13 Adjournment

Pending Agenda Items

via KWATLENDEGREE PROPOSAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Wednesday November 13 1996 415 600 pmSurrey Campus D106

AGENDA

1 Call to Order

2 Confirmation of Agenda

3 Approval of Minutes October 9 1996 previously distributed in October 23rd agenda package

4 Discussion of Chair and ViceChair Positions

5 Update Interdisciplinary BA orBSc Program Concept Attached

6 Name Issue Bachelor ofApplied Studies in GeographyConcern that we may be setting a pattern for degrees in applied arts Perhaps degrees of this sort shouldfallunder one umbrella such as Bachelor ofApplied Studies so that later on we can distinguish between thedegree itselfand the specialty area

7 Aonmval of Initial Develnnment Teams Business Degree Applied Information Technology Degree Business ofMusic Degree Attached

8 Jnformaion Response to R Floyd Attached

9 Revised Guidelines for Submission of New Degree Proposals to the New Degree Program Review ProcessSentemher 1996 previously distributed in October 9th agenda package

10 InformationDiscussion Status of New Degree Program Submissions Is it possible to speed up the processpreviously distributed in October 9th agenda package

11 BSc in Applied Information Technology Discussion on commentfrom Science Division Will Universitiesaccept three cooppracticum semesters as the equivalent ofone year Reply from Fleming WooAttached

12 BSc in Applied Information Technology Response to DPAC on issues as identified in DPACsevaluationReply from Abh1Jit Sen Attached

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I3 yr al vti totIL0c PioposJ

DegrceProramConcept Public History This proposal has been sent to divisional curriculum committees forfeedback We are awaiting information from the Educational Planning office so that we can incorporate otherevaluative comments into DPACsdiscussion

Discussion ofIiberal Arts Requirements J Slattery is awaiting further information from CurriculumCommittees to incorporate into a response

Present Regrets J Adams

D Crisp P Bennett

B Bailey M KlingerG Fisher R Marchuk

R Fox

S Hoffman Guests J Gunson chair of Ed Council

P MilleyJ Murphy ChairD Nanson

B Melnyk RecorderJ SlatteryJ Thachuk

1 Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 420pm

2 Confirmation of Agenda

The October 9 1996 agenda was revised as follows Move back Item 8 Discussion Letter to JGunson from Richard Floyd and Item 12 Discussion of Liberal Arts Requirements Add 6 bApproval of IDTs for Psychology Degree Fashion Design Technology and Applied GeographyMSC J ThachukDCrisp

3 Approval of Minutes 960911

Liberal Arts specific comments and initials to be deleted Main points of discussion to be capturedand forwarded to Education Council as input from DPAC members MSC R FoxJ Thachuk

4 Election of ViceChair

DEGREE PROPOSAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

DPAC

Jerry Murphy will step down as Chair of DPAC after December 1996 Nominations were requestedfrom the floor for the ViceChair position and Dianne Crisp was nominated No further nominationswere received and the new ViceChair was elected by acclamation

5 Notice of Deadlines for Degree Proposals and Letters of Intent

This agenda item was resolved at the September I 1 th meeting

DEGREE PROPOSAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Minutes October 9 1996

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Wednesday October 9 1996 415pmRichmond Campus Room 1330

MINUTES

6 Followup to Interdisciplinary BA orBSc re Fall Presentation

It was moved that the group be invited to a special meeting on October 23 1996 at415 pmMSC D NansonRFox

ACTION D Crisp to write memo to main contacts Barb will distribute Barb to book roomand inform DPAC members as to location and time

6b Review of Initial Development TeamsIDTs

It was moved to accept theIDTcomposition of the Psychology Degree ProposalMSC J ThachukDNanson

It was moved to accept the IDT composition of the Fashion Design and Technology DegreeProposal MSC D NansonJThachuk

It was moved to accept theIDTcomposition of the Applied Geography Degree ProposalMSC S HoffmanJThachuk

7 Discussion Letter to Chair Education Council from Richard Floyd Sociology Instructor

Richard Floyds letter Re The Degree Approval Process was discussed extensively by DPACmembers

ACTION J Slattery will compile all comments into a formal response addressed to RichardFloyd and copy to the Chair Education Council

7 Discussion of Liberal Arts Requirements discussion continuedfrom September 1Ith meeting

DPAC members continued the discussion around liberal education goals It was suggested we carryon the discussion at the special meeting on October 23rd 1996

Moved to table the discussion MSC D CrispS Hoffman

8 Revised Guidelines for Submission of New Degree Proposals to the New Degree Program ReviewProcess September 1996

Deferred

9 InformationDiscussion Status of New Degree Program Submissions Is it possible to speed up theprocess

Deferred

10 Re BSc in Applied Information Technology Discussion on comment from Science Division

Will Universities accept three cooppracticum semesters as the equivalent ofone year

Deferred

II Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 615 pm

DEGREE PROPOSAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Minuues October 9 1996

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44UniversityKWNTL

Memorandum

PHONE 5992084 or FAX 5992235

To Frances Chik Lynda Turner and Stewart Triplett

From Degree Proposal Assessment Committee DPAC

Date October 30 1996

Subject Interdisciplinary BA orBSc Program Concept

Thank you for taking the time to present in person the Interdisciplinary BA or BSc Program Conceptat our meeting on October 23 1996

Although DPAC recognizes the merit of your concept the committee was unable to advance it to the DraftLetter of Intent stage

Your concept does not constitute a specific degree and therefore approval of the concept is outside themandate of DPAC However you have presented a framework within which specific degrees could bedeveloped Approval for such a framework rests with the Education Council

In your presentation you mentioned that a number of programs or disciplines could or would be interestedin such a framework in the development of their degree DPAC would be able to entertain a degreeproposal based upon your framework and built upon specific majors

We suggest you discuss with Jacqie Thachuk Vice President Education an approach that would facilitatefurther development

Thank you again

Dianne CrispChair

Degree Proposal Assessment Committee

John Blackwell

Tony Carter

C H Constantinescu

Eugenia Culham

ik

KWANTLENUniversity College

APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEGREE

PROPOSED INITIAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Hank Poelvoorde

Art Kuiper

Dr Timothy Bult

Gordon Fisher

Fleming Woo

Peter Miley

Abhijit Sen

Dave Evans

Gordon Lee

VP Technology Administration

Delta Credit Union

Director Pacific Region for CIPSCanadian Information Processing Society

Manager of Information TechnologyBusiness Information

BC HydroMember CISY Advisory Committee

Project Manager and Project EngineerMacDonald Dettwiler MDA Associates

Faculty Commerce Business

Douglas College

Program Coordinator Business AdministrationCapilano College

Program Coordinator CISYLangara College

Computer Science

Accounting

Computer Information Systems

Coop Consultant Advisor

Computer Information Systems

Computer Business Systems

Dean School of Business

BUSINESS OF MUSIC UPDATE 28 OCTOBER 1996

1 The internal college members of the IDT met on 30 September 1996 to discuss the degree in generaland the selection of external members to the team

2 The IDT met for the first time on 22 October 1996 at the Richmond campusThe following were in attendance

External

Internal

RECEIVED

OCT 2 r 1996Jim Vallance Songwriter for Brian Adams Tina Turner Ann

Murray etc former drummer and former owner ofC I C Cr

recording studio UAtit IVICE PRESIDEi

David YH Lui l ProhiolOtHenry Lee Major figure in Tom Lee Music retail storesWendy Neuman Executive Director Arts Starts places

musicians in schools in BC for daysinresidenceJoel Noftle former student active in the music business

Ann Stafford

Jane Hayes Department ChairBob Caldwell Contract Instructor Percussion

Steve Waters Current Student Event Managerselfemployedand employee of MCA Concerts

Roni Wagner Program Assistant and Contract InstructorRoger Elmes Dean

Roger Irvine of the Vancouver Film School has also indicated a willingness to serve as pan of the team butwas ill and unable to attend the first meeting The team discussed the concept of the degree in some detailThere was unanuimous support for the concept The team discussed the general learning outcomes forsuch a degree and agreed that employment prospects for these types of graduates would be good

3 The team agreed to hold a more formalized workshop on learning outcomes This workshop will beheld on 28 November 1996 from 1600 to 1900 and will involve 2025 persons employed in the industry Arepresentative of the banking industry will also be invited

4 DPAC had suggested that the KUC Design Centre be asked to have a representative on the ITD Threerequests to the Centre have not produced a member The Design Centre faculty are themselves heavilyinvolved in degree development A personal invitation was issued directly to one member of the centreand he is actively considering the request

Roger Elmes 28 October 1996

uWAGLENMemorandum

PHONE 5993084 or FAX 5992235

To Richard FloydFrom Degree Proposal Assessment Committee DPACDate October 28 1996

Subject Degree Approval Process

Mr Gunson Chair of the Education Council forwarded your letter dated 11 September 1996 regardingthe degree approval process to DPAC DPAC spent some time as a committee reviewing yourobservations and we would like to take this opportunity to respond to your concerns

Three concept proposals were not recommended for development As you point out DPAC suggested thatthe authors bridge with or collaborate with business This suggestion was made in the case of severalconcept proposals but not as much on the basis of any definition of an Applied Degree held by DPAC butmore because the proposals themselves were formatted in such a way as to suggest that business would bea natural resource of information or collaboration for that particular proposition

In terms of representation on DPAC it is the case that some of the proposals included in their authorsmembers of DPAC It is also the case that DPAC membership did not guarantee acceptance of theproposals Sixtysix percent 66 of the proposals that were recommended did not have a DPACmember on their team One of the three proposals that was not recommended did have a representative onDPAC

Your other observation in this area concerned the ability for proposal teams to be able to speak to theproposal and to provide expertise We decided early in the process that since we had so many proposalssubmitted each of which had to be reviewed with care we would have adequate time to speak only tothose groups whose proposals we would not recommend Many of the proposals we received containedsufficient information in their body that DPAC felt confident in recommending the proposal fordevelopment Thus the expertise necessary was conveyed within the proposal itself Of course there wereexceptions and in those cases we did not feel able to recommend the proposals but we hope that futurecontact with the proposal groups will permit the authors to convey and interpret as needs arise

It is also worth noting that DPAC established a policy from the start that DPAC members who were partof the proposal team under consideration were not to vote on its acceptance We have since extended thatto include any possible conflict at all

You also mention concerns about the appendices As you will note concept developers could haveincluded an appendix with the proposal this is stated at the top of the concept proposal outline We reexamined the proposals to see if we were influenced unduly by the presence of an appendix Of the ninerecommended proposals five did not contain an appendix Of the three proposals not recommended onedid contain an appendix We therefore do not conclude that appendices unduly influenced our decisions

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Richard FloydOctober 29 1996

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We agree that the quality of feedback provided by DPAC is an important aspect of the degree proposalprocess We had a considerable body of work to be performed in a limited time which included not onlythe review of concept proposals but also the establishment of the committee process itself Overall we arepleased with many aspects of how DPAC has developed we do agree with you though that we can nowimprove our feedback To this end we have made a commitment to review this part of the process and tomake improvements and have already begun to streamline the process

The University College is considering the establishment of a degree development assistant a positionwhich would be consistent with the one you have proposed be established

Thank you for your time in voicing your concerns We hope we have been able to address them to yoursatisfaction

Dianne CrispViceChair

Degree Proposal Assessment Committee

conies

1 Consort Chair Education Council

1 SlatteryR Elmes

Social Sciences Faculty

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Revised Guidelines for Submission of New Degree Proposals to the DPRCSeptember 1996

The Guidelines for the New Degree Program Review Process June 1995 acknowledgedthat it is often difficult to determine what constitutes a new degree program andanticipated that the Degree Program Review Committee DPRC and the Ministry woulddevelop guidelines to clarify when a proposal should be submitted for review

Based upon the first yearsexperience the following guidelines have been developedWhen situations do not appear to fall into any of the categories below or wheninstitutions are uncertain whether a given program changedevelopment should besubmitted for DPRC review institutional representatives should seek clarification fromNnistry staff In some cases the Ministry will deal with the request at the Letter of Intentstage and determine whether a DPRC review is required In other cases the Ministry willrequest that the DPRC review the Letter of Intent rather than a full proposal todetermine whether it is the type of proposal that the Committee should review and if it isthe DPRC will then request that a full proposal be submitted

The DPRC has encountered many different names and terms used to describeundergraduate degree programs in British Columbia An attempt has been made to groupthese into four categories It is expected that as the DPRC gains additional experience indealing with program proposals the description of what must be submitted for review willbe updated and circulated to degree granting institutions

1 NEW DEGREE Including Joint Degree Further Degree Concurrent DegreeCollaborative Degree Honours Degree Program

Submit for DPRC review

any degree bearing a new title or a new title in parenthesis this includes degrees inwhich the content comprises courses already offered in other programs as well as newconcurrent or further degrees linked to previous undergraduate degrees

any degree retaining a previous title but substantially changing the degree programsobjectives or curriculum beyond the usual updating of content and

any new collaboration or change in partners involved in offering the degree

2

2 NEW MAJOR

Submit for DPRC Review

a major with a new title

Do Not Submit for DPRC Review

3 NEW MINOR

Submit for DPRC Review

2

any new major added to an existing degree program even if a minor in the programarea already exists

any substantial change in the major programsobjectives or curriculum beyond theusual updating of content in essence a new major using a pre existing title

any combination of majors double combined or joint majors when either or both ofthe component majors is new and

revisions to existing majors unless they constitute a virtually new major under a preexisting title and

previously approved majors that are to be combined in some way eg newcombinations ofjoint or double majors when the program is not to be retitled

a new minor in a discipline or field where there is no previously approved major orother kind of specialization

a new combination of minors when either or both of the component minors is new and

a minor with a new title

Do Not Submit for DPRC Review

a new minor added to a discipline or field in which a major has been previouslyapproved and

new combinations of previously approved minors as long as there is no program titlechange 0

4 OTHER SPECIALIZATION TERMINOLOGY This category includes suchterms as concentration enrichment area bundle thematic option specialtydisciplinary specialization interdisciplinary specialization focus stream etc

Submit for DPRC Review

3

new or changes in specializations having coursecredit requirements at least equivalentto that traditionally required by a minor when these specializations are not in an areain which a major or minor has previously been approved

specializations which provide the means of describing the structure within a newdegree which does not offer traditional majors or minors and

concentrations which are spunoff existing programs so that what was originally aspecial arrangement option becomes so popular that several students are now pursuingthe concentration

Do Not Submit for DPRC Review

additions or changes to a specialization within a degree which occur within an area ordiscipline in which a major or minor has been previously approved

fi KWANTLENUniversit College

Memorandum

PHONE 5992084 or FAX 5992235

To EDUCATION COUNCIL

From DEGREE PROPOSAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE DPAC

bate NOVEMBER 4 1996

Subject SIX MONTH REPORT FROM DPAC

For those new on Education Council I will begin by relating a brief history of DPAC and its activities in the first sixmonths I will then review DPACsmore recent dealings

The Degree Proposal Assessment Committee DPAC is a committee established by Education Council andmandated to review Degree Program Concepts Draft Letters of Intent and Program Proposals and report the status ofthese elements of the degree proposal process to Education Council In addition DPAC has been charged to engagein self review at several levels on a periodic basis

Following Elections and Appointments to DPAC our first meeting was convened March 6 1996 In the ensuingmonths the committee established its processes and reviewed seventeen Degree Program Concepts Nine DegreeProgram Concepts were endorsed and moved to the Draft Letter of Intent Stage Eight were not endorsed Of theseeight some were endorsed in principle but requests were made by DPAC for the Developers to collaborate withother Department or Disciplines Three were not recommended for development Two very interesting Proposalswere found to be beyond our jurisdiction These were integrated Contemporary Studies for a University Collegeliberal Ares Core and interdisciplinary BA or BSc In both cases what was proposed was not so much a degreebut an attempt to provide core components for other degree developers As such we recommended that theDevelopers bring their concepts forward to Education Council for discussion

The DPAC report on the status of the Degree Program Concepts presented to Education Council May 29th 1996remains essentially the same with the exception of the interdisciplinary BA or BSc proposal which followingfurther consultation with the developers would be moved to the Special Recommendation categoryA degree program concept for Public History has been received in the Educational Planning Office and is currentlybeing circulated to divisional curriculum committees for feedback We anticipate a review of this concept at ourmeeting in December

Once the Degree Program Concepts are endorsed the Concept Development Teams are required to establish InitialDevelopment Teams IDTs consisting of internal and external representatives Each team is to be accepted byDPAC To date we have endorsed IDTs for the Psychology Fashion Design and Technology and AppliedGeography Degree Proposals Pending are reviews of IDTs for Business Applied Information Technology andBusiness of Music Degree Proposals to take place at our next meeting on 13 November 1996

At our most recent meeting a letter from Richard Floyd forwarded to DPAC from Jim Gunson was reviewed Theletter made several comments on the processes and outcomes of DPACs work and prompted DPAC to engage in areview of our activities over the past eight months Following our deliberations a letter of response was sent toRichard

Respectfully

Dianne CrispViceChair DPAC

KWANTLENUniversity College

Devron Gaber

Director Urban Colleges Developmentaland Business ProgramsMinistry of Education Skills and Training

Dear Devron

Re Letter of Intent for a BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Revised

4 November 1996

Attached is our revised Letter of Intent for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Inpreparing these revisions Judith McGillivary our Dean of Community and HealthStudies has engaged in extensive discussions with the other nine partners delivering theCollaborative Nursing Program The results of these discussions are as follows

the revised program proposal is now endorsed by all the Collaborative NursingProgram partners including the University of VictoriaLangan and Douglas Colleges the other two lower mainland institutions in theconsortium have agreed that this Kwantlen offered degree would be used to satisfythe educational needs of the students in the Kwantlen catchment area

Following discussions between Judith McGillivary and Jean Campbell Kwantlen agreesthat

all of the FTEsneeded for this degree would come out of the existing nursing relatedFTE base

If you your colleagues or your correspondents have any questions concerning thisprogram please contact Judith McGillivary

CC Gerry KilcupJacqie ThachukJudith McGillivary

John SlatteryDean

Educational Planning

Mailing AddressPO Box 9030

Surrey British ColumbiaCanada V3W 2M8

Phone 604 5992100

Langley Campus20901 Langley BypassLangley British ColumbiaFax 5993277

Newton Campus13479 77th Avenue

Surrey BritishColumbiaFax 599 2902

Richmond Campus8771 Lansdowne Road

Richmond British ColumbiaFax 5992716

Surrey Campus12666 72nd Avenue

Surrey British ColumbiaFax 5992068

We create quality lifelong learning

opponunities for people to achieve

personal social and career success

LETTER OF INTENT

for

BACHELOR of SCIENCE in NURSING

A INSTITUTIONAL AND PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION

1 Kwantlen University College will award the degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing BSN based oncurriculum developed by the Collaborative Nursing Program of BC The Collaborative Program whichdates to 1989 was funded by the provincial government and originated with the University of Victoria inconjunction with four BC community colleges Camosun Malaspina Cariboo and Okanagan LangaraSelkirk and North Island Colleges joined the collaborative group in the early 1990s In August of 1994Douglas College and Kwantlen College applied to join the Collaborative group and were accepted aspartners in principle with full partnership set for the Spring or Fall of 1995 Kwantlen subsequentlybecame a University College in February 1995 and following the precedent set by Okanagan Malaspinaand Cariboo University Colleges began planning to offer its own degree while maintaining membershipin the collaborative group

Kwantlen University College again following the precedent set by the Okanagan Malaspina and CaribooUniversity Colleges will enter a mentorship arrangement with the University of Victoria in order tofacilitate the development of full degree granting capability A transition model of mentorship will beemployed in areas of curriculum implementation and development focusing on the degree completioncomponent of the program This mentorship model based in the collective knowledge and experience ofthe ten Collaborative Program members will allow Kwantlen University College to offer a program thatincorporates the cumulative efforts of more than 200 educators nurse administrators and practising nursesfrom across the province

Kwantlen will continue to support the existing links between itself and Douglas College in the nursingarea Joint faculty professional development activities and joint planning for clinical resource utilisationin the respective college regions exemplify the high level of cooperation that exists An invitation toparticipate in these cooperative activities was extended by both institutions to Langara College in 199596 Kwantlen will continue tocooperate with Douglas College Langara College the University ofVictoria and the Ministry in discussions regarding flexible responsive and cost effective delivery systemsto serve the future educational needs of nursing students in the Lower Mainland In addition Kwantlenwill continue to maintain strong links with the collaborative partners supported by its presence on theCollaborative Steering Committee curriculum and evaluation committees and by participation in annualcourse reviews Finally Kwantlen consistent with the practice of the other collaborative partners willprovide financial support to sustain the common infrastructure required for curriculum development andevaluation

2 The Faculty of Nursing Division of Community and Health Studies will offer the degreeThe contact person is Judith McGillivray Dean of Community and Health Services

Kwantlen University CollegePO Box 9030 Surrey BC V3W 2MBphone 604 5992263 fax 604 5992068email judith @kwantlenbcca

3 The title of the program will be The Collaborative Nursing Program of BC The name of thecredential to be awarded is Bachelor of Science in Nursing BSN

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Letter of Intent for Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program 2

4 This degree program contributes to the mandate and strategic plan of Kwantlen University College byproviding educational opportunities directly related to labour market demand for exiting students at thelocal and provincial level

5 The third year of the degree program would be available in Spring of 1999 to students entering theCollaborative Nursing Diploma Program in the fall of 1996 Baccalaureate studies would be complete

in the spring of the year 2000

B PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

1 Reflecting current changes in health care the Collaborative Program nursing curriculum focuses onhealth and promotion of health and healing across many settings with diverse populations Since themajority of nurses still work in acute care settings the curriculum prepares graduates for current practicein these settings while addressing changes in practice towards community and emerging health caresettings

When a rapidly changing client base is combined with new directions in health care and withrecommendations that the minimum requirement to enter the nursing profession be a baccalaureate thechanged societal cultural market and professional needs addressed by the Collaborative Nursingcurriculum become evident The Registered Nurses Association of BC the Canadian Nurses Associationand the National Occupational Classification Manual NOC all recommend a baccalaureate as theminimum educational requirement for an RN by the year 2000 As only 172 of the RNs in theVancouver Census Metropolitan Area which includes the Kwantlen region hold a degree 772 arediploma graduates there is a demonstrated need for a baccalaureate program

2 Presently 85 of RNs work for the Ministry of Health with 70 of this number working in acutecare hospitals However with the trend toward providing health care closer to home employmentdestinations for graduates will be located in community settings as well as in hospitals In addition ifscope of practice changes occur in the health professions and privatisation of some health servicesbecomes a reality a baccalaureate prepared graduate is more able than a diploma graduate to workeffectively in the areas of health promotion disease prevention and non traditional health services eitheralone or as a member of a multidisciplinary team of professional health care practitioners

Forecasts predict 8420 new job openings for registered nurses in BC in the ten year period from 1995 to2005 with an additional 7000 openings due to attrition Labour Market Information Unit HumanResources Development Canada 1994 This results in an Average Annual compound Growth ForecastAACGF of 277 in BC during the period 1995 2005 This is 087 higher than the national AACGFstatistic suggesting that strong demand for nurses will continue Within the next ten years retirementalone will account for an attrition of82

If retirement age remains at 65 nearly one quarter 241 of BC nurses currently practising will retireby 2016 These statistical projections do not take variables such as burnout maternity leave job relatedinjuries and career changes in to account And significantly they do not include nursing positions thatwill become available in the community as a result of the recommendations of the Closer to Home andNew Directions reports Although enrolments in nursing schools have declined slightly supply remainsrelatively stable However when attrition and health care trends leading to new job creation areconsidered in the context of an expanding population base projections to the year 2005 indicate that thedemand for nurses will exceed the supply

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Letter of Intent for Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program 3

To meet faculty needs to conduct research Kwantlen as part of its overall degree planning will developguidelines for the type of research to be institutionally supported ie applied research and will developthe internal expertise required to secure external funding for this research As well the collaborativemembers are identifying areas for partnerships in research These partnerships will support the noviceresearcher and at the same time facilitate the development of further efficiencies and increasedeffectiveness in specific program areas

3 A baccalaureate that could be arcessed on a full or part time basis would be comprised of eight fulltime semesters of course work one seven week practicum and four consolidated nursing practiceexperiences A diploma leading to an RN would be comprised of five semesters of course work one sevenweek practicum one consolidated nursing experience and one preceptorship Registered Nurses returningfor a baccalaureate degree would require a bridgein semester in addition to the three upper levelsemesters and Iwo consolidated nursing practice experiences

4 Though the Collaborative Program is not based on a credit distribution model that incorporatesmajors and minors semester eight the final semester provides students with the opportunity to selectelectives with a nursing clinical or theoretical focus Kwantlen will work closely with other institutionsoffering the Collaborative Nursing Program to ensure its students can access Collaborative NursingProgram options not available at Kwantlen The program will incorporate the Employability Skills Profileand a liberal education component designed to encourage students to expand their appreciation of theirroles as citizens and practising professionals

5 This program is based on the Collaborative Nursing Program of BC a ten member consortium ofpostsecondary institutions who offer nursing programs The rationale for offering a program thatduplicates curriculum offered at other sites in the province was based upon a full review of theCollaborative Nursing Program of BC by Kwantlen program faculty and administration This internalreview was grounded in work conducted by the Nursing Education Consortium of the Fraser Valley inApril 1994 The Consortium conducted a comprehensive needs survey of employers current students anddiploma RNs in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley This survey provided clear evidence of the needand the support for offering a degree program in nursing in the region Nursing Education Consortium ofthe Fraser Valley Determining Needs in Nursing Education June 1993

This need is in large pan a function of the phenomenal population growth in the Kwantlen region madeup of five Community Health Councils Delta Peace Arch Langley North Surrey and Central SurreyFrom 1991 to 1995 the region grew by 60189 people 13 and exceeded the half million mark This ison top of the 25 89083 growth experienced between 1986 and 1995 From 1995 to the turn of thecentury the South Fraser Valley Region is projected to grow another 15 78291 The Kwantlenregion comprised of the communities of Richmond Delta Surrey White Rock and Langley is now hometo 17 per cent of BCs and 31 per cent of the Lower Mainlandspopulation To quote Getting To KnowYour Community Ministry of Skills Training and Labour In real terms the growth in the Kwantlenregion is more than double the next fastest growing college region Douglas and nearly 5 times the BCaverage The expansion of the Surrey hospital into a regional health centre provides evidence that thispopulation growth is impacting upon the health care sector

Finally the Collaborative Nursing Program is explicitly designed to enable individual institutions to focuson regional needs when developing institutionally specific learning activities The Program provides anexcellent vehicle with which to implement the Ministry objective of providing a 5050 split betweendiploma and baccalaureate nursing program graduates in community colleges located in regions ofdemonstrated need

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Letter of Intent for Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program 4

6 Five health programs are offered within the Division of Community and Health Studies at KwantlenFull Time and Pan Time Diploma Nurse Programs Graduate Nurse Refresher Program GNURGraduate Nurse with English as an Additional Language Program GNEAL and the Resident CareAttendant Program The Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program has the potential to provide graduatesof the GNUR and GNEAL programs with the opportunity to apply for advanced standing Both of theseprograms are unique in the province the GNUR being one of two refresher programs available forreturning RNs and the GNEAL program being the only program in the province that serves theeducational needs of foreign trained nurses

7 The Collaborative Nursing Program of BC at Kwantlen replaces the Full Time and Part TimeDiploma Programs The last student intake for these programs took place in September 1995 The FullTime program will be phased out by December 1997 with the Part Time program phased out by June1999 Kwantlen will adjust it practices in order to apply its funding for 108 nursing program FTE s overthe entire Collaborative Nursing Baccalaureate Program In addition internal resources will be assessedto determine if further support for additional nursing program FTE s is available

C ADMISSION AND TRANSFER

1 The intended students are

students who wish to obtain a baccalaureate degree in nursingstudents who wish to obtain a diploma leading to an RNRegistered Nurses who wish to obtain a baccalaureate degree in nursingStudents who wish to obtain any of the above but on a part time basis

Population growth in the Kwantlen region over the last twenty years has in part been fuelled by inmigration of non native English speakers The existing nursing programs attract many students from avariety of ethnic groups and age ranges Kwantlen will take care to ensure that the features of the existingDiploma programs that attract these client groups will be continued in the proposed Degree program Aswell Kwantlen offers developmental educational opportunities designed to prepare students from a varietyof backgrounds for entrance into applied degree programs nursing included

2 Kwantlen proposes one intake in the Fall of each year for the Collaborative Nursing Program 44students drawn from close to 400 applicants entered the existing program in September 1996 35 50of these students will likely elect to exit the program at the diploma level and 5065 will likely elect tocontinue their studies at the baccalaureate level

Nursing diploma graduates returning to obtain a baccalaureate and transfer students who began theprogram with another member of the Collaborative program would form a new client group Thesestudents could apply for entry into classes in Years 3 and 4 of the degree program with acceptancedependent upon the availability of seats

D PROGRAM RESOURCES

I Kwantlen has two well equipped psychomotor skills labs with a total of eleven beds These labs arestaffed with lab instructors who are RNs and coordinated by a lab manager with Masters leveleducation Kwantlen also has a Learning Resource Centre for students in Health Programs equipped with

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Letter of Intent for Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program 5

computers printers CD ROM players a collection of current journals texts pamphlets and AVequipment Existing standard classrooms will serve the ongoing needs of the program

University College expansion plans incorporate 1700 square feet of additional laboratory space toaccommodate health promotion learning activities associated with years 3 and 4 of the baccalaureateprogram

These expansion plans include a WellnessHealth Promotion Centre that wouldoffer health promotion to the community using a community development model while meeting thelearning needs of studentsprovide opportunities for multidisciplinary health promotion research

However the facility and infrastructure at the Surrey campus which presently supports the Healthprograms is capable of supporting the Collaborative Nursing Program to degree completion Should thecreation of this new space be delayed activities similar to those implemented by other University Collegeswill be considered in order to meet the learning needs of students

Expansion of library resources essential to support the new curriculum including the CINAHLcomputerised system is underway Initial purchases have been directed toward adding books journalsand videos on topics related to the family health promotion community health and critical thinkingMany of the resources in the current collection are supportive of the new curriculum

Nursing faculty at Kwantlen have been preparing for a major curriculum change since 1992 Moneyswere acquired from the Centre for Curriculum and Professional Development to support developmentactivities for nursing faculty at Douglas College and Kwantlen University College These shared fundshave been used to support monthly workshops on curriculum concepts and themes since the Fall of 1994As well these funds are used to support faculty visits to sites offering the Collaborative Curriculum inorder to discuss the implementation of and teaching in the program A regional survey identifying thedistinguishing characteristics of health care in the regions served by Douglas College and KwantlenUniversity College and the relationship of these to the Collaborative Curriculum Dunn et al 1994 hasbeen completed Finally when Kwantlen joined the Collaborative Nursing group in 1994 faculty beganparticipatingin all Collaborative activities as well as discussing site specific issues

The Nursing faculty on staff have the educational qualifications to implement the full degree program

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ot KWANTLENUniversity College

Memorandum PHONE 5992084 or FAX 5992235

To BA in Public History Program Concept Developers

From Degree Proposal Assessment Committee DPAC

Date November 12 1996

Subject An Update on the Status of Your Program Concept Proposal

Immediately after your proposal was received copies of it were sent to curriculumcommittees for review as is our practice We are waiting for the curriculum committeecomments to be forwarded to us and we hope that they will arrive in time for DPAC toassess your concept at our December meeting

If you have any comments or questions dont hesitate to call either Dianne Crisp ViceChair at Ext 2505 Voice 9742 or Barb Melnyk Ext 2084

Thank you

Dianne CrispVice Chair DPAC

copy J Slattery DeanEducational Planning