UNBC Pleased With Provincial Budget

Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:14 AM

Prince George, B.C.- The University of Northern British Columbia is welcoming the Provincial Budget news that funding to post-secondary education will be increased by $228 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year.

“We’re anxious to work with the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development to identify what the specific implications are for UNBC, but it’s a very positive move to invest in post-secondary education at a time of economic challenge,” says Interim UNBC President Charles Jago. “An increase in operating funds and the funding available for capital infrastructure is vital if UNBC is to continue to provide quality education and research.”

The other good news delivered this week is that UNBC will be affiliated with a new Wood Innovation and Design Centre. “This is an exciting development that flows from discussion at the recent Northern Economic Summit,” says Dr. Jago. “It was at the Summit where we talked about this region as a knowledge-based, resource economy connected to the world. Expanding our own capacity for research and deliberately applying research to regional economic development is vital to realizing this vision. It is in developing and creating a full range of forest products where R&D can have a tremendous effect on the economic competitiveness of northern communities.”

UNBC will be working with the Province to refine the vision for the Wood Innovation and Design Centre. UNBC had previously advanced proposals to establish a forest products and bioenergy innovation centre that would include an increased capacity for teaching and research.

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Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:14 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: upup on February 19 2009 8:56 PM

Holy man, no negative comments...no thoughts that this money should be used on fixing the stupid potholes or something else equally unimportant...I think all you regulars are "asleep at the wheel". I'm sad that if you don't have negative thoughts you don't take the time to say your positive thoughts...or am I being too hard on you all?
I think this is fantastic news for UNBC, the future, advanced education and PG!

Posted by: just the facts on February 20 2009 4:23 PM

u suck this is just an election ploy to get u people to vote liberals

Posted by: Nowicki on February 22 2009 12:29 AM

As long as UNBC's money and funding is being mismanaged by the hopeless administration in UNBC, there is no hope there. The newly appointed VP Dr Mark Dale, less than a year in office, is following the discriminatory policies of his predecessors in UNBC with no respect for law and the faculty agreement. Breaking the law has become a normal practise in UNBC; read the following report, when Jago was president, to understand the depth of the problems:

http://www.unbcfa.ca/pdf/Report-of-the-Task-Force-on-Collegial-Governance.pdf

pages 24-26:

" In effect, faculty believed that there was little in the way of responsible government at this university both at the decanal and at the chairs level."

"... This was reported at all levels of governance � people felt penalized by their chair at annual report time, by their Dean at tenure and promotion and by the President in Senate or at Public Forum. ..."

"The president in the senate or at Public Forum" refers to Dr Jago. Please don't tell me that is normal practise and you want to name a highway after him.
Whoever becomes new president in
UNBC needs to put an end to mismanagment in UNBC, cooking the books to get funding, discrimination and many other bad practices in UNBC. His or her main challenge will be putting an end to the dominance of special interest groups in UNBC [see pages 24-26 of the above report] and in the UNBC Faculty Association. Almost an impossible task now.

This report is the real legacy of Jago
in Prince George, as if he has followed the examples of Spaniards after the end of Moorish rule in Spain, the subject of his interest. What is Jago's opinion about the report?