Take the $500,000 back from the quiter and put it towards something useful.

"I think we will have the opportunity for other allied health programs such as x-ray technology, to train these individuals here which means if they are trained here, they are more likely to stay here"

Here we go again. Medical Radiation Technology programs, as they are more properly called come at the technician and the technology level in Canada and are presented at community colleges, not universities.

In bringing the Med Lab programme back to the CNC after a couple of decades of absence, the government has indicated they see PG as another health sciences centre in BC.

So, who should be doing this? UNBC or CNC?

Now, if the UNBC were to offer a program in Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, that would be another story. A far cry from a so called X-ray technologist.

This is a step in a great direction, PG needs a lot more options for health care training.

Here are the "approved training programs" for registration in the College of Medical Radiation Technologists of Ontario.

http://www.cmrto.org/registration/how.asp

Note that BCIT is the only one recognized from BC.

The most interesting one is the Michener institute which is a facility which was started in conjuntion with a hospital, thus bringing clinics and practical experience much closer to the student.

http://www.michener.ca/about/history.php

BTW, I believe that medical radiation technology is not a regulated profession in BC. The Act in Ontario was created in 1991, I believe.

Perhaps there is someone who can update us on the status of that.

What I never understand is given there is budget shortfall, yet they create another program. No program actually is cost recovery and therefore is a further drain on the overall University.
They will add another program without increasing any of the core staff and just magically think it will be supported to the leave the students deserve.

Lunarbase, my understanding is that the Ministry of Education dictates which programs get funding.

"What I never understand is given there is budget shortfall, yet they create another program."

That ios an easy one .... they get funded at the full class contingency plus start up funds. Some of those funds can initially find their way to other partrs of operation.

That is actually the way of operasting many businesses in North America .... tons of money to start up anythingg .... it is on going operations and maintenance that no one ever has enough money for ...

Just look at our roads, bridges, buildings, etc. etc ....

UNBC has been losing students in its old programs and if it does not create new programs, its enrolments will fall sharply. The problem is that these new program seats still cannot offset the falling numbers.

BTW I cannot beleive that UNBC gave half a million to Cozzetto to leave. This sends the signal to BC government that UNBC has more than enough money. The guy made a fortune in 2 years in UNBC.

Oh I understand the base course is funded, but there is a lot of other services that students need to complete any program and those things just don't seem to get any funding, when these new courses are announced.

Yup seems that way to me too...but they sure pay their president well! Wonder where they will get the funds from to balance next year's budget?

I know of one guy whose WALLET is healthier than mine.

Ahhhh! Why is everyone so negative when it comes to UNBC!!! Cozzetto is gone, now let's band together during these tough times and make a positive into a positive and those who are ALWAYS negative just sit back and watch how a positive force can bring forth MORE jobs and keep PG running!

"This sends the signal to BC government that UNBC has more than enough money"

Not really since people in government understand such contractual situations and it is not a first time occurance.

The signal it might send, however, is that UNBC needs to take more care in making sure that the Board Chair, and the executive, are a better match for the next person they select. This is more a matter of having made a bad choice, or having given Cozzetto too tough a task ....

Anyone on the Board who reads this sort of stuff on here or hears similar feedback from the streets is probably thinking to themselves: "IT WORKED!!! MAKING HIM OUT AS THE BAD GUY WORKED IN GETTING THE HEAT OFF US."

In any contract, there are two parties. Normally both are to blame when it comes to "a failure to communicate".

Owl, I would add one thing to what the UNBC should have learned from Cozzetto;
do not sign such gold plated contracts, ones that pay the snipe half a million for breaking his contract and bugging out. Sheer lunacy that. I gess I shoulda staide in skool, too dumm ta getta sweete deel lyke dat am I.
metalman.

The newly hired VP academic Dale knows as much as past VP Brunt and president Cozzetto about UNBC problems. The UNBC board learnt nothing from its mistake in hiring Cozzetto externally.

Both Brunt/Cozzetto lacked proper knowledge about UNBC and therfore failed to analyse the problem in UNBC and find solutions to it. Instead they relied on advice from individuals in UNBC who were part of UNBC interest groups.

What guarantee is there that the new VP Dale or the externally hired new president know about the deep rooted problems in UNBC, such as: (1) the mismanagment of the Deans and program chairs (2) the instability in college vs faculty in UNBC structure (3) discrimination problems and biased evaluations (4) faculty's dissatisfaction with even faculty association.

Structurally and functionally UNBC is dysfunctional. One major problem with UNBC is that the UNBC people decided to recreate the wheel and not adopt the structure of a well established university or build on top of years of experience of CNC.

UNBC is like a house built on a shaky foundation.

Wow! Anybody that thinks that a Physiotherapy program at UNBC is something that the university just came up with as a good news story to cover up a president leaving really needs their head examined. This is a good thing people! READ the press - it will be a joint program with UBC, and we are lucky to have it, as this provincial government is NOT going to be creating any more stand alone health related programs, and hello - it belongs at the university as it is a Masters level program.
I am not a northerner - I came to PG because of UNBC, I stayed because of UNBC, and I am employed because of my degree at UNBC. I am a proud alumni - every university has ups and downs and deals with crap with their administration. Have you looked at UBC, UVic or Heaven forbid Canada's First Nation's University's forums lately?? Have we forgotten all of the good UNBC has done for PG and Northern BC? I am not saying don't communicate and talk about problems, but the pettyness and stupidity. Let it drop already. Good Grief, enough is enough.