ANNUAL REPORT 2018 – 2019 CONTENTS 1 | Vision 31 | FINANCIAL AND 1 | Mission BUDGET INFORMATION 1 | Values 33 | ENROLMENT PLAN AND 2 | Student Focus PROGRAM CHANGES 4 | Mandate 40 | International Student Enrolment 5 | PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 43 | RESEARCH, APPLIED RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES 6 | CHAIR’S MESSAGE 47 | REGIONAL STEWARDSHIP, 7 | BOARD OF GOVERNORS FOUNDATIONAL LEARNING, 7 | Accountability Statement UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS 48 | Regional Stewardship 8 | MANAGEMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR REPORTING 50 | Foundational Learning 51 | Indigenous Students 8 | PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE 52 | Students with Disabilities (WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION) ACT 52 | Rural Students 53 | Students from Low-income Backgrounds 9 | OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW 9 | Variances Between Planning 55 | INTERNATIONALIZATION Estimates and Actuals 57 | CAPITAL PLAN 10 | SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS 11 | Ensuring Employment Success 59 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 12 | Providing Community and Social Success 61 | MANAGEMENT 13 | Shaping the Future of College Education DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS 14 | GOALS, PRIORITY INITIATIVES, EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND 73 | OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES ALBERTA AUDITORS REPORT 15 | Accountability 76 | FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 16 | Accessibility 22 | Affordability 23 | Quality 25 | Coordination 30 | Other: Mental Health Wellness and Sexual Violence Prevention VISION We open doors and open minds by creating opportunities for learners, employees, employers, and communities, and by shaping the future of college education. MISSION To include all learners. To challenge our thinking. To remove barriers. To provide opportunity. To make all learning count. VALUES Respect Inclusion Creativity Teamwork Resilience Acknowledgement of Territory Bow Valley College is located in the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Iyarhe Nakoda. We are situated on land where the Bow River meets the Elbow River, and the traditional Blackfoot name of this place is “Mohkinstsis” which we now call the City of Calgary. The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. Annual Report 2018 – 2019 | 1 STUDENT FOCUS Since 1965, Bow Valley College prides itself on being a student-focused community college. Our new strategic direction — Open Doors-Open Minds — ensures that students remain at the centre of what we do. We see each individual student and build in resources around them to support their persistence and achievement. We are an institution that believes in them and opens our doors to them, regardless of where they are beginning. We help our students achieve their goals and obtain the jobs they aim for. Employers see us as the go- to resource for their labour force needs. We actively partner with Indigenous communities and engage an immensely diverse learning community across the breadth and depth of our programming scope. We are expanding our access agenda to Albertans who want to pivot in their careers. We offered the following programs during the 2018-2019 year: School of Foundational Learning School of Creative Technologies Aboriginal Upgrading Two-year diploma programs Academic Upgrading Digital Design Adult Literacy Research and Facilitation Interior Decorating Bridging Programs Software Development Inmate Education Program Post-diploma certificate programs Literacy and Essential Skills Digital Marketing Kitchen and Bath Design School of Global Access Software Development English Language Learning, including literacy, academic English, and Language Instruction for Newcomers (LINC) Post-baccalaureate certificate program Language Learning Research and Facilitation Data Management & Analytics Immigrant Bridging Programs School of Continuing Learning Career Development Services Intercultural Competence Development Continuing Learning Dual Credit Programming School of Health and Wellness IBM Skills Academy One-year certificate programs Open Studies Health Care Aide Workplace Essential Skills Nutrition Manager External Recreation Therapy Aide Two-year diploma programs Pharmacy Technician Practical Nurse Annual Report 2018 – 2019 | 2 CAMPUS Airdrie LOCATIONS Ban Cochrane Canmore Calgary Strathmore Okotoks High River School of Community Studies Chiu School of Business One-year certificate programs One-year certificate programs Addiction Studies Administrative Professional Disability Studies Dental Business Assistant Early Childhood Education and Development Events Management Education Assistant Hospital Unit Clerk Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Education Human Resources Medical Office Assistant Two-year diploma programs Veterinary Office Assistant Addiction Studies: Aboriginal Focus Child and Youth Care Two-year diploma programs Disability Studies Business Administration Early Childhood Education and Development Accounting Justice Studies Diploma Digital Marketing Correctional Studies Event Management Law Enforcement Financial Services Youth General Business Aboriginal Focus Human Resources General Insurance and Risk Management Social Work Marketing Supply Chain Management Post-diploma certificate programs Legal Assistant Health and Human Services Management Annual Report 2018 – 2019 | 3 MANDATE Bow Valley College is a public, board-governed college college, we have a special focus on creating educational operating as a comprehensive community institution opportunities for immigrants, Indigenous peoples, under the Post-secondary Learning Act of Alberta. international learners, persons with disabilities, older workers, at-risk youth, and the unemployed Operating in Calgary and throughout the surrounding and underemployed. Our curriculum and support region, our multi-campus college provides broad services reflect the diversity of our learners. We programming, including certificates, diplomas, emphasize small classes, high-quality instruction, foundational learning, and upgrading programs. Our applied learning, focused work experience, and programs and services are learner-centred, outcome- extensive learner support services. focused, and designed to provide graduates with opportunities to improve their lives, prepare for further Bow Valley College offers credit and non-credit education, and advance their careers. instruction year-round, on a full-time, part-time, and distributed learning basis, both independently and Bow Valley College responds to regional, community, through partnerships and collaboration. To meet industry, and learner demand. Our career certificate and emerging workforce needs, our programs, curricula, diploma programs are primarily focused on business; and educational services are also customized to meet administration; health; human services; legal and the specific requirements of industries, educators, security; early learning and education; and information, communities, and workplaces locally, provincially, communications, and design technologies. nationally, and internationally. Our extensive foundational learning programs include Bow Valley College pursues applied research adult literacy, essential skills, academic upgrading, activities to enhance teaching and learning and and English as a second language, offered either foster innovation in support of industry sectors independently or integrated with skills training and where our academic expertise enables such a career development support. contribution. The College is known for and engaged As a comprehensive community college with regional nationally in the research, development, and stewardship responsibilities, we work with community-based commercialization of assessment and training tools adult learning partners to meet literacy and foundational used to measure and enhance the essential skills of learning needs and ensure access to a full spectrum adults in educational and workplace settings. of learning opportunities in the city and surrounding Bow Valley College is dedicated to providing people region. As a Campus Alberta partner, we collaborate in our city and region with access to high-quality, with other educational organizations, post-secondary efficient and effective lifelong learning opportunities institutions, governments, business, and community and to the responsible educational, fiscal, and agencies to contribute our organizational expertise to environmental stewardship of resources. the economic and social well-being of our province. Bow Valley College is committed to expanding Approved by the Minister of Advanced Education access for adults of varied social, cultural, economic, April 28, 2014 geographic, and academic backgrounds. As an access Annual Report 2018 – 2019 | 4 MESSAGE FROM LAURA JO GUNTER PRESIDENT AND CEO As Calgary and region’s two large private sector companies. We also worked with only comprehensive other learning institutions to create transformational community college, and learning opportunities, including initiating articulation Alberta’s largest college, and transfer credit agreements with public post- Bow Valley College is secondary institutions in Alberta, and signing seven focused on expanding new dual-credit agreements with Alberta school boards. access to education Access to such transformational career programming, as well as pathways upskilling and reskilling, and targeted learning to viable careers. This opportunities is even more important in Alberta’s includes access to current fiscal environment. Guided by our strong fiscal upskilling, reskilling,