September 4, 1992

| Full-time positions in Cap College's iall seme

93 ‘Toyota Corolla
Automotive: 23

A HOUSE at 1851 Tatlow Ave. in North Vancouver District suffered extensive fire damage at 1:40 p.m.
on Sept. 1 after fire broke while a crew was putting a sew roof on the house. A North Vancouver
District Fire Department spokesman said the fire was started when one of the roofers used an acetylene

1. Sparks from the torch ignited roofing insulation. The entire

torch to lay down some roofing materi
root will have to be rebuilt as a result of the fire. There were no injuries.

WITH ONLY five days until the start of Capilano Col-
fege’s fall semester, the college has all but filled its 4,161
available full-time seats and is being forced to turn stu-

dents away.

The fall term starts on Sept. 8,
although the college held an early
registration session on Aug. 4.

“There are a few seats left here
and .there, particularly in the
sciences. We are stil! talking to
students here, and we have not
closed registration. We're trying
to get a handle on what they (stu-
dents) want,’’ said college
spokesman Marlene Morris.

“We expected them (seats) to
go but not so quickly. We've been
talking to some of the other col-

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

leges, and it’s going to be tight all
over,” . .

College president Dr. Doug
Jardine said in 1991-92, the col-
lege was funded for just over
4,000 full-time equivalent (FTE)
students but actually ended up
serving between 2% and 3% more
students than were covered by the
funding.

In a recent interview, Jardine
said the college’s finance and aca-
demic planning committees were
recommending that the college
board approve a $26,947,400
budget for the 1992-93 school
year.

In 1991-92, the college board
approved a $22.6 million budget.

Jardine said the college expects
to raise about $3.5 million this
school year from tuition fees.

In 1991-92, tuition fees gener-
ated $4.7 million.

Marris said the $4.7 million was
an actual figure, while the $3.5
million is a projected estimate of
what might be raised this year
through tuition fees.

‘“*When you project, you project

on the low, safe side,’’ said Mor-
ris,

Jardine said it will cost the col-
lege 6.9% more this year to pro-
vide all of the programs it pravid-
ed during 1991-92.

He added that the college will
face a $742,400 shortfall this year
to provide ali the programs it
provided last year.

That shortfall, he said, will be
made up through reductions ‘‘in
several areas.’”

“*We asked ourselves two ques-
tions: ‘How does the cost of our
program compare to the revenue
generated for it by the formula?’
And: ‘How does the number of
FTEs served by the program
compare to the number for which

ter almost filled

the program is funded?’ ”’

Jardine said the college looked
at programs that ‘‘failed’’ either
of the two questions and, as a
result, programs were cut at
Capilano College’s two satellite
campuses in Squamish and
Sechelt. .

‘*.,.the efficiency of their
operations do not compare
favorably to that at Lynn-
mour...we are pressed to assign
our resources where they will be
effective; that means Lynnmour
rather than either of the satellite
regions,’’ said Jardine.

The college, he said, is still try-
ing to find ways of maintaining
‘fa useful presence’? in both
Squamish and Sechelt.