The Kitimat-Stikine Regional District-Kitamaat Village joint MK Bay Marina project re- ceived a.$707,670 GO B.C. boost fast week: Receiving the award from MLA Dave Parker were regional district board chairman Jack Talstra and Kitimat director John LeSage. bur sony arescnas DISTR; Or RTAMAAY We BSE Coen “siting SEVEN dew ig ORED AND SEVEN ToesaND STLHONDHED SEVENTY Gene AE Storer North pushes ahead for university There hasn’t been much talk about the Northern University concept in recent months, Ex- ‘Minister of Advanced Educa- tion, Vancouver Island- MLA _ Stan Hagen, seemed to forget about the idea once he ap- pointed — the Implementation Planning Group. The! recent cabinet shuffle, though, ‘may _hold:a spark of life for the con- ’ “cept in Victoria. Brude Strachad, . - the MLA for Prince. George South, is now the Minister of Advanced Education and this change seems to have been met . with everyone’s approval. an : hte wo by Tod Strachan The idea never ‘died in the north. The Implementation Planning Group has been effi- ciently grinding away at one issue after the other and the three northern colleges have ‘been working on forming a unified front of their own. Strachan met with both these groups in Prince George last Saturday and it now appears everyone is back on the same track. Ron East represents the In- terior University Society and he says that during the meeting be- . tween the newly appointed . minister and IPG, Strachan con- firmed he was very much in favor of an independent univer- sity in the north, This may not be a great revelation but as East : says, the very fact that Vander : Zalm appointed a northern | MLA to advanced education in- ° dicates a degree of support, ‘‘He ~ could have appointed someone else,”’ says East. And Strachan made his position very clear: ‘*We’re tired of branch plants in the north,’’ he said, according to East. _ The IPG report to- Victoria is expected to be submitted before Dec. 20, and although there are still a few details to work out East reports that the chance of a recommendation for an autono- mous “University of the North’’ ‘is looking good. After struggling with the economic and political balance of regional campuses as opposed to a single Prince George campus, Bast says the IPG has come-to the conclusion that a centralized concept won't . work. This, he says, brings them ‘back to the original Dalhoff model. ‘‘It’s looking good right now,” says East. ‘‘Everything’s happening right. Politically any- ways.’” - As far as the northern colleges are concerned, Northwest Com- munity College president Doh Anderson reported from Prince George ‘yesterday that NWCC and the College of New Cale- donia are together while North- ern Lights College will be stating their position by the middle of this month. Following this, an- other tri-college meeting has ‘been ~ ‘scheduled for mid- January. Anderson says there are still some details to work out but their meeting with Strachan went ‘‘very well’’. According to Anderson: ‘“‘He’s totally com- mitted to a free standing univer- sity with supportive networking (regional campuses).”’ Their meeting did run into a few problems, though. One of the key issues, according to. Anderson, is a continuing voice _ for the colleges -with a northern university in place. ‘“‘Gover- nance with a voice for the col- leges,”’ is how Anderson des- scribes it. But the problems have workable solutions, he says, and ‘suggests that a possible format might be for the colleges to con- tinue with their first and second ‘ year university transfer program while the ‘university addresses northern - needs in education, . social services, commerce and industry. . ‘ At this point, though, an in- dependent northern university is still only a concept and there are still hurdles to be crossed. What is certain, however, is the timing of events to come. The IPG report will be submitted to Vic- toria by Dec, 20, northern col- leges will make a submission of their own about a month later, Victoria will have to react to both these submissions, and then, a few month later, we will likely be looking at a provincial election. 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