October 2, 1996

: Over The Edge

UNBC/CNC Launch Innovative

Campus News

UNBC Seeks Interest in
Proposed Master of
Management Degree

A group of industry persons
has been working with
UNBC staff over the past two
months to develop a proposal
for a management master’s
degree. The program would
be offered on a part-time
basiss at times convenient to
working professionals and
would accomodate both
business administration and
public administration
options. UNBC’s full-
motion interactive video
capability would currently
allow course delivery in a
number of communities to
the south of Prince George,
and as fibre-optic cabling is
added elsewhere, to
additional communities

The program is currently in
the planning stage, and a
draft proposal will have to be
approved by such bodies as
the UNBC Board and Senate,
and by the Degree Program
Review Committee (DPRC)
in Victoria. One of the
important evaluation criteria,
along with academic
considerations, is written
evidence of the level of the
demand for the new program.
Such eveidence is usually in
the form of a file of letters of
interest from prospective
students, labour force
analysis, or similar method,
and is submitted as an
appendix to the proposal.

3 :

Nursing Program

At a meeting in Quesnel this
weekend, the University of
Northern British Columbia
Board of Governors gave
approval to a new joint four-
year Nursing program
leading to a Bachelor of
Science in Nursing awarded
by UNBC. The College of
New Caledonia Board has
already given the new
program its approval.

The Northern Collaborative
Baccalaureate Nursing
Program is _ offered
collaboratively between
CNC and UNBC and
provides entry to pratice in
the nursing profession as
Registered Nurses (RN).
Graduates of the program
will be well-grounded in
acute care, rural nursing.
community health, and First
Nations Health, and will be
prepared for the changing
context of health care
delivery. More than 1200
hours of clinical work are

throughout the region.
Vice-President Administration, Dr

Jack Newberry, Tenders Resignation

Dr Jack Newberry,
UNBC’s Vice-President
Administration since
November 1993, has
tendered his resignation from
the University, effective
September 30, 1996. In his
letter of resignation, Dr
Newberry said “When I
Came to UNBC, there were
a number of tasks that I
wished to address. In large
measure, these tasks have
been successfully addressed,
and J am now ready
to move on.”

Dr Newberry was initially
responsible for finance,
human resources, computing
services, security, facilities

and maintenance, the
residences, and conference
services, As a result of
internal reviews and inital
restructuring, academic
computer services have been
transferred to the academic
side of operations to better
reflect academic priorities,
and responsibility for the
residences has been allocated
to the new Associate
Vice-President Student
Services/Registrar, who joins
the University today
(October 1, 1996).

Pending the conclusion of
current discussions on
restructuring, there
are no plans to: appoint an

acting Vice-President
Administration. In the
inbterim, the department
heads who had been
reporting the Vice-President
Administration will report
Directly to the President.
acting Vice-President
Administration. In the
inbterim, the department
heads
reporting the Vice-President
Administration will report
Directly to the President.
Dr Newberry was
previously Director of the
University and Provincial
Institutes Division with the

Ministry of Skills, Training,

and Labour.

who had been .

provided for within the
cirriculum.

Initial planning began in
1991 by the northern
colleges. In collaboration
with northern health care
employers, faculty from
UNBC and CNC completed
the development of the
innovative curriculum
designed to meet the
changing health care
demands in northern BC.
“The present Diploma
Nursing program is not
meeting the expanded
demands of the health care
system,” says CNC Health
Sciences Division Chair
Melva Holm. With the
phasing out of nursing
programs at all northern BC
colleges, _‘ this new

collaborative program will
be the only one north of
Kamloops where students
can enter the nursing
profession.

collaborative program will

“Employment trends in the
North indicate a growing
preference for nurses with
bachelors degrees and for
nurses who can funcion in
rural and remote health care
facilities,” says UNBC
Nursing Chair Martha
MacLeod.

Evidence supports the claim
that nurses educated in the
North, stay in the North.
More than 85% of CNC
graduates surveyed between
1987 and 1993, forexample,
were working in northern BC.

Resources, such as the
libraries, and teaching will be
shared between CNC and
UNBC. The program is
expected to enroll 40 students
per year.