About PSSSC
The Post-Secondary
Support Staff Conference (PSSSC) is the result of an initiative of support
staff at Langara College. A multi-institutional committee was formed in
the Fall of 2001 and the planning began. The PSSSC is a forum for support
staff at colleges, universities and institutes in BC to participate together
in: inter-institutional networking; personal and professional growth workshops
and discussing and sharing best practices.
The 1st Annual
PSSSC Conference was held at Langara College in 2002. Since that time,
Capilano College, BCIT, Vancouver Community College, Douglas College and Kwantlen University College
have hosted the conference. This year's 7th annual conference will be
held at Simon Fraser University's Burnaby Campus on June 12, 2008.
Support staff are invited to come together once again to renew and strengthen
connections that have developed in the past six years. This will also
provide an opportunity for those who have not yet attended a previous
conference to meet colleagues from other institutions and begin building
professional and personal connections.
2008 Committee Members:
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Christine MacIntosh, Chair for 2008 Planning Committee |
Christine McIntosh works in Learning and Instructional Development Centre, SFU. For 20 years, she has worked in Cashier's Office, Computing Services, Finance, Academic Computing, Instructional Media Centre, Faculty of Education, and was seconded to United Way 2004 Campaign. Christine has been a member of the PSSSC planning committee since 2004 and is practicing her Event Coordinator Certification as Chair for this year’s conference hosted at SFU. She actively participates in SFU’s community activities as well as Langley’s community activities. She has completed a large number of academic courses and is enrolled in the 1st Surrey Cohort for the Liberal Business Studies Programme.
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Norma Frick, Co-Chair
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Norma Frick is the Library Supervisor at Kwantlen University College (soon to be Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Langley campus, since December 1998. Her career started in September 1973 while working at Sedgewick Undergraduate Library at UBC, Malaspina College in Nanaimo and at Kwantlen in 1990. She worked in Technical Services, Richmond campus, as the Acquisition and Processing Technician and Supervisor.
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Joanne Bydal is the Assistant Registrar, Continuing Studies, at Langara College. She started in September 1979 in Accounts Payable when Langara was part of Vancouver Community College. In 1987, she transferred to a Supervisor position at Langara College’s Continuing Studies. She has nearly 30 years of service in the Education Sector and will retire in December 2009.
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 Joanne Bydal |
Nenita Capili is a Program Assistant at the Justice Institute of BC where she has worked for 13 years. She's part of the team at the Centre for Leadership under the Community and Social Justice Division.
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 Nenita Capili
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Wendy Cretney is an Awards Assistant and has worked in Financial Aid and Awards, Student Services, SFU for nearly six years. She is a Douglas College alumnus and it is her first year as a participant and planning committee member.
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Wendy Cretney |
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 Karen Crossett |
Karen Crossett works in the Registrar's Office at Vancouver Community College - Downtown Campus. She has been a member of the planning committee for several Post-Secondary Support Staff Conferences and has gained valuable experience. She encourages everyone to join the committee as it is a rewarding experience.
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 Wendy Davies |
Wendy Davies, Douglas College
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Yvette Li |
Yvette Li has a BA in Economics from Simon Fraser University and currently (2008) works in Health and Counseling Services. As a student, volunteer, alumnus and staff at SFU, she has over three years of board student services experience in Records, Admission, Career Services, as well as Health and Counseling Services. This is her first year volunteering as planning committee member. She is assisting Joanne Bydal (Langara) with preparation and set up for the Wellness Fair.
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Terry Kennedy is the Benefits Advisor at Capilano College, now Capilano University, for most of her twelve years there. Her position is unique as she is the only one who looks after benefits for Capilano’s employees. She loves the position because she has the opportunity to meet the majority of the staff and faculty on the campus. She has really enjoyed working on the planning committee and meeting support staff from other post secondary institutions for the last four years. She is very proud of the conferences the committee members have planned and held.
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Terry Kennedy |
Sheilagh MacDonald, Secretary to the Chair of History, completed Broadcast Journalism at BCIT. Her first encounter with SFU was as a student in 1973. As an employee for 20 years, she has worked in several positions on campus: as Secretary for various chairs in History, Linguistics, and an Assistant Dean in Education; an acting Administrative Assistant to the Vice-President, Research, and a Program Assistant for the Prison Education program. For several years, she served as Communication Chair for CUPE 3338 in order to maintain her communication skills.
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Sheilagh MacDonald |
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 Michele Matthysen |
Michele Matthysen is the Campus Admissions Supervisor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She has been with Kwantlen for 3 years after working in the private post secondary area for many years.
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 Winnie McKitrick |
Winnie McKitrick is the Sport Science Placement Coordinator at Douglas College for the Bachelor of Physical Education and Coaching degree, Faculty of Science and Technology, Douglas College. She has worked in post-secondary for 15 years and her belief in lifelong learning has enriched both her work and home environments.
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 John Potter-Smith |
John Potter-Smith
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Wendy Waidson has worked at Douglas College for almost 20 years. For the last 14 years she has been the Office Coordinator for Douglas Development, the college's professional development office. Wendy has been on the PSSSC Committee since the first year it was held at Langara.
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 Wendy Waidson |
Virginia Towers, Douglas college
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 Virginia Towers |
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 Livleen Diwana, SFU |
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 Enid Britt, SFU |
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