10 Planet of the Arts / May-June 1996

P ‘ S There should be more advisors who

are regularly available to discuss concerns about
the Part-Time Studies Program.

Wor ki ng S| j C e S of Life drawing sessions should be scheduled

with part-time students in mind.
Part-Time Studies is what you make of it.

G ro | ( Mi Se ee = oe We all pay the same fees and dues to support the Institute. There
Bene Se needs to be better recognition of the achievements and

ke it clear that PTS students ar ee i
Mere Ea ~ es contributions of part-time students.
second-class citizens.

Uj Pp D ATE It seems like all display spaces
are for full-time people. There are way too few night courses

BY KAREN J. MYSKIW- in the summer for PTS students.

Issues on the PTS .
front are heating up. ) -

We need an orientation session at the beginning of each
term to familiarize ourselves with the equipment and the

: _ bureaucracy around here.
Non-diploma status, portfolio

review procedures, and the
funding of PTS student initiatives
are all on the front burner.

___ Aworking group of PTS stu-

_ dents has been meeting since

My main concern is b
finish a

= need a big room that all part-
students can use anytime.

es at the thir
10 Planet of the Arts / May-June 1996

PTS

‘There should be more advisors who

are regularly available to discuss concerns about
the Part-Time Studies Program.

Working Slices of
Group

UPDATE

BY KAREN J. MYSKIW

‘Wood shop availabilty is really crappy
for part-time students. They sure
‘make it clear that PTS students are
second-class citizens.

It seems like all display spaces
are for full-time people.

Issues on the PTS
front are heating up.

Non-<iploma status, portfolio.
review procedures, and the
funding of PTS student ini
are all on the front burner.

‘A.working group of PTS stu-
dents has been meeting since
March to formulate an agenda of
PTS student concerns and priori-
ties. Some of the students partic-
ipating in the working group are
Jane Brookes, Alison Keenan,
Karen Myskiw, Shelley Freedman,
‘and Frank Maurer

‘One of the aims of the PTS
Working Group is to communt-
‘ate the nature of the part-time
student experience of ECIAD to
the rest ofthe Institute commu-
rity, Part-Time Studies is playing
‘a more important role at ECIAD

My main concem is being able to progress past second and third year and to

ives

isn't possible to stop working to study here. The institute should be aware
are many, many part-time, mature students who are extremely motivated

ECIAD seems to be a free-thinking kind of place.
It surprises me that some instructors have extremely

pre-determined ideas about how students should think
and how they should execute their projet.

ECIAD student organizations meet during the day
when PTS students generally are notavailable. Not
‘only do I fee! without a voice as a PTS student, but!
‘am largely being left unaware of the issues relevant
to students, part-time or otherwise.

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ee eo 2 window that has been painted shut =
gl Seuaraptic Cas wich a painful but ultimately worthwile experience,

for increasing aera ‘Much regular mail
people. ‘We need more Par€Time SViles cours- simply doesn’t get

‘The way in which ECIAD
structures opportunities for part-
time study reveals how well or
badly the Institute is meeting ts
‘mandate to address the general
‘community's art interests.

Impending budget cut-backs
at ECIAD seem to be prompting
‘changes to the Institute's admin-
istrative structure. These changes
‘may well include the way in
which Part-Time Studies is
administered. The PTS Working
Group will be endeavouring to
‘make sure that ECIAD’s pedagog-
ical obligations to Part-Time

€@5 atthe third and fourth year levels
what's going on.

‘There should be access for the disabled to machines ike
sandblasters and printers.

PTS Rules...........

How have students been consulted on this policy change or on its
implementation?

‘There are student representatives, but! don’t know about the stand-
{ng committee which originated this policy. But all the committees
that these proposals have to go through, like academic and student

Studies do not fll by the way policy committee, course and program committee, and finally the
side as the process of institution- education council, have student representatives.
a rationalization gains speed,

Presently the Working Group Are there other changes being made to the part-time studies pro-
is formulating a set of activities gram? ii ?
forthe summer period. Summer Well the big change is that al the credit programs will be planned by
at ECIAD typically is atime when each division (curriculum) é
PST concems take over the
Institute. Some of the possibilities What do you thing that’s going to do? Do you think it will make
thatare being reviewed by the things more cohesive?
‘Working Group are workshops, It should help the integration of fulime and part-time. The admins:

$0F through Student
lof offices: PTS and

says “I want to
person. itis

Myskiw in the PTS mail sit in
Room 237. “®

‘and highly capable. There doesn’t seem to be much of a voice for them.

Life drawing sessions should be scheduled
with part-time students in mind.

Part-Time Studies is what you make of it

We all pay the same fees and dues to support the Institute. There

‘needs to be better recognition of the achievements and
Contributions of parttime students.

‘There are way too few night courses
in the summer for PTS students

on ndart-Time

‘We need an orientation session atthe beginning of each
‘term to familiarize ourselves with the equipment and the
‘bureaucracy around here.

finish a degree through Part-Time Studies. In a really hard economic climate, it just

that there:

We need a big room that all part-
time students can use anytime.

Student Life

once went to the Audio-Visual Department to sign out some
lights for an installation. had a clear idea of what | needed.
The A/V people insisted on giving me something else, and sug-
‘gested that I didn’t know what | was talking about. fet rotten
about their dismissive attitude. And it turned out that what

‘originally wanted was the right equipment.

hhaving to do with goings-on at the Institute
directed to PTS instructors. Our mail boxes are

ut of the way upstairs. It’s as if PTS instructors are non-entities. Luckily mm
hhere often enough to plug into the grape vine - that’s the way I find out

ECIAD brings in a variety of speakers whose
presentations | would lke the chance to hear.
However, I cannot attend presentations during
the day, and I cannot afford the lectures offered:
to the paying public at night.