"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-20"@en . "1978-05-25"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118597/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " V\u00E2\u0082\u00ACCi*L CailtCTiOMS\nVolume 24, No. 10, May 25, 1978. Published by\nInformation Services, University of B.C., 2075\nWesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5.\n228-3131. Jim Banham and Mardie Gait,\neditors. ISSN 0497-2929.\nubc reports\nReport calls for radical changes\nPresident Douglas Kenny has asked members of the\nUniversity community for comment on the recommendations of a report that calls for a radical reorganization of\nservices provided to students on the campus.\nThe full text of the report and a minority report by one\nmember of the committee on proposals affecting the Office of the Dean of Women begins below.\nComments on the recommendations should reach Prof.\nErich Vogt, vice-president for faculty and student affairs,\nby Friday, June 2.\nProf. Vogt said the administration wished to take ac\ntion as soon as possible on the future of the Office of the\nDean of Women and the appointment of a successor to\nDean Margaret Fulton, who leaves UBC on June 30 to\nbecome president of Mount Allison University.\nThe members of the committee that prepared the\nreport on student services are: Dr. Ruth L. White,\nDepartment of French, chairman; Dr. Katherine\nBrearley, French; Prof. C.V. Finnegan, Zoology; Prof.\nMyrne Nevison, Education; Dr. A. Joan Rynertson,\nTheatre; Dr. Richard Tees, Psychology; and two students\nrepresenting the Alma Mater Society, Joy Dodson and\nDavid, Jil\u00C2\u00A3s|;fj\nREPORT OF PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE \u00E2\u0080\u0094 REVIEW OF STUDENT SERVICES\nINTRODUCTION. This committee was established in November,\n1977 by Vice-President E.W. Vogt, and was given the following terms of\nreference:\nUBC, union agree on\n15-month contract\nThe strike by the 25-member Local 882 of the International Union of Operating Engineers ended last Thursday\nwhen the members voted to accept a settlement proposal\nworked out by provincial mediation officer Clark\nGilmour.\nThe operating engineers, who operate the UBC power\nhouse and do maintenance work on mechanical equipment in University buildings, returned to work on Friday.\nThey had been on strike since Feb. 21.\nPresident Doug Kenny said he would recommend to\nthe University's Board of Governors that the Board also\napprove the settlement.\nThe new contract runs for 15 months, from Jan. 1,\n1978, to March 31, 1979, giving the operating engineers a\ncommon contract expiry date with three other main\nunions on campus \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the Canadian Union of Public\nEmployees (CUPE), the Association of University and\nCollege Employees (AUCE) and the Office and Technical\nEmployees Union (OTEU).\nThe settlement gives the operating engineers a wage increase of 3.48 per cent retroactive to Jan. 1, 1978, an additional 4 per cent April 1, 1978 (or whatever the CUPE\nplumbers settle for), plus $20 per man monthly effective\nJan. 1, 1979, and another $15 monthly effective March 1,\n1979.\nBob Grant, director of Employee Relations, said the\npercentage cost to the University for calendar 1978 would\nbe 6.6 per cent \u00E2\u0080\u0094 3.48 per cent for 12 months, plus the\nadditional 4 per cent for 9 months, although this could\nrise somewhat should the CUPE plumbers obtain more\nthan 4 per cent.\nTo advise the President's Office on the range, effectiveness and\norganization of those parts of student services concerned with career\nand personal counselling, with financial assistance and with job placement, and about measures which might lead to possible improvement of\nthese services. The areas devoted to these services include the present\nOffice of Student Services, the Office of the Dean of Women, the\nAwards Office and the relevant services provided in International\nHouse, Student Health Services and the Housing Office.\nThe committee shall examine the range of desirable student services\nand the possible redirection of present services to address problems\npresently not covered.\nIt shall discuss the flexibility of the above services to mount new programs as needed.\nIt shall review effectiveness of the above services, including their\nmanagement.\nIt shall consider the possible reorganization of the above services, including the possible integration of some services.\nIt shall consider the desirability of the future relocation of some of the\nabove services, possibly combining them into a single site.\nIt shall discuss the relation of the Office of Day Care Co-ordinator \u00E2\u0080\u0094\npresently being established \u00E2\u0080\u0094 to other student services.\nIn view of the impending transfer of student placement to Canada\nManpower, it shall consider measures to provide the optimum cooperation between that office and the various parts of student services.\nThe committee is asked to report back to the President's Office on\nthese matters as soon as possible for consideration by the Vice-\nPresident, Faculty and Student Affairs.\nThe committee was convened on Dec. 15, and has held seventeen\nsubsequent meetings. Ten of the meetings were devoted in part to hearing oral and written briefs presented by individuals or groups connected\nin some way with services to students.\nFrom these sessions has emerged a clear picture of the fundamental\nshortcoming of the present system, namely lack of co-operation and coordination among the offices. This situation is related to some extent to\nthe physical distance which separates the agencies but it is probably\nmore closely related to a tendency among them to draw arbitrary lines\nof demarcation between what an office does and does not undertake.\nThe resulting problems are three-fold: unnecessary overlapping of some\nservices, fragmented rather than unified effort, and failure to evaluate\ncritically the programs offered and to respond to changing needs. To all\nof the foregoing inadequacies must be added the serious complication of\na lack of trained personnel.\nThis is not to say we have found nothing commendable in the present\noperation. All the groups which appeared before the Committee had\nhigh praise for the services provided by Health Services and by the Dean\nof Women's Office. Most of the other agencies have some special pro-\nContinued on Page Two Continued from Page One\ngrams which are effective and should be encouraged, but on the whole\nthe services are not working together for the good of the entire student\npopulation in the way that we would like to see.\nThe committee's only concern over the past months, then, has been to\nfind a method of making the overall services to students more effective.\nThe solution we are now recommending will require considerable\nreorganization and some relocation of offices. It will certainly, when implemented, disrupt long-established patterns. We would therefore request that redeployment of personnel be carried out in such a way that\nthe University makes maximum use of a person's demonstrated talents,\nand that injustices do not occur.\nRECOMMENDATIONS\nRecommendations I, II, and III, which have already been submitted\nat the request of Dr. Vogt, are restated here.\nRECOMMENDATION I (February 9, 1978). Consolidation of\nservices. The committee agree that, in principle, the consolidation of\nsome areas of our present student services would be desirable. They\nwould not, however, be prepared to recommend any specific location, without having some idea of space requirements.\nExplanation: It is our feeling that physical consolidation, while\ntheoretically a \"good thing\", might work in a negative way if the offices\nwere crowded.\nRECOMMENDATION II (February 27, 1978). Dean of Women's\nOffice (Title and function). The committee recommends that an interim appointment of an Acting Dean of Women be made for the\nacademic year 1978-79.\nAfter holding discussions with representatives from several of the\nadministrative branches concerned with student services, and after\nstudying the information gathered thus far, the committee has\narrived at two conclusions: 1. It is important that the work of the\nDean of Women's Office be continued. There is total agreement on\nthis point. 2. The title \"Dean of Women\" poses a problem. It is\nmisleading, since it implies academic jurisdiction. It also has the\ndisadvantage of dividing the student body.\nSince we still have much work to do, and since we would like to be\nprecise both in selection of a title and in definition of responsibilities, we recommend only the above-stated action.\nExplanation: Even at the end of its deliberations, and after much\ndiscussion, the committee is still not unanimous in its recommendation\nconcerning the future status of an office for women students. The\ndisagreement concerns the position of such an office within the new\nstructure. The majority of the committee members see the office as part\nof the Counselling Centre, but have opted for the retention of the present title until the proposed reorganization is implemented.\nRECOMMENDATION III (April 26, 1978). International\nHouse. We unanimously recommend that, unless major changes in\nboth organization and priorities are made by International House,\nthe University consider withdrawing its financial support and using\nthose funds to establish services for foreign students elsewhere.\nExplanation: Only 150 of the 1,500 foreign students enrolled at UBC\nare members of International House. This means that many students\ncoming here from other lands are not receiving from International\nHouse the information and help to which they are entitled. In addition,\nas it is presently operated, International House is not providing a\ncultural program for the University at large. The committee was left\nwith the distinct impression that the most important contribution made\nby International House was the operation of the coffee shop.\nWe would comment further that there is deep concern among the\nstudents on this point, because of the fact that some foreign students'\ngroups are moving to quarters in the Student Union Building instead of\nusing the quarters which are rightfully theirs.\nThe position of International House in our new scheme will depend\non how it is reorganized. We have tentatively placed it on a par with\nother campus agencies.\nRECOMMENDATION IV. New Appointment. The committee\nrecommends that the Office of the President appoint, by July 1,\n1979, at the latest, a senior person with administrative experience\nand appropriate academic background, who would provide creative\nand vigorous leadership to the various campus agencies concerned\nwith student services. The appointee would be responsible for\ngeneral supervision and co-ordination of all such offices. Since this\nresponsibility at UBC has traditionally been in the Office of the\nPresident, the committee further recommends that the appointment\nbe as Vice-President, Student Affairs.\nExplanation: The committee feels that the task of overseeing the daily\noperation of all segments of services to 23,000 students warrants an appointment at this level. The duties as outlined in this report would, if\nadded to the present responsibilities of the Vice-President, Faculty and\nStudent Affairs, be too onerous for one person. It is the committee's opinion that the only other satisfactory arrangement would be the appointment of an Assistant to the Vice-President, Faculty and Student Affairs.\nThe fact that increasing numbers of women students of all ages are\nenrolling at the University leads the committee to suggest that well-\nqualified women candidates be given serious consideration when the\nnew appointee is being selected.\nRECOMMENDATION V. Standing Advisory Committee. The\ncommittee recommends that a Standing Advisory Committee, chaired\nby the new appointee (Recommendation IV) and including the\nDirectors responsible for each major area of student services as well\nas representation from the Alma Mater Society, be established by the\nOffice of the President. This Advisory Committee shall meet regularly, shall give advice on policy matters dealing with services to\nstudents, shall see that the services to students are carefully planned\nand assessed, and shall consider such other matters as may be called\nto its attention by the chairman. The manager of the Canada\nEmployment Office on campus should be an ex-officio member of\nthis committee.\nExplanation: The committee hopes that implementation of this\nrecommendation will alleviate the three-pronged problem of which we\nspeak in the introduction to this report. If the proposed Advisory Committee functions well, the offices which deal directly with students will\nexert a more effective and integrated influence on campus life.\nRECOMMENDATION VI. Research Officer. It is the further\nrecommendation of the committee that a Research Officer be appointed by the Office of the President. This person shall be immediately responsible to the new appointee and shall serve as\nsecretary to the Standing Advisory Committee. (See Recommendation\nIV.)\nExplanation: The committee has been somewhat hampered in its\nwork by the lack of precise data available on services to students: records\nof interviews, and studies on effectiveness of programs, for example. A\nResearch Officer would see that such records were kept, could, from\nthis information, evaluate the quality of services offered, initiate investigations on student needs, and enlist the help of research specialists\nin various departments in carrying out the analyses. Another important\nrole we see him as playing is that of catalyst, encouraging co-operation\nand co-ordination of effort among the agencies.\nRECOMMENDATION VII. The committee recommends that\nthere be established a Counselling Centre which will include\nfacilities for general counselling, with special provision for foreign\nstudents (unless this function is given to International House), and\noffering such additional special services as Chaplains, Community\nReferral Service, Day Care, Residence Co-ordinators. The Centre\nwould also include, with the approval of the majority of the committee, an office for women students to replace the Office of the Dean of\nWomen. The staff should be comprised of suitable personnel from\nexisting offices, and additional qualified personnel.\nExplanation: This arrangement would group the agencies at present\nconcerned with counselling. It may be that the new appointee will wish\nto set up a co-ordinating committee within the centre.\nThe Chaplains are already serving the University as counsellors. It\nseems to us only fair that an office in the centre be designated for the use\nof the Chaplains' Association, in order that one of their number may be\navailable on some regular basis.\nEvery member of the committee wishes to retain the valuable services\nperformed by the Dean of Women's Office but, as stated under Recommendation II, there is disagreement as to the status of the oPV\u00C2\u00BB.\nSee Recommendation XIII for details concerning the incision of\nResidence Coordinators.\nRECOMMENDATION VIII. Liaison and Orientation. The committee recommends that the entire responsibility for liaison with the\nsecondary schools and with the community colleges of this province,\nand for the orientation of students, be placed in the Office of the\nRegistrar, preferably in the admissions section. This would undoubtedly require a reallocation of both personnel and budget from\nthe present Student Services Office.\nExplanation: This recommendation is the outcome of careful study of\nthe practices at other universities, and of the three memos attached\nfrom Mr. Jack Wallis, Assistant to the Dean, Faculty of Education; Mr.\n2/UBC Reports/May 25, 1978 A.F. Shirran, Director, Office of Student Services; and Mr. J.E.A.\nParnall, Registrar. We would like to be sure, however, that in the implementation, the experienced membersof Mr. Shirran's staff who have\ndone a most commendable job will be retained for certain aspects of this\nwork, and would further urge continuation of the statistical follow-up\nreports on student achievement which are now sent to schools and colleges, of the reports on recent graduates, and of the monthly newsletter,\nall of which are currently prepared by the Office of Student Services.\nWe would also ask that consideration be given to the possibility of\nbringing grade 12s and college students intending to register at UBC to\nthe campus for a three-day orientation session during the summer.\nStudents living beyond commuting distance should be housed in the\nresidences.\nRECOMMENDATION IX. The committee recommends that\nthere be established, close to the Counselling Centre (Recommendation VII), a Career Education and Placement Centre which would include the appropriate staff who have been working in career education. The new office would include a testing function, for example,\naptitude and achievement tests, and would be responsible for cooperation with the new Canada Employment Office on the campus.\nExplanation: There is important work to be done at UBC to complement the role played by Canada Employment. For example, we feel that\nUBC should build upon ventures initiated by the present Placement Office. In addition, with the assistance of the Research Officer, there\nshould be evaluation of all aspects of the new Co-op and Internship programs recently begun by the Dean of Women's Office. Other proposed\nprograms should be carefully developed and similarly monitored.\nThe committee recognizes that universities across the continent are\nendeavoring to provide a sufficiently early introduction to various\ncareers so that students may select courses intelligently and prepare\nthemselves well for a given field of work.\nRECOMMENDATION X. Office of Information and Special\nEvents. The committee recommends the establishment of an Office\nof Information and Special Events which would inform the University community of services offered to students, and in addition arrange and co-ordinate special campus events.\nExplanation: This recommendation is based on a suggestion from the\nDean of Women's Office, which has until now. accepted the responsibility for some special events, and is supported by the Director ot\nCeremonies and by the Alumni Association. We suggest that the Information and Special Events Office should also be in the vicinity of the\nCounselling Centre and the Career Education and Placement Centre.\nWe leave to the new appointee the decision as to a co-ordinating committee for special events. (See Recommendation IV.)\nRECOMMENDATION XI. Financial Aid Office. The committee\nrecommends that the present Awards Office be renamed the Financial\nAid Office.\nExplanation: This title is a clearer indication of the function of the\noffice. We would like to encourage the staff to continue their workshops\non budgets and their debt counselling sessions.\nRECOMMENDATION XII. Nurse Practitioner. The committee\nrecommends that, since Health Services will be moving farther away\nfrom the centre of campus when the new Acute Care Hospital opens,\na full-time Nurse practitioner be placed in the central core of the\nstudent services. It is further recommended that this person visit the\nstudent residences on a regular schedule.\nExplanation: Dr. (Archie) Johnson, director of the Student Health\nService, felt that this appointment would be very helpful, particularly\nfor prompt referral of students needing medical or psychiatric help. We\nare in complete accord.\nRECOMMENDATION XIII. The committee recommends that\nthe new appointee (Recommendation IV) examine immediately both\nthe methods and the results of the selection process used to name\nResidence Co-ordinators, House Advisors and Residence Fellows.\nThis group of people appears to the committee to play a somewhat\nunsupervised counselling role in the residences of this University,\nwithout, for the most part, any apparent prior training or experience. The committee feels compelled to express serious concern\nin this regard and to request that some control of these appointments\nbe exercised by the Office of the President.\nExplanation: The committee feels that many of the complaints we\nheard concerning the residences stem from the inexperience of the personnel. There must be more supervision of Residence Co-ordinators,\nHouse Advisors and Residence Fellows. For this reason, we have\nincluded them under the jurisdiction of the director of the Counselling\nCentre. At present, they are not co-operating with other student services.\nWithin the Residences there are serious problems which require immediate attention. Standards of conduct and conditions for study\nshould be improved. From the information on hand, we judge that both\nwould be much better were less alcohol consumed on the premises.\nPolicies in this regard should be clearly stated by the new appointee in\nconsultation with the Standing Advisory Committee.\nRECOMMENDATION XIV. Staffing. The committee recommends that new staff, when appointed, reflect the increasing age\nspread of the student population, that new persons be selected with\ngreat care, and that they have acceptable qualifications for the work.\nExplanation: The scope of counselling services which should be offered within the University is certainly open to debate. The committee is\nof the opinion that in dealing with serious student problems counsellors\nshould make maximum use of specialized community agencies. It is,\nhowever, likely that much of the day-to-day work in our Counselling\nCentre will continue to be initial and follow-up visits for a specific problem.\nIn the Guidelines for Canadian University Counselling Services, it is\nrecommended that: Counsellors should be employed in a ratio of not\nless than one full-time equivalent for every 5 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 700 students. If this\nscheme were to be adopted, UBC would need between S3 and 46 full-\ntime equivalents.\nRECOMMENDATION XV. \"Odds and Ends.\" The committee\nrecommends that the new appointee pay particular attention to the\nfollowing items which have come to our attention. Some are mentioned as well under the appropriate recommendation:\n1. Reorganization of International House with a view to its playing a role in the counselling of foreign students. (Recommendation\nIII).\n2. Scrutinize closely the qualifications of new staff, and assess their\npersonal suitability for the positions.\n3. Preparation of a Directory of Services to Students in conjunction\nwith the Information Office (Recommendation X).\n4. Consideration of the need for a Co-ordinating Committee for\nSpecial Events (Recommendation X).\n5. Suggestions re. Financial Aid Office (Recommendation XI):\na. A complete reorganization of the Awards and Financial\nAssistance section of the Calendar. Numerous complaints have been\nregistered. Cross references should give page numbers.\nb. Equitable distribution of awards: an upper monetary limit for\nany one student; study of the method of awarding funds for the top 5\nper cent of all students.\n6. Devise some system for making the residences more liveable and\nimplement it (Recommendation XIII).\nDr. Myrne B. Nevison, of the Faculty of Education,\nsubmitted a minority report on recommendations affecting the Office of the Dean of Women. The full text\nof her report appears below.\nPresident's Advisory Committee: Review of Student Services\nMINORITY REPORT\nRecommendation II: That the functions of the present Dean of\nWomen's Office be continued and be headed by a director who will\nreport directly to the Vice-president and who will be a member of his\nAdvisory Committee on Student Services.\nRationale: As indicated in the report of our committee, all the\ngroups which appeared before us had \"high praise for the services ...\nprovided by the Dean of Women's Office\":\n\"Our only satisfactory referrals are to the Dean of Women's Office or to the Health Services.\"\n\"The programs and new vision of the Dean of Women's Office\nneed desperately to be preserved.\"\n\"The role it plays in helping mature women by cutting red tape\nfor special and emergency help is vital.\"\n\"It is important for women students to be represented publicly\nwith a special office/person speaking on their behalf and it is important that this person be seen as part of the decision-making\nprocess.\"\nAs a result of these comments our committee reported (Feb. 27,\n1978): \"It is important that the work of the Dean of Women's Office\nbe continued.\" The committee then recommended that there be a\nContinued on Page Four\nSee MINORITY REPORT\nUBC Reports/May 25, 1978/3 Two named to granting councils\nUBC's president, Dr. Douglas Kenny, and Prof.\nMichael Shaw, vice-president for academic development,\nhave been named to new national councils to assist\nresearch and scholarship in the social sciences and\nhumanities and the natural sciences and engineering.\nPresident Kenny has been named to the Social Sciences\nand Humanities Research Council, which assumes granting functions formerly vested in the Canada Council,\nwhich is now solely concerned with grants for the\nperforming arts.\nThe new Social Sciences and Humanities Research\nEconomist awarded\ntop research prize\nProf. John Helliwell, winner of the 1959 Rhodes\nScholarship and a member of the economics department\nat UBC since 1967, has been named the recipient of the\n$1,000 Prof. Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize for 1978.\nProf. Helliwell is the tenth winner of the award, given\nannually to a UBC faculty member for distinguished\nresearch carried out in the previous three years. The prize\nwas established in 1969 by Mr. and Mrs. George Biely in\nhonor of Prof. Biely, a former UBC faculty member. Mr.\nBiely is the president of Biely Construction Co. and the\nbrother of Prof. Biely.\nProf. Helliwell is regarded as one of Canada's most innovative economists and a pioneer in the development of\neconometric models of open economies, drawing on\ntheoretical developments in international economics.\nHe played a key role in the development of the RDX2\nmodel of the Canadian economy, described as \"perhaps\nthe most sophisticated of the early econometric models of\nan open economy.\"\nHis work in linking the RDX2 Canadian model with\nthe MPS model for the United States has provided considerable insight into the channels through which the two\neconomies are linked to one another.\nHe has also been active in research in the economics of\nnatural resources and has made a substantial contribution to the national debate on northern pipelines and to\nthe issue of resource taxation. Almost all his research in\nrecent years has been in collaboration with teams of\nstudents and colleagues.\nProf. Helliwell is also a member of a group of natural-\nresource economists at UBC which has received grants\ntotalling $806,000 from the Canada Council for integrated studies on the management of the world's\nnatural resources.\nA native of Vancouver, Prof. Helliwell graduated from\nUBC in 1959 with the degree of Bachelor of Commerce.\nAt Oxford University, where he was Rhodes Scholar,\nProf. Helliwell earned the degrees of Bachelor of Arts\nand Doctor of Philosophy. He also taught economics at\nOxford from 1964 to 1967.\nBefore joining the UBC faculty on a full-time basis,\nProf. Helliwell served on the research staffs of federal\nroyal commissions on banking and finance and taxation\nand was an econometric consultant to the Bank of\nCanada.\nCouncil also has the role of advising the federal secretary\nof state on any research pertaining to its mandate which\nthe minister may refer to it.\nPresident Kenny is one of seven persons who will serve\nthree-year terms on the new council. Thirteen other\nmembers will serve one- or two-year terms.\nProf. Shaw has been named to the new Natural\nSciences and Engineering Research Council, which\nassumes the role of financing university research formerly\nvested in the National Research Council.\nThe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council has a president, Gordon McNabb, former deputy\nminister of the federal Department of Energy, Mines and\nResources, and 21 members representing universities, industry and labor.\nCouncil members, in addition to Prof. Shaw, include:\nDr. Larkin Kerwin, of Laval University; Joe Morris, past\npresident of the Canadian Labor Congress; Dr. Arthur\nBourns, president of McMaster University; Dr. Henry\nDuckworth, president of the University of Winnipeg;\nJacques Giasson, president of the St. Lawrence Cement\nCo., Alistair H. Ross, president of Pembina Pipeline\nLtd.; Norman Keevil, executive vice-president, Teck\nCorporation Ltd.; and Thomas A. Buell, president of\nWeldwood of Canada Ltd.\nMINORITY REPORT\nContinued from Page Three\nWomen's Office as part of the counselling services reporting to the\ndirector of the Counselling Centre and through him to the Vice-\npresident and to the Advisory Committee on Student Services.\nMy concern is two-fold:\n1. The function performed by the Dean of Women's Office was\nmore than a counselling service. There was an awareness of the\nspecial needs of women, particularly those of the mature student and\nan effort was made to move the University community to provide\nmore opportunities, particularly programs. The encouragement provided throughout the years to women was successful primarily\nbecause the head of that office could speak to the special concerns of\nwomen from a position of recognized authority \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and directly to top\nadministrators.\nThe recommendation of the majority of the committee that limits\nthe direct contact of the head of the Women's Office to the director\nof the Counselling Centre and to the heads of the participating\ncounselling services (Day Care, Community Referral, Chaplains,\nand Residence Coordinators) limits too drastically the opportunities\nfor a thoughtful voice on women's issues to be heard at a level which\ncould affect the needed changes.\n2. As an institution that should provide leadership in the community and open vocational opportunities to women, and as an institution financed in a large part by federal funds, we should be\naware of and act upon the provisions of the Canadian Human Rights\nAct (1977). That act provides for the encouragement for the carrying\nout of \"affirmative action programs\" to reduce existing imbalances\nand discrimination in management systems and procedures\n(Background Notes on The Canadian Human Rights Act, Minister\nof Justice, March 1, 1978).\nUniversities can do much to prepare women to make their contributions to our society but their inertia delays the necessary\nchanges. Considering the importance of their role and the primary\nsource of their funding (public monies, especially federal) it is very\npossible that the universities will be asked to demonstrate that the top\nadministrators are proceeding with the action needed and that there\nis a prominent office charged both with responding to special needs\nof women and reporting directly to the Office of the President.\nThe University would be wise at this stage to preserve the functions of the Office of the Dean of Women at a level where the head of\nit reports directly to the Vice-president and where its voice is heard\non the Advisory Committee on Student Services.\n4/UBC Reports/May 25, 1978"@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LE3.B8K U2"@en . "LE3_B8K_U2_1978_05_25"@en . "10.14288/1.0118597"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver: University of British Columbia Information Office"@en . 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