Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Part of the ministerial mandate for all community college courses in Ontario is that they have a program advisory committee that's substantially made up of industry representatives. They report not to me or to the academic faculty but directly to our board of governors on the state of the program, its currency, and its relevance to them as an industry.

Canadian Heritage committee  No. There is a formal process. There's the KPI process, instituted by the Ministry of Education in Ontario, that requires us to follow up.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think by definition senior people are people who have graduated and had at least several years of industry experience. What we can do to grow these senior people domestically is to support the industry. A great number of our graduates leave the country for jobs.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon. I'm Avrim Katzman. I'm a professor at Sheridan College, and I'm also the coordinator of our game design programs at the college. I'll start with a little historical background. Sheridan College was founded in 1967, as a result of Ontario legislation introduced in 1965 to create a post-secondary educational alternative to universities.