Personnel notes Ed. leave deadline Thinking of applying for Educational Leave? Wondering when and how to apply? Faculty and staff application kits are now available from Personnel. Please call Nancy Scarrow at local 4526 for your copy. All applications for Educational Leave must be completed and approved as indicated on the forms and forwarded to Barry Bompas for consideration by the Joint Professional Development committee. If you have any questions regarding the application or approval process, please call Barry Bompas at local 4508. Deadlines are Oct. 15 and Feb. 15. Long-Term Assisted Leave applications will be processed in the fall semester only; Unassisted Educational Leave and Short Term Assisted Leave applications will be processed in both the fall and winter semesters. Remember: applications should be submitted well in advance of deadlines, if possible, to avoid failure because of technicalities which may be avoided with advance discussion. Standing SAC’s Under Article 13.5(e) of the collective agreement, each department must establish new standing selection advisory committees (SAC’s) by Nov. 1, 1992, for the winter semester. This committee is used to hire regular part-time and sessional employees. - FSA members of the committee must be appointed through standard FSA procedure. After you have established the management representatives, please notify Barry Bompas and he will contact the two FSA grievance chairs, Bob Smith and Jane Antil, who will coordinate the FSA appointments. For more information call Barry Bompas at 4508. Gas mileage As of Oct. 1, the mileage rate will increase to 30 cents per kilometre. In accordance with the collective agreement, Barry Bompas arrived at this rate by taking the average rate of a number of other colleges. a Headlines/Sept. 30, 1992 Staff in Chilliwack process CE registrations. Over 2,200 registrations on first day for CE All Continuing Education coordinators agree that September 12 was the “smoothest ever” first day of registration for CE. Over 2,200 registrations were recorded, according to registrar Bill Cooke. Registration for individual courses will continue throughout the semester. A draw was held in Chilliwack for a $50 tuition voucher as an incentive for students to complete a survey. “We had 260 responses to the survey,” says Rae McCombs, Chilliwack coordiantor. The lucky winner was 70-year-old Roy Kearnan, who promptly used the voucher to sign up for a course in Small Engines: Maintenance and Repair. Abbotsford pulled in over 1000 of the total registrations and according to Cheryl Isaac-Clark the computers were “just a-hummin’”, Catherine MacDonald-Smith reports that Mission set a new record for money taken in on the first day of registration. She thanks everyone involved for helping registration day go so well. “Everyone worked very hard.” Continuing Education was competing with “Brigade Days” in Hope and so took the mountain to Mohammed. Office assistant Virginia Minnabarriett set up a registration/information booth at the Community Fall Fair. “Lots of people came by,” says Virginia. “I registered several for CE courses, sold some calendars, and registered an ABE student. It was a good day.” ABE students published in Our Own Words Four Chilliwack Adult Basic Education students, and one from the prison education program, became published writers this summer when their work was printed in Our Own Words, an anthology of writing by ABE students. The students are Michael Pentz, Pat Nevokshonoff, Collen Rush, Mary O’Connal and John D. O’Connal, who admits to being over 60, submitted a humourous account of her new hat — a toque that turned out to be a tea cosy. John wrote of loneliness in prison, while Rush described an emotional hour with her therapist. Nevokshonoff and Pentz both focused on ugly creatures. Nevokshonoff also had a poem on Alzheimer’s disease printed. ABE instructor Janet Gibson coordinated the UCFV submission.