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C. Progress Towards Achieving Board Ends and College Strategic Directions
A Safe and Enriched Learning and Working Environment
C.1 Vision and Mission (Policy A-05) (cont’d)
Human Resources will be working with other departments to support the outcomes of the
College’s Strategic Enrolment Management initiative by placing a focus on supporting the
organization through the associated change management efforts. Many of the SEM
recommendations coming forward will involve changes to systems, processes and practices
and will require efforts to effectively manage the resultant changes. In addition, staff
recruitment efforts will need to be assessed to ensure alignment with SEM strategies - for
example hiring staff that are highly technology savvy as we shift towards an increased use
of technology in our learning delivery and learning supports.
Human Resources has recently completed a number of organizational changes within the
department aimed at shifting resources to focus efforts on better meeting emerging priorities
for the organization. As part of these changes, Human Resources will evolve the newly
created Employee Relations unit leveraging the strengths of Client Services and Labour
Relations to create a better continuum of service. The portfolio model of service delivery will
continue as a methodology supporting optimal customer service while creating opportunities
for service enhancements.
Human Resources is engaged with Information Technology in the development and
implementation of a number of new IT systems intended to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of services across the College. A new absence monitoring tool is currently
under development to enable managers and employees to more accurately and readily track
time missed from work due to illness, vacation, etc. Work is also underway to finalize the
development and implementation of a new Academic Planning Tool for deployment in 2012.
This tool will facilitate teaching resource planning through scenario modeling in advance of
the production of faculty standardized workload assignments. Enhanced information
tracking will be available through this system facilitating accurate reporting.
Through 2012/13, Campus Security Services will be commencing with the replacement and
modernization of the College’s existing VHF-band portable radio communications system
with a new digitally-encrypted, UHF-band system. The College’s portable radio
communications system is predominantly used by Facilities Management, including the
Emergency Management Office and Campus Security Services, and Residence Services
with some minor, intermittent use by several academic program areas. As part of its
approval, Industry Canada has mandated transition be completed within a few years with its
UHF-band radio waves being shorter than the existing system VHF-band radio waves, the
new system will penetrate through concrete and steel better, which will greatly improve inbuilding
radio transmission/reception, thereby eliminating several existing radio reception inbuilding
dead-spots on-campus. With its digital encryption feature, the system will also
prevent analog radio band receivers from tuning in and listening in to radio traffic, thereby
provide enhanced privacy and security, which will enable College Special Constables to
communicate directly with the London Police Service’s dispatch for the Canadian Police
Information Centre (CPIC) and other background checks.
In an ongoing effort to provide the most effective campus security/policing service model for
the College community, Campus Security Services will be enhancing/expanding its Special
Constable Authority by seeking additional campus security/policing service agreements with
police services proximal to the regional campuses.
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