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C. Progress Towards Achieving Board Ends and College Strategic Directions<br />

C.3 Meeting Labour Market Needs (Policy A-40) (cont’d)<br />

The College will launch its new School <strong>of</strong> Graduate and Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Studies over the<br />

Summer <strong>of</strong> 2012. This virtual school will be a single point <strong>of</strong> access for existing and<br />

prospective students seeking access to a graduate certificate program, a Fast-track program<br />

or a program that leads to pr<strong>of</strong>essional certification. This new School will be managed by<br />

the Centre for Community Education and Training Services (CCETS).<br />

A new articulation agreement with Huddersfield University in the UK supports faculty<br />

exchanges so that one <strong>of</strong> our pr<strong>of</strong>essors will co-teach with one <strong>of</strong> their faculty for two weeks<br />

in the UK, followed by their faculty coming to co-teach at Fanshawe College for two weeks.<br />

Similar academic opportunities are currently being considered with partners in Brazil,<br />

Belgium, India and Wales.<br />

A new collaborative program is in development with Fanshawe’s Music Industry Arts and<br />

Western University’s (UW) Don Wright Faculty <strong>of</strong> Music for ten students, with<br />

implementation to occur in Fall 2012. This agreement will also provide reciprocity for ten<br />

Fanshawe College students to enrol in the Don Wright Faculty <strong>of</strong> Music.<br />

In July <strong>of</strong> 2011 CCETS assumed responsibility from the Centre for Academic Excellence for<br />

the School to College Work Initiative (SCWI) program. This partnership with the Thames<br />

Valley District School Board, The Avon Maitland School Board, the Huron Perth Catholic<br />

School Board and most recently, the London District Catholic School Board, involves<br />

students from secondary schools attending college courses and obtaining credits toward<br />

both a high school diploma and a college certificate or diploma. In 2011/12 the program<br />

doubled in size, and is expected to grow again in 2012/13 due to the success <strong>of</strong> the<br />

students and the enthusiasm from the boards <strong>of</strong> education for this program. Programming<br />

in this area is planned to expand in Elgin County and Oxford County this year through our<br />

campuses in St. Thomas and Woodstock to better serve students in those and surrounding<br />

communities.<br />

The School <strong>of</strong> Nursing is one <strong>of</strong> the sponsors <strong>of</strong> the Global Health Conference:<br />

Transcending Borders Towards Global Health to be held in Toronto in April 2012. The<br />

School <strong>of</strong> Nursing faculty were invited by the Schulich School <strong>of</strong> Medicine at Western to<br />

participate in the conference planning.<br />

Manufacturing Engineering Technology programs are undergoing a reconfiguration to align<br />

curriculum with industry trends and to allow entry from other Technician programs such as<br />

Electromechanical Technician and Electrical Technician in addition to the existing<br />

articulation between Manufacturing Engineering Technician. These programs are to be<br />

renamed Integrated Process Engineering Technician and Integrated Process Engineering<br />

Technology to reflect industry’s new focus on advanced manufacturing and will include<br />

curriculum on composite manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and reverse engineering.<br />

Database programming is planned to support better integration <strong>of</strong> International student<br />

applicants with the College’s enterprise Datatel student enrolment and communication<br />

modules. Initial programming has been undertaken to import International Online<br />

applications and associated documents into the Datatel student records system. Electronic<br />

copies <strong>of</strong> supporting documentation are taken and stored using the ImageNow document<br />

management tool and linked to the application. The College is developing an associated<br />

“bulk load routine” to support the Student Partnership Program records using this same<br />

technology.<br />

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