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UCFYV, scholarship, and recruitment
strategies.

One important task for the committee
will be to define an appropriate
instructor profile.

Education subcommittee

struck

Another key subcommittee was
_ struck. The Education degree
subcominittee will consist of seven
members including one from each of
Natural Sciences, Humanities,
Career/Tech, Ed Support, ABE and one
representative from the public education
system.

Dean Erling Close will chair this
committee.

It was noted that this committee will
require close liaison with the Arts and
Sciences subcommittees and will need

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B.C. College of Teachers which
regulates teacher certification.

Discussions continue on

UVic Social Work degree

Gloria Wolfson reported on
discussions with UVic regarding the
Social Work degree. ““We’ve looked at
their curriculum and see no difficulty,”
she said. UVic is recommending “a
cohort of 20 students who go through
the program together.”

One possible “glitch”, said Wolfson,
may be the issue of creating a process
for existing full time faculty to teach
third and fourth year.

FSA president Virginia Cooke --
cautioned that this issue raised a “red
flag”, in that “internal candidate status
should be maintained.”

OLA offers mechanism

for new degrees

Dean Dick Bate reported on a
meeting of 12 UCFV folks with
representatives from the Open Learning
Agency. He reported on the notion of
“credit bank” process under which
students would complete courses at
UCFV for credit towards OLA degrees.
Although credibility of degrees is
acknowledged as an issue, there are also

benefits of using OLA a3 a
“mechanism” through which UCFV
could have more flexibility to develop
new degree programs.

“The big plus (in working with
OLA),” said Dean Don Tunstall, “is that
it would give us the option to develop
degree programs not available at the
other universities.”

Arts subcommittee
examining options

Arts subcommittee chair Dave Allen
reported that his group has realized that
to meet the October 11/91 deadline a
sponsoring institution will have to be
decided soon. Allen said the
subcommittee would like to compare
“thematic options" within the general
BA to try to develop a “distinctive arts
degree" even within the deadline
limitations. Allen said “UBC and SFU
are being talked about most.”

Allen reported that the Arts
subcommittee discussed the need to
nrenare for increased nressures on.
second year courses, as well as the need
to synchronize with the Education
degree option.

Science subcommittee

has new chair

The Science degree subcommittee
will be henceforth be chaired by George
McGuire due to Lillian Martin’s heavy
commitment to CAC and other
activities. McGuire said the
subcommittee is now researching other
universities and colleges “to see what
they have in their programs that makes
them a success.” He said the
subcommittee would prefer to draw up a
plan before approaching any university.

Virginia Cooke raised the question of
working with the same university for the
BA and BSc. Peter Jones noted this
relationship would also be an important
consideration for the Education degree.

“Tt is most important that the
university buy into our concept of the
kind of faculty we want to hire,” said
Jones. He noted that a curriculum can
change whereas faculty tend to stay
within the institution for some time.

Headlines/Sept. 26, 1991

Other University College

librarians to visit

The LRC subcommittee will meet
with library representatives from the
other university colleges on October 12.
An open question and answer session
will be held from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Contact Betty Harris at local 4510 for
more information.

Access information file

Access chairman Jack Gaston
reported that he has begun to develop an
Access information file in his office. It
will contain material such as calendars
from other universities. Contact Gaston
at local 4323 about this file.

Aboriginal
studies grants
available

With First Nations issues
increasingly coming on to the policy
agenda in Canada, the need for
research in the area is urgent.

- Fre Social Sciences and

| Humanities Research Council and the
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development are offering
research grants for aboriginal studies,
particularly in the areas of aboriginal
governance and aboriginal economic
development.

Both faculty members of
post-secondary institutions and
“private scholars” are eligible.
Aboriginal researchers are
encouraged to apply. The inclusion of
non-university-based researchers is
encouraged.

Strategic research grants, strategic
workshops, strategic reserch
networks, and strategic partnership
development grants are the four
categories of funding available.

The deadline for applications is
October 15. For more information
contact Carol Hardy at local 4210.