ae The Board meeting held several weeks ago and its subsequent public session was an importantevent. A great many students—far more than I have ever seen at a public session of the Board—showed up to express their feelings about recent events, to hear about the fees for currently enrolled foreign students (happily resolved), and to ask about other issues like the degree, space, and the apparent or real expansion of Design. There was quite a lot of heat but, unlike the cliché, quite a lot of light as well. An important dialogue com- menced in the College and I hope it will continue. Over the next few months, I will be taking active steps to try and encourage in others and in myself, opportunities to improve communication within the College. In this article I would like to make several suggestions in this regard, from the philosophical to the practical. All College Meetings: Before I left for Guelph and subsequently for England, I sent a note to representa- tives of students, faculty, staff and administrators, sug- gesting a number of topics that might be useful for a college forum: there is the relationship between Art and Design and the importance of both to an art and design College; with the prospect of a degree program becoming a part of the College, a discussion may be in order concern- ing the relationship between academic and studio subjects in our College: and there is the perennial need to discuss the respective roles of students and faculty, staff, board and administration in a college such as ours in which we have many different jobs and responsibilities that must meld together. : Between the time of the last Board meeting and the time of the publication of this article I have had a chance to meet with representatives of the staff, faculty and ad- ministration on two occasions — a member of the Student Society was invited but was not able to come — to give me advice on ways in which such communication could be most appropriately and effectively handled. The sugges- tion was made to me that rather than one large group discussing one or two pre-selected themes it might be more important initially for me to spend time with the individ- ual groups of students, faculty and staff to engage in a conversation with each, to share views from which might emerge specific topics which need to be discussed further and which could be profitably shared with the College as a whole. I have welcomed these suggestions and to that end will be scheduling four meetings in April to occur in the Faculty Lounge on Thursday evening from 7:30 to when- ever we finish. We will have some light refreshment and a chance to sit and talk together. I will be inviting members of the committee that have been advising me to come to each of these meetings to help suggest possible topics for a fourth all-College forum where some of the themes could be brought together. The following are the dates for these planned get-togethers: Meeting with the students — Thursday, April 6th, 7:30 p.m. Faculty Lounge Meeting with faculty — Thursday, April 13th, 7:30 p.m. Faculty Lounge Meeting with staff and administration — Thursday, April 20th, 7:30 p.m. Faculty Lounge i All College meeting — Thursday, April 27th, 7:30 p.m. Faculty Lounge Information Sessions: Moving down from the philosophical plane somewhat, there are clearly times when facts, figures, and answers to questions are needed about specific issues. One such topic that could be very im- portant to all of us is a degree program for next year. I hope that over the next few weeks our plans will become clearer, such that information can be usefully conveyed to you and I will schedule a meeting to accomplish this. Mail Boxes: I think it is high time students had mail boxes. I don’t know how you feel about trying to VOL.4NO.6 19869 reach other students but I personally find it very frustrating not to be able to communi- cate directly with you. I will meet with the Student Society and with the staff in the front office to seek their advice about an appropriate solut- : ion and, if possible, to design a system and have it constructed as y soon as possible. Office Hours: When I arrived In 1986 I moved my office from the administrative "bunker" to a space near the front of the build- ing to be more accessible to students. However I hear now that some students feel my schedule makes it difficult for students to see me and I would like to try and improve this by clearing time to see only students. For the rest of this term I plan to hold open Tuesday mornings for any student to drop by andsee me without an appointment, to talk about any topic: their studio work, complaints, suggestions, the weather. For those with classes on Tuesday mornings, I would encourage you to drop by when you do have time or to make an appointment with Joan. (Editor’s note: Joan Pearson, Mr Barkley’s Executive Assistant, can be reached in the President’s office at the south end of the Foundation Hallway.) Meetings with the Student Society: I would like to suggest to the Executive of the Student Society that they and I meet on a regular, predictable basis—say once every two weeks—(even if there is no crisis!) to ensure that I am hearing what is on the students’ minds. Student Get-Together: I believe communica- tion is everybody’s business, not just my problem. Listen- ing to student comments at the public session of the Board, I sensed that students could benefit from learning more about what other students do. Many of you begin together in Foundation but, through the pressures of the various programs you choose in later years, often lose intimate contact with the issues and concerns of your friends in other departments. I think it is important for students not only to social- ize, but to understand in depth what their colleagues’ chosen disciplines are all about, what projects they are working on at the moment, how the department is similar or different from theirs. I would like to suggest that students in one department hold an “open house”—even if it is just for one hour on a Friday afternoon—to have some coffee, to show other students around and to get down tosome serious discussion about life in your trenches. Perhaps the Student Society can discuss this idea further. Pressures of work and classes often make it difficult for us to find time to get to know each other better. But it is important that we doso. For my part, I will do my best to follow through with these plans. I hope you will give me a hand. SEARCH COMITTEE, DEAN OF ACADEME 4 I am pleased to inform you that at its recent meeting the Board of Trustees approved the position of Dean of Academic Affairs and has authorized me to commence the search to fill that position for the 1989/90 academic year. I trust you share with me the view that this administrative position is an extremely important one to the well-being of the College, providing a voice for the curriculum and for faculty and student concerns within the administration, to bring together the part-time and the full-time areas of the College and to enable us to plan effectively for the future. Because of this position’s importance to the College. community I wish to establish a search committee which will be broadly representative and I have written to the President of the Faculty Association, the Student Society, the VMREU Shop Stewards, and the Administrative Group for names of individuals to serve on such a committee. When the Search Committee is in place I will meet with its members to review and receive comments about the job description and, following that meeting, I will hold a public forum at which time the Search Committee will be PAINTING: WAYNE CHAPUT PHOTO: NAOMI SINGER Sd v Pid ae c ru <= present to hear from the College community about the position itself and the qualities to be sought in candidates to fill that position. In this way the Search Committee will begin its review of applications and its interviewing of candidates with a broad perspective of the views of the people who work and study at Emily Carr College. I will keep you informed at each stage of the process. Our objective will be to select a Dean to be part of the College community in the 1989/90 academic year. The Open Learning University and our College are finalizing arrangements for the joint degree program tobe offered between our two institutions. The effective date of this joint program would be sometime this summer and would be made available to any student who completes a Diploma in Fine Art or Design at this College. This applies equally to students who will be receiving diplomas from the College in years to come as well as those who have already received Diplomas in Fine Art or Design from this institution since it has been offering diplomas under the name of Emily Carr College of Art and Emily Carr Col- lege of Art and Design. The proposal is a fairly simple one. Students must complete a Diploma at the College and also complete additional academic coursework according to specifica- tions made by the Open Learning University, bringing the total number of academic credits taken at both Emily Carr College and at another post-secondary institution to the equivalent of 60 credits. Since students in both Fine Art and Design programs must now complete six academic courses as part of the Diploma and thus, by the time they graduate, will have completed 24 credits of the 60 credits of required academic courses, there only remains nine semester courses or 36 credits. Students in the future may complete these courses in several ways: (a) at an appropriate post-secondary institution prior to being admitted to Emily Carr College; (b) at an appropriate post-secondary institution after they receive the Diploma in Fine Art or Design from Emily Carr College; (c) by taking extra academic credit through the Open Learning University or at another post-secon- dary institution concurrently with their Fine Art or Design studies at Emily Carr College. The College will be developing ways to assist students with planning their future program as well as assessing students’ transcripts where previous academic work completed at other institutions may be eligible for applica- tion towards these new degree requirements. We will also be working to see if we can have some academic courses put on by the Open Learning University in the evening at a location near the College for the convenience of students who wish to take advantage of option (c). There will be an additional charge for these courses since the fees collected will not be part of the College’s general tuition as the courses will not be offered by Emily Carr College. There is still discussion to take place within our own College committees and within the Open Learning Uni- versity before either institution can make a final commit- ment. Both Glen Farrell, President of the Open Learning Agency, and I are working to complete the formal process by the end of April and then we will be working for the next few months to develop information and guidelines to com- municate clearly to all of you the rules and regulations and opportunities that this project will entail. While the Government has not, at this stage, granted Emily Carr College its own degree granting authority I believe that this is very important and a very major first step to that end. We have developed a unique model for interinstitutional programs, as flexible as such joint offer- ings can be and as integrated as it is possible to be, giving our students who wish a Bachelor’s Degree a ready means to achieve that end. I believe this goes a long way to addressing a long-felt need of this institution and its students and I look forward to working with all of you to make these plans a reality. ‘The Board meeting held. several weeks ago and its subsequent publicsession wasan importantevent. Agreat ‘many students—far more than Ihave ever seen ata public session of the Board—showed up to express their feelings about recent events, to hear about the fees for currently enrolled foreign students (happily resolved), and to ask about other issues ike the degree, space, and the apparent or real expansion of Design. ‘There was quite alot of heat but, unlike the cliché, Gquite lot of light as well. An important dialogue com: Imenced in the College and I hope it will continue. ‘Overthenextfew months, I wil betaking activesteps totry and encourage nothers and in myself, opportunites to Improve communieation within the College. In this article T would like to make several suggestions in this regard, from the philosophical tothe practical Alll College Meetings: Before I eft for Guelph ‘and subsequently for England, sent note to representa- tives of students, faculty, staff and administrators, sug- gesting a number of topics that might be useful for @ college forum: there isthe relationship between Art and Design and the Importance of both to an art and design College; withthe prospect ofa degree program becoming ‘apartof the College, discussion may be inorder concern- {ng the relationship between academic and studio subjects in our College: and there is the perennial need to discuss the respective roles of students and faculty, staff, board nd administration ina college such as ours in which we Ihave many different jobs and responsibilities that must meld together. ‘Between the time of the last Board meeting and the time ofthe publication ofthis article I have had a chance {to meet with representatives of the staf, faculty and ad- ‘ministration on two occasions —a member ofthe Student Soclety was invited but was not able to come—togive me ‘advice on ways In which such communication could be ‘most appropriately and effectively handled. The sugges- tion was made to me that rather than one large group discussing one or two pre-selected themesit might be more {Important initially for me to spend time withthe individ- ‘ual groups of students, faculty and staff to engage in a conversation with each, to share views from which might ‘emerge specific topes which need tobe discussed further ‘and which could be profitably shared withthe College as. awhole. have welcomed these suggestions and to that end. vill be scheduling four meetings in April to occur in the Faculty Lounge on Thursday evening from 7:30 to when- ever we finish. We will have some light refreshment and f chance to sit and talk together. I will be Inviting ‘members of the committee that have been advising me to come to each of these meetings to help suggest possible topics for a fourth all-College forum where some of the ‘themes could be brought together. The following are the ates for these planned get-togethers: ‘Meeting with the students — Thursday, April 6th, 730 p.m. Faculty Lounge ‘Meeting with faculty — Thursday, April 13th, 7:30 pam. Faculty Lounge ‘Meeting with staff and administration — Thursday, April 20th, 7:30 p.m. Faculty Lounge ‘All College meeting — Thursday, April 27th, pam. Faculty Lounge ‘Information Sessions: Moving down from the philosophical plane somewhat, there are clearly times when facts, igures, and answers to questions are needed aboutspeciic issues. One such topic that could be very im- portant to all of us isa degree program for next year. T hhope that over the next few weeks our plans will Become clearer, such tat Information can be usefully conveyed to ‘you and Twill schedule a meeting to accomplish this. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS =m Mail Boxes: 1 think itis high time students had rail boxes, don't know how you feel about trying to reach other students but T personally find it very frustrating not to be able to communi- cate directly with you. 1 will meet withthe Student Society and withthe staff in the front office to seek thei ‘advice about an appropriate solut- fon and, if possible, to design a system and have it constructed as soon as possible. Office Hours: When I arrived In 1986 Tmoved my office from the administrative bunker" to a space near the front of the bulld- ing to be more accessible to students. However Thear now that some students feel my schedule rakes ifiutt for students to see me andT would tke to try and improve thisby clearing time to see ony students. For the rest of this term I plan to hold open Tuesday ‘mornings for any student to drop by andseeme without an appointment, o talk about any cope: thelr studio work, complaints, suggestions, the weather. For those with classes on Tuesday mornings, I would encourage you to drop by when youdo have time or tomake an appointment with Joan. (Editor's note: Joan Pearson, Mr Barkley’ Executive Assistant can bereachedin he President soffce ‘at the south end ofthe Foundation Hallway.) Meetings with the Student Society: Twouta keto suggest to the Executive of the Student Society that they and T meet on a regular, predictable basis—say once every two weeks—(evenifthere sno criss!) toensure that Tam hearing what ion the students’ minds. ‘Student Get-Together: 1 believe communic- tion severybody's busines, not just my problem. Listen- Ingo student commentsat the publicsesion ofthe Board, sensed that students could benefit from learning more ‘about whatother students do. Many of you begin together In Foundation but, through the pressures of the various programs you choose in later years, often lose intimate ‘contact with the Isues and concerns of your friends in ‘other departments. think itis important for students not oly to soca tar, but to understand in depth what their colleagues’ chosen disciplines are all about, what projects they are workingon atthe moment, how the department is similar or diferent from theirs. T would like to suggest that students in one department hold an “open house”—even Itits Just for one hour on a Friday afternoon—to have some coffe, to show other students around and to get downtosomeseriousdiscussonabout ifn yourtrenches. Perhaps the Student Society can discus this idea further. Pressures of work and clases often make it ifcult. {or usto find time to getto know each other better. Butit Isimportant that we doo. For my part, Iwill do my best {follow through with these plans. [hope you willgiveme hand. ‘SEARCH COMITTEE, DEAN OF ACADEME AFFAS® ‘Lam pleased to inform you that at its recent meeting the Board of Trustees approved the position of Dean of, ‘Academic Affairs and hasauthorized me to commence the ‘search toil that postion forthe 1989/90 academle year. trust you share with me the view that this administrative position Isanextremely important one tothe well-being of ‘the College, providing a volce forthe curriculum and for faculty and student concerns within the administration, to bring together the part-time and the full-time areas the College and to enable uso plan effectively for the future. Because ofthis position’s importance to the College ‘community I wish to establish a search committee which will be broadly representative and I have written to the President ofthe Faculty Assocation, the Student Society, ‘the YMREUShop Stewards, and the Administrative Group, {or names of individuals to serve on such a committee. ‘When the Search Committe is in place I will meet ‘with Its members to review and recelve comments about the Job description and following that meeting, Iwillhold apublicforum atwhieh time the Search Committe willbe 2 v - nx os present to hear from the College community about the position itself and the qualities tobe sought in candidates ‘ofl that position. In this way the Search Committee will begin its review of applications and its interviewing of ‘candidates with a broad perspective of the views ofthe people who work and study at Emily Carr College. Iwill keep you informed at each stage ofthe process. Ourobjective will be toselecta Dean tobe partof the College community n the 1989/90 academic yea DEGREE UPGit << ‘The Open Learning University and our College are finalizing arrangementsfortheJoint degree program tobe offered between our two institutions. Theeffectivedate of this Joint program would be sometime this summer and. ‘would be made avallable to any student who completes a Diploma in Fine Artor Design at this College. Thisapplies. ‘equaly to students who wil be recelving diplomas from the College in years to come as well as those who have ‘already ecelved Diplomas in Fine Artor Design from this Institution since it has been offering diplomas under the ‘name of Emily Carr College of Art and Emily Carr Col- lege of Artand Design. ‘The proposal I a farly simple one. Students must complete 2 Diploma at the College and also complete ‘addtional academic coursework necording to specifica: tions made by the Open Learning University, bringing the total numberof academicereditstaken atbork Emily Care College and at another post-secondary institution to the ‘equivalent of 60 credits. Since students in both Fine Art land Design programs must now complete six academic ‘courses as part of the Diploma and thus, by the time they ‘graduate, wll have completed 24 credits ofthe 60 credits of required academle courses there only remains nine semester courses or 36 credits. ‘Students in the future may complete these courses in several ways: (a) at an appropriate postsecondary Institution priorto being admitted to Emily Carr College; (@)atan appropriate postsecondary institution afterthey recelve the Diploma in Fine Art oF Design from Emily Carr College; (¢)by taking extraacademiccreditthrough the Open Learning University or at another post-secon- dary institution concurrently with thelr Fine Artor Design, studies at Emily Carr College. ‘The College willbe developing waystoassststudents ‘with planning thelr future program as well as assessing students’ transcripts where previous academle work completed at other insttutionsmay beeligibleforapplica- tion towards these new degree requirements. We will also be working to see if we can have some academic courses ‘puton by the Open Learning University in the evening at ‘location near the College for the convenience of students ‘who ish totake advantage of option (c). There willbean ‘additional charge for these coursessince the fees collected ‘will not be part of the College's general tultion as the courses will not be offered by Emily Carr College. ‘There isstil discussion to take place within our own College committees and within the Open Learning Unl- versity before ether Institution can make afinal commit- ment. Both Glen Farrell, President ofthe Open Learning ‘Agency, and I are working to complete the formal process by the end of Apriland then we willbe working for thenext few months todevelop information and guidelines tocom- ‘municateclearlytoallof you the rulesand regulations and. ‘opportunities tha tis project wil ental. ‘While the Government has not, at this stage, granted Emily Carr College its own degree granting authority Z believe that this is very important and a very major first step to that end.. We have developed a unique model for {nterinsttutional programs, asflexible as such joint offer- {Ings an be and as integrated as it is possible tobe, giving ‘our students who wish a Bachelor's Degree a ready means to achleve that end. I belleve this goes a long way to ‘addressing a long-felt need of this institution and its ‘students and I look forward to working with all of you to ‘make these plans a realty.