A2 - The Terrace standard, Wednesday, April 10, 2002 Massive changes coming at the college THE NORTHWEST Community College board will be given a series of options this Saturday on how to shift $2 million in spending to the lask of finding and educa- ting more students. Although the college is generally re- ceiving the same amount of money this year as last year, it must enrol 485 more full time students than what was first anticipated to meet a provincial govern- ment goal of 1,821 students, says college president Stephanie Forsyth. ~~~ ; And that means wholesale changes in what the college offers, how programs are offered and what other services are provi- ded, she said. The board is expected to tell admin- istrators which options they want imple- mented and those will then be brought back as part of a budget package next month, Forsyth added, The college daycare centre here is to close despite efforts to find a way to keep it open. “We tried to find a way tao keep it open, but just couldn’t,” said Forsyth of the daycare centre, Some of the additional students are coming through the new licensed practi- cal nursing program at the college and from an expansion of the college’s on-line course offerings, Forsyth added, “Our difficulty is overcoming what has been the under-utilization of existing programs,” she said, As it is, the college laid off 38 people, most of them part time, in January to overcome a budget deficit caused when it lost money for programs not considered part of its.core offerings... But this next’ round of cuts will touch even the core program portions of the’col- lege. : _ ~~ Stephanie said college employees “are being very creative in trying to‘find new sources of revenue based on. offering, in partnership, new kinds of courses. “Some: of the partnership: proposals with First Nations are very exciting,” she said, All this will help as every dollar saved or found elsewhere means less disruption to other college offerings, Forsyth added. Still to be decided is how much tuition will increase. That won't likely be decided until the college’s spending plans are set, said Forsyth. “Tuition will depend upon haw much money we can first find in savings,” she said. College officials earlier estimated that a 25 per cent increase would produce an additional $250,000. New equipment to aid landings at THE TERRACE airport is to get a so- phisticated landing system by early this winter, says the president of its governing authority. And when installed, it will reduce the number of flights that can’t Zand because of bad weather, said Frank Hamilton of the Terrace-Kitimat Airport Society. The great majorily of the instrument landing system cost of $1 million is being borne by NavCanada, the not-for-profit agency which handles navigational aids at the country’s airports. “The equipment is being installed be- ginning in July after which they'll be run- ning some tests,” said Hamilton of infor- mation he’s received from NavCanada. “They'll be flying test approaches in November and want it operational by the end of November.” Hamilton said November is a good time to ‘test an ‘instrunient landing ‘ap-"~ proach because that’s when the difficult winter weather begins, The airport society has started to clear some trees on the west side of the main runway and will take trees off of Little Herman, which sits at the southern ap- proach to the runway. An ILS here will guide pilots down an electronic beam, allowing them to reach a lower altitude — with a better chance of seeing the runway — than is otherwise al- lowed. A normal ILS approach, indicates Nav Canada information, allows the aircraft to be precisely flown down a glide path to a Correction the airport position one- half mile back from and 200 feet above the runway ele- vation. Under rent visual flight rules for this air- port, pilots are allowed to descend in a series of steps as they near the air- port and can- not go below a minimum altitude unless they can see the runway. cur- Frank Hamilton Port has always been that winter weather makes Jandings difficult and diversions to either Prince Rupert or Vancouver inevit- able. Once in Prince Rupert, passengers face not only a long bus ride home, but also a ferry ride to get from the island upon which that city’s airport sits to the mainland. : Hamilton said there were about 109 missed flights last year because of weath- er. 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