HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-11-22, Page 17Crossroads
the eekly Woo* HI Listoteel
Times and Mount Earent Coale-
*trate read 10, 2*.$041 people in
the ' heartland of Midnebterit
qloa$ed on 3 te4dri$ 14 tacit of
and Th. Mows Forest Confedorate by Wenger Bros Limited.
There was a time. when
education was considered a
• luxury. Those who had the time
and money were eligible to
reveive it. During the past few
,years institutiOns such as Cenes,
toga, College have been ,wOrking
to crack the nutsheli that has held.
edueation and the' people who
. want it hi bondage,
Through its satellite philoso-,
play,' Conestoga' has. brought
education to the people. There
are noW seven ceotres throughout
Ontario,' all of them placed in
strategic locations to make it
cOnvenient for the majority .of
people to get to them.
Chairman of the Clinton Centre
of Conestoga College, RosS Mil- •
out to a rural district is shniLir to
taking a. mission:to Africa. The
People were here before the
centre was and we have to
respect that and try to meet their
All of Conestoga's satellite
campusee are closely affiliated
with loeal manpower +centres, to
determine the job market re -
years, five of Mein spent with
ConeStoga, Mr, Milton says
trY and Seltspecialized Cour
a full, spectrum IS IMPOSSIbl
canse the Majority of
Cannot relate tO them. We
-More concerned with prac
learning' needs of the resi
living in •about a 25 or Se
radius of each indivi
According to Mr. Milton,
Management courses are
mOst popular in the Clinton
tre, which enrolls both folk
are another 19 new Courses sl
'to go after the New Year, inc
courses because the stUdents
quire them." 4
At the present thne there a
'fult-time students and 46
time students at the Clinton c
Mr. Milton claims it is 'dm
for a college to gain an identit
a rural area, and "no' effort
", been made on ow part, as yet
set up ail image but it would
pear that people already have
rnpretskni of „us in terms O
re.Ountry college."
'The centre -'s chairman Mr
like to aee MIS impress
changed. "we , in thefti
• so that people will relate to us
people welfare, physieal and mental
are health,. recreation' and culture
tical must enjoy an open relationship
dents withlis. We must participate in
mile ' an interrelated soeiety. We ean-
dual not pretend to be all things to all
people. We Must see our role as
the ,‘ that in education, Participating
eimetr; esWochiatihhegtye0.s,t,birse,rbSehatOvioburritnoga ebtOt eurt
There rin writing of- the Conestoga,
lud- dent of the college, J, W. Church,
era divided those student's attending
re- college into two groups: "Firstly,
Group i, those students proceed,
73 ing directly 'from Grade tO
post -secondary endeavours and„
am- -, secondly, GroUp Ir„ those Shi-
dents who are tied,,t, bonne or \at
He wrote, ...'common to bOtb
cult 'groups is the availability 'of the
Y resources of the myriad ,c
hao which can and shoOld form the
OW mon to both groups is the need to
an move from a structured type of
flexible and viabte curriculum-.
01114' which can meetthe need Of eath
tOn Individual,"
ONLY PART-TIME:
tre
SECRETARIAL COURSES—There are three post-seonclpry.secretaria I science courses
offered al the Clinton centre of Conestoga College:Students can study executive, medical
or straight secretarial Work, The c011ege.also offers four commerciale.coUrses under re-
training and 1Wo.levels of academic upgrading, . (Staff Photo)
rather than a country c011ege
all:1440th r
.toga College currently offers', and
sort may continue to offer part-time
courses “ only, making -It unique
within e'. Conestoga camp"
need to aectuire ahigher stands
VelOitit
rd mein officer, Andy Clo, says,
of training to operate the mai
complicated machineS."Weha
five industries that have gone
automation in this area so fa
and the employees, obvious'
are going to need training for th
He notes that "More and mo
employers are coming to th
college centres looking for
graduates rather than advertis-
mgandependently." Mr. Milton
added, ',.44We'Ve had no problern at
n he Cl n entre
Otbir centres look forward to
in the future Mr. Milton says, "I
feel this 'part of Ontario is
--,,growing rapidly and business and
itulustrial enterprises are mi-
grating from the urban centres,to
. rural areas. Ishould'imagine that
. our college will grow along with
The chairman believes the col-
lege.centre may have influenced
this migration of industry. "One
reason that industries never
came here before is 'that there
was no chance of upgrading for
workers and now that the chance
has been provided by the college
centre, I think they will make use
of it."
ve emphasize in this area LS that we
to will give students the type of s
r, courses they Want if they will t
Y, onlY tell us what they want." " .a
e `HaVing been involved in adult
education kir eight years, Mr. Clo
re is extremely concerned and quite p
e optiniistic about the education of m
quarters each 'Friday morning
.and inStilleted by Robert Carter
of - the eriminology division at
Conestoga% Non Centre.
Other courses include Care 'of
the Dying Patient, instructed by '
Rev. Ken Beal, chaplain of the
colleague of° MS, poychiatrist,,
Catherine Xubler-Ross, A Blue..
print Reading courte is also
Stipertireductioni Course is %in:.
suPervisor for thiiroyal Canada.-
' CIO points011t that all of the .
six part-time, inatructors are
werking "profeasionals in the
.fields they teach, and InStructthe
erect. Over a ,period 'of years. '
Ic .9 ihanepgap vraeobrtaui gtellite;n!gymrth .3eoftla400:31WF
"We have peven different, gran
csY0sUrttin0'7faansndintig vaarlifesa- the"Iftafee
W .(t:oe .Nne: maln Ndh: aqsvullea .01 twt ye. s lit I 1 d ec ro u r s et
difficult for Me here is that .1 am
'most a one Ina,n Ow; 'There
"The one aspect that is mos
to confer with.. on a "dailY basiS
anyway so it fsn't -that bi
of inysarilfit de°141 bacikgriinif
tuilduennntsinogn Yotrsocwhn°:MMI letl'e71;
but be time-conituning. Mr. ao
fter-hours Work to be =done."
Mr. Clo emphasized that one,Of
the major points of the,Philoso-
ople where they are." He
tided, "We have it set up now so
at no one wiihing to take a
ourse at one of our centreslms
ive more than 25 Miles to get to
He said thestandards of the in-
vidual , centres vary with
cation and attendance but "the
tandards are good for the type of
bs for which the students will be
udying."
When the college was first
tablished much research went
to the needs of the job market.
Ocials from all of the Cones-
ga centres now meet with
what the employer needs and
at the college has to offer. Mr.
o said, "Sometimes the em-
yers are very brutal and blunt
their Criticisms of graduate
ved by employers about the
is
Clinton centre of ConestOga Colleges Ross Milton, says,
,"tiringing an. educational centre . put ,intos'a rural area
. Mehl I'M the cones -toga College';'centre In' Clinton.
ON e AAN SNOW—Andy Clo is the program lekielopenent officer at the Harriston centre
of Conestoga College. He and his tecrotary) Dale verall, run the klarriston centre. Mr.
Clo refers to himself as a sort of "one man shoW, because 1 cannot talk with colleagues on
reoular basis due to the fact am the only officer here." • (Staff Photo)
STUDENTS ATTEND
FROM EVERYWHERE:
The Clinton centre of Cones-
toga College caters to the needs
and requirements of students
from such towns and villages as
Listowel, Atwood and all over the
area.
The centre offers four com-
mercial courses under a retrain-
ing program, two levels of
academic upgrading and three
courses of post -secondary secre-
tarial science, all taught by a
staff of eight full-time teachers
assisted by four support staff.
A continuing education pro-
gram is conducted during the
evening hours for adults over the
age of 19. There are 'four evening
courses: two in nianagement
development, one in interior
decorating and one in beauty cul-
ture.
PROM poNCEPT TO
In his paper entitled "From
Concept to Accomplishment", an
outline of Conestoga's philoso-
phy, Vice President (academie)
Aubrey W. Hagar writes, "As we
respond to the randomized needs
of people we will find that there is
no distinct line between a 'learn-
ing experience' and a 'treatment
in behaviour. The tendency will
be for the college to become com-
plete unto itself. but We must re-
thig beeerne in and of the
people • who entered the job pe
Market and find they want more a
education. th
With 15 part-time students en- c
t011eit the Harriston centre rents dr
eleasrooms from the Harris* s
Public School, Alma bchbol and,
eventually will be using space at di
tb0 rriston Library Hall. The lo
centre'also conducts classes in s
Belthread, Arthur and the tOPP Jo
headquarters in Mount Forest, st
where the Law' Enforcement
courSe is taught. es
The development officer states, in
"We have had good co-operation Of
from the school boards in terms .to
of renting." em
Courses offered include Defen7 on
sive Driving, which is held on ivh
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thurs- cl
days by Brad Batte of Harriston; plo
Credit Collections, held on Tues- in
day nights and taught by Doug Ani
Luery, manager of Niagara F1- Co
nance, Kitchener; and Law En- cei
WHAT SHALL. WE SEE?— n Gracie iS a .sludent at'
Conestoga's Clinton centre. The centre' is IOCatea hi what
used to be the elementary school of the army base. KOSS
Milton, chairrnan.Of the school, says, "We will provide a full
college atmosphere so that people will.relate to us as a.
full-fledged college centre." (Staff PhOto.)
gradtrates-, iS over -eagerness to
step to the top in the job position.
Mr. Clo says, "Students have to
realize, that they are still in a
training status, even after they
have left the school to go on to a
job. I think their expectations
might be too higlrand they tend to
plink that because they are oueof
school they have nothing else to
learn from the job, so they want
to start almost right atsthe top. -
Whatever the pitfalls of formai .
education and, more,specificallyi
of a Conestoga College education.
both Mr. Milton and Mr.,C10 art
optimistic that the seven Cones --
toga centres, stretching over four
counties,k will overcome the prob.
lems and play a leading rete ir
the educational opportunities ol
tomorrow.
LAW ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM—The Law Enforce-
ment program taught to OPP and town police officers by
Robert Carter is lust one of the many 'programs offered by
the Harriston centre 'of Conestoga College. The Law En-
forcement course is instructed at the Mount Forest de.
tachment headquarters of the OP eVir. Carter is head of
the criminology division at Con toga's boon centre.
(Staff Photo)