Update from Management Forum on Thursday

Here are a few updates from the Management Forum lunch on Thursday.

1. Tuesday, November 25 from 10 to 11 join the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for cake and coffee in the brown bag area by the Garden Court.

2. The Solutions Task Team will be holding a contest to encourage people to submit ideas for improvement / solutions to problems on campus. If something has been bugging you (and maybe you have a solution), consider submitting it.

3. Rick Buis reported that although the economic situation globally is not good, the College is "ok" financially at this point.

4. The College will soon be hiring an architect to design new student residences (located over by the Barn). If you haven't looked at the proposed campus plan, I think the display boards are still up in the library. It's very interesting!

5. The big rocks at the north end of the Cousins Building are part of a xeriscaping project, another example of the greening of our campus. More work will happen on this next spring.

6. Student services recently conducted a survey of 400 students who left the College last year before completing their programs in an attempt to find out why they left. Initial results of 160 students show that most of them left to pursue other post secondary education.

7. The College has hired a new manager in charge of First nations, Metis, and inuit (FNMI) initiative: Robin Little Bear, and a new HR administrator: Nicki Scott

8. Dean Stetson has agreed to stay on as Director of Student Services for longer than her originally planned so he can help facilitate the budget process and help to hire a permanent replacement.

9. Enmax has announced a full-ride $15,000 scholarship for an FNMI student in the wind turbine program.

We have another Management Forum on December 15, so I'll provide another update then!

Karen