Headlines/February 11, 1999

Foundation
continued from page 1.

of reasons why the establishment of a
UCFV Foundation is appropriate at
this time. These included a reminder
of the success of the Future Now
campaign, which raised $2.3 million
for scholarships, technical equipment,
and library resources. The proposal
‘also noted that a number of very’
worthwhile projects are awaiting
institutional coordination and
fundraising support. As well,
donations continue to be offered on a
regular basis. As annual budget
projections continue to be
discouraging, fundraising activities
can provide an additional source of
revenue for special projects and
institutional priorities.

The UCFV Foundation would be
established as a non-profit society. It
would enlist the support of a number
of community leaders as a board of
directors to guide its activities.

Although a number of fundraising
activities are possible, UCFV .-
Foundation would most likely
continue to focus on support for
students through scholarships and
bursaries, and on a number of
priorities such as the acquisition and
upgrading of technology, library
resources, and special capital projects.
Foundations at other colleges and
universities in BC have been
successful in developing programs for
planned giving, alumni support, and
capital campaigns.

The UCFV Board has requested |
that a more detailed operational plan
be developed over the next few
months. If approved, a new UCFV
Foundation could be launched as part
of the 25" anniversary events now
being planned for next year.

New contract ratified for
faculty and staf at UCFV

The UCFV Board and the Faculty and
Staff Association have both ratified a new
three-year contract. The new agreement

was accepted by FSA members following a

ratification vote completed January 29. It _
had been’ approved earlier by the UCF Vv
Board. ;

The new contract completes more than a

year of negotiations. For the first time,

bargaining took place at both the provincial ‘

and local levels. Major articles were
bargained at a common provincial table
along with 15 other colleges, university
colleges, and institutes. The provincial
table issues with the greatest impact on
UCFYV included salaries, health and
welfare benefits, and job security.»

Under the new contract salary increases
for both faculty and staff will remain
within the provincial government's
guidelines of 0-0-2% over three years.

Local issues centered around changes to
contract language to reflect past practice.
These included clarification to the ©
procedures for the assignment of work for
part-time and sessional instructors.

Local issues for staff included new
language on job exchanges, selection .

-- procedures, and the filling of temporary
"vacancies.

“The introduction of provincial

bargaining on several major issues made

the process more time-consuming and
~ complex for everyone,” said UCFV
’ President Skip Bassford. “But in the -
final analysis, I believe we have an
agreement that will serve us all well for |
the next three years.”

“The two-tiered process of provincial
and local bargaining was new and
challenging,” said FSA President Kim °
Isaac. “The Faculty and Staff
Association will be evaluating this -
bargaining round to see how we want to
conduct negotiations next time. But
given the overwhelming vote of support '
for ratification, it appears that at the end .
of the day we were able to bring home
an agreement which offers members
significant improvements in a number of.
non-money areas, and I’m very pleased
about that.”

First Nations Centre,
continued from page 1.

“This proposal is an exciting and important new step

toward working more effectively to meet the
education and training needs of First Nations people
of the Fraser Valley,” says Bassford. “It will also be
a wonderful step towards integrating First Nations
knowledge and culture into the education on

' non-First Nations people. We will all be working
diligently to bring this to fruition.”

The next step is for the newly appointed steering
committee to develop a more detailed proposal. One
of the ultimate goals is to house the centre in a
longhouse type structure on the Chilliwack campus.

Want to get information about an event
or activity to UCFV students? There’s a
new medium being tested out this
semester, a
type of
computer
bulletin board
that posts
news about

*~ upcoming
events and
deadlines on
every
computer
monitor in
UCFV
student labs.

To get

information
posted on the
electronic
bulletin board, contact Student Events
(in Abbotsford that’s Jill Harrison at
local 4255, in Chilliwack it’s Lori __
Veres at 2509. In Mission, contact the
UCFV administration office).

Computer lab monitor Kim Annis checks out the
Student Events bulletin board.

Communicate electronically to UCFV students.

Information received by 4:30 on _
Thursday will be posted on the board
for Monday morning.

The relatively
low-tech
method used to

post the notices
involves saving
the file as a
- graphic bit-map
image, saving it
as a background ~
picture,and =
copying it to all
_ servers for the |
labs, thus.
updating all the
computer —
monitors.