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In article <4jctce$p2v@News.Dal.Ca>, maxwell@ug.cs.dal.ca says...
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>Paul D Evans (evanspd@newton.ccs.tuns.ca) wrote:
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>: I am concerned about our co-op office.  I hope that it could survive 
any 
>: potential merger relatively unscathed.
>
>I think you have little to worry about on this score.  Not only is the 
>Dal coop office starting to be rather better managed, but Earth 
Science
>has their own separate coop office, so the precident is set for a 
separate
>coop office for other departments/faculty.  It would benefit the Dal 
office
>alot, but merger is not mandatory. 
>
>   The biggest problem is making sure that Dal finally manages to get 
>a three-semester system.  This is not an issue that was even addressed 
>in the briefing that we got, so it would seem not to be very important 
to 
>the negotiators, maybe I am wrong about that though.
>
>
>
>--
> -Chris Maxwell, Chase Bldg, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
>        [ maxwell@ug.cs.dal.ca / maxwell@holly.cs.dal.ca  ]
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Well Chris, I thank you for the compliment about better management 
however I would like to clarify some errors in your message:

Dalhousie does not have a separate Earth Science co op office.  Earth 
Sciences are managed from the general co op science office.

At present Dalhousie organizes its co op by faculty ie there is co-op 
Science and Co op in the School of Business 

TUNS has chosen to integrate it's placement office and it's co op 
office.  This has been done in many schools.  Whether a merger will 
result in discussions of a co op office centralization is still very 
much undecided.  Having a separate facility within the Faculty of 
Engineering is still quite possible given the current Dal model.

Co op staff from both offices meet often as part of our professional 
organisation and we have the same objectives, your interests, at heart.

We currently are working together on a variety of initiatives to 
benefit co op students as part of our professional association efforts. 
 We will certainly be able to work together whatever the administative 
organisational outcome and this will benefit all the students, whether 
Dal or TUNS.

Catherine Cottingham, PAG
Programme Manager
Science Co operative Education
Dalhousie University