New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) is a public college located throughout various locations in New Brunswick , Canada, including Moncton , Miramichi , Fredericton (its head office), Saint John , St. Andrews , and Woodstock .
11-476: New Brunswick Community College provides over 90 programs, offered at six campuses, First Nations sites, and regional delivery sites throughout the province of New Brunswick. On May 29, 2010, New Brunswick Community College embarked on a self-governance model with the proclamation of the New Brunswick Community Colleges Act. The move established NBCC as an autonomous Crown Corporation whereby
22-562: A college mandate. As of 2023, CICan has 141 member institutions. CICan (formerly the Association of Canadian Community Colleges) began in Toronto with a temporary home in Centennial College . It was to be the voice of Canada's Colleges at a time when the very fragmented collection of 10 provincial systems was just beginning to emerge as a full partner in post secondary education. The focus
33-519: The Caribbean , Asia, Anglophone and Francophone Africa and finally the newly freed nations of Europe, by the end of the 1990s the Association had helped build bridges and shared experience in building College and community based and employment centered education with much of the world. Literally hundreds of Canadian College teachers in technology, business, health and other fields were able to strengthen less advantaged institutions in emerging nations. But
44-503: The Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada). It has developed a new focus on the links between industry and the Colleges and plays a useful role in this area. The price for this has been the slow decline of its international leadership in supporting the emerging skills training and adult learning institutions in the developing world. A second major cost of the more targeted focus has been
55-611: The Association. In this they borrowed heavily from the US Community College movement but went much further with their international determination. In 1991, CICan moved to the nation's capital in Ottawa so that it could work more effectively to influence policy with the National Government on behalf of its members and also be closer to CIDA to create stronger developmental linkages between Canadian Colleges and counterparts in
66-654: The President and CEO of the college report to an elected Board of Governors. NBCC is a member of many national and international organizations, including Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan). Through its membership with CICan, NBCC has signed the Indigenous Education Protocol. New Brunswick Community College offers over 90 regular programs across 18 sectors. It provides other training in many apprenticeable trades , to corporate clients, and individuals through part-time courses. New Brunswick Community College
77-547: The days of the college "movement" and the founders' energy to spread the message of accessibility and community responsive higher education to all countries, were drawing to a close. Today, CICan has become very effective in service provision and representation of its members interests to a fuller range of Federal Ministries within Canada . It is now an important contributor to national human resources development policy along with its University counterpart, Universities Canada (formerly
88-477: The developing world. CICan also needed to strengthen its effectiveness with Francophone members and Ottawa was a much more rational location to achieve this. With support from CIDA and contract success with ADB, the World Bank and others, CICan became one of Canada's largest international development contributors in the 1990s, applying the knowledge resources of its member institutions. With partnership programs in
99-453: The restructuring of its Board from that of constituency representation (students, faculty, administrators, College Board members and College Presidents from each region of the Country) to a Board of Presidents only. The loss of this national forum for discussion of learning and the principles of inclusiveness by the full range of partners in the institution was seen to be offset by the benefits of
110-590: Was one of the first colleges in North America to offer a program in video game design. Colleges and Institutes Canada Colleges and Institutes Canada ( CICan ; French : Collèges et instituts Canada ) is a national association formed in 1972 to represent the interests of its member institutions to government and industry. Membership is voluntary and open to publicly-funded community colleges in Canada or institutions that may also be referred to as an institute of technology , CEGEP , or university with
121-466: Was to be an active promoter of access to learning for adults and community-based students not just in Canada but in developing countries. Early College Presidents such as Paul Gallagher ( Dawson College ), Doug Light (Centennial-George Brown), Gordan Wragg of Humber College and Yves Sansouci saw Colleges as an empowerment movement for less advantaged Canadians and brought the fervour of this mission to forming
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