4 2 Headlines/Feb. 12 1992

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Susie Safford’s
Six tips for
coping with
change

- Identify fears, share
them with others, and
' do something about
them.

- Get involved with the
change.

Conference speakers Dr. Stuart Smith, leader of the Commission of Inquiry on Canadian - Cashin onthe

University Education, and Dr. Tom Perry, Minister of Advanced Education, admire their gifts. rhetoric of change —
ensure your rogram
shares in the benefits.

- Value the new
attention and status of
the place. Pass it on to
your students.

- Beopento change.

- Treat the change as an
ongoing enterprise,
not a static one that
can’t be altered once
it’s started.

Safford, associate dean of
developmental and regional
programs at the University
College of the Cariboo, told
Non-degree Program session
participants about Cariboo’ s
growing pains, and said that
non-degree programs can
suffer from “middle child
syndrome,” and the daily
struggle against “messages of
inferiority.” —- |

She also said that Cariboo’ s
change to university college ~
status brought new resources,
people, ideas and access to

> ee . oe new learning options, and that
a ee eat - it helped foster an emphasis on
lifelong learning.

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Top: some very serious UCFV folks debate very serious matters.
Bottom: some not so serious folks enjoy a few laughs.