To the Board of Governors and Senate,The University of British Columbia

Ladies and Gentlemen:In this report on the 1976-77 academic year I have tried to record the

significant academic accomplishments of the year as well as the majorproblems that arose as a result of financial cutbacks and inflation.

Despite the financial difficulties that confront us, I believe that the basicfunctions of the University -teaching, research and service to the community-remain intact and fundamentally sound.

The maintenance of the integrity of the academic enterprise at UBC in theface of these problems is no small tribute to the individuals and groups thatmake up the University community -the members of the Board and Senate,the two main governing bodies of the University; the deans andadministrative heads, who daily have to grapple with the basic realities of ourcurrent problems; the faculty, whose loyalty to their disciplines and theUniversity preserves and strengthens the values on which UBC was founded;the employed staff, whose dedication and support help in the maintenance ofacademic standards; and our students, whose energy and intellectual curiositymake UBC one of the liveliest places in Canada.

While I have mixed feelings about the current state of the University, Iremain optimistic about the future of higher education in general and UBC inparticular. My feelings of optimism result from the expressions of goodwill forthe University that I have encountered locally and in my travels around theprovince. There is a very substantial pool of goodwill for UBC in thecommunity and I am confident that public opinion will ultimately prevail andthat the University will receive the resources it needs to enhance and expandopportunities for higher education for all those who are capable of takingadvantage of them.

Cordially yours,

l

Douglas T. KennyPresident

UBC strove to maintain andenhance its academic stan-dards in 1976-77 in the face ofinadequate operating grantsand a near-crisis in researchfunding.

large number of academic units and theUniversity library system has been weak-ened and new academic opportunities havehad to be foregone because of inadequate

operating grants.The quality of our faculty attracted

more than $17 million for research in the1976-77 fiscal year. The University alsoopened several new buildings that offer op-portunities for expanding our research andteaching capabilities. But governmentpolicies and inflation are such that an ad-ditional $3 million is required immediatelysimply to bring UBC's total research effortback to 1970-71 levels. And we have abacklog of unmet building needs that totalapproximately $145 million.

In the area of public service and profes-sional activities, faculty members havecontinued to be active in placing their ex-pertise at the disposal of governments, in-dustry and community organizations. Butthe University has come under attack in the

It is with mixed feelings that I begin thisreport on the activities and events of the1976-77 academic year at the University ofBritish Columbia. Let me explain why interms of the three main functions of theUniversity -teaching, research and ser-vice to the community.

Our teaching function has never beenmore extensive and diverse. Some new pro-grams and courses were introduced and in-ternal changes and improvements made inthe academic offerings of every faculty ofthe University. But the functioning of a

UBC's teaching function hasnever been more extensiveand diverse, but some coursesand programs approved in1976-77 have been shelvedbecause funds are not avail-able to offer them.

past year for this function and steps havebeen taken that will formalize and, insome cases, limit this activity.

It is this series of paradoxes that has ledto my mixed feelings. I take pride, on theone hand, in the accomplishments and ac-tivities of our faculty, students and em-ployed staff and, on the other, I have agrowing sense of apprehension that thebasic functions of the University are beingundermined by a faltering commitment tohigher education. The federal govern-ment, for instance, has withdrawn itsdirect support to Canadian higher educa-tion. Until March 31, 1977, the federalgovernment paid 50 per cent of the ap-proved costs of higher education under anagreement with the provincial govern-ments. Under new arrangements, the fed-eral government has transferred incometax points and makes cash payments to theprovincial governments which are intendedto compensate for the operating costs ofpost-secondary education. The provincialgovernments, however, are under no obli-gation to use the funds obtained in this wayto meet the operating costs of the univer-sities.

My mixed feelings are set againstanother paradox. A recent poll by the

Southam Press asked Canadians what ele-ment in their society they valued most. Theanswer was "education." If Canadiansplace such a high value on education itshould follow that the level of governmentsupport will reflect the will of the people.

Such is far from the case. Over the pasttwo years, shortfalls in operating grants toUBChave forced us to cut $3.1 million outof our operating budget. The impact ofthese cutbacks has been threefold:

.We have been unable to make ap-pointments in areas of the University thatneed strengthening. The $3.1 millionpared from UBC's operating budget meansthat the University has cut back theequivalent of 150 assistant-professor posi-tions, if one assumes that a new appointeeat this rank is paid $20,000 a year.

.The academic functioning of a largenumber of faculties and departments hasbeen weakened as a result of the cutbacks.For our students, this has meant largerclasses because many sections have had tobe cut from required or popular coursesand, in some cases, departments have notbeen able to offer specific courses despitestudent demand.

.Some new courses and programs ap-proved by the University and the Univer-sities Council have been shelved becausefunds are not available to offer them. Inother cases, faculties and departmentshave had to be told that a proposed newacademic direction has no hope of beingimplemented because of the financialsqueeze.

The financial cutbacks and the inroadsof inflation are being felt by all groups atthe University, including our students. Theyare paying higher prices for food, residenceaccommodation and parking. And duringthe academic year the Board of Governors,in order to balance the budget, was forcedto raise tuition fees between 25 and 30 percent for the 1977-78 academic year. Thiscourse of action was taken with the greatestreluctance and only after the Board hadmade a formal request to the UniversitiesCouncil for additional funds for the com-ing year. When this request was rejected,the Board had no recourse but to imposethe increased fee schedule. The fee in-crease was not the only strong measureneeded to balance the budget. The Boardalso approved cutbacks totalling $1.3million from the budgets of every academicand administrative unit.

In terms of research, the universities ofCanada have traditionally relied on the6/The President's Report 1976-77

UBC continued to be a majorCanadian research centre in1976-77, desPite the fact thatgovernment policies and in-flation have combined toweaken the University's re-search capacity.

federal government for funding. In recentyears, funds from this source have declinedrapidly, with the result that we face some-thing very close to a crisis at UBC in re-search funding. This dangerous change inpublic policy has a number of ramifica-tions.

In the first place, it denies to giftedyoung people and established academicsthe opportunity to break new ground in thesearch for knowledge. And because re-search is a valuable training ground forgraduate students, we may even now becreating a manpower gap that will becomeevident only toward the end of this cen-tury, when the need for highly trainedspecialists could become greater than ever.

A decline in research funds also meansthat the quality of teaching is impaired.Teaching and research are really two sidesof the same coin; the new knowledge pain-stakingly gained in the laboratories and thelibraries of the University is communicatedto students in the classroom. In the absenceof adequate research funding our teachingcapability is diminished. The ultimatelosers are the students.

Finally, the decline in research fundingimpairs Canada's ability to come to gripswith the problems that confront it in therealms of science, the economy, and thequality of life of our citizens. Few voices areraised in opposition to research that holdsout the hope of solving inflation or devel-oping new ways of exploiting and manag-ing our natural resources. But there is anequally pressing need for exploration in thehumanities and other social sciences. Tosupport only those areas that promise toimprove our material needs is to seeCanada as a country where progress ismeasured in terms of shares traded anddividends returned.

In the past year, I have come to the con-clusion that the public is unaware of thevery substantial achievements of the uni-versities over the past three decades. Letme briefly review how UBC has respondedto the challenges following the SecondWorld War.

When hostilities ended in 1945, UBCwas a university of three faculties and astudent enrolment of just over 3,000students. In the following winter sessionenrolment more than doubled and in1947-48, our total registration at winterand summer sessions and for extra-sessional studies was 11,189. Anyone whoattended UBC at that time knows the ter-

rible inconveniences that students andfaculty members faced -overcrowdedclassrooms and laboratories that operatedsix days a week, an inadequate librarywhere study seats were at a premium, andendless lineups for textbooks, food and reg-istration.

It was also the period that marked theadvent of surplus army huts to the campus.More than 300 were brought to UBC toserve as temporary classrooms, laboratoriesand offices. I emphasize "temporary" be-cause some 100 of these wooden buildingsare still with us, and I see no hope that wewill rid ourselves of them in the nearfuture. Perhaps UBC graduate Eric Nicol,who himself taught in several of them dur-ing his career here, said it all when heremarked in one of his newspaper columnsthat the huts have seen "more service in thewar against ignorance than they ever saw inthe war against Hitler."

By the mid-1950s, there was a consensusthat something had to be done about theshoestring financing of the past and the ut-terly inadequate physical plant of Cana-dian universities if the country was tomeet new challenges. In addition, we hadentered a period of growth in studentenrolment that approached 10 per cent a

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the past two years were among the lowest inCanada.

Traditionally, universities have encour-aged faculty members to make their knowl-edge and expertise available to industryand professional organizations, providedalways that such activity does not detractfrom their primary commitment to teach-ing and scholarship. In the 1976-77 aca-demic year, UBC came under heavy attackin the news media for one cited case ofoverzealous consulting activity. The im-pression that has been created is one ofprofessors spending more time consultingthan teaching, of neglecting their primaryresponsibilities in order to earn, outsideUBC, fees that equal or exceed theirsalaries. This is a classic case of arriving ata generalization on the basis of a single ex-

ample.The upshot of this criticism is that we

have had to establish machinery that re-quires faculty members to repor~ regularlyon their outside activities, and to set limitson the amount of time that they are al-lowed to devote to professional consulting.In consultation with the UBC Faculty Asso-ciation, a University-wide committee hasbeen established to make recommenda-tions on this subject.

As in the past, we will do everythingpossible to maintain and enhance academ-ic standards to ensure that our studentsreceive the best possible education. Here, Iwant to emphasize that about 85 per centof our total operating expenditures are tiedup in salaries and wages for our teachingand employed staff. The remaining 15 percent of University operating costs is in non-salary items, many of them virtually non-controllable, for example, heat, light,water, and telephone services. For the fifthyear in a row, UBC placed first in a na-tional survey of the percentage allocationof funds for academic purposes in 23 Ca-nadian universities with enrolments of6,000 or more. The same survey showed weranked lowest in the percentage of fundsallocated for administration.

In short, when difficult choices have tobe made about spending priorities, UBChas chosen to strengthen its academic func-tion.

I want to assure you that economies arebeing effected wherever possible in suchareas as energy costs, plant maintenanceand through consolidation of services. Ourfaculty are pursuing research grants fromall possible sources. And we are pressing

Education, in the decade from roughly1955 to 1965, became a national priority.In British Columbia, the provincial gov-ernment and the general public providedmassive funds for new buildings andfacilities and operating grants increasedsubstantially to enable us to recruit newfaculty and pay an escalating salary billthat resulted from intense competition fornew teachers. New universities and region-al colleges came into existence in the latterpart of this period, which further added tothe costs of education.

By the mid-sixties, UBC had been trans-formed from an institution of essentiallyprovincial importance to one that couldpoint to a national and international

reputation.The supreme irony of this is that today

some of the sharpest criticism that is lev-elled at the universities centres on their sizeand the composition of the faculty, whoare supposedly paid inflated salaries.

In the late 1950s, however, there wassimply no alternative but to allow univer-sity enrolments to increase. UBC and itsaffiliate, Victoria College, were the onlyinstitutions of higher education in the pro-vince at that time, and higher educationwas provided to a rapidly increasing stu-dent body at very reasonable costs.

Our heavy dependence on foreign schol-ars during this period has a simpleexplanation -Canada's undevelopedgraduate schools were simply not capableof producing university-level teachers.Canadian universities had no alternativebut to attract foreign scholars to teachingposts. We managed to do that quite suc-cessfully, but Canada has never acknowl-edged the debt it owes to this dedicatedgroup of scholars, many of whom madesacrifices in order to come to this country.

I also reject the argument that we payour faculty excessive salaries. If we wanthigh-quality teachers and researchers -and I cannot conceive that British Colum-bians would want anything but the bestavailable people to be hired at UBC -then we are going to have to pay for it. Ourcompetition is not limited to other Cana-dian universities; business and industry ex-ert a powerful influence on universitysalary levels.

Salary levels at UBC compare favorablywith those at McGill and Toronto, the uni-versities that can most logically be com-pared with UBC. I should add also that oursalary adjustments for faculty at UBC in8/The President's Report 1976-77

our case for adequate operating and capi-tal grants before the Universities Counciland the provincial government.

The cutbacks of the last two years haveplaced the University in a financial strait-jacket that threatens the academic enter-prise. Any further cutbacks can mean onlyone thing -we will face the very real pro-spect of a slide into mediocrity and a lower-ing of academic standards. I cannotbelieve that British Columbians favor asecond-class future because of a lack ofcommitment to first-class education.

The balance of my report for the 1976-77 academic year will deal with the ac-complishments and challenges that were apart of the University experience duringthat 12-month period. It is a somewhatmixed picture compounded of unequalparts of growth and frustration in terms ofthe development of our academic offeringsand our physical plant.

initiation in the departments of the Univer-sity, proposals are scrutinized at the facultylevel before being forwarded to Senate. Atthis level they are considered by the cur-riculum or new programs committees andthen debated on the floor of Senate. Theyare then subject to approval by the Boardof Governors and the president, who mustdetermine whether physical space and ade-quate finances are available for their im-

plementation.

If they pass all these hurdles, proposalsthen go the Universities Council, wherethey are again subject to review and study.The establishment of the council hasmeant that there is a delay of up to twoyears from the time a proposal is initiatedto its appearance in the University Calen-dar as a course offering.

What follows is a faculty-by-faculty list-ing of major program and course changesin 1976-77. Programs and courses we havebeen unable to offer because of financiallimitations are also listed.

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES. A newprogram in aquaculture -the growing ofplants, fish and animals in seawater -wasintroduced in this faculty in the Depart-ment of Bio-Resource Engineering. Theundergraduate program, a first in westernCanada, offers an interdisciplinary ap-proach in terms of teaching, research andpublic service. It will involve the disciplinesof genetics, nutrition, disease control,economics and engineering. Under the de-partment's energetic new head, Dr. JohnZahradnik, an active research program hascommenced. Units for growing seaweed,an important source of thickening agentsin food production, are being tested in theStrait of Georgia, and at the University'sOyster River research farm on VancouverIsland a pilot plant has been set up forstudies on the utiljzation of animal wastesto grow zooplankton, a major source offood for fish. Water discharged from theunit is used to irrigate pasture on theresearch farm.

The faculty also introduced a newrangeland resources option in the Depart-ment of Plant Science, a program that in-volves several other departments in thefaculty as well as the Faculty of Forestry.

Dr. Warren Kitts, the new dean of agri-cultural sciences, has drawn attention tothe need for development of a series of landbases in the province to maintain and ex-tend the faculty's teaching, research andpublic service programs. A number of The President's Report 1976-77/9

Any university worthy of the name has aconstantly changing curriculum that re-flects many things -new knowledge thatis continuously accumulating as the resultof research by scholars allover the world,new fields of study that result from ad-vances in technology and the merging ofrelated disciplines, the stated needs ofbusiness and industry, and student in-terests.

The University constantly has to guardagainst pressures to introduce vocationalprograms that are better suited to otherkinds of institutions, and fields of studythat are faddish to the extent that initialinterest is followed by neglect. There alsohave to be assurances that qualified facultyare available to teach new courses and pro-grams, that library facilities are adequateto meet the needs of both students and in-structors, and that there is adequate spaceto house new or expanded programs. All ofthese factors have financial implications.

Thus, proposals that alter, add to, oreliminate courses and programs from thecurriculum are subject to rigorous study atmany University levels. From their point of

these land tracts would be necessary invarious areas of the province in order thatthe work carried out at each of them wouldreflect local needs and conditions. Dr .Kittsand his colleagues have already defined asuitable tract for this purpose near Langleyin the Fraser Valley and a task force ofUBC and provincial govemment agricul-turalists has begun to draw up plans andprepare a proposal for development of thearea for submission to the provincial

government.The faculty has also submitted to the In-

terior University Programs Board, estab-lished to advise the Universities Counciland the provincial government on thedelivery of credit courses in the B.C. In-terior, a proposal to set up agriculturalresources programs in conjunction withregional colleges that would use researchlands owned by Agriculture Canada forteaching and research keyed to the needs ofeach area of the province.

APPLIED SCIENCE. The faculty in-troduced new courses at the graduate levelin waste treatment and disposal and ingeotechnical engineering in the Depart-ment of Civil Engineering. These offeringswill strengthen the department's curricu-lum and development in environmentalengineering, soil mechanics and off-shoreocean technology. Funding has also beenprovided to foster research and teaching inthe area of soil mechanics. A diplomacourse in surveying within civil engineeringwas dropped because of declining interestand low student registration.

Within the Department of MechanicalEngineering, a naval architecture programgot underway. The program is being of-fered as a fourth-year option as the initialstage in the development of Canada's firstprofessional school of naval architecture.Seed money to initiate the courses hascome from Canadian shipbuilders, design-ers and allied industries, and the provincialand federal govemments. The programwill benefit from the construction of a $1.7million towing tank and manoeuveringbasin constructed with provincial andfederal grants at B.C. Research on the

campus.In June, 1977, the Board of Govemors

approved funding to enable the Depart-ment of Mineral Engineering to beginplanning an extension of its teaching andresearch in coal production engineering inaccord with a submission approved by theUniversities Council. It is expected that the

expanded program, which will require ad-ditional faculty appointments as well asnew physical space for the department, willbegin operating in the 1978-79 academicyear.

The current academic year was the lastone in which the University received fundsfrom the W. K. Kellogg Foundation ofBattle Creek, Michigan, to aid an expan-sion of the University's School of Nursing inthe Faculty of Applied Science. The schoolreceived a total of $330,460 between 1973and 1977 to cover the salaries of new facul-ty members and clerical staff, travel andconsultation expenses, supplies and audio-visual teaching equipment. The foun-dation's decision to appropriate thissignificant grant was the result of theschool's work in developing a new body ofnursing knowledge, by its new approach tonursing education, and especially by its in-tegration of the two-year nursing programoffered by regional colleges and a newfour-year bachelor's degree program of-fered at UBC.

The foundation, on its part, has ex-pressed its satisfaction with the develop-ments that have taken place in the Schoolof Nursing as a result of the grant to UBC.The University has expressed its gratitudeto the foundation for its generosity in sup-porting an expanded nursing program thatprepares students for work in, communityand preventive health care and hospitalcare for acute and long-term illness. This isone of two grants from the Kellogg Foun-dation that terminated this year, and forwhich replacement funds will have to befound if the programs they supported areto continue. Details on the second Kellogggrant are noted under the section of thisreport dealing with continuing education.

ARTS. The Faculty of Arts was thehardest hit of UBC's 12 faculties by theneed to eliminate $3.1 million from ouroperating budget over the past two years.Despite cutbacks of $557,988, the facultyhas maintained and improved its academicstandards and achievements. Standards forpromotion and tenured appointments arehigher than in the past and are continuingto rise. This improvement has taken placein spite of the need to cope with shiftingstudent populations and the developmentof new programs, and in the face of budgetcuts and the resulting strain on morale.

The arts faculty, and the Department ofEnglish in particular, has made an effort inrecent years to impress on educators and10/The President's Report 1976-77

More than 127,000 personsvisited UBC's new Museum ofAnthropology in 1976-77 toview its permanent collectionsas well as a number of specialdisplays and events.

in the fact that three departments and twoschools were unable to offer approved pro-grams in 1976-77. Lack of funding pre-vented new courses in children's literaturebeing offered in creative writing; a con-centration in law librarianship is inabeyance; and the faculty was unable tooffer programs leading to the degrees ofMaster of Fine Arts and Doctor of Philos-ophy in Theatre History and a diplomaprogram in community nutrition in theSchool of Home Economics.

The faculty has been active in revisingand reviewing existing programs. Thesehave taken place in geography at both theundergraduate and graduate levels; inGermanic studies, which completed a revi-sion of the first-year German program in1976- 77; and in the School of Home Eco-nomics, where a thorough review of theundergraduate curriculum in human de-velopment and family science was com-pleted, and a new majors program infamily science, involving the introductionof six new courses, was established. The in-troduction of two new correspondence The President's Report 1976-77/11

the public the need to improve the qualityof English-language teaching in B.C. Twodevelopments of the past year give causefor satisfaction; there are signs of a shift inemphasis in the school curriculum to placegreater importance on grammar and com-position, and the introduction of an En-glish placement test by the provincialDepartment of Education will mean thatour Department of English will no longerhave to administer a similar test to studentsentering UBC for the first time in order toplace those who need remedial work inspecial sections. The English departmenthas also received Senate approval to ter-minate its remedial-English program in1979. In that year the Centre for Continu-ing Education will be responsible for thisprogram. It should be kept in mind, too,that there are many students taking En-glish courses who show above-averageabilities in language use. To enable thesestudents to concentrate on literature, 13special sections of English 100 were inoperation in 1976- 77 .

The financial cutback in arts is reflected

courses at the third-year level by theDepartment of Psychology has made itpossible for students to complete all butone of the course requirements for apsychology major by this method.

A successful review of the art history pro-gram in the Department of Fine Arts wascarried out with the aid of outside con-sultants. The report of the review com-mittee indicated that the quality of theprogram is satisfactory at both theundergraduate and graduate levels.

A number of academic units in arts withapplied and clinical teaching programshave expressed their concern that criticismof outside professional activities by facultymembers will lead to restrictions that willdiminish contact with community agen-cies, which are valuable as sites forteaching and research. Unwarranted re-strictions by the University, they say, couldbe a "serious deterrent" to efforts todevelop first-class professional programs inthe community.

It is my hope that such fears will not berealized. We are aiming to develop somebroad and flexible policies that will guardagainst abuses while at the same time per-mitting our experts to make their knowl-edge and abilities available in the

community.Finally, in this section of the Faculty of

Arts, I take the opportunity to report onthe first full year of operation of the newMuseum of Anthropology. The faculty isadministratively responsible for museumoperations because, in addition to being avaluable public facility, the museum is amajor centre for teaching and research. Inother words, the concept embodied in theplans of the museum was that it should bea place of learning and discovery for thegeneral public, students and scholars. I ampleased to report that in its first year,the museum attracted more than 127,000persons to see its permanent collections,special displays by contemporary Indiancraftsmen and a host of other events. Thestaff of the museum, ably led by its direc-tor, Dr. Michael Ames, overcame manyobstacles in the first year of operation andhave made it a lively and attractive addi-tion to the cultural resources of Canada.

COMMERCE AND BUSINESS AD-MINISTRATION. The faculty intro-duced no new programs in 1976-77, butundertook a major review of the cur-riculum leading to the Bachelor ofCommerce degree. Higher entrance and

advancement standards were developed forSenate approval and additional proposalsfor curriculum changes will be broughtforward in the 1977-78 academic year.

Funds were provided to enable the facul-ty to expand its evening program leadingto the degree of Master of Business Ad-ministration. One section of all first-yearM.B.A. courses is available to eveningstudents, and the heartening response tothis expansion has led the faculty to in-vestigate the possibility of offering a com-plete evening degree program. I amhopeful that funds will be available toenable the continued expansion of this

evening program.The faculty, which has experienced very

significant enrolment increases in recentyears, signified its intention of placinggreater stress on its Ph.D. program by ap-pointing Prof. Kenneth MacCrimmon asprogram director. He has already given anew sense of direction to research in theearly stages of the Ph.D. program and hasundertaken a more thorough screeningprocess to identify the best possible can-didates for admission to the program.

The faculty introduced six new coursesin 1976-77 that strengthen existing pro-grams in urban land economics and inlabor and manpower.

DENTISTRY. The faculty made pro-gress in the 1976-77 academic year in thegeneration of new programs. A programleading to the degree of Master of Sciencein Dental Science and a postgraduate cer-tification course in periodontics await ap-proval by the Universities Council beforebeing implemente~ A bachelor's degreeprogram in dental hygiene has receivedfaculty approval and will be forwarded toSenate for discussion.

The faculty's undergraduate dental pro-gram continues to improve through courseadjustments, better timetabling, and anongoing program to measure teaching ef-fectiveness. Support from the provincialgovemment has enabled the faculty tooperate a summer dental clinic whereLower Mainland school children receivefree dental treatment and students benefit

through practical training.Recent changes in the provincial Den-

tistry Act have specified additional dutiesfor dental hygienists. The faculty hasresponded by adjusting its teaching pro-gram to include instruction and clinicalpractice in these new areas of responsibili-ty. Concrete evidence of the excellence of12/The President's Report 1976.77

More than 900 elementaryand secondary school childrenreceived free dental treatmentin the summer of 1977 fromstudents in UBC's Faculty ofDentistry, who worked underfaculty supervision.

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ty, initiating the training program indental hygiene, and fostering continuingeducation and public service programs. Hehas carried out these duties with. energyand devotion over a period of 15 years anddeveloped a faculty with a balanced pro-gram of teaching, research and public ser-vice. The faculty has graduated more than200 dentists since 1968, and all but a hand-ful of these graduates are practising incommunities throughout B.C., which in-dicates that the faculty is serving the pro-vince well. The quality of the faculty'sgraduates is, ultimately, the best tributethat can be paid to Wah Leung.

EDUCATION. This faculty was hithard ov.er the past two years by financialcutbacks. A total of $338,548 in salariedpositions was removed from the faculty'sbudget. Despite this, the education facultymanaged to respond well to new initiativesand proposals that provide a variety of op-portunities for teacher training.

Approval was given for a new five-yearprogram leading to the degree of Bachelorof Education in special education. Stu-dents trained under this program will beable to recognize and deal with the esti-mated 5 to 7 per cent of B.C.'s schoolpopulation who are mildly handicapped.The new program will accept its firststudents in September, 1977, and will fill areal need in the school system for a groupof specialized teachers who are skilled in

the existing diploma program in dentalhygiene has been furnished by the per-formance of the members of the 1977graduating class, all of whom wrote theU.S. National Board exams. The classaverage was over 91 per cent and UBC wasranked 8 out of 174 programs in NorthAmerica.

The Department of Oral Medicine hasbegun a new service and teaching cliniccalled the Mouth and Mucosa ReferralClinic, which is located at the VancouverGeneral Hospital in association with theDepartment of Dermatology of the Facultyof Medicine.

The demand for continuing educationprograms in dentistry continues to in-crease, partly as a result of new regulationsthat make it mandatory for practising den-tists to update their skills. There has been asignificant rise in registration for continu-ing dental education programs since Janu-ary 1, 1977, when the new regulations wereintroduced.

Finally, I would like to pay tribute hereto Dean S. Wah Leung, who resigned ashead of the faculty on June 30, 1977, butwho will remain at UBC as a professor. Dr.Leung was the founding dean of the facul-ty which was established in 1962. As thefirst dean of dentistry he faced the specialproblems of recruiting the research andteaching staff, overseeing the planning andconstruction of facilities to house the facul- The President's Report 1976.77/13

gram for high school graduates and ma-ture students who will enrol in the programleading to the Bachelor of Education(Elementary) degree. The first and thirdyears of the degree program will be con-ducted in Whitehorse, while the secondand fourth years will be held on the UBCcampus. Each program will admit 20 stu-dents in the first year. I am pleased thatthe Faculty of Education was able to res-pond positively to the initiative of theYukon, which has experienced a high tum-over in elementary school teachers in re-cent years.

Other developments within education inthe academic year include creation ofa Standing Committee on Teaching(SCOT) , which is charged with improvingthe teaching abilities of faculty members,and the strengthening of the Centre for theStudy of Curriculum and Instruction,which is reviving and extending the work ofthe former Department of CurricularTheory .

Budget constraint had its effect i>n thefaculty, however. Two programs -Open-area Teacher Preparation and the Diplo-ma in the Education of Young Children -

were suspended, and four Senate-approvedcourses will not be offered in 1977-78because of the reduction of resourcesallocated to the Faculty of Education.

FORESTRY. Enrolment in this faculty,which trains students for careers in B.C.'smost important industry, has more thandoubled in the last decade. Expansion ofits offerings during this period has enabledit to provide teaching and research ex-perience for students and faculty membersin a very broad range of subjects in themanagement of forest resources. The signi-ficant enrolment increase of recent yearshas resulted in very heavy teaching com-mitments at the senior level. This has ledthe faculty to give serious consideration toa major administrative reorganization thatmay result in the creation of departmentsor divisions within the faculty. As a firststep, the growing need to cope with ad-ministration resulted in the appointmentof Prof. Antal Kozak as associate deanand Prof. B. J. van der Kamp as assistantto the dean. Dean J. F. Gardner reportsthat in spite of a generally poor employ-ment situation, virtually all graduates ofthe faculty have obtained employment inforestry-related work. The demand for stu-dents with post-graduate degrees remainedhigh and exceeded the supply.

Dr. Peter Murtha is co-ordi-nating a new program inremote sensing -the inter-pretation of informationabout the earth recorded bysatellites and high-flying air-craft.

meeting the needs of this group of chil-dren.

A new program called LISTEN, an ac-ronym for Low-Income Student TeacherEducation, designed to prepare teachers towork in schools in low-income areas, com-pleted its first year of operation in the1976-77 academic year.

The faculty also completed negotiationsin 1976-77 with the government of theYukon Territory to provide teacher-train-ing courses in Whitehorse. The Yukon gov-ernment is bearing the entire cost of theprogram, estimated at $275,000 in the firstyear. Two programs will be offered in1977-78: a single year of professionaltraining for would-be teachers who alreadyhold university degrees; and a second pro-14/The President's Report 1976-77

took part in Habitat for continuing educa-tion programs and teaching and researchstudies at UBC and elsewhere.

The task of distributing the collection ofmaterials acquired by the University will beundertaken by the United Nations Audio-Visual Information Centre (UNA VIC) ,which is housed in the Woodward Instruc-tional Resources Centre. UNAVIC willserve as the distributor and duplicator ofthe videotapes and films of the collection asthe holder of the international copyrighton the material. Associated with UNAVICin the Woodward IRC is a facility for view-ing the collection. It consists of a 50-seattheatre and cubicles equipped with TVmonitors and headphones. Distributionpolicies and guidelines for the use of thecollections are being developed by an inter-national panel of advisors.

The collection offers a unique opportun-ity for development of research, teachingand public education programs in a widerange of problems associated with humansettlements, including housing, energy andpollution.

In 1976-77, the activities of the Centrefor Human Settlements were concentratedin three areas -a scholar-in-residenceprogram, invitational seminars and com-munity programs. Dr, Leon Gertler, of theUniversity of Waterloo, was the centre'sfirst scholar-in-residence and has prepareda manuscript entitled "Habitat and Land."An example of the invitational seminarprogram was "Arable Land: The Appro-priate Use of a Scarce Resource," whichbrought together a cross-section of aca-demic and professional experts for a two-day discussion, Faculty and students arecontinuing to use the audio-visual libraryfor course and research assignments. Thecentre's first publication, a collectionof papers on the Habitat theme, was pub-lished in January, 1977, by the UBC Press,.Prof, Peter Oberlander has been namedthe permanent director of the centre andDr, Knute Buttedahl joined the staff as ad-ministrator on July 1,1977,

A decline in financial support forced theUniversity to discontinue funding for theInstitute of Industrial Relations in 1976-77. A review committee suggested that theinstitute should not be disbanded, andwhen funds are available it may be givena new start. Meanwhile, research on in-dustrial relations will continue in variousdepartments and faculties of the Universi-ty. Shortage of funds has slowed the de-

The faculty introduced no significantchanges in curriculum in 1976-77, but re-ceived special funding to develop an inter-disciplinary program at the gradhate levelin the field of remote sensing -the inter-pretation of information about the earthrecorded by satellites and high-flying air-craft. The interpretation of remote-sensingdata is valuable in many areas, includingnatural-resource management, pollutioncontrol and wildlife conservation. TheUBC program in remote sensing is beingco-ordinated by Dr. Peter Murtha, whoholds appointments in the Faculty ofForestry and in the soil science departmentof the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences.Other UBC departments and units thatwill be involved in the program includegeography, civil engineering and the com-puting centre.

GRADUATE STUDIES. Graduatework at UBC has sustained a high level ofactivity in recent years despite the declinein real dollar terms of support for research.Within the faculty there have been notableshifts in the pattem of student enrolment;interest in the pure or basic disciplines hasdeclined in favor of increases in enrolmentfor professional programs that appear tooffer better employment opportunities.Enrolment has also increased in graduatesocial sciences programs and there is anincreasing demand for interdisciplinaryprograms, which require more intensivecounselling and organization.

An important decision made during theacademic year was to allocate an increasein graduate student fees for graduatescholarships in 1977-78. The object of thedecision is to maintain UBC strength ingraduate studies.

The faculty's Institute of Animal Re-source Ecology received $16,000 for thesupport of graduate courses in ecologypolicy analysis and the School of Com-munity and Regional Planning started aguided independent study course on siteplanning for surveyors, funded by a$20,000 grant from the Corporation ofB.C. Land Surveyors.

UBC's new Centre for Human Settle-ments, created in 1976 during Habitat, theUnited Nations Conference on Human Set-tlements, began to emerge as an active in-stitution during the academic year. Thecentre will make use of the more than10,600 audio-visual items that made up the240 presentations by the 140 countries that The President's Report 1976.77/15

velopment of the Institute of AppliedMathematics and Statistics and the In-stitute of Asian Research.

Other institutes, centres and schools thatare part of the graduate studies facultymaintained a high level of research activityin 1976-77, which will be described inmore detail in the research section of this

report.LAW. The Faculty of Law, perhaps

more than any other at the University, hasbeen subject to continuing difficulties inthe recruitment and retention of first-ratelegal talent in the face of strong competi-tive pressures from government, the prac-tising profession and from other lawschools. In 1975-76 three of the six resigna-tions from the faculty's teaching staff wereby persons who took positions at other lawschools, and of the six persons recruited toreplace those who resigned, none were re-cruited from other law schools and onlyone had previous teaching experience.

In 1976-77, this situation was somewhatimproved. While there were three resigna-tions, none represented losses to other lawschools. All four of the new appointeeswere experienced law teachers with dem-onstrated abilities in both academic andnon-academic legal work.

The faculty-student ratio in the UBClaw school remains a matter of concern.Student enrolment has reached and slight-ly exceeded the limit of 720, while the com-plement of full-time faculty stands at 39against a hoped-for faculty strength of 50persons. The consequences of this situationare a reduced number of course sections atthe first-year level, large classes in the up-per years and an excessive reliance on hon-orary lecturers. In fact, 31 per cent of thetotal course units in the faculty are han-dled by teachers who are in the honorary,visiting, and part-time categories. DeanKenneth Lysyk says that unless this im-balance can be corrected, the faculty willhave to give serious consideration to reduc-ing enrolment in first-year law. ~

The faculty also faces a problem in ob-taining funds for the continuation of itslegal clinic program, which provides anopportunity for students to gain practicalexperience in advising the general publicon legal problems under the watchful eyeof members of the B.C. bar, includingsome faculty members. The program hasreceived substantial support since its incep-tion in 1975 from the Law Foundation of

B.C., which has served notice that its sup-port will terminate at the end of the1977-78 acadelilic year. The faculty hassubmitted a funding proposal to the Uni-versities Council and a decision is awaited.

Three new courses on land use planning,the law of valuation and consumer protec-tion received faculty and Senate approvalin 1976-77.

MEDICINE. I cannot think of anotherUBC faculty that has faced more uncer-tainty about its future in recent years thanmedicine. In 1973 it became apparent thatthe teaching, research and service hospitalplanned for the Health Sciences Centre onthe UBC campus would not be built. Thiswas the result of a decision by the govem-ment of that day to create the B.C. Medi-cal Centre on the site of the formerShaughnessy Hospital on Oak Street. Al-though this decision was a disappointmentto the University, we undertook to co-operate with the proposed BCMC devel-opment. Innumerable members of thevarious faculties, schools and departmentsthat make up the health sciences area atUBC were involved in task committeescharged with bringing forward plans forthe new centre because it was inevitablethat students and faculty would be in-volved in its operations.

In December, 1975, the New Demo-cratic Party government was defeated in aprovincial election and the Social Creditparty was returned to power. The newgovernment decided not to continue withdevelopment of the B.C. Medical Centre.On March 9, 1976, the provincial ministersof health and education proposed a $50million building program, using matchedprovincial and federal funds, to construct a240-bed acute-care hospital on campus,provide additions to basic medical sciencebuildings in the Health Sciences Centre,and upgrade clinical teaching facilities atVancouver hospitals associated with theUBC medical school. The government alsoproposed that UBC double the size of itsfirst-year medical class from the present 80to 160 students. The University was given60 days to respond to the govemment pro-

posal.After a wide range of consultations it

was decided to respond positively to thegovemment's proposals and expansionplans were submitted to the govemmentwithin the 60-day limit. In October, 1976,the provincial govemment announced itsintention to implement its commitment to16/The President's Report 1976.77

Hon. Ron Basford, left, fed-eral minister of justice, andHon. Patrick McGeer, B.C.'sminister of education, turnedthe first sod for a new acute-care hosPital in the campusHealth Sciences Centre inApril, 1977.

improving health education facilities andexpand the size of the medical class.Throughout our negotiations with thegovernment we have insisted that the in-creased operating funds required to ex-pand the medical class would have to beprovided in a way that would not adverselyaffect the funding of other academic pro.grams at the University.

The government proposals were ap.:proved in principle by the Board of Gover-nors in January, 1977, subject to thefollowing conditions:

.Specific approval by the Board of thenecessary funding and other resources be-ing made available for each phase of ex-pansion of the medical class at least oneyear in advance of that phase;

.Availability of the necessary physicalresources and additional operating fundsrecommended by the president after con-sultation with the appropriate persons andbodies and approved by the Board;

.Provision of the necessary additionaloperating funds in a manner which in thejudgment of the president and the Boardwill not adversely affect the funding andresources available to other University pro.grams; and

.Bearing in mind that the funding ofprograms and activities of the Faculty ofMedicine may be subject to similar con-straints as other programs and activities atthe University.

Approval in principle for construction ofthe hospital and basic science facilities oncampus and expansion of clinical facilitiesat associated downtown hospitals was givenby the Board subject to the following con-ditions :

.Subsequent approval by the Board ofthe necessary financing and related ar.rangements for these facilities; and

.Assurance being given to the Board bythe president at the appropriate time thatthe appropriate University authorities haveapproved the academic suitability of thefacilities.

The approvals given during this periodset off an incredibly concentrated round ofplanning and consultation with Vancouverhospitals. On April 18, Dr. Patrick Mc-Geer, the provincial minister of education,and Hon. Ron Basford, the federal minis-ter of justice, jointly turned the first sod tomark the start of construction of the acute-care hospital in the Health Sciences Centreon campus. Planning and consultation forexpansion of the campus basic medical

sciences buildings and the upgrading ofclinical facilities at downtown hospitals arewell underway. I am particularly heart-ened by the very positive response that hasbeen forthcoming from the various Van-couver hospitals where we have clinicalteaching facilities. Officials from thosehospitals are being most co-operative indeveloping plans for these upgradedfacilities.

Another important development for theFaculty of Medicine in the 1976-77 aca-demic year was the completion and open-ing of the Harry Purdy Extended Care Unitin the Health Sciences Centre. I will havemore to say about this development andour hopes for expansion of the field ofgerontology in a later section of this reporton capital financing and new buildings.

Throughout this most difficult period,the affairs of the Faculty of Medicine wereoverseen by Dean David Bates, who re-signed as dean on June 30, 1977, but whowill remain at UBC as a member of the The President's Reoort 1976.77/17

in honors physics. Revised third- andfourth-year programs for the degree will beintroduced in 1977-78 and 1978-79 respec-

tively.Budgetary constraints prevented in-

troduction of special five-hour-per-weeksections of Mathematics 100 for studentswhose numerical skills are deficient. Thefaculty will probably have to delay im-plementation of this program indefinitely,despite evidence of inadequate preparationof entering students.

There was some improvement in physi-cal facilities for certain science depart-ments as the result of completion of theneJV north wing of the Biological SciencesBuilding. This will be described in the sec-tion dealing with capital financing andnew buildings.

In my report to you last year I said theUniversity faces something very close to acrisis in research funding. Nothing that hashappened in the interim has caused me tochange that view; indeed, inflation hascontinued to weaken our research capacityeven though the total number of dollarsreceived by the University has increased.

In the fiscal year that ended March 31,1977, UBC received $17,074,743 from allsources for research. This was a recordtotal and a 6.4 per cent increase over theprevious year.

Inflation, however, has continued totake a serious toll on the available funds.Dr. Richard Spratley, our research ad-ministrator, reports that merely to bringUBC's 1976-77 research funds up to thelevel of grants made in 1970-71 would haverequired an additional $3,022,966.

Changes in policy at the federal levelhave resulted in the emergence of a newpattem of support for research. Alloca-tions from granting councils are up slight-ly, while those from federal departmentsare down, apparently reflecting a convic-tion that university research supportshould be centralized in the councils.There also appears to be an overall trendtoward applied research at the expense ofbasic research. In his report to the Boardof Governors, Dr. Spratley comments thatthis trend will be "accelerated by a recentNational Research Council decision toreserve a significant part of its budget in-

medical school's medicine and physiologydepartments. While dean, Dr. Bates over-saw a major revision of the medical school'scurriculum and was responsible for attrac-ting to the school a number of outstandingteachers and researchers. New provisionsfor the training of residents in Vancouverhospitals were introduced and a Depart-ment of Family Practice was added to thefaculty during his deanship. He has in-sisted on high standards of faculty and stu-dent performance and was ever an effectivespokesman on behalf of the medicalschool's interests in the community. I ampleased that he will continue as a memberof the faculty, where his talents as a chestphysician and his expertise in environmen-tal medicine will be available to studentsand colleagues.

PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES.There were few significant curriculumchanges in this faculty in 1976-77. Thedevelopment of two fourth-year courses isnotable: Pharmacy 455 is expanding thisyear to ensure that students are informedon all areas of health care legislation, aswell as health care services offered throughgovernment and voluntary agencies; Phar-macy 488 now includes studies on the tox-icity of chemicals in the environment, airand water pollution, disposal of toxicmaterials and studies of chemically in-duced carcinoma. Two new courses havebeen introduced at the graduate level as re-quirements for graduate degrees. One ofthese requires students to prepare and pre-sent lectures for critical evaluation byfellow students. The second course offersstudents an opportunity to improve theirteaching abilities.

There have been some notable develop-ments within the faculty in the areas ofresearch and public service, which will bedealt with in other sections of this report.

SCIENCE. The Faculty of Science wasanother of UBC's 12 faculties hard hit bythe cutbacks that have had a widespreadeffect on UBC's academic operations. Atotal of $331,312 was removed from thescience budget over the past two years,with the result that new programs and ma-jor curriculum changes are virtually at astandstill.

Changes implemented in 1976-77 in-clude the introduction of courses in com-puter science at the first-year level, threenew courses in statistics in the Departmentof Mathematics, and a revised second-yearprogram leading to the bachelor's degree18/The President's Report 1976-77

UBC's Department of Chem-istry was one of two Universi-ty departments that receivedmore

than $1 million forresearch in 1976-77.

crease for the support of projects in areasof defined national priority."

Few will quarrel with a decision to investmore in research on projects of nationalimportance, but to do this at the expenseof basic research, which is absolutely essen-tial as the underpinning for applied re-search, is a little like purchasing a car andneglecting to set aside adequate funds topay for the gasoline to run it.

The federal government continues to bethe largest contributor to the researchpool. Funds from this source totalled$11,637,589 in 1976-77, making up 68.1per cent of total research funds. Support ofresearch by the provincial government con-tinues at very low levels and a discouragingdevelopment was the dissolution of theB.C. Health Sciences Research Fund,which supported health research in theprovince. However, the announcement bythe provincial government of the creationof a research secretariat opens the way fora more rational approach to research sup-port from this source.

Support from Canadian foundations hasincreased and has alleviated at least part ofthe serious problem of funding medicalresearch. Increased grants from Canadianand United States companies is encourag-ing and it is hoped that this trend will con-tinue as our researchers increase theirinteraction with industry.

The group perhaps most affected by theresearch funding crisis are new facultymembers who have been attracted to Uni-versity life partly by the prospect of beingable to carry out research. The policies ofthe major granting agencies seem to be toincrease average grants to establishedresearchers and to provide virtually nofunds for new projects by younger facultymembers.

Despite these problems, UBC continuesto be a major centre of Canadian research;indeed, it is one of the three top univer-sities in Canada in terms of grants made byfederal agencies. Some faculties showedvery significant increases in the monetaryvalues of grants in 1976-77 over 1975-76.Grants in the Faculty of Commerce andBusiness Administration were up by 148.6per cent from $117,647 to $292,418; ineducation by 49.1 per cent from $195,856to $292,089; in pharmaceutical sciencesby 29.3 per cent; in arts by 22.4 per cent;and in agricultural sciences by 16 per cent.

Despite a slight drop in allocations to theFaculty of Science, two of that faculty's

departments -chemistry and physics -

each received more than $1 million forresearch. This faculty remains the largestspender of research funds at $5,208,523,followed by medicine at $4,785,932; ap-plied science at $2,064,919; arts at$1,214,674; and graduate studies at

$1,204,253.In the remainder of this section on re-

search, let me briefly describe some of thenew projects undertaken in the variousfaculties of the University, particularlythose that have potential for benefit to the

public.In agricultural sciences, work is being

carried out on methods for the control ofsalmonella, the commonest type of foodpoisoning; on methods for detecting themicrobial decay of meat; on control of in-sect pests; and the treatment of sewagesludge. One of our poultry scientists is The President's Report 1976.77/19

studying methods to decrease the cholester-ol content in eggs.

In applied science, a program in bio-medical engineering, involving co-opera-tion between applied science andmedicine, is developing as funds areavailable. Work continues on developmentof an artificial kidney machine, on heartvalves and the production of artificiallimbs. Three members of the mechanicalengineering department have received amajor grant to work on problems asso-ciated with the safety of operation ofnuclear reactors. There has been a signifi-cant increase in reseach funds for workassociated with coal utilization.

In the Faculty of Arts, a 10-membergroup of natural-resource economistsbegan work in earnest on a five-year pro-ject funded by the Canada Council. Theaim of the project is to throw new light onone of the least-understood areas ofmodern economics -the management ofthe world's natural resources. One of ourgeographers is in the final stages of com-pleting a new atlas of British Columbia tobe published by the University of B.C.Press; other geographers are working onproblems.associated with industrial devel-opment in the Mackenzie Valley and theimpact of pipeline construction in theNorthwest Territories. In the School ofHome Economics new emphasis is beingplaced on human nutrition, includingstudies of vitamin E, mineral metabolismand folic acid. One of our leading musicscholars is continuing work on a cata-loguing of all the works of the composerJohannes Brahms with the support of theCanada Council; in psychology, grantshave been approved for the evaluation oftreatment programs in relation to drugand alcohol abuse, for a physiologicalstudy of criminals, and for the effects ofchemicals on the human brain.

In dentistry, a team of three reseachershas received $164,264 to carry out studiesof tongue movements and jaw positionswhich have direct clinical significance inthe understanding and treatment of mal-occlusions, and Dr. Virginia Diewert hasaroused considerable interest for herresearch in palatal formation, which issupported by grants totalling $50,560.

In education, eight faculty membersand six graduate students have receivedgrants to work on theoretical and appliedstudies in values education, which includesthe production and validation of curricular

materials for schools. Other projects ofwidespread public interest include a sur-vey of the incidence and needs of childrenwith hearing difficulties; assessments ofachievement levels by elementary and highschool children in the fields of mathemat-ics and social studies; methods for theearly detection of learning difficulties; andstudies of physical education for mentallyretarded children.

Research in forestry is of particular in-terest because of the economic value ofthat resource to our province. Our re-searchers are developing new methods offorest regeneration by mechanical andother means; forest scientists are studyingthe recycling of nutrients in both high andlow-level forest ecosystems, and there iscontinued emphasis on the whole field offorest management for industrial and re-creational purposes.

The theme of research in the Faculty ofGraduate Studies has this year been itsrelevance to contemporary Canadian prob-lems. In animal resource ecology, scien-tists are studying various insect pests,including the spruce budworm, which isthreatening to destroy vast areas of Cana-dian forests, and several institute membersare involved in research associated with thefederal government's $300 million salmonenhancement program. Our Institute ofOceanography attracted more than$800,000 during the academic year for awide variety of studies, including marinepollution, and was given more than$400,000 in ship time on west coast re-search vessels. The Institute of Interna-tional Relations continued its researchprogram related to Canada's new 200-milefishing zone, and Dr. Mark Zacher, the in-stitute's director, was awarded a $17,000grant for research on international whal-ing. The production of a book entitledCanadz.an Forezgn Pou.cy and the Law ofthe Sea was particularly noteworthy. TheCentre for Transportation Studies had anactive year. It received nearly a quarter ofa million dollars from the provincial gov-ernment for three major research projectsfor the B.C. ferry system, transportationneeds of northern coastal communities,and economic and managerial problems ofthe B.C. Railway.

The Westwater Research Centre pub-lished books on international rivers andpollution control in B.C., continued workon a coastal resource managment project,and received $40,000 from the Rockefeller20/The President's Report 1976-77

, Team of UBC scientists, left

to right, John Vincent, Dr.Robert Morrison and Dr. DonLyster, will we facilities atTRIUMF, the cyclotron lo-cated on the UBC campw, toproduce a radioactive isotopeof iodine that will be airliftedto Canadian hosPitals fordiagnostic purposes.

Foundation for a study of Canada-U.S.

water-management problems.Some faculties receive very little money

for research, but this does not indicate alow level of research activity. The Facultyof Law, for instance, received only $12,884in grants for research in 1976-77, and ofthat sum more than $5,300 was a singlegrant from the federal gov~rnment for re-search on the topic of the non-medical useof drugs. The research level within thefaculty is indicated by its list of publica-tions by 15 members of the teaching staff.These cover such subjects as maritime,criminal, family, labor, environmentaland civil law as well as the followingtopics: the law of expropriation, the legalcontrol of hazardous products in Canada,the calculation of damage for fatal in-juries, class actions, Indian rights, incometax planning, debtors' rights and the in-struction of juries. In addition, seven facul-ty members and six graduate students tookpart in seminars on such widely varied top-ics as law reform, labor relations and theproblems of water law and river boun-daries.

Perhaps the most significant researchadvance in the Faculty of Medicine in1976- 77 is the arrival at UBC of Dr. JohnDirks, the new head of the Department ofMedicine in the faculty, and his colleaguesfrom McGill University. His research teamand the funds they bring with them hasmade UBC a leading centre in NorthAmerica for work on kidney function withgrants of just over $300,000. Dr. MichaelSmith and Dr. Gordon Tener, both mem-bers of the Department of Biochemistry,each received more than $71,000 for theirimportant work on the structure and func-tion of nucleic acids. The largest singlegrant for research in medicine was made toDr. Henry Dunn, of the Department ofPaediatrics, who received $95,780 for acontinuation of his 15-year study ofchildren of low birth weight, which pro-mises to produce some very significant in-formation about the development ofpremature babies.

Research grants to the Faculty of Phar-maceutical Sciences increased by nearly 30per cent in 1976-77, and included anaward totalling $151,877 to enable a teamof specialists in the field of nuclearmedicine to undertake a pilot project forthe production of a special isotope ofiodine, used in the diagnosis of disease.The project will be carried out in associa-

tion with TRIUMF, the new cyclotronlocated at UBC. The team, headed by Dr.Don Lyster, of pharmaceutical sciences,will produce the isotope at TRIUMF andairlift it to hospitals in four Canadiancities. The object of the project is to deter-mine whether a system for the productionand distribution of radioactive iQdine isfeasible. If it is found feasible, it is ex-pected that one of the major pharmaceu-tical firms will undertake production on alarger scale. The Medical Research Coun-cil of Canada and the B.C. Heart Founda-tion are the chief granting agencies forresearch funds in this faculty, supporting avariety of work in pharmokinetics, themechanism of drug action, drug transpor-tation in the body and alcohol tolerance.Research carried out over a period of manyyears has resulted in establishment of aDrug and Poison Information Centre oper-ated by the Faculty of PharmaceuticalSciences at St. Paul's Hospital. This opera-tion enables physicians anywhere in theprovince to obtain the most recent in-formation available for the treatment ofpeople who have been poisoned. Funds areforthcoming to permit an expansion of thisprogram in an area that will be of signi-ficance in the therapeutic treatment ofdisease.

The Faculty of Science reports seriousproblems in research as a result of the mat-ters referred to earlier in this report ~ lackof funds to enable younger faculty mem-bers to undertake productive work, and ashortage of adequate facilities for existingprojects. This should not obscure, how- The President's Report 1976-77/21

Grants for operating, capital and ex-perimental purposes totalled $7,763,800 inthe 1976-77 fiscal year. The facilityemploys about 165 staff at its main site onUBC's south campus, and approximately120 university scientists, some of themfrom outside Canada, were associated withthe 1976-77 scientific program.

During the academic year the UBC Bo-tanical Garden reached the halfway markin the 10-year development program in-itiated in 1971 following approval of acomprehensive plan by the Board of Gov-ernors. The 1976-77 program saw comple-tion of five components of the main gardendevelopment adjacent to ThunderbirdStadium, continued development of theMarine Drive Garden on the southwestedge of the campus, installation of manynew plantings in the northern sector of thecampus, and completion of a horticulturalteaching classroom in the garden's ad-ministrative centre, formerly the presi-dent's house, on Marine Drive. Many ofthese projects were supported by govem-ment grants.

A major contribution to botanical re-search was the publication early in 1977 ofVascular Plants of Bn.tish Columbia byDr. Roy Taylor, the director of the garden,and Bruce MacBryde. This volume repre-sents the first comprehensive survey of themore than 2,400 vascular plants of B.C.and is designed to serve the needs ofresearch botanists and resource managersand planners. The inventory has beenadopted by both provincial and federalgovemment agencies as a standard floristicreference work for research and technicalinformation publications. A second majorresearch program is designed to provide in-formation and techniques that directlyrelate to erosion control of the Point Greycliffs below the UBC campus. The pro-gram, funded by the University and theprovincial govemment, is experimentaland takes into account the difficult physi-cal factors of the site and the selection ofplants that have soil-binding properties.The results of this program so far hav.ebeen more successful than originally ex-pected :with 160,000 square feet of cliffface covered and 20,000 plants incorpor-ated. The University is grateful to the B.C.Forest Service for 15,000 trees, provided inthe spring of 1976, for the planting-trialprogram. These and other research pro-grams fostered by the garden make it animportant centre for botanical research in

ever, the fact that our Faculty of Science iswidely regarded as one of the best in NorthAmerica, particularly in such basic areasas chemistry, physics and the life andgeological sciences. The basic work that isdone in these areas provides the underpin-ning for further developments in the ap-plied sciences. One measure of the sciencefaculty's excellence is its ability to attractsignificant grants for research and the sup-port of graduate students. Major grantsfrom the National Research Council toUBC researchers for 1977-78 included:$170,000 to a group of five plasma phy-sicists; $62,872 to Prof. Charles McDowell,head of the Department of Chemistry;$60,000 to Prof. Neil Towers, of theDepartment of Botany; $57,994 to Prof.Myer Bloom, of the Department ofPhysics; and $46,612 to Dr. PeterHochachka, of the Department of Zoology.

The TRIUMF cyclotron located on theUBC campus completed its first full year ofoperation as a research facility in 1976-77.The facility, operated by UBC, SimonFraser University and the Universities ofVictoria and Alberta, is a cyclotroncapable of accelerating two simultaneousbeams of protons for research in basicscience, including medium-energy nuclearphysics and chemistry, and applied re-search in such areas as nuclear fuel andisotope production. In 1976-77, emphasisshifted from development to the start ofimportant research making use ofTRIUMF's many unique capabilities. Thereliability of the operating componentscontinued to improve, with facilityavailability approaching 80 per cent.

In addition to important experiments inthe field of basic science, development con-tinued at TRIUMF in the field of appliedresearch. Preliminary biomedical experi-ments were begun that will lead eventuallyto the use of the facility as a cancer treat-ment centre. I have already mentioned thework of an interdisciplinary group which isplanning to begin production of isotopesfor use in medical diagnosis.

A major change occurred in the sourceof funding for TRIUMF in 1976-77. TheAtomic Energy Control Board, which pro-vided funds for the construction andoperation of the facility since the initiationof design studies in 1965, decided todiscontinue its research-grants program toconcentrate on its regulatory function.Financial support for TRIUMF now comesfrom the National Research Council.22/The President's Report 1976-77

western Canada. The garden is also an im-portant community resource and I willdescribe this function more fully in thefollowing section on University activity inthe area of continuing education.

Continuingeducation

UBC was founded on the premise that itwas a university created to serve the needsof the entire province. Over the years, ourhopes and expectations in providing edu-cational services in all parts of the provincehave not been fully realized. This has notbeen the result of unwillingness on the partof UBC; indeed, I would be hard put tocite a single case where UBC has notresponded in some way to an expressedneed from a region outside the Vancouverarea. However, we have been faced, overthe years, with a shortage of funds that hasprevented us from doing everything thatwe felt was necessary to provide educa-tional opportunities to our citizens. Let meassure readers of this report that we areacutely conscious of our responsibilities inthis area and are doing everything possibleto correct the shortcomings of the past.

Perhaps the most significant develop-ment in continuing education in the1976- 77 academic year was the release ofthe report of the Commission on UniversityPrograms in Non-Metropolitan Areas bythe provincial government. The sole com-missioner was Dr. William Winegard, aformer president of the University ofGuelph in Ontario, who was asked by Edu-cation Minister Patrick McGeer to advise"on all matters related to the delivery ofacademic and professional programs out-side the Vancouver and Victoria metropol-itan areas, and academic programs andtheir articulation."

In UBC's brief to the commission, wesuggested that any proposal to remedy thedemand for degree proposals outside theVancouver and Victoria areas must satisfythree basic tests: it must substantially in-crease the opportunities for people residentin the Interior to complete a degree pro-gram; it must be consistent with themaintenance of traditional University stan-dards of academic excellence; and it mustachieve the first two goals with reasonableeconomic efficiency. UBC proposed the es-

tablishment of University Centres at eachof the interior regional colleges as the bestmeans of making degree-level educationavailable to more people. We proposedthat the centres be operated by one of thethree existing public universities, pre-ferably in co-operation with the regionalcolleges. The first priority of each Universi-ty Centre would be to meet the needs of thearea it served, with emphasis on core orbasic courses that would provide oppor-tunity to acquire the usual, generally ac-cepted academic qualifications.

I would be less than honest if I did notreport to you that there was widespreaddisappointment at UBC about the recom-mendations made by Dr. Winegard in hisreport, which was released in September,1976, the first month of the academic year.&sentially, he proposed that four Univer-sity Centres should be established, eachoffering a restricted number of degree-completion programs in arts, science andeducation. These centres would be locatedin Prince George, Kamloops, Nelson andKelowna. At each centre there would be 10full-time-equivalent faculty, plus variousoutreach programs emanating from aheadquarters site in Vemon. Dr. Wine-gard also recommended that these centresbe set up under the control of Simon FraserUniversity and that the programs be of-fered largely by faculty attached to thatuniversity. The costs of this solution wereestimated at about $8.5 million over fiveyears for capital purposes and $7.1 milliona year for operating costs.

The question of whether the report'srecommendations would meet the needs ofthe citizens of the Interior was the subjectof a report to Senate early in the academicyear. The chairman of the Senate standingcommittee on continuing education ex-pressed the opinion that the report serious-ly underestimates the estimated capitaland operating costs, which are based on aplan that would not provide the breadthand quality of program Interior residentsneed and want. To offer minimal andsuperficial degree programs would be adisservice to Interior students.

In April, 1977, Dr. McGeer announcedthe formation of an Interior UniversitiesCo-ordinating Council to oversee thedevelopment and delivery of degree pro-grams to the Interior. The council willreport to the Universities Council of B.C.,which will in turn make recommendationsto the provincial government. In the The President's Report 1976-77/23

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REVENUE Province of British Columbia

Operating Grant Canada - Museum of

Anthropology Grant Student Fees Services Investment Income Sponsored or Assisted Research Gifts, Grants and Bequests Miscellaneous

Summary of Revenue and Expenditure (Excluding Capital Additions to Endowment, Student Loan and Capital Development Funds)

- April 1, 1976 to March 31, 1977

GENERAL FUNDS TRUST FUNDS

For Specific Per Cent Purposes Per Cent

$1 03,920,766

250,000 12,886,024 5,254,705 1,869,193

-

123,344 $1 24,304,032

EXPENDITURE Academic Libraries Sponsored or Assisted Research Student Services Scholarships and Bursaries Administration Plant Maintenance Renovations and Alterations Ancillary Enterprises

$ 90,626,005 9,219,385 (310,086)

2,192,696 820,25 1

5,540,964 13,969,663 1,185,863

69,250 $123,313,991

EXCESS OF REVENUE OVER EXPENDITURE - General Purposes 990,041

$124,304,032 - Specific Purposes -

83.6 -

0.2 - 10.4 -

4.2 $ 4,352,610 1.5 2,318,996 - 16,889,988 - 3,578,060

0.1 -

100.0 $27,139,654

72.9 7.4

1.8 0.7 4.4

11.2 1 .o

99.2

(0.2)

-

$ 5,643,895 117,100

17,259,515 406,667

1,978,039 201,995

- - -

$25,607,211

0.8 -

- 1,532,443 100.0 $27,139,654

-

- -

16.0 8.6

62.2 13.2

100.0 -

20.8 0.4

63.6 1.5 7.3 0.7 - - -

94.3

- 5.7

100.0

TOTAL

Per Cent

$1 03,920,766

250,000 12,886,024 9,607,315 4,188,189

16,889,988 3,578,060

123,344 $1 5 1.443.686

$ 96,269,900 9,336,485

16,949,429 2,599,363 2,798,290 5,742,959

13,969,663 1,185,863

69,250 $148,921,202

990,041 1,532,443

$1 5 1 ,443,6 86

68.6

0.1 8.5 6.3 2.8

11.2 2.4 0.1

100.0

63.6 6.2

11.2 1.7 1.8 3.8 9.2 0.8

98.3 -

0.7 1 .o

100.0

1975-76

Per Cent

$ 91,988,957

-

12,402,530 8,030,402

16,538,114 3,436,453

3,079,873 173,764

$1 35,650,093

$ 87,016,780 8,329,646

16,596,065 2,061,495 2,5 12,439 5,161,199

12,138,221 756,390 346,552

$134,918,787

(284,6 17)

67.8

- 9.1 5.9 2.5

12.2 2.3 0.2

100.0

64.1 6.1

12.2 1.5 1.9 3.8 8.9 0.6 0.3

99.4

0.2 0.8

100.0

The President’s Report 1976.77125

Marc Pessin, standing, ofUBC's fine arts department,was the instructor for UBC'sfirst credit television coursebroadcast in 1976-77 over ca-blevision stations in threeB.C. centres.

months following release of the Winegardreport, UBC submitted to the co-ordinat-ing council a proposal in which we signi-fied our readiness to offer degree programsin arts, education and social work at thethird- and fourth-year levels so thatstudents who complete two years of work ata community college would be able to con-tinue their education in the same com-munity. In the summer of 1977, Prof. J.Lewis Robinson, of our geography depart-ment, undertook at my request a series ofmeetings with community college councilsin Kelowna, Vernon, Casdegar, Kamloopsand Prince George, where our proposalswere very well received. The task of chair-ing a committee I have established on In-terior programs has now been taken overby Prof. Ronald Shearer, of the Depart-ment of Economics, who is developingUBC's ideas for Interior programs in con-sultation with appropriate Universityauthorities and presenting them to the co-ordinating council. As the 1976-77academic year drew to a close, the co-ordinating council was still engaged indiscussions with representatives of the threepublic universities and had not made anyrecommendations to the Universities Coun-cil.

Our on-going program of continuing ed-ucation has many facets and there are fewareas of the province that did not feel itsinfluence in 1976-77.

Overall participation in credit and non-credit programs sponsored by the Centrefor Continuing Education declined slightlyin the academic year after peaking at over40,000 persons the previous year. The peakwas largely due to UBC participation invarious activities associated with Habitat,the U.N. Conference on Human Settle-ments, which drew more than 3,600 per-sons to campus events. Centre registrationsin the 1976-77 academic year totalled33,377 persons and there were some nota-ble increases in participation rates in suchareas as guided independent study -up17.35 per cent -the Interior Programbased in Vernon, where registrations in-creased 30 per cent, and the EducationalTravel program, which experienced an in-crease of 24 per cent. Participation in thecentre's annual Language Institute dou-bled.

UBC's first credit television course, Fromthe Pyramids to Picasso, given by MarcPessin, of the Department of Fine Arts, wasbroadcast during the fall and winter overcablevision stations in Vancouver, Vernonand Campbell River. The co-operation ofcommunity cable stations and of Okana-gan College and North Island Collegemade it possible to offer the course on abroad geographic basis. The course wasfollowed by 79 persons who registered forcredit and 200 who took it on a non-creditbasis. We know that a substantial numberof persons also watched on a casual basis.The videotapes of the course are nowavailable to educational institutions inB.C. and elsewhere. I have received manyletters from citizens who saw the courseurging the University to expand its offer-ings by television.

Non-credit programs in professionalcontinuing education offered by the cen-tre in locations throughout the provincegrew by 35 per cent and the Interior pro-gram based in the Okanagan attracted1,300 participants. Interior program di-rector John Edwards, who has his head-quarters on the Vernon campus ofOkanagan College, arranged for 42 UBCfaculty members to visit the area duringthe program's first 16 months of opera-tion and has inaugurated a lecture seriescalled the Vernon Institute, which ismodelled on the Vancouver Institute that26/The President's Report 1976-77

2,000 students representing amateur andprofessional groups. Courses includedcredit programs for teachers and profes-sional florists and a special program wasinitiated in the use of plants in therehabilitation of the handicapped. Some65,000 persons came to the campus to visitthe Nitobe Garden and other areas ad-ministered by the Botanical Garden. Thestaff of the Botanical Garden partici-pated actively in the Vancouver HomeShow and the Pacific National Exhibi-tion. Each year, garden staff answerthousands of inquiries from citizens onthe subject of plant growth and care.Development of the Marine Drive com-ponent of the Botanical Garden con-tinued with grants from the CanadaWorks program, which permitted thehiring of five full-time people. Thisgarden will eventually display one of thefinest collections of rhododendrons, ac-cumulated over the past 15 to 20 years, inNorth America.

The garden also initiated a 12-week ap-prenticeship-training program in aspectsof basic botany. This program will con-tinue in the fall of 1977 with a practicalprogram of plant documentation and thecare and culture of woody plant materials.The staff of the Botanical Garden, headedby Dr. Roy Taylor, continue to developnew relationships with the business andprofessional communities and are to becongratulated on their efforts.

The Faculty of Education continues tooffer a wide variety of credit and non-credit programs at UBC and in centresthroughout the province in keeping with itsresponsibility to upgrade the quality ofteaching in elementary and secondaryschools. During the academic year, edu-cation offered 133 graduate and under-graduate credit courses on campus and 35undergraduate courses off campus in thelate afternoon and evening. This repre-sents approximately half of the total Uni-versity offerings of this type. The facultyalso sponsored a number of general con-ferences attended by approximately 3,700general and specialized teachers in suchareas as the education of young children,science education and mathematics educa-tion. Activities for administrators includeda short course on policy-making in educa-tion organized by the faculty's Departmentof Educational Administration, and an in-ternational study-travel course that took 20senior administrators from school systems

meets weekly at UBC during the wintersession. The centre hopes to extendgeneral programming of this nature toother Interior areas as soon as fundsbecome available.

The centre's Language Institute re-ceived a substantial two-year grant fromthe Secretary of State through the pro-vincial Ministry of Education for Frenchcourses for adults. The provincial minis-try also provided funds for a pilot televi-sion project to teach English to immi-

grants.The centre this year took over the or-

ganization and administration of the 4thsummer program for retired people. The31 courses offered attracted 550 partici-pants, including 117 from outside themetropolitan Vancouver area. An addi-tional 672 senior citizens took advantageof free general education programs orga-nized by the centre, an increase of nearly50 per cent over last year. A 1,000-square-foot, energy-efficient house is currentlyunder construction in Acadia Camp aspart of a course in self-help housing of-fered through the centre. The projectwas made possible by the co-operation ofthe Canadian Self-Help Housing Asso-ciation, the UBC Housing Departmentand the Acadia Tenants Association. Themodel house will be occupied by a stu-dent family in the fall of 1977.

Programs of continuing education for

practising engineers experimented verysuccessfully with videotape instruction,and the centre this year instituted co-operative programs in engineering edu-cation with the Universities of Alberta,Calgary and Regina, sharing expert re-source people and reducing the cost to

participants.The professional staff of the centre was

augmented by the appointment of GailRiddell as director of programs for re-tired people. William Oaksford joinedthe staff, first as co-ordinator and later asassistant director of the Reading andStudy Skills Centre, and Ted Rashleighserved as a consultant on public affairsfor a major part of the year. Eileen Hen-dry was appointed director of Women inManagement Programs, and Ruth Sigalis the new co-ordinator of volunteers.

Earlier in this report I mentioned theresearch activities of the UBC BotanicalGarden, which also performs a signifi-cant public-education function. The gar-den held a total of 89 classes for nearly The President's Report 1976.77/27

project, 58 health professionals represent-ing 13 professions enrolled for graduatestudy programs in adult education in theFaculty of Education. The students alsotook courses in other UBC departments,enrolled for directed study courses thatallowed them to explore areas of particularinterest to them, and were involved in fieldexperiences in one of three major areas -program design and management, admin-istration, and applied research. During thelife of the project, the 58 health profes-sionals enrolled in various programs -32as full-time students and 26 on a part-timebasis. A total of 21 W. K. Kellogg Founda-tion fellowships valued at more than$109,000 were provided for full-timestudents.

The effects of the program have beenwidespread. A World Health Organizationreport on continuing education makesspecific reference to the Kellogg projectand cites several of the reports producedduring the life of the project, many ofwhich are in continuing demand. Most im-portant of all, perhaps, is the fact thatmany students and graduates of the pro-gram hold responsible and influential posi-tions in the field of health care educationin community organizations and hospitals,and an innovative project for training in-terprofessional teams to work with health-care trustees is being introduced in anotherCanadian province. It is my hope thatfunds will be available to continue someaspects of the program developed duringthe term of the Kellogg grant.

An aspect of the University's continuingeducation function that is often ignored isthe incredible range and variety of culturalactivities and lectures and other events thatare available to the public, most of themfree of charge. It is extremely difficult toobtain accurate figures on the number ofpeople that attend these events, but weestimate that in the past year some 26,000people attended 11 plays staged on thecampus, that 9,000 persons came to thecampus for seven art exhibits, that 22,500visitors attended 150 musical recitals, andthat more than 20,000 people listened to1,000 public lectures given by our ownfaculty and distinguished visitors. In addi-tion, the general public has continuing useof campus athletic facilities for team sportsand other forms of recreation. Many of theactivities mentioned above are arrangedand administered through the voluntaryand unpaid assistance of students, faculty~

and ministries of education in five pro-vinces to England and Wales for an inten-sive look at administrative activities inthose areas.

The Faculty of Commerce and BusinessAdministration attracted more than 7,000persons to continuing education programsin such areas as real estate, and diplomaand executive programs on special topics.Many of the executive program seminarswere held in centres outside Vancouver, in-cluding Victoria, Kamloops, Kelowna andCastlegar. The real estate and diplomacourses offered by the faculty are not shortcourses that offer superficial treatment ofvarious topics. The shortest of these pro-grams is a 14-week pre-licensing course forreal estate salesmen and the longest is adiploma program for certified general ac-countants that can last up to five years.Enrolments in most of these programs arein excess of 250 students.

Another active program area is the Divi-sion of Continuing Education in the HealthSciences, which is part of the Office of theCo-ordinator of Health Sciences. In 1976-77, the division offered 154 courses andlectures which were attended by 8,515health professionals, an increase of morethan 2,000 over last year. In addition toproviding courses on specialized topics fordoctors, dentists, nutritionists, nurses,pharmacists and rehabilitation specialists,the division fosters interprofessionallearning among two or more health profes-sions. Five such courses were held in1976-77 with a total registration of 819. Inthis same area, more emphasis has beenplaced on the development of slide-tapeteaching packages for use in smaller com-munities in B.C. One of these programsdeveloped at UBC on diabetes has beensold to more than 100 North Americancentres.

The 1976-77 academic year marked theconclusion of a six-year project co-ordi-nated by the Division of Continuing Edu-cation in the Health Sciences with fundsprovided by the W. K. Kellogg Founda-tion. The foundation provided $335,000 toaid in the training of specialists in continu-ing education in the health sciences. Thegoal of the project was to improve thequality of health care by training experts todirect and staff continuing education pro-grams within institutions and organizationsin the community and to encourage inter-professional and interdisciplinary efforts inthe health sciences. During the term of the28/The President's Report 1976-77

members and employed staff. The Univer-sity and the public owe them a debt ofgratitude for their efforts in making theresources ofUBC available to the public.

It should be obvious from what I havewritten in this section of my report thatUBC is making every effort within itspower to fulfill the mandate that was givento it when it was founded, namely, to makeits presence felt throughout the province. Ican accept the criticism that our efforts incontinuing education are thin in someareas of the province. If we are given theresources, those deficiencies will be cor-rected. What I cannot accept is the chargethat we are not conscious of our deficien-cies and are unwilling to meet our obliga-tions. On the contrary, I believe that wehave accomplished a great deal with verylimited resources.

Each year, UBC facilities areused for a wide range of cul-tural activities and lectures,including the Saturday-nightseries sponsored by the Van-couver Institute, above, whichhas met on the campus formore than 60 years.

impossible to proceed with the expansionof existing programs or to initiate new onesif the necessary physical facilities are lack-ing. I fully concede that the request for$145 million represents a very substantialsum. However, I can only reiterate a themethat has appeared in innumerable presi-dent's reports; we have a large backlog ofunmet building needs, so great, in fact,that many important aspects of UBC'sacademic endeavors are still housed inabout 100 old army huts that were broughtto the campus after the Second WorldWar. I am hopeful that we will receive per-mission to borrow the funds required toproceed with our capital proposals.

During the academic year four majorbuildings were completed and opened:The George F. Curtis Building for theFaculty of Law; the new north wing to theBiological Sciences Building; the new Civiland Mechanical Engineering Building;and the Dr. Harry Purdy Extended CareUnit in the campus Health Sciences Cen-tre.

THE GEORGE F. CURTIS BUILD.ING. The new building for the Faculty ofLaw was officially opened on September17, 1976, by Right Hon. Bora Laskin,P .C., chief justice of the Supreme Court ofCanada. Appropriately, the building isnamed for the founding dean of the facul-ty, which enrolled its first students in 1945,who oversaw its development and growthuntil his retirement in 1971. The President's Report 1976-77/29

In my report to you last year, I describedthe changes that had taken place in themethod of financing capital projects atuniversities. The new B.C. Educational In-stitutions Financing Authority Act, passedat the spring, 1976, session of the provin-ciallegislature, provides for the funding ofprojects through a new government bor-rowing authority, with the governmentguaranteeing the repayment and amortiza-tion costs. The government advises theuniversities annually of the amount ofmoney to be requested in their operatingbudgets to retire the borrowed funds.

So far, UBC has received authority toborrow a total of $3,680,500 for two cam-pus buildings -a new processing centrefor the library to be built at a cost of$2,680,500, and $1,000,000 to enable con-struction to continue on the new AquaticCentre. In February, 1977, the Universitysubmitted to the Universities Council a

five-year building program totalling ap-proximately $145 million. So far, we havereceived no word about the fate of these

proposals.The lack of funds for capital develop-

ment and planning has a serious effect onthe University's academic program. It is

George Curtis began his deanship evenbefore the first building to house hisstudents and faculty arrived on campus.Initially, the faculty was housed in old ar-my huts, as were other new academic unitsin those days, and it was not until 1951 thata building was finished to house the rapidlygrowing faculty. By the mid-1960s theneed for additional space had becomeamost desperate. The new building isbasically an extension of the existing Facul-ty of Law Building and is designed to ac-commodate a 160,000-volume library, 700students and 50 faculty members. The ex-isting building was converted to house amoot courtroom and seminar rooms andclassrooms. The addition includes a self-contained three-storey library, a combina-tion classroom-administration area, andadditional classrooms. The existing build-ing and its addition are linked by a loungearea designed to promote interaction be-tween students and faculty members.

The new law building cost $3.8 million,$500,000 of which was raised by a commit-tee chaired by two of the faculty's mostdistinguished graduates, Mr. Robert W.Bonner, Q.C., and Mr. Justice A. B. B.Carrothers. The success of the fund drivewas as much a tribute to George Curtis as itwas symbolic of the close ties that exist be-tween the University and the profession.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BUILD-ING. The new north wing to the BiologicalSciences Building was completed and oc-cupied in the latter months of the 1976-77academic year. The new wing provides theDepartments of Botany and Zoology with avastly improved setting in whi,ch to offerlaboratory instruction in popular first-yearcourses. The Department of Botany hasbeen able to consolidate several of itsresearch activities in the- new wing andbetter-equipped and more efficient space isnow available to house electron microscopefacilities which are intensively used bybotanists and zoologists. The new wing alsohouses the office of the faculty's dean, Dr.George Volkoff, and his associates. For-merly, the office of the science dean waslocated in a somewhat inaccessible con-verted army hut located some distancefrom the basic sciences buildings.

CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGI-NEERING BUILDING. The completionof a new building to house the Depart-ments of Civil and Mechanical Engineeringwas a significant event in a process thatbegan 15 years earlier when the University

announced that it would construct a com-plex for the various departments of theFaculty of Applied Science on a site cen-tred on the intersection of the Main Malland Stores Road. Since 1960, buildings tohouse the Departments of Chemical Engi-neering, Electrical Engineering, andMetallurgy, and laboratories for the civiland mechanical engineering departmentshave been built on this site. The new $6.7million building to house the two depart-ments is linked to the laboratory facilities,built in 1972, by a skywalk.

Hon. Patrick McGeer, the provincialminister of education, officially opened thenew building on May 12, 1977. It containsseven classrooms of varying size, 26laboratories for the two departments, andoffices for 45 faculty members. The de-partments share common library-readingroom and computer facilities.

In the Department of Civil Engineering,new and well-equipped laboratories willenable researchers to carry out earthquakeinvestigations not previously possible, ac-tivities in the field of ocean engineeringwill expand, and excellent facilities areprovided for the program in timber engi-neering. This department has also greatlyexpanded its work in environmental engi-neering in recent years and the newlaboratories will permit it to explore newapproaches to problems in this area. TheMechanical Engineering section of thebuilding has a well-equipped undergra-duate laboratory for instruction in thebasic principles of energy and power, amachine shop acquaints students with thephysical processes of manufacture and per-mits construction of research apparatus,and new laboratories are provided forteaching machine design, mechanics ofmaterials and mechanical vibration analy-sis. Faculty members in this departmentare now better equipped to continue re-search in such areas as solar and windenergy, aerodynamics, biomedical engi-neering, and studies on friction and wear.

The University paid tribute at the open-ing ceremony to Mr. E. C. Hurd, chairmanof Transmountain Pipeline Co., and Mr.Trevor Pilley, president of the Bank ofB.C., who served as co-chairmen of a fund-raising committee that raised $700,000 toaid construction of the Civil and Mechani-cal Engineering Building and additions tothe Henry Angus Building for the Facultyof Commerce and Business Administra-tion, which were opened last year. The30/The President's Report 1976.77

--~The new 300-bed Dr. HarryPurdy Extended Care Unit inthe campus Health SciencesCentre admitted its first pa-tients in July, 1977. Thebuilding also includes exten-sive teaching and researchfacilities.

students from other UBC schools and de-partments -home economics, social workand psychology are examples -are beingdrawn into the centre's educational pro-gram.

The campus hospital facilities are madeup of the GO-bed Psychiatric Unit, whichhas been in operation for a number ofyears, and the extended care unit. Whenthe acute care unit now under constructionis completed, all the major buildings en-visaged in the original plan for the HealthSciences Centre will be in place. We antici-pate that funds will also be provided toconstruct teaching facilities for the Schoolsof Nursing and Rehabilitation Medicine.

The co-ordinator, Health Sciences,serves as a mechanism to bring these vari-ous separate academic units and service-hospital units together to co-ordinate ac-tivities as they relate to each other and astheir common interests in the education ofhealth professionals require. The HealthSciences Co-ordinating Committee chairedby the co-ordinator includes the deans anddirectors of all the health sciences schools,the hospital administrator and the execu-tive directors of five Vancouver hospitalsaffiliated with the UBC medical school.This arrangement ensures a forum for dis-cussion of the teaching responsibilities ex-pected of these hospitals for the students ofthe health sciences faculties and schools. Imention these arrangements because theyserve to indicate the complexities faced bythe University in ensuring that the bestpossible educational opportunities areavailable to students in the health sciences.

The Dr. Harry Purdy Extended Care

response to the University's appeal againindicates the close ties that exist betweenthe University and the business and profes-sional engineering community.

HARRY PURDY EXTENDED CAREUNIT. On July 12, 1977, Hon. RobertMcClelland, B.C.'s minister of health, of-ficially opened the new Dr. Harry PurdyExtended Care Unit in the campus HealthSciences Centre. The following day thefirst patients were admitted to the 300-bedunit, which differs from other community-care hospitals of this type in that it includesfacilities for teaching and research. Theunit cost just over $11.1 million and wasbuilt by the Greater Vancouver RegionalHospital District with funds provided bythe provincial government.

The new unit is a part of our developingHealth Sciences Centre, which is made upof the faculties and schools that preparehealth science professionals for careers inthe health field. The centre also includesthe campus hospital units and health cen-tres that serve as teaching laboratories andprovide health services to the public. TheFaculties of Medicine, Dentistry andPharmaceutical Sciences and the Schoolsof Nursing and Rehabilitation Medicinemake up the core of the Health SciencesCentre and are concentrated on the north-eastern edge of the campus surroundingthe health sciences administration build-ing, the P .A. Woodward Instructional Re-sources Centre. This building serves thecore faculties and schools as an administra-tive base and also provides lecture andseminar rooms for most of the teaching inthe health science disciplines. Increasingly, The President's Report 1976-77/31

bya dramatic decline in birth rates. As onefederal government study puts it: "As sure-ly as the rivers flow to the sea, the popula-tion in Canada aged 65 and over will growfrom 1.7 million in 1971 to 3.3 million in2001." And it is estimated that by the year2031, 20 per cent of Canada's populationwill be aged 65 or over.

The opening of the Dr. Harry Purdy Ex-tended Care Unit at UBC is only one re-sponse by UBC to the anticipated problemsof an aging population. Scattered through-out the University are a substantial numberof teachers and researchers who have madea start on programs in the field of geron-tology. UBC staged its first conference onthe needs and problems of the aging in1957 as a joint effort of our then ExtensionDepartment (now the Centre for Continu-ing Education) and the United Appeal.Marjorie Smith, a long-time member ofthe centre's staff, has fostered professionaleducational programs for professionals andothers who work with the elderly. Over aperiod of years, faculty members in socialwork, psychology, home economics, com-merce and business administration, and invarious health sciences departments haveengendered interest in gerontologicalstudies among their colleagues and in thestudent body.

In this academic year, I asked Prof. RoyRogers, head of the School of Home Eco-nomics, to chair a reconstituted committeemade up of people who have an interest ingerontology with a view to advising me onavenues that the University might take toparticipate in teaching and research in thisrapidly growing discipline. The Mr. andMrs. P. A. Woodward's Foundation hasprovided a grant of $12,000 to enable thecommittee to appoint Dr. Gloria Gutman,of the psychology department, as a part-time research associate. She will undertakea survey of gerontological studies going onat UBC and in other B.C. educational in-stitutions and investigate models followedat other universities that might be usedhere for furthering such studies. I amhopeful that we will be able to providestrong leadership in developing a teachingand research capability in this field.

The move by the Departments of Civiland Mechanical Engineering to new quar-ters meant that space became available inthe Civil Engineering Building on thenorth campus to permit expansion and up-grading of facilities for the ComputingCentre, which houses one of the most ad-

Unit is unique because it is the onlyhospital in Canada in a medical teachingcomplex that combines care, teaching, andresearch for the long-term treatment ofdisease, which is emerging as one of themajor problems in health care. The Uni-versity was able to reduce substantially thecosts of constructing the unit by utilizingthe same basic plans for the Banfield ex-tended care unit opened in the early 1970sat the Vancouver General Hospital. Theonly significant revision was the addition ofa teaching and research wing on the northside of the UBC hospital.

The patients we admit to the hospitalwill have long-term problems involvingchronic conditions and diseases. The ma-jority, but by no means all, will be elderly.Some beds will also be available for mid-dle-aged and young people suffering fromchronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis,Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy. Pa-tient care in the new unit will be providedby a team of medical experts in keepingwith the interdisciplinary approach tohealth care that is being fostered in thehealth sciences centre. The treatment teamwill include physicians, nurses, rehabilita-tion specialists, pharmacists, dieticians andsocial workers, each of whom will take partin the development of a treatment pro-gram for each of the patients. Initially, theUniversity agreed to open the hospital as aservice unit, but it was assumed from thebeginning that we would receive funds todevelop a research and teaching programas well. These latter aspects of the hospi-tal's function is what makes it unique. Itpromises to become a major training facili-ty for health professionals in all thedisciplines encompassed in the HealthSciences Centre and a centre for researchand the dissemination of knowledge in thecare and management of chronic diseaseconditions.

The discipline of gerontology, whichdeals with the phenomenon and the prob-lems of aging, promises to become one ofthe most rapidly growing areas of study inCanada. This reflects the fact that in thenext 50 years there will be a dramatic in-crease in the absolute and proportionatenumber of elderly people in the Canadianpopulation. This is the result of a numberof factors, the two chief ones being thatpeople are living longer as the result of ad-vances in medical care, and the fact thatthe so-called "baby-boom" in the 20 yearsafter the Second World War was followed~32/The President's Report 1976-77

cial government to make a clear declara-tion that the lands are not to be developedas an endowment for the University, butrather are to be managed for the benefit ofthe citizens of B.C.

A number of studies carried out previ-ously by faculty members and graduatestudents at UBC clearly indicated that theEndowment Lands were a valuable teach-ing and research resource for variousUniversity departments and faculties. Ac-cordingly, we recommended to the taskforce that a significant portion of the landsbe retained as a teaching and researchfacility with provision for agricultural,forestry and ecological demonstrationareas.

We also recommended that Universityland-holdings be increased by 300 acres atan appropriate future date in a mannerthat would not injure the concept of anatural park, and that the University bestrongly represented on a future board ofmanagement for the lands.

The report of the task force was notcompleted during the 1976-77 academicyear and its recommendations thereforefall outside the time frame of this report.

The University

libraryInflation and the sudden decline in

value of the Canadian dollar on the inter-national money market combined to wors-en an already difficult situation faced bythe University Library in the task of main-taining and enhancing book and journalcollections for the use of students, faculty,and the general public. And this despitethe fact that the Library has receivedsubstantial increases in recent years for its

acquisitions program.The Library spent $1,954,121 on collec-

tions development and $154,043 on bind-ing, for a total of $2,108,164 in the1976-77 fiscal year. Comparable totals forthe two previous fiscal years were$1,629,797 in 1974-75 and $1,885,287 in1975-76. Yet the number of volumes addedto the collection dropped from 96,258 in1974-75 to 92,843 in 1976-77, despite thesubstantial increase in spending. Journalscontinued to demand a large share of thecollections budget, although more than1,000 subscriptions were cancelled in 1976.The price of these essential publications in-creased by 9 per cent in 1976-77. The cost

vanced computers in Canada. The Boardof Governors also approved a change ofname for the building to the ComputerSciences Building. Renovations were com-pleted during the academic year to provideimproved facilities for the Computing Cen-tre, which has centralized its staff on thefourth floor of the building. The Depart-ment of Computer Science in the Facultyof Science occupies the second and thirdfloors, while the basement floor has beenimproved to provide more space for usersof the computer.

Early in December, 1976, the minister ofstate for fitness and amateur sport in thefederal government, Hon. lona Campag-nola, announced a gift of $435,000 to theUniversity to aid construction of the newAquatic Centre. The money came from afund to enable universities to bring athleticfacilities up to international standards ofcompetition. The gift will be applied toStage 2 of the project, which is expected tobe complete in 1978. Stage 1 of the centrewas accepted by the Board as being sub-stantially complete in July, 1977.

Two other notable gifts to the Universityin the academic year came from the Devo-nian Foundation of Calgary, which pro-vided $115,000 for completion of thetheatre gallery in the Museum of Anthro-pology, and $1,500 to finance a feasibilitystudy for the relocation of buildings andtotem poles in Totem Park to a new site ad-jacent to the museum.

It seems appropriate here to describe thesteps taken by the University to prepareand submit a position paper on the Univer-sity Endowment Lands to the task force ap-pointed by the provincial government tomake recommendations on the future ofthis area, which lies between the campusproper and the City of Vancouver. Theposition paper prepared by the Universityand submitted to the task force early inDecember, 1976, was based on a reportprepared by a committee chaired by Prof.Peter Larkin, dean of the Faculty ofGraduate Studies. The committee repre-sented all segments of the University com-munity, including faculty, students, staffand alumni.

The University recommended that mostof the undeveloped portion of the lands bepreserved as a natural park area, a sugges-tion that was in harmony with the views ex-pressed by the public at a series of forumssponsored by the task force during theacademic year. We also asked the provin- The President's Report 1976.77/33

space problems, inflation andthe decline in value of theCanadian dollar have com-bined to create problems forthe University Library inmaintaining and enhancingits collection of books andjournals.

Library did not advance during the aca-demic year because of a capital-fund short-age. The Asian Centre, designed to houseour Asian Studies collection, one of thefinest in the world, remains incomplete,and expansion of the Neville ScarfeBuilding for the Faculty of Education, in-tended to include the Curriculum Libraryand 30,000 volumes from the Main Li-brary, has not proceeded beyond the

preliminary planning stage.No substantial library space projects are

in view with the exception of the new Li-brary Processing Centre, which will housethe division that orders, receives, cata-logues and shelves everything that isavailable for use in the Library system.This will provide some additional space inthe Main Library, but not all of it will beavailable for book shelving, since otherLibrary divisions, currently housed in sub-standard accommodation, will take oversome of the area vacated by the processingdivision.

Other notable developments in the Li-brary system during the academic year in-cluded: the start of a major project toplace on microfiche the book and journallocation file to control the growth and costof maintaining card catalogues; changesin loan regulations designed to maintainservices to UBC Library users both on andoff the campus; extension of book securityservices; and participation in several pro-jects funded by the provincial Ministry ofEducation intended to extend the book col-lections of the three public universities tothe colleges of the province.

I cannot emphasize too strongly in thissection of my report dealing with the UBCLibrary system that it is a provincial andnational resource that is called on daily tomeet the needs of our students and facultyas well as specialized groups and thegeneral public in all parts of Canada. Ifour increasingly difficult financial situa-tion continues, this national resource willbe further eroded and its value to users willinevitably decline further. As I remarkedlast year in my annual report, the Libraryrepresents in microcosm most of the dilem-mas faced by the University as a whole incoping with inflation and shortfalls inoperating funds. Despite these problems,Mr. Stuart-Stubbs and his staff of profes-sionallibrarians and the employed staff ofthe Library are to be congratulated on thequality of service they are able to maintainin the face of grave difficulties.

of books purchased for the Library systemin 1976-77 increased by more than 21 percent over the previous year.

It seems unlikely that these trends will bereversed or even moderated. It seems likelythat by the end of the 1977-78 fiscal yearthe combined effect of inflation and an ad-verse exchange rate will have reduced thepurchasing power of the Library's collec-tions budget by 25 per cent in a single year.The University Librarian, Mr. BasilStuart-Stubbs, and a number of deans, intheir reports to me on the 1976-77 aca-demic year, have pointed out that thisdecline in purchasing power can only haveserious long-term effects on the University'sacademic program and the Library's abili-ty to meet the needs of all its users.

Another major concern is that some Li-brary facilities are running out of space.Indicative of the problem in the MainLibrary is the fact that the number ofbooks that had to be placed in storage, andare therefore not immediately available tousers, doubled from 75,000 to 150,000 in1976-77. It appears inevitable that evengreater numbers of books will have to beremoved from open shelves and placed instorage in the future. Projects that wouldhelp to relieve overcrowding in the Main34/The President's Report 1976.77

A total of 31,364 enrolled for credit pro-grams offered by the University during the1976-77 academic year -the 12-monthperiod from September 1, 1976, to August31, 1977. This total was made up of 23,120students registered for the regular daytimewinter session; 1,215 in extra-sessionalcourses offered during the winter session;2,110 registered in the spring session whichruns from May to July; 3,987 registered inthe 1977 summer session; and 932 whowere registered for correspondence coursesadministered by the Centre for ContinuingEducation.

I should add here that for some report-ing purposes -to the Universities Council,for example -the University's officialenrolment figures are based on the fiscalyear, the 12-month period from April 1,1976, to March 31,1977. Looked at on thisbasis, the University's 1976-77 enrolmentwas 31,557 students, made up of 23,120enrolled in the regular daytime winter ses-sion; 1,215 extra-sessional winter sessionstudents; 2,145 spring session students;4,145 registered for the 1976 summer ses-sion; and 932 who studied by correspon-dence. The total represents a 2.6 per centincrease in student registration over the1975-76 fiscal year.

One of the highlights of the University'sdaytime winter session enrolment is thepercentage of women in the first-year class.For the first time in UBC's history, womenoutnumbered men-51.8 per cent to 48.2per cent in a total first-year class of 3,560students who entered the Faculties of Agri-cultural Sciences, Arts, Education andScience. Men are still in a majority in tennsof our overall enrolment, 56.4 per cent to43.6 per cent.

Looked at over the past five years, enrol-ment totals by sex show a steady increase inthe number of women students. In 1971-72, women made up 46.3 per cent of theentering class and 38.2 per cent of the totalenrolment. Over the same five-year period,the number of undergraduate women roseby 5 per cent from 40.5 to 44.5 and thenumber of women in graduate studies in-creased by nearly 10 percentage pointsfrom 24.3 to 33.1 Women are much moreevident today in our professional schools.

In 1971-72, women represented 7.6 percent of the enrolment in the Faculty ofCommerce and Business Administration;today they are 18.2 per cent of the total.Over five years, female enrolment in Lawhas more than tripled from 8.4 to 25.9 percent of the total. In Forestry, the com-parable percentages are 1.4 and 13.2, andin Science 19.6 and 27.8. In the Faculty ofArts -historically the largest of UBC's 12faculties -the percentage of women hasincreased from 49.7 to 57.8 in the samefive-year period.

Our undergraduate enrolment was downvery slightly in 1976-77 from 19,933 to19,879. This was more than offset by an in-crease at the graduate level, where enrol-ments were up from 2,759 in 1975-76 to2,918 this year. In general, undergraduateenrolments held their own. The only facul-ties that showed significant increases wereCommerce and Business Administration,which was up 9 per cent, and AppliedScience, where engineering programs re-corded a 7 per cent increase as the result ofan expanding first-year class.

It should be emphasized here that overthe past five years, while there have beensignificant shifts in the internal enrolmentpattern of the University to career or job-oriented degree programs, these shifts havenot been at the expense of the basic artsand science programs, which have general-ly held their own in this same period interms of enrolment.

UBC has e'ntered a period of virtuallystable enrolment, a situation that raisessome very special problems for the Univer-

sity.The period of rapid growth experienced

by the University in the 1950s and the1960s inevitably resulted in wide variationsin quality and stages of development in ourmany academic programs. Some depart-ments have achieved a worldwide reputa-tion for excellence, some are in the earlystages of development, a few are barelyadequate. Our goal must be to strengthenthose departments and other academicunits that require it, but not at the expenseof the excellent ones.

I mentioned earlier that one of our ma-jor problems lay in the fact that some 85per cent of our available operating grantsare tied up in salaries for our faculty andstaff. The inevitable result of this situationis that we lack flexibility in reallocating ourresources to meet the conditions imposedby a situation where our enrolment is vir- The President's Report 1976-77/35

tually stable. Without this flexibility, itbecomes increasingly difficult to strength-en and increase the breadth of the Univer-sity's academic offerings and to respond tochanging conditions in society or in theworld of learning.

A related problem is the one referred toas the "aging professoriate." The problemhas been well documented; in brief, of theapproximately 30,500 full-time professorsemployed in Canadian universities in 1975-76, 81 per cent were between 30 and 54years of age and 90 per cent were youngerthan 55. At UBC, as of March, 1977,about 80 per cent of the faculty were be-tween 30 and 54 years of age and 85 percent were younger than 55.

There are two important results to thissituation: salary costs per faculty memberincrease as a higher proportion of theteaching staff moves into higher ranks;and few new teaching positions are open toable young teachers and researchers, thevery people who will be needed in seniorpositions 20 to 30 years from now. In thelong run, the phenomenon of an agingprofessoriate could have a detrimental ef-fect on creativity and productivity withinthe University. Ultimately, the losers willbe our students, who have a right to expectthe best education that can be provided bythe best minds available.

Solutions to the problems stated abovewill not be easy to find or to implement.We are examining policies that hold out atleast partial solutions to these dilemmas,including assessment of the most effectiveuse of funds released by retirement, resig-nation or death of senior teaching andresearch staff; examination of schemes forearly voluntary retirement or moving fac-ulty into part-time positions; and thepossibility of maintaining a proportion ofdepartmental and faculty salary budgetsfor short-term, untenured appointments.There are possible penalties for suchpolicies, the chief one being that the bestproducts of graduate schools are not likelyto be attracted to teaching and researchpositions that do not hold out the prospectof permanent, tenured employment.

Our goal must be to ensure that our stu-dents are part of a community of scholarsconcerned with the acquisition, creation,dissemination and application of knowl-edge for its own sake, to stimulate the in-tellectual development of society and tocontribute to the solution of the problemsthat confront mankind. Much of the Uni-36/The President's Report 1976.77

versity's reputation rests on the quality ofits graduates, which is a function of itsteaching quality and the imposition ofrigorous standards of certification for theawarding of degrees. I am not beingalarmist when I say that the threat offrozen operating grants resulting from in-flation and a false sense of economy on thepart of govemments can have only onelong-range effect -a decline in the quali-ty of the education we provide for theyoung people of the province and the na-tion.

The monitoring of academic standards,which the University has carried out fromits earliest beginnings, continued in theacademic year under the watchful eye ofthe Senate committee on admissions. As aresult of a more rigorous scrutiny of thestandings of grade 12 applicants seekingadmission to UBC in the summer of 1976,our 1976- 77 class of first-year students per-formed better academically than the pre-vious year's class. The failure andwithdrawal rate of the entering classdropped and the percentage obtaining fullcredit in their academic work increased.

The percentage of first-year studentsfailing or withdrawing dropped to 13.5 percent from 17.7 per cent in 1975-76, andthe percentage obtaining full credit rose to56.7 per cent from 53.2 per cent. Thisscrutiny continued in the summer of 1977for grade 12 students seeking admission forthe 1977-78 winter session.

During the academic year the Universitycontinued its attempts to make campus lifeeasier for handicapped students. A perma-nent committee on the concems of handi-capped students was established and held anumber of public meetings during theyear. An inventory of campus buildingswas conducted with a view to listing the ad-vantages and shortcomings of each forhandicapped students. Our Office of Stu-dent Services has appointed one of itscounsellors as an advisor to the handi-capped and a special day of orientationwas held for this group of students prior tothe opening of the 1977-78 winter session.Funds were earmarked in the academicyear to create ramps at curbs throughoutthe University to make it easier for studentsin wheelchairs or those who are blind andpartially sighted to move between build-ings. Every effort is being made to removebarriers to higher education for thesestudents.

Dean Margaret Fulton, who heads the

Engineering students KonradMauch, left, and Peter vander Gracht won a $4,000 mi-crocomputer development sys-tem in an internationalcontest sponsored by anAmerican magazine and a mi-crocomputer manufacturer.

chapter award for their activities in1976-77.

Four students in the Department ofCreative Writing in the Faculty of Artsreceived awards in various competitions.David Jones, an undergraduate, was anaward winner in the National CollegeWriting Competition sponsored by theCanadian Broadcasting Corporation; An-neliese Schultz, a graduate student in theprogram leading to the Master of Fine Artsdegree was the first-prize winner in the1976 Chatterley magazine fiction contest;Joseph Fuller, another M.F.A. student, re-ceived the Fletcher Cross Memorial Awardfrom the Pacific Northwest Writers' Con-ference; and yet another M.F.A. student,David Evanier, received the Paris Revzoewaward for the best short story of the year.

Peter D. Fairey, a graduating student inthe Faculty of Commerce and Business Ad-ministration, was the winner of the 1977Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University.

Four Arts students who are studyingfilmmaking in the UBC theatre depart-ment were honored in 1976-77. SturlaGunnarson received the Norman McLarenGrand Prize in the Canadian Student FilmFestival; other winners in the same filmfestival were Michael McGee for the bestexperimental film, and Anthony South-gate, for the best screenplay; Rob Gibbs

Office of the Dean of Women, continuedher efforts to encourage and assist womenstudents to achieve their full potential atthe University through counselling servicesof a personal, academic, financial, socialor career nature. Dean Fulton and her col-leagues encourage women students to takean active part in campus life in co-opera-tion with other appropriate Universitybodies and groups. In the academic year,the Dean of Women's Office planned aseries of career workshops for the 1977-78winter session for women interested inentering professional schools such asengineering and forestry. In addition, theoffice has been active in arranging a seriesof cultural events and special lectures thathave enriched campus life for all students.

UBC students continued to win theirshare of awards for achievements in variousfields in 1976-77, and I take this oppor-tunity to record those that were publiclyannounced or reported to me by the deansof various University faculties.

Two engineering students, Peter van derGracht and Konrad Mauch, were awardedsecond prize in an international contestsponsored by an American magazine and amicrocomputer manufacturer. The stu-dents, who are members of a team of ap-plied science students who are constructingan electric car, submitted a proposal forthe application of a microcomputer tomonitor and control the functioning of theengine in the vehicle. The contest attractedentries from all over the world from stu-dents, professors, consultants and practis-ing engineers. The students' prize was a

microcomputer development systemvalued at.$4,000.

Students in UBC's Department of Clas-sics won all the prizes in Latin and Greeksight-reading contests sponsored by theClassical Association of Canada. Some 50top students in a dozen Canadian univer-sities participated in the annual competi-tions. The following fourth-year studentswere the chief prizewinners: Eric Csapo,Nigel Kennell, Meg Miller and LindsayMartin.

Gail McBride, a graduating student intbe Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, wonthe Undergraduate Research Award of theCanadian Institute of Food Science andTechnology and the U.S. Institute of Food

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was the winner of the overall prize andUniversity prize in the B.C. Student FilmFestival.

A graduate student working on his doc-torate in the Centre for TransportationStudies, Tae Dum, was awarded first prizeby the Transportation Research Forum ina contest open to all students in NorthAmerican universities.

Linda Brown, a 1977 graduate of theFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, re-ceived the E. L. Woods Memorial Awardin a national competition based on anundergraduate research project carried outunder the direction of a member of the

faculty.Too numerous to mention are the stu-

dents who received awards in the form ofscholarships and fellowships from nationaland local organizations in recognition ofhigh standards of academic achievement.UBC students have always done extremelywell in these national and provincial com-petitions and I know that our faculty andstudents join me in congratulating them.

In a later section of this report dealingwith our annual Congregation for theawarding of academic and honorary de-grees, I have listed the heads of the 1977graduating classes, who are also to be con-gratulated on their achievements. TheGovernor-General's Gold Medal wasawarded to Ivor Ladd, an honors studentin computer science, who led the graduat-ing classes for the Bachelor of Arts andBachelor of Science degrees. For the firsttime at UBC, a woman led the graduatingclass in the Faculty of Forestry. Mary Suttiewas awarded the Canadian Institute ofForestry Medal for the graduating studentwith the best all-around record in all yearsof the program leading to the degree ofBachelor of Science in Forestry.

remuneration of any kind. Our facultyundertake assignments with professionaland community organizations because oftheir accumulated expertise and their senseof duty to their profession and the com-munity at large. Space does not permit meto list all the services provided in the1976- 77 academic year. The followingselection of activities by faculty andstudents will serve to indicate the breadthand scope of involvement.

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES. Fourmembers of the faculty were involved in in-ternational projects, including service inCuba, Barbados and Tanzania. Prof.Beryl March, of the division of poultryscience, serves on the governing body of theNational Research Council. Prof. W. D.Powrie, head of the division of foodscience, was a member of a provincial ad-visory committee for the control of milfoilin the Okanagan Lake system and was amember of the provincial royal commissionof inquiry into the use of pesticides andherbicides. Contact with the general publicis encouraged through such avenues as ex-hibits at agricultural fairs; students andfaculty members provided free advice andassistance to the public on the subjects ofplants and food on a year-round basis; andfaculty members took part in 13 off-campus continuing education courses anddelivered 15 lectures to non-academic,

professional groups.

ARTS. I have already mentioned thesubstantial public service renderedthrough the Museum of Anthropology, theFine Arts Gallery and the Frederic WoodTheatre. Other notable examples of pro-fessional public service include: the reportof the Royal Commission on Forest Re-sources in B.C. prepared by Prof. PeterPearse, of the Department of Economics;the recording of works in French andEnglish for UBC's Crane Library for theblind by students in the French depart-ment; service on the B.C. Marine Train-ing Council by Prof. john Chapman, of theDepartment of Geography; research pro-jects for the B.C. Civil Liberties Asso-ciation by students in the philosophydepartment; and the appointment of Dr.Christiane McNiven, of the School ofSocial Work, to head a task force on thestatus of women in social work education.

APPLIED SCIENCE. Members of theDepartment of Mineral Engineering con-tinued their role as the prime contributorsto an interdisciplinary team of UBC and38/The President's Report 1976-77

In tenns of public service provided bythe University and its faculty and studentsin the academic year, I am faced with anembarrassment of riches. The deans of thefaculties, in their reports to me, listedinnumerable projects and other fonns ofinvolvement by faculty members and stu.dents in the activities of local, provincial,national and international organizations.And I wish to emphasize here that much ofthis activity on the part of faculty membersis entirely voluntary and involves no

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Grants from the federal andprovincial governments en-abled UBC students to carryout a wide range of projectsrelated to their work in thesummer of 1977, includingthis archaeological excavationat Crescent Beach south ofVancouver.

University of Victoria experts assembled tooversee the monitoring of the discharge ofmine wastes into the sea at the north endof Vancouver Island. The faculty also re-ceived significant grants under the summeremployment program sponsored by theprovincial government to provide supportto students who work in association withfaculty members on a variety of problems,including pollution. Faculty members andgraduate students continued to co-operatewith experts in the Faculty of Medicine inthe development of an artificial kidneymachine and artificial limbs. In the Schoolof Nursing, Miss Sue Rothwell took officeas president of the Registered Nurses Asso-ciation of B.C.

COMMERCE AND BUSINESS AD-MINISTRATION. Public service in-cluded: the appointment of Profs. M. A.Goldberg and S. W. Hamilton as advisorsto the federal-provincial task force on thesupply and price of serviced residentialland; the appointment of Prof. R. C.Goldstein as a member of the special com-mittee on the right of privacy of theAmerican Federation of Information Pro-cessing Societies; a series of publicseminar~ on the Labor Code of B.C. con-ducted by Prof. Ralph Loffmark for 600attendees; and the involvement of sevenfaculty members and 15 students in theSmall Business Advisory Program for thefourth consecutive year. In addition, fivemembers of the faculty were responsiblefor the organization of major conferencesheld at UBC on discrete optimization, dy-namic programming, and applied opera-tions research.

DENTISTRY. Faculty members andstudents make a major contribution todental care and health education for citi-zens and school children in the LowerMainland through the summer dentalclinic and in off-campus centres. The ser-vices provided on and off the campus arefree. A number of faculty members sit oncommittees at the national level of theCanadian Dental Association. Mrs. JoanVoris, of the Department of Public andCommunity Dental Health, was electedpresident of the B.C. Dental Hygienists'Association and, with Ms. Wendy Halow-ski, was seconded to the provincial Depart-ment of Education in the summer of 1977to draw up instructional packages for thetraining of dental auxiliaries. Mrs. Mar-jorie Dimitri, of the dental hygiene pro-gram, serves as editor of the journal of the

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Canadian Hygienists' Association and re-ceived honorable mention in the GoldenPen Award for excellence in dental litera-ture.

EDUCATION. In addition to par-ticipating in workshops for practisingteachers, members of the Faculty ofEducation were major contributors to orthe organizers of a number of importantconferences on the social responsibility ofthe professional educator, the education ofchildren, and science and mathematicseducation. Student projects included pro-duction of a variety of visual aids on nativeIndian culture, a project that was par-ticipated in by 15 native Indians; and anevent entitled "Physics Olympics," enteredby 200 students from 21 secondary schools,in which a series of competitive activitiesare based on an understanding of the con-cepts of physics.

Public service activities in the Schoolof Physical Education and Recreation in-cluded leave of absence for Dr. Eric Broomto serve as associate deputy minister of theleisure services branch of the provincialgovernment; election of Prof. Robert Os-borne as vice-president of the CanadianOlympic Association and his appointmentas chairman of the Canadian Committeeon the International Olympic Academy;the selection of Mr. Donn Spence as coachof Canada's national rugby team; the ap-pointment of Dr. Lionel Pugh to three ma-jor posts in the track and field world, The President's Report 1976.77/39

including one as head coach of the Cana-dian universities team to the World Stu-dent Games; and the activities of Dr. E. C.Rhodes as B. C. project director for ad-ministration of a standardized test offitness in occupational health, which tested2,000 employees in B.C. business and in-dustry and disseminated fitness informa-tion.

FORESTRY. The faculty's involvementin national and international activities isindicated by the following: Prof. J. H. G.Smith, who was elected vice-president ofthe Canadian Institute of Forestry, assistedin a study for the federal government of theimpact that intensive forest managementwould have on the Canadian economy;Prof. Leslie Adamovich was on leave ofabsence in Malaysia to develop and teach aforest engineering curriculum at the Uni-versity of Pertanian under a contract withthe Canadian International DevelopmentAgency; and Dean J. A. F. Gardner wasappointed chairman of the newly formedNational Research Council associate com-mittee on university forestry research, thepurpose of which is to determine require-ments and priorities for establishinghigh-quality forest research at Canadianuniversities. The faculty's 12,000-acreresearch forest in the Fraser Valley pro-vided major public service through an out-door education program. Some 3,200school children lived at the Loon Lakecamp in the forest for five-day periods, andanother 2,800 made day visits to the forest.

GRADUATE STUDIES. Facultymembers from the various institutes andcentres that make up the graduate studiesfaculty were involved in a wide range of ac-tivities as members of regional, nationaland international committees and regula-tory organizations, as the organizers ofconferences, and as participants in pro-grams that will have widespread impact inCanada. Some examples: Prof. Peter Ob-erlander, director of the Centre for HumanSettlements, was Canada's delegate to theCommonwealth Human Ecology CouncilConference in London, England; Dr. An-drew Thompson, director of the WestwaterResearch Centre, was on leave to serve ascommissioner for the federal governmentin the West Coast Oil Port Inquiry; sym-posia on "Transportation and the WesternEconomy" and "Canada and the Interna-tional Management o( the Oceans" wereorganized by the Centre for Transporta-tion Studies and the Institute of Interna-

tional Relations, respectively; Dr. CarlWalters, of the Institute of Animal Re-source Ecology, worked with provincial andfederal scientists on strategies for the $300million salmon enhancement program thataims at doubling fish populations on thewest coast; Prof. Brahm Wiesman, of theSchool of Community and Regional Plan-ning, prepared a report for the provincialgovemment on facilities and programs forLower Mainland regional colleges and pro-vincial technical and vocational institutes;Prof. Setty Pendakur, of the same school,served as a United Nations expert ontransportation planning in Libya; andDean Peter Larkin continued his associa-tion with the Science Council of Canadaand the Fisheries Research Board andbecame a member of the IntemationalCommission for Living Aquatic ResourceManagement, which held its first meetingin Manila in the Philippines.

LAW. Students in the Faculty of Lawprovide perhaps the most visible public ser-vice of any at the University by manning agroup of legal aid clinics in the LowerMainland, where free legal services areoffered to citizens. In addition, they par-ticipate in legal education programs con-ducted by the Vancouver People's LawSchool.

Faculty members are active in a widevariety of regional and national endeavors:Prof. W. W. Black was a member of theB.C. Human Rights Commission; Prof.Charles Boume served as chairman of thesub-committee on pollution of the Interna-tional Law Association Committee on In-temational Water Resources; Prof. P. T.Bums was chairman of the advisory boardof the B.C. Police College; Prof. K. B.Farquhar was a consultant to the UniformLaw Conference of Canada and draftedthe Uniform Act for Canadian Provinceson Children Born Outside of Marriages;Prof. R. T. Franson was on leave as consul-tant to the Law Reform Commission ofCanada; Dean Kenneth Lysyk was on leavefor part of the academic year to serve aschairman of the federal Alaska HighwayPipeline Commission, and Prof. M. A.Jackson was special counsel to Mr. JusticeThomas Berger during his Mackenzie Val-ley Pipeline Inquiry; Prof. Frank Maczkoserved as chairman of the Family LawFoundation; Prof. Donald MacDougallserved as vice-president and was electedpresident of the United Way of GreaterVancouver; Prof. James MacIntyre is40/The President's Report 1976-77

B.C. Heart Foundation; Dr. Gail Bell-ward is on the Pharmacy ExaminingBoard of Canada; and Mrs. BeverleyDinning is a member of a committee ofthe College of Pharmacists of B.C. whichis developing patient drug-profilerecords to enable the pharmacist to detectand prevent potentially dangerous in-teractions that result when drugs aretaken with food and other drugs.

SCIENCE. Professional activities ofmembers of the science faculty includedthe following: Prof. R. D. Russell, thehead of the Department of Geophysics andAstronomy, is serving as secretary-generalof the Inter-union Commission on Geody-namics until December, 1979; Dr. GordonWalker of the same department is on thescientific advisory council of the Canada-Hawaii-France telescope and is chairmanof the working group on data acquisitionand instrument control; Dr. R. A. Freeze,of the Department of Geological Sciences,was appointed editor of the journal WaterResources Research} and Prof. HughGreenwood of the same department is asso-ciate editor of the Canadzan Journal ofEarth Sciences; Dr. R. L. Armstrong, alsoof geological sciences, reviewed the opera-tion of the geochronometry section of theGeoscience Council of Canada; Prof. H.V. Warren, a long-time member of thegeological sciences department, continuesto be active in the community as an execu-tive member of the Vancouver branch ofthe United Nations Association and adirector of the B.C. division of the Multi-ple Sclerosis Society of Canada; Dr. ColinClark, of the mathematics department,was a project consultant for the Fisheriesand Marine Service of EnvironmentCanada; and in microbiology Dr. B. C.McBride served on both the executive andcouncil of the Medical Research Council ofCanada and on several bodies associatedwith Canadian dental research, while Dr.Julia Levy chaired the Medical ResearchCouncil's scholarship committee andserved on the board of directors of the B.C.Cancer Foundation.

director of the Social Service ResearchCouncil; Prof. Barry Slutsky served as pro-ject officer for the federal Department ofJustice Survey of Public Legal EducationActivities in Canada; Prof. James Taylorchaired the legal education and trainingsub-section of the B.C. branch of theCanadian Bar Association; Prof. J. M.P. Weiler was consultant to the B.C. De-partment of Labor on collective bargain.ing in higher education; and Prof. R. F.Gosse was granted leave of absence fromJuly 1, 1977, to serve as deputy attorney-general of the Province of Saskatchewan.

MEDICINE. Students in the Faculty ofMedicine provide thousands of hours ofmedical care annually in hospitals and inthe community as part of their medicaltraining. One of the most imaginativeschemes for students involves being as-signed to general practitioners throughoutthe province during the summer months toobtain supervised experience in familymedicine.

Activities by faculty members includedthe following: provision of eye services tonative Indians and Eskimos in the Keewa-tin district of Canada's north by specialistsin the Department of Ophthalmology; Dr.C. J. G. Mackenzie, of the Department ofHealth Care and Epidemiology, was ap-pointed chairman of the Pollution ControlBoard of B.C. and served in a similarcapacity on the Canadian Public HealthAssociation's Task Force on Arsenic inYellowknife in the Northwest Territories;Dr. H. W. McIntosh, of the Department ofMedicine, was chairman of the Committeeon Credentials of the Royal College ofPhysicians and Surgeons; Dr. John Dirks,the new head of the Department of Medi-cine, is a member of the Medical ResearchCouncil; and Dr. Moira Yeung, of thesame department, is on the task force ofthe Canadian Thoracic Society on thehealth of grain workers.

PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES.The Drug and Poison Information Centreof the faculty, mentioned earlier in thisreport, is located at St. Paul's Hospital andprovides a resource for all health profes-sionals in B.C. Other faculty activitiesinclude the following: Dr. John Sinclairand Mr. Norman Zacharias are on theBoard of Examiners of the College ofPharmacists of B.C.; Dr. Sydney Katz isone of the organizers of the newly formedB.C. chapter of Canadians for HealthResearch and also works closely with the The President's Report 1976.77/41

Winners of the Master Teach-er Awards for 1977 were Prof.J. Lewis Robinson, left, of theDepartment of GeograPhy,and Prof. Donald StePhens, aCanadian literature expert inthe English department.

Each year, numerous members of thefaculty receive awards and honors inrecognition of their contributions toteaching and research. The 1976-77academic year was no exception. What fol-lows is a listing of some of the outstandingawards and honors.

The 1976-77 Master Teacher Awardswent to two experts in the field of Cana-dian studies -Prof. J. Lewis Robinson, ofthe Department of Geography, and Prof.Donald Stephens, of the Department ofEnglish. Prof. Robinson, who has been amember of the UBC faculty for 30 yearsand was head of geography for 22 years,was one of the first professional geograph-ers in Canada. He has been honored onnumerous occasions by professional bodies,including the Canadian Association ofGeographers, which cited him in 1976 for"exceptional service to the profession ofgeography." Prof. Stephens has taughtCanadian poetry and literature at UBCsince joining the faculty in 1958 and has

served for a number of years as associateeditor of the UBC journal CanadianLiterature. The winners of the awardsshare a cash prize of $5,000 donated by Dr.Walter Koerner, who established theawards in honor of his brother, the late Dr.Leon Koerner, and to provide recognitionto outstanding teachers of undergraduatestudents.

Certificate of merit winners in the1976-77 Master Teacher competition wereProf. R. R. Haering, physics; Prof. JohnHelliwell, economics; Dr. John S. Murray,education; and Mr. French Tickner,music.

Several other faculties of the Univer-sity recognize outstanding teachers. In theFaculty of Applied Science, Dr. P. G. Hill,of the Department of Mechanical Engi-neering, was the recipient of the WalterGage Teaching Award. In the Faculty ofCommerce, the winner of the Teacher Ex-cellence Award of the Commerce Under-graduate Society was Dr. S. C. Gilmour.Honorable mention in the competition wasawarded to Prof.J. C. T. Mao, David Bax-ter, David Lam and Ronald Fraser. Dr.Frank Abbott was the first recipient of the"Good Teacher Award" of the Faculty ofPharmacy Undergraduate Society.42/The President's Report 1976.77

Prof. Michael Smith, left,shown in his biochemistry de-partment laboratory, won theProf. Jacob Biely ResearchPrize for his outstandingwork on DNA, the fundamen-tal genetic building block oflife.

tivities in the field of science generally;and Prof. R. R. Haering, head of the De-partment of Physics.

A significant number of faculty mem-bers had the honor of serving or beingelected to serve as the presidents of theirrespective professional organizations in the1976-77 academic year. This group in-cluded: Dr. John Hay, geography, whoserved as president of the Canadian Meteo-rological Society; Prof. Alan Cairns,political science, as president of theCanadian Political Science Association;Dr. William G. Wellington, head of theInstitute of Animal Resource Ecology, aspresident-elect of the Entomological Socie-ty of Canada; Prof. Gideon Rosenbluth,economics, as president of the CanadianEconomics Association; Prof. J. K. Stager,geography, as president of the newlyformed Association of Canadian Universi-ties for Northern Studies; Mrs. Anne Piter-nick, librarianship, as president of theCanadian Library Association; Prof. RoyStokes, head of the School of Librarian-ship, as president of the Canadian Councilof Library Schools; Dr. Gloria Gutman,psychology, as president of the Geron-tological Association of B.C.; Dr. T. R.Parsons, oceanography, as president of theInternational Association of BiologicalOceanography; Prof. Hugh Greenwood,geological sciences, as president of theGeochemical Society; Prof. V. F. Mitchell,commerce, as president of the western divi-sion of the Academy of Management; Dr.L. F. Moore, commerce, as president ofthe Canadian Association of Administra-

The University's major award for re-search -the Prof. Jacob Biely FacultyResearch Prize -was awarded to Prof.Michael Smith of the Department of Bio-chemistry for his outstanding work onDNA, the fundamental genetic buildingblock of life. Prof. Smith has discovered asimple method of building short chains ofDNA for a specific gene. His techniquesimplifies previous methods of buildingDNA chains and greatly enhances the workof other biochemists carrying out fun-damental work in this important area ofscientific research. The prize carries with ita cash award of $1,000 and is named forProf. Biely, former head of the UBCpoultry science department.

Two members of the Department ofChemistry were honored for their researchduring the academic year. Prof. LauranceD. Hall received the Corday-Morgan Med-al and Prize from the Chemical Society ofLondon, England, for his contributionto the development of nuclear magneticresonance techniques related to the under-standing of molecular structure and con-formation. Prof. Christopher Brion, of thesame department, was the recipient of theNoranda Award of the Chemical Instituteof Canada for his original contributions inelectron microscopy in chemistry .

Dr. Norman Watt, director of Extra-Sessional Studies, was honored a secondtime by the Western Association of Sum-mer Session Administrators. He receivedthe association's Creative ProgrammingAward for the Olympic Field Study Pro-gram offered during the 1976 Summer Ses-sion. The program attracted 72 Canadianand American students who undertook acomparative study of physical education,recreation and athletic programs andfacilities in the public schools and uni-versities of four Canadian provinces. In1974, Prof. Watt received the same awardfor his initiative in developing a programof free summer courses for senior citizens,which remains a feature of our annualSummer Session.

UBC faculty members who were in-ducted into the Order of Canada in theacademic year were: Prof. Erich Vogt,vice-president of faculty and student af-fairs, a member of the physics department,and a key figure in the development of theTRIUMF Project at UBC; Prof. David T.Suzuki, of the Department of Zoology anda noted geneticist who is widely known forhis television and radio broadcasting ac- The President's Report 1976.77/43

tive Sciences; and Prof. Charles McDowellas president-elect of the Chemical Instituteof Canada.

Five members of the UBC faculty wereelected members of the Royal Society ofCanada, this country's most prestigiousacademic organization. The new fellowsare: Prof. K. o. Burridge, head of theDepartment of Anthropology and Sociolo-gy; Prof. Geoffrey Durrant, of the Depart-ment of English; Prof. John E. Phillips, ofthe zoology department; Prof. Robert E.Snider, chemistry; and Prof. LawrenceYoung, electrical engineering.

Other faculty members who were electedfellows of prestigious academic organiza-tions were: Prof. Geoffrey Scudder, zoolo-gy, named a fellow of the EntomologicalSociety of Canada; Prof. G. C. Archibald,economics, fellow of the EconometricSociety; Prof. W. E. Fredeman, English,fellow of Great Britain's Royal Society ofLiterature; Prof. John Mercer, geogra-phy, fellow of the Royal ScottishGeographical Society; and Prof. BerylMarch, poulty science, fellow of thePoultry Science Association.

Two UBC psychologists won internation-al awards from professional organizationsfor their research. Dr. Ralph Hakstian, ofthe Department of Psychology, won theRaymond B. Cattell Award of the Societyof Multivariate Experimental Psychology,which limits its membership to 60 persons.Dr. Hakstian specializes in the analysis ofresearch data that involves many variables.He has developed mathematical tech-niques which allow researchers to look at anumber of traits simultaneously. Dr. RogerBoshier, a social psychologist and adulteducation expert in the Faculty of Educa-tion, was given the first Imogene OakesAward of the Adult Education Associationof the United States "in recognition of highscholarship and total commitment to anal-ysis, interpretation and growth of adulteducation and its future contributions tosociety and the individual."

Several members of the faculty were in-vited to give papers or lectures to pro-fessional organizations or receivedrecognition for papers published duringthe academic year. This group included:Dr. Stephen Drance, head of the Depart-ment of Ophthalmology in the Faculty ofMedicine, who gave the second SpaethMemorial Lecture in Philadelphia; Dr.Carl Walters and Dr. Ray Hilborn, of theInstitute of Animal Resource Ecology, whoreceived the 1977 Wildlife Society Award

for the outstanding fisheries paper pub-lished in North America in 1977; Prof.Phelim Boyle, of the commerce faculty,who received a prize for the best articlepublished in the Journal of Rzsk and In-surance in 1976; and Prof. J. P. Duncan,head of the Department of Mechanical En-gineering, who received an award for thebest technical paper of 1977 from theNumerical Control Society in Pittsburgh,Penna., in May, 1977.

Two members of the Faculty of Law re-ceived the degree of Doctor of Laws(LL.D.) from British universities follow-ing an academic assessment of their orig-inal, published research. Prof. M. A.Hickling, an expert in the field of laborlaw, was honored by the University of Lon-don, and Prof. E. C. E. Todd, an expert inthe fields of property and municipal law,was honored by the University of Manches-ter.

Three people with close connectionswith UBC's Institute of Oceanographywere honored as pioneers in the field ofphysical oceanography in Canada duringthe academic year. Prof. George L.Pickard, the head of the UBC institute;Dr. J. P. Tully, a one-time lecturer atUBC; and Dr. W. M. Cameron, a found-ing member of the UBC institute, had aspecial issue of the journal of the FisheriesResearch Board of Canada dedicated tothem.

Two members of the Faculty of Medi-cine were inducted into The MostVenerable Order of the Hospital of St.John of Jerusalem at a ceremony atGovernment House in Victoria. NamedKnights of Grace, the highest honorawarded by the order in Canada, were Dr.F. R. C. Johnstone, of the Department ofSurgery, and Dr. John F. McCreary, pro-fessor emeritus of health sciences andformer dean of medicine. Dr. McCrearywas also honored by the CanadianPediatric Society. He was named the recip-ient of the Ross Award for his outstandingcontribution to child health care.

Charles J. Connaghan, UBC's vice-president for administrative services, wasappointed to the federal government's 28-member Economic Council of Canada,which sponsors a research program foreconomic planning and a public-education

program.Dr. Peter Hochachka, of the Depart-

ment of Zoology, was awarded a presti-gious Guggenheim fellowship to enable

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him to continue his highly regarded workon fish and mammals capable of survivingon little or no oxygen.

Prof. Harry V. Warren, of geologicalsciences, was honored in England in June,1977, by the International Hockey Federa-tion. He received the federation's Order ofMerit for his many contributions to Cana-dian field hockey.

Two members of the Faculty of Agricul-tural Sciences honored during the aca-demic year were Prof. L. M. Staley, whowas the first winner of the Maple LeafAward of the Canadian Society of Agricul-tural Engineers "in recognition of out-

standing personal qualities, professionalabilities and achievements in advancingthe goals of the society and the professionof agricultural engineering"; and assistantdean Dr. J. F. Richards, winner of the In-stitute Award of the Canadian Institute ofFood Science and Technology, for an out-standing contribution to that organization.

Prof. J. Lewis Robinson, of the geogra-phy department and one of UBC's masterteachers, received the Award of Merit fromthe Western Institute for the Deaf for hiscontributions to that organization.

Dr. Robert Silverman, of the music de-partment, won the 1977 Grand Prix duDisque from the Liszt Society of Budapestin the solo piano category for a recordingof that composer's work. He has also beeninvited to give ten performances in theSoviet Union in January, 1978, where hewill appear as a soloist and with various or-chestras.

Prof. John B. Evans, head of the Depart-ment of Mineral Engineering, was namedDistinguished Lecturer for 1977 by theCanadian Institute of Mining and Metal-lurgy, an appointment that will take himto 25 Canadian centres to speak in 1977and 1978. Another member of the depart-ment, Prof. Jan Leja, received an honorarydegree from the Marie Curie-SklodowskaUniversity of Lublin, Poland, in recogni-tion of his contributions to mineral pro-

cessing.

In February, 1977, the students electedMr. Moe Sihota to a one-year term on theBoard to replace Mr. Richard Murray,who graduated. Mr. Basil Peters was re-elected for a further one-year term. A totalof 17 students were elected to membershipon Senate, either in elections or by ac-clamation.

Hon. Thomas A. Dohm, QC, retired aschairman of the Board on August 31,1977, after having served the maximumtwo years allowed under the UniversitiesAct. He will remain a member of theBoard and will be succeeded as chairmanon September I, 1977, by Mr. George Mor-fitt, who has been a Board member since1975. Mr. Morfitt will also continue aschairman of the Board's finance commit-tee. Changes in chair positions for otherBoard committees are as follows: MissSadie Boyles becomes chairman of the staffcommittee, succeeding Ms. Pat Chubb;Mr. P. R. Brissenden becomes honorarysecretary, succeeding Miss Boyles; and Mr.Ian Greenwood becomes chairman of theproperty committee, succeeding Mr. KenAndrews.

I am pleased to have this opportunity torecord my gratitude to all members of theBoard of Governors and Senate for theirdevotion to ensuring that the academicenterprise at UBC remains sound and thatour students and faculty members havemaximum opportunities for learning anddiscovery. The Board and Senate, like theUniversity in general, function efficientlythrough a system of committees that holdmany meetings in addition to the formalmonthly gatherings where the decisionsreached in committee are debated and, inmost cases, accepted. A few committees,such as the Senate Budget Committee, es-tablished to advise the president on thepreparation of the University's annualoperating budget, meet very frequently inorder to carry out their mandate, butreport to their parent bodies on an annualbasis.

The University has been hard-pressedfinancially in recent years and some dif-ficult decisions have had to be confrontedand resolved. It seems likely that even moredifficult decisions will have to be made inthe coming months. I know that membersof both governing bodies will not hesitateto give the same amount of time and ener-gy as in the past to the task of enhancingthe University's teaching, research andpublic service functions.

There are few changes to report in themakeup and composition of the two maingoveming bodies of the University. theSenate and the Board of Governors. The President's Report 1976.77/40

Dr. Andrew Thompson was appointedhead of the Westwater Research Centre,succeeding Prof. Irving Fox, who be-comes a full-time member of the staff ofthe School of Community and RegionalPlanning. Dr. Thompson will also con-tinue to hold his appointment as pro-fessor of law.

Dr; Peter Oberlander was confirmed asdirector of the Centre for Human Settle-ments.

Administrative appointments includedChristine Samson as director of Food Ser-vices; Michael Davis as director of resi-dences; and Prof. Ben Moyls as director ofceremonies.

Twelve senior members of UBC'steaching and research staff reachedretirement age in the 1976-77 academicyear, three of them after 31 or more yearsof service with the University.

Prof. David C. Murdoch, of the De-partment of Mathematics, joined thestaff in 1944 and retires after 33 years onthe faculty.

Prof. C. D. Samis was a member of theDepartment of Metallurgy for 32 years.

Prof. Robert Wellwood retired after 31years as a member of the Faculty of For-estry. One of his retiring faculty col-leagues, Prof. Kenneth Graham, waswith UBC for 29 years.

Prof. Hans Ronimois retired from theDepartment of Slavonic Studies after 28years; Prof. J. E. Bismanis, of micro-biology, was a faculty member for 25years; Prof. Katherine Beamish was amember of the Department of Botany for21 years; and Dr. George Woodcock wasa faculty member for 17 years as a teacherin the Department of English and as thefounding editor of the UBC journal Cana-dz.an Lz.terature.

Other retiring faculty members are:Robert W. Hamilton who retires after 16years of service, first as a member of theteaching staff in the School of Librarian-ship and laterally as head of the acquisi-tions division of the University library;Prof. Helen Gemeroy, a member of theSchool of Nursing for nine years and assis-tant director of nursing in the University'sPsychiatric Unit; Dr. F. D. Garrett, pro-fessor of anatomy in the medical school fornine years; and Prof. Muriel Uprichardwho, as director of the School of Nursingsince 1971, supervised a complete revisionof the school's curriculum and trainingprogram.

Prof. Warren Kitts, who has served asacting dean of the Faculty of AgriculturalSciences since the resignation of Prof.Michael Shaw to become UBC's vice-presi-dent for University development, was con-firmed as dean of the faculty.

Dr. William Webber was appointeddean of the Faculty of Medicine, suc-ceeding Dr. David Bates, who remains atUBC as a member of the Departments ofPhysiology and Medicine.

Prof. Peter Lusztig was appointed deanof the Faculty of Commerce and BusinessAdministration.

Dean Bernard Riedel is the new co-ordi-nator, Health Sciences, succeeding Prof.Harold Copp, who remains at UBC as headof the Department of Physiology in theFaculty of Medicine. Dean Riedel will alsocontinue to head the Faculty of Pharma-ceutical Sciences.

Prof. Paul C. Gilmore was named headof the Department of Computer Science,succeeding Prof. J. E. A. Peck, who re-mains as a member of the UBC faculty.

Dr. Marilyn D. Willman is the new headof the School of Nursing, succeeding Dr.Muriel Uprichard, who has retired.

Prof. W~llace Berry was named head ofthe Department of Music, effective Jan. 1,1978.

Dr. Vincent R. D'Oyley was named asso-ciate dean of the Faculty of Education,succeeding Dr. Roy Bentley, who returnsto full-time teaching and research duties inthe faculty.

Dr. Frank P. Patterson was appointedhead of the Department of Surgery in theFaculty of Medicine.

New department heads in the Faculty ofAgricultural Sciences are: Prof. JamesMacMillan, agricultural economics; Prof.D. B. Bragg, poultry science; and Prof.Bruce Owen, animal science.

Prof. Roy Nodwell became head of theDepartment of Physics, succeeding Prof.R. R. Haering, who will remain a memberof the department.46/The President's Report 1976-77

The University and generations of stu-dents are indebted to each of those whoretired for their service as teachers, re-searchers and administrators. .

noted scientists -Prof. Ian McT. Cowanand Dr. Har Gobind Khorana. Prof. Cow-an, who retired in 1915 as dean of theFaculty of Graduate Studies, is interna-tionally known for his work in the field ofzoology and conservation. Dr. Khorana,who is now at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, was a scientist with B.C.Research on the campus from 1952 to1959, where he began his research on thebiochemistry of genetic materials that ledto a Nobel Prize. Both were awarded thehonorary degree of Doctor of Science(D.Sc.)

A familiar campus figure, noted for hiscandor and his academic achievements,will be absent from future Congregations.The 1977 event was the last that will be ar-ranged by Prof. Malcolm McGregor who,with the able assistance of his staff in theCeremonies Office, Miss Peggy Sayle andMrs. Joan King, has ensured that officialUniversity occasions happen with clock-work precision. Prof. McGregor retired ashead of the Department of Classics twoyears ago, but has continued a distin-guished career as a teacher and researcherwhile serving as director of ceremonies forthe University. I know that his manyfriends in the community and at UBC joinme in wishing him well in the future.

Each member of the graduating classpays a fee, part of which is designated as agift to the University. This year more than$10,000 was distributed to three campusorganizations. The beneficiaries were theCrane Library for the blind, which pro-vides braille and tape-recorded books andother services to blind and partially sightedstudents at UBC and other universities inCanada; the Law Students' Legal AdviceProgram, which provides free legal adviceto citizens at 11 Lower Mainland clinics;and the UBC Day Care Centre, which pro-vides services to the children of students,staff and faculty.

Each year, the student who heads eachgraduating class is recognized when he orshe arrives at the platform to receive his orher academic degree. Here is the 1977 listof medal and prize winners.

The Governor-General's Gold Medal(Head of the Graduating Classes in theFaculties of Arts and Science, B.A. andB.Sc. degrees) : Ivor Ladd.

The Association of Professional Engi-neers Gold Medal (Head of the Graduat-ing Class in Engineering, B.A.Sc. degree) :ChungM. V. Leung. The President's Report 1976-77/47

The University's annual Congregationfor the conferring of honorary andacademic degrees was held in the WarMemorial Gymnasium on June 1, 2 and 3,1977. The University Senate awarded agrand total of 4,340 degrees and 73diplomas to graduating students in the1976- 77 academic year.

On June 1, the University conferredhonorary degrees on Gertrude Mary Laing,who chairs the Canada Council, andGeorge Woodcock, one of Canada's best-known writers. Dr. Laing, who receivedthe degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), is adevoted public servant who is vice-president of Canada World Youth and whoserved on the Royal Commission on Bilin-gualism and Biculturalism. She was madean officer of the Order of Canada in 1972.Dr. George Woodock retired from UBCthis year after 21 years of service, which in-cluded teaching in the Department ofEnglish and 17 years as founding editor ofCanadzan Literature, one of a number oflearned journals published at UBC. Hemade it, in the eyes of one Canadianobserver, "by far the most important jour-nal on the subject of Canadian writers andwriting ever to have been produced in thiscountry." He was awarded the degree ofDoctor of Letters (D. Litt.)

On June 2, honorary Doctor of Laws de-grees were conferred on Grace MacInnis,the first woman Member of Parliamentfrom B.C., and Arthur Fouks, a formerchairman of the UBC Board of Governors.Mrs. MacInnis, daughter of J. S. Woods-worth, founder of the Co-operative Com-monwealth Federation, later the NewDemocratic Party, was elected to the B.C.Legislature in 1941 and to the federalHouse of Commons in 1965. She servedwith distinction in both assemblies. Mr.Fouks, who holds degrees in law and artsfrom UBC, has been active in a number ofcommunity health organizations, mostnotably the B.C. Heart Foundation. Heserved on the Board of Governors from1963 to 1972 and was Board chairman in1971-72.

On June 3, the University honored two

lumbia Prize (Head of the GraduatingClass in Recreation, B.R.E. degree):Catherine]. Ross.

The Royal Architectural Institute ofCanada Medal (outstanding student in Ar-chitecture, B..Arch. degree): Stephen C.

Quigley.The Wilfrid Sadler Memorial Gold

Medal (Head of the Graduating Class inAgricultural Sciences, B.Sc. (Agr.) de-gree): NancyE. Small.

Special University Prize, $200 (Head ofthe Graduating Class in Fine Arts, B.F.A.degree) : Timothy L. Runkle. ,

Special University Prize, $200 (~eaa ofthe Graduating Class in Home Ecorlomics,B.H.E. degree): Marilyn]. Moore.

Special University Prize, $200 (liead ofthe Graduating Class in Licentiate in Ac-counting, Lic. Acct. degree): LaurenceW. Root.

Special University Prize, $200 (Head ofthe Graduating Class in Music, B.Mus. de-gree) : Peter Bjerring.

The Univesity Medal for Arts and Sci-ence (Proficiency in the GraduatingClasses in the Faculties of Arts and Science,B.A. and B.Sc. degrees): Robert C.Feenstra.

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The Helen L. Balfour Prize, $300 (Headof the Graduating Class in Nursing, B.S.N.degree) : Barbara M. Bradley.

The Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron MemorialMedal and Prize (Head of the GraduatingClass in Education, Secondary TeachingField, B.Ed. degree): Evelyn B. Stiller.

The Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron MemorialMedal and Prize (Head of the GraduatingClass in Education, Elementary TeachingField, B.Ed. degree): WendyJ. Owen.

The Ruth Cameron Medal for Librar-ianship (Head of the Graduating Class inLibrarianship, M.L.S. degree) : Jocelyn H.Foster.

The Canadian Institute of ForestryMedal (best overall record in Forestry inall years of course, and high quality ofcharacter, leadership, etc.): Mary E. Sut-tie.

The College of Dental Surgeons of Brit-ish Columbia Gold Medal (Head of theGraduating Class in Dentistry, D.M.D.

degree): GeraldJ. Wittenberg.The College of Dental Surgeons of Brit-

ish Columbia Gold Medal in Dental Hy-giene (leading student in the DentalHygiene program) : Ellen Stradiotti.

The Dean of Medicine's Prize (Head ofthe Graduating Class in RehabilitationMedicine, B.S.R. degree) : Lynn M. Peter-sen.

The Hamber Medal and Prize, $250(Head of the Graduating Class in Medi-cine, M.D. degree, best cumulative recordin all years of course) : Stephen D. Clarke.

The Horner Prize and Medal for Phar-maceutical Sciences, $100 (Head of theGraduating Class in Pharmaceutical Sci-ences, B.Sc. Pharm. degree): Vincent C.Y.Ho.

The Kiwanis Club Gold Medal andPrize, $300 (Head of the Graduating Classin Commerce and Business Administra-tion, B.Com. degree): J. W. Bryan Mc-Connell.

The Law Society Gold Medal and Prize(Call and Admission fee) (Head of theGraduating Class in Law, LL.B. degree):Ris~ E. Levine.

The H. R. MacMillan Prize in Forestry,$200 (Head of the Graduating Class inForestry, B.S.F. degree) : Mary E. Suttie.

The Physical Education Faculty Award(Head of the Graduating Class in PhysicalEducation, B.P.E. degree): Louise A.Sourisseau.

The Recreation Society of British Co-

With regret, I record the names of activeand retired faculty members who died dur-ingthe 1976-77 academic year.

Frank Gnup, senior instructor in theSchool of Physical Education and Recrea-tion and former coach of the UBCThunderbird football team, died suddenlyon September 27, 1976.

Miss Mollie Cottingham, professor emer-ita of Education, died in December, 1976.

Dr. Marvin Darrach, professor of bio-chemistry, died on January 2,1977.

William Muckle, honorary visiting pro-fessor to UBC, died suddenly on January 8,1977.

Dr. Philip Vassar, of the Department ofPathology, died suddenly on February 26,1977.

Prof. R. E. Burgess, of the Departmentof Physics, died suddenly on March 24,1977.

Jessie MacCarthy, of the Department ofHealth Care and Epidemiology, died onApril 8, 1977.

Alex Harshenin, of the Department ofSlavonic Studies, died suddenly on August25,1977.