New Stuff

Hello to you all,

There are a couple of things to update you all on.  First, at the PAUC meeting last Friday we finally got official approval for the MTH092 course in the ACAT guide.  Apparently it had been approved the meeting previous, but I had not received the official word until last Friday.  So now it is official.  As an upgrading group here at LC we met and exceeded our enrollment targets (138%) for this semester so we are solid.  Other organizations around the province are not so solid.  Concordia actually announced that their program will be suspended starting next September.  There was a lot of talk at the PAUC meeting about best practices surrounding workloads and faculty hours at different institutions, as well as admission requirements and prereq's.  It was nice to find out that the same struggles that we have hear are being felt by others across the province.   For you math geeks in the group, check out MyScript Calculator app. for iPad or iPhone.  Does calculations from hand writing, very cool.

Our scholarships for upgrading folks will be changing again.  After some of the feedback received from you folks and from the scholarship group, we will be changing our scholarships to program specific exit scholarships.  There will be three "Lethbridge College Upgrading Transition Scholarships," worth $1000 each that will be given to students moving from the upgrading program into one of the following three programs on campus, LPN, Engineering and Envi Sci.  The program choices can be adjusted year to year but I think these are good places to start.  Traditionally these have been where the majority of our students head to after we get them prepared so I think that it fits very well.  The scholarships will be granted based on overall GPA in our program.  I am excited for this change to occur as last year we only had one application for our upgrading scholarships and this change will make sure that the money ends up where it should be, in the student's hands.  Please promote this in your classrooms and make the students aware that these maybe available to them.

Best
Scott