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AUPE News & Updates
For immediate release: Wednesday, May 5, 2004
AUPE Ed Sector delegates to tackle challenges facing post-secondary
education
JASPER — “Campus Alberta — the ultimate survivor
game,” will be the theme of this year’s Alberta Union of
Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference, which begins tomorrow
evening at the Jasper Park Lodge.
The value of a publicly funded post-secondary education system in ensuring
Alberta’s continued prosperity will be an important part of the
discussion at the third annual conference organized by Alberta’s
largest union, which represents more than 7,500 employees of post-secondary
institutions province-wide.
“We expect about 100 participants this year,” said AUPE
Dan MacLennan, who will attend the conference. “Our goal will
be to search for ways to develop a survival guides for the post-secondary
educational system that has done so much to make Alberta a successful
and prosperous part of Canada.”
To achieve that goal, said Union Representative Steve Nimchuk, AUPE
has invited speakers representing a spectrum of opinion — including
prominent Alberta politicians like Opposition Leader Kevin Taft and
New Democrat MLA Brian Mason, journalist and newsletter editor Rich
Vivone, college administrators, educational fund-raisers, education
policy-makers and researchers.
Other speakers will include Louise Gordon, Executive-Director of Manitoba’s
Council on Post-Secondary Education, Erika Shaker, Education Project
Director of the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre on Policy Alternatives,
and Dan Vandermeulen, president of Northern Lakes College.
For the second year, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio One host Don
Hill will moderate and broadcast a session of the conference, said Nimchuk,
who was responsible for organizing the conference. This year the discussion
to be broadcast will deal with the value of a publicly funded post-secondary
education system.
The broadcast will take place from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, May 7,
on CBC Radio One. The frequency of a CBC transmitter in your region
of Alberta can be found by going to the CBC’s Web site —
cbc.ca.
The conference runs until 2:30 on Saturday, May 8, Media are welcome
to attend any session of the conference.
Click here for a complete conference
agenda.
For more information, contact:
Dan MacLennan, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-232-8392 (cellular
phone)
Steve Nimchuk, Union Representative, AUPE, 780-930-3341 or 780-919-4831
(cellular phone)
David Climenhaga, Communications Director, AUPE, 780-930-3311 or 780-717-2943
(cellular phone)
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