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S.89-36

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

S.

To:

Senate

Subject:

SFU - Harbour Centre

Annual Report and

Proposed Programs

From: Senate Committee on

Academic Planning

Date:

October 12, 1989

Action taken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning at its meeting of October 11,

1989 gives rise to the following motions

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"That Senate accept the Annual Report of the SOAP/Harbour Centre Sub-Committee"

MOTION 2

"That Senate approve the proposed programs outlined in S.89-36

a)

Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing

b)

Centre for Policy Research in Science and Technology

c)

Community Economic Development

d)

Gerontology

e)

Social Policy Issues

as appropriate for (re) location to SFU Harbour Centre."

Note: It is understood that approval of these motions at this time does not obviate the need

for full approval of new programs through the appropriate committee process, e.g.,

SCUS, SCGS, SOAP, SENATE.

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OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT FOR

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY AT HARBOUR CENTRE

Memorandum

To:

Dr.

J.W.G. Ivany, Chairman

SCAP

Subject: Annual Report

From:

Jack Blaney, Chairman

SCAP Harbour Centre

Sub-Committee

Date: September 25, 1989

The period from September 1, 1988 to August 31, 1989 was a very productive one

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for the

SCAP/Harbour Centre Sub-Committee. The Committee met six times, often for extended

sessions. Over the course of this period, the Committee's report on Objectives and

Program Development Guidelines, which occupied much of the Committee's effort in the

preceding year, was submitted and approved (SCAP 88-8; 5 88-33).

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Throughout the year the principal challenge has been to determine the types of programs

to be offered at Harbour Centre to serve a mission directed to enhancing accessibility to

advanced recurring education for adults, while also advancing overall University goals. In

planning terms, this challenge largely has been met by initiatives from academic

departments and Faculties, who have responded thoughtfully and innovatively to the

advanced recurring educational mandate of the Harbour Centre campus.

As a result of these initiatives the Committee reviewed 38 program proposals and

discussed a further 10, less formally presented, expressions of interest. Following a first

stage review of these submissions the Committee recommended to SCAP in February 1989

ten new program initiatives and six existing programs /program areas as appropriate for

Harbour Centre. These recommendations were subsequently approved (SCAP 89-4; S 89-

13). A status report on the program proposals reviewed by the committee is presented in

the attached table.

The Committee has since undertaken a thorough review of the remaining proposals and

unanimously recommends five as appropriate at this time. These are:

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Proposal.

Program Type

Dpt/Facu1ty

1.

Canadian Centre for

Research/ Instructional-

Communication

Studies in Publishing

(Master's and Non-Credit Programs)

2.

Centre for Policy Research on

Research

Applied Science

Science and Technology

3. Community Economic

Service

Arts

Development

('W indow' presence for community

,

visibility only)

4.

Gerontology

Res/ Instruct/ Service

Arts

(Transf er of Existing Program)

5.

Social Policy Issues

Post Bacc. Diploma

Soc & Anth

Materials describing these proposals are attached. It is anticipated that as some of the

existing proposals and areas of interest are developed further, or new proposals are

received, that the Committee will make further recommendations to SCAP.

Program Coherence and Quality

A commitment to quality of programs and services has been endorsed by all those who

have participated in program development for Harbour Centre. .A principal concern of the

Committee has been the need to ensure that the highest quality in programming and that

faculty representation be established and maintained from the outset in a manner which

integrates Harbour Centre within the overall university context. A separate statement will

be forthcoming in the fall in order to address these issues.

Although program balance and coherence have been sought, the programs at Harbour

Centre, given the mission and program development guidelines, will not simply be a

reflection of the representation of programs on the main campus. It is critical that we

pursue a strategy which reconciles the overall demands upon the University with the need

for controlled, focussed growth of programs at Harbour Centre in order to achieve the

required mix of programs to support the mission of the downtown campus. Further,

given the finite amount of space at the Harbour Centre campus, the Committee has been

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concerned that the facility requirements of individual programs not jeopardize the goals of

balance and coherence.

As programs have been proposed and approved, several overlapping and complementary

themes have emerged:

- Business and Management Studies

- Communication

- Liberal and Cultural Studies

- Applied Social Sciences

- Internationalization

Some natural linkages among programs are occurring, such as between the Faculty of

Business Administration, programs at Harbour Centre and the Centre for International

Communication. Such linkages will be encouraged, as well as a stronger presence from

Science.

Through the program and campus development processes, expectations have been created

both within academic departments and the community concerning the character and role

of the Harbour Centre campus: a key factor in meeting these expectations will be faculty

appointments through ACCESS funding to permit implementation of the identified

program mix. Distinctive programming and a resident faculty presence are central to

meeting our mission and shaping the campus to the purposes of Simon Fraser University.

Funding

As outlined in the statement on Objectives and Program Development Guidelines (SCAP

88-8), programs at Harbour Centre will be funded in various ways, with some programs

depending on a mix of several funding sources. In general, programs transferred from the

main campus carry with them basic program support. New program initiatives will be

funded by private grants, fee revenue and, where appropriate, by ACCESS grant funding

where such programs are expected to generate FTE enrolments that will increase

proportionately the University grant from the provincial government. Programs

approved as appropriate for Harbour Centre will not be implemented until their funding

is in place.

At the SCAP meeting where this report will be considered, I would be pleased to report,

program by program, on the status of funding to date.

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Phase III of the Harbour Centre Facility

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Funding for Phase III has not yet been secured, although it is expected that a plan can be

put in place to complete this phase by September 1990 at the earliest, and perhaps January

1991 at the latest. Many of the programs approved as appropriate for Harbour Centre

cannot be implemented, regardless of funding, until Phase

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is completed.

Conclusion

The Committee requests that this report be placed before SCAP for discussion and that the

five programs listed on the top of page two be approved.

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY AT HARBOUR CENTRE

CANADIAN CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN

PUBLISHING

1Ii1.i

1.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

Dr. John Dickinson, Acting Dean

Faculty of Applied Sciences

Dated:

September 19, 1989

Subject: Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing

2.

MEMORANDUM

MASTER'S PROPOSAL

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

Rowland Lorimer, Co-director (Research and

Credit Curriculum)

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Dated: July 5, 1989

Subject: Master's Program in Publishing

Attachment: Master's Proposal

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MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. 'Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

Liora Salter, Chair, Dept. of Communication

Dated:

June 26, 1989

Subject: Publishing Centre

4. MEMORANDUM

CURRICULUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

Rowland Lorimer, Co-director (research)

Dated:

February 22, 1988

Subject: Downtown Programs

Attachment: Curriculum Outline

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MEMORANDUM

SIMON FRASER. UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney,

Vice-President, Harbour Centre.

From:

Dr. John I5ickinson, Acting Dean,

Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Date:

September 19, 1989

Subject:

Applied Sciences Programs at

Harbour Centre.

Canadian Centre for Studies in Pub-lishing.

This memorandum is to put on record the fact

that I fully support the implementation of the Canadian

Centre for Studies in Publishing program at the Harbour

Centre Campus of Simon Fraser University.

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Master's Program in Publishing

at Simon Fraser University

I GENERAL INFORMATION MASTER'S IN PUBLISHING

1.

Title of Program: Master of Publishing

2.

Credential to be awarded to Graduates: M.Pub.

3.

Administrative Unit to offer program: the Department of

Communication, Faculty of Applied Sciences.

4.

Schedule for Implementation: September, 1990.

II PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

1.

Objectives:

To provide individuals who are engaged in publishing or

preparing for a career in publishing with an

opportunity to pursue graduate studies in publishing on

a full or part-time basis.

To provide the opportunity to individuals to increase

their knowledge, abilities and understandings of

publishing.

To provide publishers with a way to increase the

capabilities of their staff.

2.

Relationship of Program to Role and Mission of the

University

Simon Fraser University was founded in 1965 as an

complement to existing higher education in the

province. It has sought to address new areas and new

methods of enquiry, and to integrate university and

industry by forming such interdisciplinary departments

as communication, criminology and kiriesiology.

The university has also mounted interdisciplinary

professional Master's programs in recognition of the

growing need and. demand for professional expertise in

areas such as pest management, resource management and

business administration. it has delivered these

programs over three semesters of study per year --

rather than the normal academic year -- and sought ways

-- such as evening courses -- to address the needs of

part-time students.

With the opening of Simon Fraser Harbour Centre the

university is consolidating its commitments to mid-

career learning and to professional programs for

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(Masters) in Publishing, Proposal 2

individuals with already chosen careers.

The present program follows in the footsteps of other

professional Master's programs at Simon Fraser directed

at particular areas of activity. The program also

builds on existing faculty research and teaching in the

Department of Communication.

The Nature of the Proposed Program

The proposed program is designed for both full time and

part time study. Courses will normally be given in the

evening. Full time students may expect to complete the

program in one year--the courses in the fall and spring

terms and the internship in the summer term.

The proposed program is built on an analysis of the

needs of a number of types of individuals. They are as

follows:

1.

Individuals planning to enter the publishing

industry

2.

Individuals wishing to advance their careers

in the industry

3.

Individuals who may engage in publishing but

work for businesses or institutions whose primary

activity is not publishing

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4.

Individuals who may work for agencies

directly concerned with the publishing industry,

e.g., Communications Canada, the Canada Council,

private granting organizations or provincial

cultural agencies

5.

Individuals who may wish to undertake applied

or basic research in the area (it is the intent

of the program to direct students wishing to

become researchers or scholars to enroll in

academic programs such as Communication, English

or Business Administration, taking some of their

courses from the Master in Publishing program.)

3.

Current Education and Research in Publishing at Simon

Fraser University

A number of existing initiatives at Simon Fraser

Universit-y make it a logical home for a Master's

program in publishing and for a a national education

and research centre focussed on publishing industry

needs. Within Simon Fraser University several

commitments to research and teaching related to the

publishing industry have already been made. For

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example, faculty in the Department of Communication

have carried out research into educational publishing

and currently teach courses on book publishing in

Canada. A publishing minor has recently been mounted,

composed of a selection of existing courses and four

new courses:

1.

the publishing process,

2.

the reading patterns of the general public,

3.

the author and book in society, and,

4.

the business of publishing.

Professional development seminars have also been

offered through Continuing Education on several aspects

of writing and editing, for example, the history of the

book, "desktop" publishing, marketing, distribution and

promotion, and business and publishing practices for

short-run or specialized titles. In addition, an

active program of contract research is being developed.

During the summer, one contract was completed for the

British Columbia government and negotiations have taken

place with three other governments.

The Publishing Centre, minor in publishing, and

proposed Master's in Publishing are housed in the

Department of Communication. However, both the En

Department and the Faculty of Business Administrat

have been actively involved in the development of--he

Centre and existing and proposed course programs.

4.

Other Graduate Programs in Publishing

At present in Canada and elsewhere, research and

teaching on the publishing industry is carried on

largely by individual scholars and by industry itself.

While the press and broadcasting are studied in

graduate schools of journalism and communication

respectively, the non-daily publishing industries

receive little attention,.

There is no comprehensive professional graduate program

in Canada in publishing. Nor is there any program that

teaches acquisition, editing, design, production,

management, marketing and cultural studies as integral

parts of publishing. This situation exists in spite of

the crucial role journal and book publishing play in

the academy.

Very recently, in consultation with the Canadian Centre

for Studies in Publishing, an undergraduate program has

been mounted at the University du Quebec a Montreal.

Outside Canada there are three key graduate programs in

publishing.

1. The first is offered by the Oxford Polytechnic

and grants a graduate diploma. It is designed to

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introduce the skills needed by industry entrants.

See Appendix 1 for course schema.

2.

A second program is given at the University of

Bordeaux. It consists of a graduate diploma

approximately equivalent to a Master's and

consists of course work as well as an internship.

In addition, a student may take a doctorate by

adding on a wider range of reading and completing

a dissertation.

3.

Finally, New York University offers a doctorate

to individual students who choose from a range of

courses relevant to publishing offered throughout

the university. The doctorate is designed to be

an academic degree but it allows the student

considerable exposure to the industry.

5.

Relationship to programs at other B.C. universities.

No related graduate programs exist. The proposed

program is a professional program that closely

complements and builds on the M.A. and Ph.D. program

offered by the Department of Communication at Simon

Fraser.

A number of programs in the colleges of British

Columbia exist centred on writing' and on the technical

aspects of publishing. We have begun to develop closer

ties to these college based programs.. First, the

director of one of the strongest publishing programs is

a doctoral student in Communications. His program is

at Selkirk College. Secondly, at our recent conference

"Between Theory and Practice," we made some very useful

contacts.

Finally, there is a publishing program within the

Creative Writing Department of the University of

Victoria that will serve as valuable background for

entrance into the Master's program. xxexpand It is

composed of

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY AT HARBOUR CENTRE

CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

(CP R OST)

CONTENTS

1. MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

Dr. John Dickinson, Acting Dean

Faculty of Applied Sciences

Dated:

September 19, 1989

Subject: Applied Sciences Programs at Harbour Centre

Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology

2

DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology

Development Plan

Prepared by: William Leiss, Director

Dated:

May 29, 1989

3.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

William Leiss, Director

CPROST

Department of Communication

Dated:

February 14, 1989

Subject: CPROST Office Space at Harbour Centre

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MEMORANDUM

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney,

Vice-President, Harbour Centre.

From:

Dr John 6ickinson, Acting Dean,

Faculty of Applied Sciences

Date:

September 19, 1989

Subject:

Applied Sciences Programs at

Harbour Centre.

Centre for Policy Research on Science and

Technology.

This memorandum is to put on record the fact

that I fully support the implementation of the Centre for

.

Policy Research on Science and Technology program at the

Harbour Centre campus of Simon Fraser Uni'versit.y.

CC:' /

W. Gill

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CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

(604) 291-3595

Mailing Address:

Department of Communication

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6

Electronic Mail:

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bill_leiss©cc.sfu. ca

DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Prepared by: William Leiss, Director

May 29, 1989

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I. The Centre

M andate

The Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology at Simon Fraser

University was established in late 1988. The "Statement of Research' Aims" in the

Centre's Constitution reads in part: "The primary focus of research

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the Centre

will be on the relationship between public policy and the management of

technology. The emphasis on public policy means that the research will investigate

the regulatory environment, which is a product of the interaction between the

private and public sectors of society. This

regulatory environment acts to stimulate,

monitor, and control the processes of technological innovation."

Objectiv es

The goal of the Centre for Policy Research 'On Science and Technology is to

become a nationally-known institute for conducting independent research on public

policy issues involving scientific and technological innovation.

The Centre expects to have the following types of ongoing acti'vities under

way at the end of its start-up period:

- contract research;

- research proposal assistance for members;

- per diem technical consulting activities;

- a technical publications series;

- newsletter for institutional sponsors;

- regular workshops, seminars, and guest lectures;

- facilities for visiting fellows;

- liaison with related centres in Canada and abroad;

- conference organization' services.

National Centres of Excellence Competition

The Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology is a founding

member of TIMNET, the Technology Innovation Management' Network. Other

founding members are: National Centre for Management Research and

Development, University of Western Ontario; Management of Technology

Institute, McMaster University; Centre de Recherche en Developpement Industriel

et Technologique, Université du Québec a Montréal (UQAM). TIMNET. is affiliated

with other research centres at the University of Toronto, Dalhousie -University,

UQAM, and the Université du Québec' a Trois-RivièreS.

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TIMNET submitted an application for funding to the Networks of Centres of

Excellence (NCE) Program on November 30, 1988. The TIMNET application is

supported by a number of large firms and industry associations,

including

IBM

Canada, Ontario Hydro, Westinghouse Canada, Hydro Quebec, and the B.C.

Telephone Company. This application is for almost $10 million to fund research

over a four-year period in the management of technology area. TIMNET has

reached the final round of consideration in this competition, the results of which

are expected in late Summer 1989.

NCE funding will support designated researchers who are affiliated with

centres. However, there is a possibility that infrastructure grants to support the

centres themselves may be made to successful applicants from other sources.

Founding Members

Simon Fraser University:

Robert Anderson, Communication

Thomas W. Calvert, Vice-President, Research

Alan Davison, Kinesiology

Chad Day, Natural Resources Management

Donald A. George, Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences

Steven Globerman, Business Administration

Tom Gunton, Natural Resources Management

William Leiss, Communication

Randall Peterman, Natural Resources Management

Miriam Rosin, Kinesiology

Richard Schwindt, Business Administration

Liora Salter, Communication

Aidan Vining, Business Administration

Jay Weinkam, Computing Science

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce:

Peter Nemetz

William T. Stanbury

Ilan Vertinsky

Donald Wehrung

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Research Areas

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The group of researchers listed above has expertise in the following areas,

among others, that are directly related to CPROST's mandate: environmental and

health risk studies (risk assessment, perception, communication, and management);

social and environmental impact assessment; science and technology policy; R & D

policy, including tax incentives and technical standards; and 'the regulatory

environment for technological innovation, including legal, economic, and public

policy aspects.

II. Development Plan (1989-90)

Financial Objectiv es

The Centre's objective is to be a self-sustaining research organization at the

end of its startup period. That is, the Centre will finance from its own resources an

annual

operating budget and modest equipment purchases; personnel costs,

including a part-time or full-time research manager; and a contribution to the

university's overhead recovery fund.

These funds will be raised from the following sources: (1) overhead

recoveries on contract research; (2) fees for services, sale of publications, etc.; (3)

unrestricted one-time grants from external agencies for specific purposes; (4) annual

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The Centre has begun to build its own resources from overhead recovery on

contract research. In 1989 to date two contracts have been signed: (1) organization of

a workshop on "Risk Perception and Drug Safety Evaluation" for Health and

Welfare Canada, held in Ottawa during March 1989 (completed: Wehrung,

Vertinsky, and Leiss); (2) contract with the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board,

Ottawa (under way: Leiss and Salter). Total overhead recoveries will be at least

$10,000.

A dvisory Board

The Centre will establish an Advisory Board drawn from representatives of

private and public sector organizations who have a special interest in its activities.

The purpose of the Board will be to assist the Centre researchers in maintaining a

close link with the external economic and public policy environment.

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Centre Location

The Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology will have an office

at the new Harbour Centre campus of Simon Fraser University in downtown

Vancouver. Our objective is to have at least a temporary office and facilities in place

by September 1989.

Institutional Sponsors: Startup Funds

The Centre is presently seeking about $25,000 in initial startup funding from

external agencies. These funds will be used for the following purposes: purchase of

microcomputer and laser printer system (or received by donation), hiring of half-

time research manager, and initial operating funds.

The Vice-President, Harbour Centre, Dr. Jack Blaney, and his staff are assisting

MOST in assembling these startup funds.

Sustaining Sponsors

At an appropriate time, MOST will explore the possibility of obtaining

annual sustaining grants from institutional sponsors. This sponsorship will be

linked with some of the Centre's specific activities, such as the technical publications

series, and, if the sponsor so wishes, the sponsor's name will be identified with the

activity.

Evaluation of Long-term Development Plan

The Centre is affiliated with the Institute for Risk Research (IRR) at the

University of Waterloo, which has attained national prominence for its activities as

an independent research centre during this decade. I intend to propose to the

CPROST members that in Spring 1990 we invite one or two senior fellows from IRR

to visit Vancouver, undertake a review of CPROST's structure, objectives, and

proposed activities, and make recommendations to the members and our Advisory

Board about its future development.

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY AT HARBOUR CENTRE

COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

CONTENTS

1.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice President, Harbour Centre

From: Dr. R. C. Brown, Dean of Arts

Dated: September 26, 1989

Subject: Community Economic Development

2.

MISSION STATEMENT

Community Economic Development Centre

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Mission Statement

3.

ACTIVITY

REPORT

Community Economic Development Centre

Activity Report

January to June, 1989

4.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blàney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From: Dr. Robert S. Anderson

Department of Communication

Dated: November 16, 1988

Subject: Community Economic Development Centre

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Office of the Dean, Faculty

of

Arts

MEMORANDUM

To:

Jack Blaney, Vice-President

From: •R. C. Brown

Harbour Centre

Dean of Arts

Subject:

Communit

y

Economic.

Date: 26 September 1989

Development

This is to confirm that I support the recommendation that the

Community

Economic Development Cent-re

be offered "window"

access at the Harbour

Centre campus.

R. C. Brown

RCBIhj

Dean of Arts

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COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

CENTRE

MISSION STATEMENT

Community Economic Development Centre

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, B.C. VSA 1S6

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OBJECTIVE

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The Community Economic Development Centre was established in 1989 at Simon Fraser

University with the objective of bringing the resources and talents of the University

community to bear on the task of encouraging accountable and sustainable community

economic development (CED) in British Columbia. Combining an on-going research

program with active involvement in community-based projects, the University through this

Centre will make a difference in how communities carry out CED by:

stimulating the study of the process of CED in British Columbia;

collecting and providing information to British Columbians about CED within

and outside B.C.

establishing

effective

communication between all persons and departments within

SFU so as to respond to requests for assistance on CED problems;

carrying out projects on CED in partnership with communities and agencies

outside the University;

establishing relations with similar centres internationally, particularly in

developing countries, and exchanging ideas, people and practical approaches

with them;

creating opportunities for professional development experiences and programs

for CED practitioners.

These projects will be carried out by multi-disciplinary teams of individuals chosen in terms

of the need for their talents and their own desire to be involved. The Centre is thus a

combination of the analytical and practical,. bringing together individuals from the applied

sciences, the humanities and social sciences, the study of business and education, and the

natural sciences. Just as important, in its governing structure and its project teams, the

Centre involves members of the wider community in its activities. Because CED is another

term for the life (and death) of communities, those associated with this university-based

Centre appreciate the importance of the task and the fact that it is communities, not centres,

which actually carry out CED.

The scope of the Centre's work will include cities as large as New Westminster,

Nanaimo or Kamloops, villages as small as Yarrow or Spuzzum,and islands as large as the

Queen Charlottes or as small as Homby. Communities of special interest as heterogeneous

as 'women in business in the East Kootenays' are included in our mandate. Most projects

envisaged as appropriate to the Centre will address both these senses of community, and will

set these communities into their wider contexts: that is, the social and ecological communities

which surround them, and the regions which are usually their reference points (e.g. the

Chilcotin, the Sechelt, the Okanagan). It is the interplay of these different ideas of

community with the process of economic development which is of most interest to the

Centre.

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FOCUS

The focus of the Centre is on what communities can do for themselves in terms of

achieving access to knowledge, programs, markets and funds. This involves understanding

the pattern of top-down economic and social planning, and how communities can overcome

their disadvantages. In the provision of information to communities about CEID the Centre

acts as a window into the resources of the University for a sector of society which, unlike

business and government, frequently has difficulty in gaining access to those resources. The

Centre thus assists the University to relate to communities in an alternate way.

The Centre has chosen to direct its attention to the dependent nature of communities and

their economic development because market forces and government policies have tended in

the past to encourage communities to approach economic development in relative isolation

from each other. Earlier approaches may have had a single, even exclusive, focus (e.g. one

mine or one pulpmill) combined with high levels of expectation.

The

process has frequently

been rife with conflict, communities pitted against communities, local and regional

governments not agreeing on a common approach, and benefits not being shared equitably.

Even while working with individual communities on specific projects, the Centre's

perspective will remain regional, provincial, national and even international -- the community

cannot be viewed in isolation.

The needs of communities are varied and complex and the Centre can only address needs

for which the university has the requisite skills and resources. In working with

communities, the Centre will look for those situations in which one of the key missing

ingredients is knowledge, or in which the community has been unable to assemble

. knowledge in a form which could lead to action. Whether such knowledge is to be

established by compiling and interpreting existing ideas and data, or by conducting new

research and developing new techniques and technology, the Centre must look for

partnership projects where knowledge essential to action is missing. The Centre therefore

fosters

development research,

involving at least four kinds of activity:

activity that translates existing ideas or techniques into a form in which they can be

applied to CED;

activity which then applies such knowledge to CED;

activity that leads to the search for new ideas, techniques or knowledge which might

make CED possible;

activity which strengthens the community's or the Centre's capability to work in CED

in the future.

In its research activity, the Centre seeks to involve the community in the process in ways that

result in a transfer of ownership, so that the community knows that the research belongs to

them as much as to the university, so the faculty members and students understand that they

are involved in a partnership with the community.

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CONCLUSION

We are struck by how few university-based programs on this subject there are in Canada

and are confident that SFU's Community Economic Development Centre will play a

distinctive and creative role in research, in applications, and in training which will have

effects beyond the boundaries of British Columbia. We look forward to providing a base for

research, for academic programs, and advice to communities. We look forward as well to

being a location where individual consultants and people from community-based

organizations, government, and private companies who are engaged in CED can teach,

reflect, write about, analyze and share their experiences through our program for visiting

professional associates.

COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

STEERING

COMMITTEE - 1989

Bob Anderson, Chairman

Dept. of Communication

291-4265

Evan Alderson

Centre for the Arts

291-3913

Steve Duguid

Continuing Studies

291-3246

John Pierce

Dept. of Geography

291-3713

Jim Rahe

Dept. of Biological Sciences

291-4801

Richard Schwindt

Dept. of Economics

291-4166

Paddy Smith

Dept. of Political Science

291-3729

Keleen Toohey

Faculty of Education

291-4397

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY AT HARBOUR CENTRE

GERONTOLOGY

CONTENTS

1.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

Dr. R. C. Brown, Dean of Arts

Dated:

September 26, 1989

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Subject: Gerontology Program

2.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Ted Dobb, University Librarian

From:

Karen Marotz, Head, Belzberg

Dated:

June 23, 1989

Subject: Belzberg Library Support for Gerontology

Attach.: Appendix A

3.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Gloria Gutman, Director

Gerontology

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Research Centre

From:

Dr. Jack Blaney

Dated:

June 5, 1989

Subject: Gerontology Research Centre at

SFU/Harbour Centre

4.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

Dr. Gloria Gutman, Director

Gerontology Research Centre

Dated:

March 15, 1989

Subject: Gerontology's Request to Move Downtown

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts

MEMORANDUM

To: Jack Blaney, Vice-President

From: R. C. Brown

Harbour Centre

Dean of Arts

Subject: Gerontolo

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Date:

26 September 1989

This is to confirm that I support the recommendation that the

Gerontology Program be relocated from the Burnaby Mountain

campus to Harbour Centre.

R. C

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Brown

RCBI1IJ

Dean of Arts

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SAMUEL AND FRANCES BELZBERG LIBRARY

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

AT

HARBOUR CENTRE

MEMORANDUM

To:

Ted Dobb

From: Karen Marotz

University Librarian

Head, Belzberg

Subject: Belzberg Library

Date: June 23, 1989

Support for Gerontology

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The following outlines possible library support for

Gerontology in anticipation of Gerontology's relocation to

S.F.U. Harbour Centre and consistent with the library's

mandate of providing good library service to the downtown

campus.

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Discussions with Dr. Gutman have identified 10 journals

and 5 reference sources as essential to Gerontology's

library needs. Appendix A lists titles, subscription prices

and availability of microform backfiles for the core

materials. To provide effective library support for

Gerontology, we would encourage the titles identified to be

placed in Belzberg as current duplicate subscriptions.

Backfiles on microform (where available) could be purchased

as indicated by demand. All the titles identified are

currently in Bennett Library, so Belzberg will continue to

supply copies of specific articles to faculty and students

by facsimile or hardcopy delivery.

Under this proposal, the initial cost for library

support for Gerontology would be less than $1,400, with

annual subscription costs of about $900. The material could

be ordered as soon as SCAP approval for the Gerontology

relocation is obtained.

Other library support for Gerontology will remain and

expand: placement of required readings for Gerontology

courses on reserve at Belzberg; access to the online

catalogue; delivery of books and articles from Bennett

Library on request; availability of reference assistance and

database searching; and access to interlibrary loan. In

addition, duplicate books and reports in subject areas

related to Gerontology can be transferred to Belzberg for

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the longer term. A mass relocation of material used in

Gerontology is not recommended because of the inter-

disciplinary nature of the program: the same materials are

in high demand by students and faculty in areas such as

sociology and psychology on the Burnaby campus.

The location of key journals and reference sources at

Belzberg coupled with good access to material in Bennett

Library should provide effective library support for

Gerontology.

cc: Dr. Gloria Gutman

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APPENDIX A

JOURNALS

Title

Price/yr

Gerontologist

$88.50

Journal of Housing for

$88.50

the Elderly

Journal of Aging and

$88.50

Health

Research on Aging

$106.20

Activities, Adaptation $155.76

and Aging

Generation

$41.30

Aging

$69.50

International Journal

$125.08

of Aging and Human

Development

Canadian Journal on

$58.00

Aging

Journals of

$88.50

Gerontology

Microform backfile

1961-88 $421.00

1989+

$15.58/yr.

no

no

1982-88 $106.44

1989+

$15.58/yr.

no

no

1951-88 $236.80

1989+

$13.20/yr.

no

II,'.]

1946-78

$445.45

1979-88 $181.10

1989+

$16.64/yr.

Total subscription cost $909.84

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REFERENCE BOOKS

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Title

Price

Handbook of the Biology of Aging

$99.06

2nd. ed. 1985

Handbook of the Psychology of Aging

$8.6-08

2nd. ed. 1985

Handbook of Aging and the Social

$86.08

Sciences 2nd. ed. 1985

Handbook of Mental Health and Aging

$123.90

1985

Annual Review of Gerontology and

$41.30

Geriatrics v. 8 1988

Total cost of reference

materials

$436.42

Annual cost of journal bscript1bns

;$909.84

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OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT FOR

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY AT HARBOUR CENTRE

Memorandum

To:

Dr. Gloria Gutman, Director

Gerontology Research Centre

Subject:

GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE

AT SFU/HARBOUR CENTRE

From: Jabk-BIaney

Date:

June 5, 1989

On May 25 the SCAP/Harbour Centre Committee agreed that the

Gerontology Research Centre would be an appropriate program for SFU at

Harbour Centre. However, before sending this recommendation to SCAP,

the Committee would want to have a report from the Librarian regarding the

provision of library services to the program and its students. Please consult

Ted Dobb about his report on this matter. When we have this, we will

forward it, along with our recommendation, to SCAP. Should Warren Gill be

able to assist either you or the Librarian in this matter, he would be pleased

to help.

JPB/em

c: E. Alderson, Acting Dean of Arts

R. Saunders, Acting Vice-President, Academic

T. Dôbb, Librarian

W. Gill, Secretary, SCAP/HC Committee

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

TO:

Jack Blaney

Vice President, Harbour Centre

FROM:

Gloria Gutman

RE:

Gerontology's Request to Move Downtown

DATE:

March 15, 1989

Further to Bob Brown's request that Gerontology be

considered in planning for Phase 3 of Harbour Centre's

development, I should like to make a personal plea for

consideration.

As you know, Gerontology has two components: the Research

Centre and the Diploma Program. Both are thriving

enterprises. As indicated below, both have needs that could

be better met if we were located downtown.

Di p

loma Program

1.

A majority of our students work full-time, take courses

at night, and have repeatedly indicated that the

downtown centre is their preferred location for

classes.

2. Our students often require material from the

Gerontology Research Centre's information service.

They have a difficult time getting to the Burnaby

campus to access the Centre's resources.

3.

They also have difficulty getting to the. Burnaby campus

when they need to meet, as they freqiently do,. with

instructors and teaching assistants.

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Burnaby campus because that's

Program faculty are located.

people in attendanceare facu

too difficult for students to

during the day.

Series is offered at

where Centre staff and

Often, however, the only

Ity and staff. It is just

get up to the campus

Research Centre

1.

The Centre's information service was designed to serve

the needs, not only of faculty and students, but. also

the broader community. The community has difficulty

accessing it in its present location. Telephone, mail

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and courier service are a poor substitute for face-to-

face contact with our Information Officer and direct

access to the Centre's collection of print and AV

resources.

2.

Centre research staff are frequently called upon to

provide consultation to community groups and agencies.

In our present location on the Burnaby campus:

- it is difficult for these groups to access us --

especially so in the case of seniors who find the

long bus ride formidable and, if they come by car,

parking impossible.

- it is time-consuming for us to go to them as

well as inconvenient since we cannot always take

with us all necessary resource materials.

3.

The Centre is actively engaged in research. Subject

pools are often tied to community-based services and

thus far from the campus.

4.

we have an affiliation agreement now with UBC Health

Sciences Hospital and with Queens Park Hospital in New

Westminster. An agreement is currently being

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negotiated with Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver.

A downtown location would place us in the centre of the

triangle created by these three units. As well, it

would provide better access and facilitate

opportunities for research collaboration with VGH,

Shaughnessy and St. Paul's, all of whom have active

geriatric programs.

5.

Very recently (March 14), the Centre has been asked by

the Ministry of Health to coordinate evaluation of the

Victoria Health Project. This will require frequent

trips by Ministry staff and us to and from Victoria. A

Harbour Centre location would facilitate access to air

transport.

6.

Negotiations currently in progress with the Ministry of

Health, to expand the Centre's information service to

serve as a long term care resource centre would also be

facilitated by a downtown location.

Summary

By way of summary, it should be noted that both the Diploma

Program and the Centre have a strong applied and community

orientation. We should be close and more visible to the

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people we now work with and those we should be working with.

In the areas of housing, transportation, economics and

retirement planning and counselling the key people are in

the downtown office towers.

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While our present and future research is conducted all over

the Lower Mainland as well as on Vancouver island and in the

North, downtown is a more visible and central location from

which to complete our projects.

Finally, we see no major downside to a downtpwfl location,

other than access to the Bennett Library. This, we feel,

can be compensated for by the proposed electronic links

between downtown and the library as well as by expanding our

Centre collection, which will certainly be possible should

we become the Ministry of Health's long term care resource

centre.

I would be grateful if you would draw the above points to

the

attention

of the committee that decides upon who will be

granted space in the downtown centre. Should the committee

wish more information, I would be pleased to provide it.

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY AT HARBOUR CENTRE

SOCIAL

POLICY ISSUES

1.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Jack Blaney, Vice-President, Harbour Centre

From:

Dr. R. C. Brown, Dean of Arts

Dated:

September 26, 1989

Subject: Soda! Policy Issues

2.

MEMORANDUM

To:

Dr. Warren Gill, Executive Director, Harbour Centre

From:

Michael G. Kenny, Chair, Sociology-Anthropology

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Dated: September 29, 1989

Subject: Social Policy Issues Diploma Program

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts

MEMORANDUM

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To: Jack Blaney, Vice-President

From: R. C. Brown

Harbour Centre

Dean of Arts

Subject: Social Policy Issues

Datç: 26 September 1989

This is to confirm that I support the recommendation that the

Social Policy Issues Post-Baccalaureate Diploma Program be offered

at the Harbour Centre campus.

R. C. Brown

RCBIhJ

Dean, of Arts.

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This

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to confirm that Harbour Centre will continue to be an important venue

for the offering of various of the courses In our Social Policy Issues Diploma

Program, We seek to attract persons into the Program whose work focus is likely

to

be downtown,

and for whom Harbour Centre Is a convenient site for Diploma

course offerings.

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