SPOKE,
New By
A
new
charter
of an entrepreneurial environment,
entrepreneurial environment,” said
the college increased five per cent
said Tibbits.
Tibbits.
relative to the previous year, said
regulating
community colleges
is
want expanded powers, Conestoga College presiessential if they
dent John Tibbits told the Nov. 22
If
would
regarding
the
of college boards were
removed or lessened, said Tibbits, then colleges would be “masters of their
own
Though
Powers such as offering applied degrees and facilitating interna-
programming
restrictions
activity
board of governors meeting.
tional
destiny.’’
there
is
no timeline
for completion of a
new
set
charter,
the Association of Colleges
of
increase the marketability of col-
lege students and significantly
province’s advocacy group for
enrolment
the
of
Conestoga, said Tibbits.
fully
it is
futile for colleges to
explore the feasibility of
delivering tionally
programming through
the
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by the program, its locaand the makeup of faculty are
tion
not finalized, said Tibbits.
Tibbits.
Conestoga also had the fourth highest growth rate in applications
among
Ontario’s
community
hoped, he added,
leges.
Conestoga would host the programming and provide the
The also
instruction.
Ontario, he added.
it is
that
In other business, registrations at
col-
enrolment at Conestoga is up 100 per cent as international students have increased from 50 last tion,
year to the current number of 100, said Tibbits.
The
objective, said Tibbits, is for
Conestoga to expand to 500 college’s growth rate
the
highest
in
was
southern
years.
The next board meeting
In terms of international educa-
inter-
national students in the next five
is
sched-
uled for Jan. 24.
currently drafting a
In other board matters,
it was Conestoga has selected Mohawk College and
announced
that
interna-
McMaster University in a
sally accepted as degrees.
foster
more
as partners
EOU/UNQ Mtqmt @ Fredrick Bowling Lanes
proposed four-year nursing program.
Though other
Allowing individual college boards a degree of autonomy and
would also
is
Internet
because diplomas aren’t as univer-
flexibility
1999
charter, said Tibbits.
Without applied-degree powers,
he said
colleges,
Details such as the accreditation
offered
However,
Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario (ACAATO), the
increase
6,
college charters essential
Phil Wright
Ontario’s
Dec.
universities court-
ed Conestoga for a nursing partnership,
McMaster was
because of
its
selected
“innovation and
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