No problem, everyone can afford all the increases we see happening. We all have money trees at home and don't mind giving more and more of it away every year. I think the increase should be greater than what they are asking for though. All the upper management does such a great job they deserve a wage increase too. I really don't think them earning over 100 thousand + a year is enough. How do they survive. After all they are getting our children ready to enter the workforce for what, 8 bucks an hour?

They have branches in other cities than PG. Perhaps they should consider opening a branch in more populated areas like Vancouver or Okanagan valley. Merging president and VP academic is a cost cutting measure which UNBC (and CNC) should consider.

UNBC has also financial problems this year with 3% decline in enrolments in 2010. The current provost Dr Mark Dale (hired 3 years ego) has badly failed in increasing the enrolments, even though UNBC created a fulltime position for increasing enrolments in 2005. It is not a surprise to many, considering that Dale's focus from day one in UNBC has been on fighting legal battles and fighting UNBC faculty union, instead of fighting the competition. Read about his most recent "good, bad ugly" battle over maintaining an unfair performance evaluation system in UNBC at the UNBC FA newsletter: http://www.unbcfa.ca/pdf/Newsletter-November-2010.pdf

At least CNC's administration is not locked in a battle with its staff and union, and it seems, like other colleges and universities, it has a fair system for proper evaluation of its faculty, and as importantly, a proper evaluation system
for its students' grades.

This is nuts. I was thinking of going back to school; I expect everybody else to pay for it...

Education Industrial Complex strikes again.

Has anything in Canada inflated more than credentialism, other than the cost of obtaining credentials?

in the generations to come, the haves and the have nots are going to spread further apart. It is education that is going to make it possible for a better life. But, it is not going to be available to everyone as it was twenty years ago.

The days of sending all your kids to post secondary education is not going to be possible for the working family. If your not getting good marks in grade school, the parents are not going to waste their retirement money in forcing them to go to post secondary.

It all is going to have to go back to grade school. By the end of grade ten, each kid should fall into three different categories.

General schooling, the lowest level, but still a dogwood.

Technical schooling, to prepare them for the trades and technical work, and a dogwood.

Academic, to prepare them for university and professional work. They will get their dogwood as well.

We need to start sorting them out before they complete 12 years.

I am not saying that if your not focussed at 16, your going to be working minimum wage life. What I am saying is to reward those who are focused for a life above minimum wage.

"At least CNC's administration is not locked in a battle with its staff and union, and it seems, like other colleges and universities, it has a fair system for proper evaluation of its faculty, and as importantly, a proper evaluation system
for its students' grades"

?? They aren't Univ? Contract for faculty expired last year and it's still not settled.

They need the money so native students can attend for free! Imagine that. I mean not free, paid for by you and other hard working tax paying people.

I hope CNC's administration will not follow the failed management system in UNBC. Over the past decade, the UNBC's system of evaluation for faculty was abused so much by program chairs and deans in UNBC that they have now eliminated awarding A, B, C, F to faculty's performance in teaching, research and service for (Excellent, Very Good, Good and not satisfactory). Instead UNBC has settled for satisfactory and not satisfactory (i.e pass or fail).

If the UNBC faculty members cannot grade the performance of other faculty members, how can one trust the same faculty to give grades to their students? Are they going to eliminate A, B, C, F marks for students
too and replace it with pass or fail? The logical solution is to correct and penalize the faculty members (chair/deans) who abuse and corrupt the evaluation system, instead of eliminating the 4 grades.

If in 2002 or later, the UNBC faculty association (FA) has taken UNBC to Labour relations board for its failure to evaluate the faculty members properly or at least to arbitration, now they wouldn't settle for this agreement. It is a bit too late, but UNBC FA acknowledges its mistake in its newsletter that it surrendered too much powers to UNBC in 2005 agreement.