Ethical Disagreement with an Academic Instructor Back and forth with Michelle regarding the Academic Instructor for the Hardwoods project. Apparently, he ethically disagrees with both writing and testing the participants on their workplace skills, as he feels it will skew the results. All other Academic instructors have agreed to it and are proceeding. Michelle has met with the Community Relations Officer and the ADA at the College who have all told the AI he has to do this and he still objects. Apparently he has been to the ethics committee at MUN on it and has requested a formal letter signed by everyone that demands he do this.

Maintaining the College as Training Partner Discussion with Michelle about the advantages and disadvantages of having the College as the training partner – or more specifically, having the Academic Instructors hired through the College's Collective agreement. They do, by the terms of their contract – "teach" 22 hours a week with a guaranteed 8 hours for prep time for a total work week of 30 hours. Most of them work to the terms of this contract. The participants are on site 35 hours per week.

The frustration is that for the cost of their salary, we could easily have hired someone who would work 40 hours a week – 35 with the participants and 5 for prep time. The co–ordinating role of the Community Relations Officer is an advantage – as is the ability to take ABE and other resources off the shelf, access to the Counsellors, and to the Curriculum Design Specialist.

Revised Roles for the AI Reviewed next edition of the Job ad for future Academic Instructors worked with RNDA for an entirely new Roles and Responsibilities document for the AI.

Revisions to the Social and Economic Landscape. Discussed with the Evaluation committee the Social & Economic Landscape document and realistic revisions of the terms of reference for it and the lack of available data for comparison purposes. Revisions were accepted.

Reviewed and commented on Michelle's draft "Roles of the of the Skill Set Designer" document.

Reviewed Michelle's draft of Criteria/Guidelines for selecting Private Business Partners for Bridging the Gap and provided my comments.