ee ee ee ee le French grants,'’ “¥ university, TERRACE -~- The University of Northern B.C, will haveto be. largely’ centralized in Prince George, says its president Geof- frey Weller. He said last week the earlier idea of locating some entire - in’ northern -com- ‘§ faculties munities outside of Prince ‘George has been largely discard- *@de “Thai's most unlikely,” "Weller said. “'There has to be a critical mass at the main cam- | pus,’ Weller is meeting with the rest of the UNBC executive here Fri- day and Saturday. Weller is to draw up the academic plan for the university and ‘submit it to the board of directors by the end of April. ‘The:plan will outline what pro- grams will be offered and where they will be offered, Decisions. will probably be made on where to locate courses and programs in May or June, he added. “We don’t know the final Shape of things and’ we won't until we have the academic pian,”’ - He said. the forestry faculty - campus will likely be located in Prince George. “Now there might be some parts of things decentralized,’ School board shorts Page Al0 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 30, 1991 rince George centre for. says its head . Geoffrey Weller Weller said. ‘‘But we don’t know what yet. But you couldn’t have a faculty of forestry in one place and a faculty of arts in another city and so on and so forth.” - “There may well be people and institutes and parts of the university located outside Prince George, but most of the programs will have their ad- ministrative centres in Prince George.” WPT os yy Weller said that doesn't mean the university isn’t fulfilling its promise to the rest of.the north. ‘We are not the University of . Prince George, .we’re the University of Northern British Columbia.” BIQssy- He said the university is. awaiting word from the pro- vince as to how much of its “large budget request government wilt grant. The university board must know how much money it. has and must have a developed — academic plan before advanced planning can begin, he said. Weller said applications con- . tinue to pour in from. nor- therners interested in becoming a member of the university’s _ convocation. oo. Since the new university has no instructors or alumni: yet , who usually make up the con- vocation and elect the universi- ty’s chancellor and Senate, the governing board has said it will give membership on request to all northerners with university degrees. The 16,000 people who signed petitions supporting the UNBC are also eligible as are . current mayors and tribal chiefs. “Tt (the total number of ap- plications) is going up fairly French money short fall ‘French immersion classes at local. schools could be threaten- ed by -federal government budget cuts. — That word came to school trustees at their Jan. 8 school board meeting in the form of a letter from the provincial ministry of education. Citing a “possible reduction in the French federal funding’, it warns payments to individual school districts could be ‘‘con-. siderably less than we had an- ticipated based on past ex- perience.’” ’ “This isn’t the first time we've seen a reduction in assistant s uperintendent. “Skip “'yesponse to ‘0 the letter, ‘‘As more “y and more districts develop pro- grams, each district's slice of the pie becomes: smaller, and . now it appears that the pie itself is becoming smaller,’” He warned any decrease would likely affect the district's total revenue for its French im- mersion program, adding that: “We could have a budgetary problem created by this.’* School District 88 runs regular French immersion pro- grams: at Kiti K’Shan Primary, Cassie Hall Elementary and ’ Skeena Jr. Secondary schools in ‘ Terrace and at John Field ee we et SE re ee me — ae ee me fe ee a Elementary in Hazelton. Trustees criticized Victoria for not providing extra money to. the Terrace school district Etristees.: oo 418) because this area has a greater proportion of handicapped students, The higher rate results in higher costs of special educa- tion, director of special instruc- tion Andrew Scruton told the board. He said the city's high quality care facilities — such as the child development centre, the respite care home, and various group homes — tend to attract families with seriously han- dicapped students from all over northern B.C. The government has refused to bakit extra money to offset. extra: costs: tothe schpof fod ‘of dealing’ witht more han?’ dicapped students here, Scruton said. He also said declining numbers of children in segregated special classes means inefficiencies during the transi- tion .towards the complete in- tegration of handicapped children in regular classes, . ‘"“The (education) ministry has mandated that integration into regular classes is the way to go, but they haven't increased funding to pay for the changeover,” he said. Trustee John Pousette attack- ed the government’s failure to be sensitive to the regional dif- ferences of the area. '‘We're not being compensated in linear wilhoui house + holiday resoris (natural beauly — unlogged) fable buainesses) _* ranches and Nobby farms NORTH WESTERN CANADIAN HOME & LAND LTD. We are looking for “OPTIONS TO PURCHASE” on Ihe following type _ Of properties, suitable for the European market: ‘ + lakeshore, small and large, wiih or -largo and medium sizo raw (and ~ punting ishing rasarls (only pro- For further Information please contact: NORTH WESTERN CANADIAN HOME & LAND LTD. 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