UNBC's New Teaching & Learning Centre Opens

Friday, May 11, 2007 04:24 AM

The new centre is linked to the Teaching Laboratory shown above

--photo courtesy of UNBC

Education Minister and Deputy Premier Shirley Bond will join UNBC President Don Cozzetto later this morning to officially open the new $29-million dollar Teaching & Learning Centre atop Cranbrook Hill.

The brand new 92-thousand square foot facility becomes one of the largest buildings on campus and will house classrooms, teaching labs, academic offices, and research space. It will be connected to the rest of campus through the existing Teaching Laboratory building.

According to the university’s website, the new facility will help UNBC accomodate an additional 600 student spaces announced by the provincial government in the summer of 2004.

Meantime, work continues on the Northern Sports Centre, set to officially open its doors on campus in September.

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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 04:24 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on May 11 2007 7:21 AM

Bad timing, I'm busy this morning so can't go. I'll have my people talk to their people and see if we can re-schedule.

Posted by: Nowicki on May 14 2007 3:39 PM

UNBC was expected to increase its enrolments 5% each year to sustain its operations and keep its doors open. The reported 1.5% years this year falls short of its announcements.

Dr Howard Brunt the present VP who was in charge of academic business in UNBC submited his resignation after almost 4 years of flat enrolments, serious instances of mismanagment under his
term and even discrimination.

UNBC may consider hiring a new VP hired from its present faculty to bring back UNBC on track. Adding new buildings to UNBC is good, but UNBC needs to invest on its human resources by motivating them, i.e. rewarding its professors based on performance, not rewarding based on friendship and royality.

For instance the new VP should do something about the ongoing mismanagment and royality based approach in college of science and managment (CSAM) under Dr William McGill. People call it college of science and MIS-managment!