an overwhelmingly positive response to their explorations. "This was one of the best committees I've worked with at this college," said communications task force chair Bill Schermbrucker. "People we talked to were extremely forthcoming and constructive... as a result of this process, we're finding that people really care about the college and want to improve it." Chairs of the other committees reported similar findings, and all expressed a new enthusiasm for Cap's future. "People have the chance to effect change. I like to think we are on a new threshold of the next 20 years for Capilano College,” said services to students chair Barbara Hankin. The importance of communication surfaced several times through the two-hour meeting, with an emphasis on personal responsibility. "All of us have to take some responsibility,” said Bill Schermbrucker. "We can't lean on some structure to take care of our problems." The Task Force Reports are available in the library and through members of the committee. Karen Ewing says additional copies are being printed to be distributed to heads of all departments. Also, the background material will be published soon. A new steering committee is being formed now with the mandate to monitor recommendations from the reports, evaluate the satellite campuses further, and to ensure that the College's Missions and Goals statement reflects the grassroots level of the college. The steering committee will maintain the same structure as the first one, says Karen, with 11 members from staff, faculty, students and administration. An external evaluation team composed of representatives from the regional colleges will visit the campus for one week in October to confirm the internal teams recommendations and see if any areas have been overlooked. Parking During the summer we have been able to increase significantly the number of parking spaces around the campus. This response, partly prompted by the recommendations of the Internal Evaluation Report, is the first major step to improve the poor situation of last Fall when we suddenly found all parking places (including for the first time, the lower part of Lot 1) full for much of the morning and early afternoon. Unfortunately, the Ministry did not fund a new 250 car parking lot at the north end of the campus. (Indeed, a new Ministry policy seems to advocate self-funded parking for the colleges!) Nevertheless, we have been able to create approximately 130 new spaces across the campus. This has been accomplished by the creation of a new small lot on the east side of Monashee across from J Building, by reducing the space width in Lot 2 (to 6" wider than the usual small car size spaces), and by adding on bits of new parking, especially at the lower, south end of Monashee. The additional spaces bring the total on campus to about 1,200 spaces, which is higher than the normal post-secondary planning standard of a 1:4 ratio (spaces to campus head count). However, we have been aiming at, and arguing for, a 1:3.5 ratio which is often used for “commuter” institutions; this ratio would provide a case for around 1,400 spaces when our Lynnmour head count reaches 5,000 per term, which may not occur until new classrooms are added, hopefully very early in the 1990s. Our 1988 Fall head count at Lynnmour may have increased to as high as 4,600 - 4,700, but a good portion of this is due to the Evening College, and hence doesn’t necessarily affect the parking problem earlier in the day. Alan Smith for Ancillary Services Administrators: Dave Brewer, Ken Hughes, Alan Smith.