Report to the VCC Board of Governors, February 2023 Prepared by Taryn Thomson, VCCFA President   2023 Focus: VCC Sustainability It has been almost seven months since VCC, the SUVCC and the VCCFA made submissions to the BC Post-Secondary Funding review. All has been...

Looking back, Looking forward In preparing to write this message, I read over what I wrote last year at this time. Then, it was all about vaccine mandates (or not), vaccine passports, stresses about return to campus, and questions around who to notify if our students...

Report to the College Board - September 28th, 2022 - oral report   Welcome back - trust everyone had a restorative and fun summer! Funding review - It was heartening that all the stakeholder groups at the college were aligned in our presentations to the funding...

July 15, 2022 Vancouver Community College Faculty Association 401-402 West Pender StreetVancouver, BC Mr. Don Wright, Thanks for the opportunity to provide input on behalf of the roughly 600 Faculty who work at Vancouver Community College. I am currently the president...

Thoughts on Cuts and the VCC identity and Developmental Students and the way forward Presented to the VCC Board of Governors, June 29 2022, on behalf of the VCCFA by Taryn Thomson, VCCFA President     College of Access When Kathy Kinloch became president at...

Pandemic to Endemic  We have made it to the other side of the pandemic, however not in the way we imagined. Remember when we all talked about vaccines as if they would cure Covid? Remember when we thought Covid was something that could be avoided? How naive it all...