Headlines/Sept. 30, 1992

Perry to visit UCFV Oct. 19

Minister of Advanced Education Tom
Perry will visit UCFV on Oct. 19 to
tour facilities, meet with the UCFV
community, and officially open
Building E.

He will start in the morning witha ~

tour of the Chilliwack campus, meet
with the Student Society there, then
travel to Mission. There he will tour
the Toti:Ithet Centre, a native
education centre run as a partnership
between UCFV and the Coqualeetza
Centre. He will have lunch at
Toti:lthet with representatives of the
centre, the Faculty and Staff

Association, students, the Board, and
senior management.

He will then go to the Abbotsford
campus for an open forum with the
FSA, all members invited, in Room
A100 between 1:45 and 2:45 p.m. He
will tour the Abbotsford campus from
3-4 p.m., and officially open
Building E at 4 p.m.

All students and employees are
invited to the official opening.

Perry will wrap up his day at
UCFV by meeting with the Board and
President Peter Jones from 4:30-5:30
p.m.

University college story goes “down under”

President Peter Jones will take the university college message “down under” over the
next week. Jones has been invited by TAFE (equivalent to our Association of Canadian
Community Colleges) to tour several Australian institutions and address a major

conference on post-secondary education.

Jones will spend the first three days of his visit to the Brisbane area touring
post-secondary institutions and meeting with administrators and staff. On October 3
Jones will present the keynote address at the conference at the Gold Coast and lead two
workshops. His presentation will focus on the evolution of the colleges and institutes
system in B.C. He will also use the opportunity to highlight the development of

university colleges.

Jones said that Australia currently has a distinct two-part model of post-secondary
education similar to that of Ontario. The conference will be examine both the Canadian
and Japanese post-secondary systems with a view to developing new options for

Australians.

ACCC awards

It’s time to nominate worthy candidates
for the Association of Canadian
Community Colleges’ national awards. ...
Categories are teaching excellence,
leadership, program/service excellence,
partnership, and literacy program/service
excellence. |

ACCC member institutions may
submit one nomination, reflecting either
institutional or individual achievements,
per category. Nominations are due at the
ACCC Secretariat by November 30.

For nomination forms, contact
Information Services or Personnel.

New in the Library

The Library has acquired a new
listing of electronic journals and
newsletters of academic interest
accessible through Bitnet, Internet and
any affiliated networks. It also contains
descriptions of almost 800 electronic
conferences on topics of interest to
scholars.

Directory of electronic journals,
newsletters and academic discussion
lists. Washington, D.C.: Association of
Research Libraries, Office of Scientific

and Academic Publishing, 1992. (Z 286 ©

E43 D57 1992, Abbotsford Reference).

Equ ity committee
planning Pro-D day

At its latest meeting, the Equity
committee split into four subcommittees
to better concentrate on four priorities
that it has identified.

These are: development of a
professional development day, policy
development, practical issues, and
promotion of equity-related events.

The professional development day
will be similar to the one held last year
with Stuart Smith, and will likely
include a series of workshops and a
keynote speaker on equity issues. It is
tentatively scheduled for Jan. 29.

The policy subcommittee will work
towards developing an equity policy for
UCFV that provides guidelines for
ensuring equity in the workforce and the
classroom.

The practical issues subcommittee
will- focus on creating lasting legacies
from the Year of Equity, such as
bursaries and improved access to
education for members of minority
groups.

The promotion subcommittee will
publish a calendar of events of
equity-related issues and generally work
to promote all Year of Equity events.

The next Equity committee meeting is
Oct. 7 in-room B319 in Abbotsford at 3
p.m.

Sexual harassment
conference

Sexual Harassment, A Costly
Proposition is the title of the eighth
annual conference of the Canadian
Association Against Sexual Harassment
in Higher Education. The conference, to
be held Nov. 11-14 in Victoria, B.C.,
will examine the emotional cost of
sexual harassment to complainants; the
financial cost to employers, unions and
institutions; the personal cost to
respondents and the ultimate cost to
society.

For registration information, contact
Jean Ballard-Kent, local 4287.