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Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond commonly abbreviated to Kwantlen, previously known as Kwantlen University College is a public degree-granting undergraduate polytechnic university with four campuses located in the South Fraser region of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. Kwantlen began operation as Kwantlen Polytechnic University on September 1, 2008. Kwantlen College was formed in 1981, by a separation of the South Fraser campus from Douglas College. There were more than 200 suggestions in a contest to name the new South Fraser region college. The winning entry “Kwantlen” was submitted by Stan McKinnon. “Kwantlen” comes from the name of the Kwantlen First Nation in whose traditional territory the university is located. Chief Joe Gabriel of the Kwantlen First Nation gave permission for the college to use the Kwantlen name.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond is situated at 8771 Lansdowne Rd Richmond B.C. Canada. Following a provincial government initiative designed to increase access to degree programs in British Columbia, begun in 1988, five community colleges were granted authority to offer baccalaureate degrees. These five institutions— Cariboo, Fraser Valley, Kwantlen, Malaspina, and Okanagan—were renamed university colleges. Initially, they offered degrees under the aegis of one or more of the three provincial universities. In 1995 they were awarded the authority to offer degrees in their own right. Also in 1995, the province of British Columbia enacted legislation changing the institution's name to Kwantlen University College.
In 2005, Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond College began a campaign to convince elected officials at the municipal and provincial levels, and various key community leaders, to support its efforts to become a university. Removing "college" from its official name would require approval from the government of British Columbia. In its case for the university status, Kwantlen's administrators claimed the change to Kwantlen University would: Enhance Kwantlen's ability to help British Columbia become the best educated, most literate jurisdiction in North America; and Bring multiple benefits to the fastest growing region in BC and help BC achieve long-term growth and prosperity. In 2007, Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education and Minister responsible for Research and Technology was joined by special advisor Geoff Plant, to release the Campus 2020 report that recommends Kwantlen University College become Kwantlen University.
On April 22, 2008, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell announced that Kwantlen University would become Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond. On April 22, 2008, the Provincial Government announced its intention to amend the University Act at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to make Kwantlen a polytechnic university, in recognition of its "versatility in providing academic, trades and horticultural training." The legislation renaming the University College to University received Royal Assent on May 29 2008. On October 24, 2008, Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond became a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). Although the AUCC is not an official government accreditation body, its standardized membership benchmarks and requirements for members serves to ease a student's ability to transfer from undergraduate to graduate programs across Canada and the world.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond is composed of faculties in the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as a Division of Science and Mathematics. It has a School of Business, a Faculty of Design, a Faculty of Health Studies, a School of Horticulture, a Faculty of Trades and Technology, and a College of Qualifying Studies. Most of these divisions offer both bachelors degrees and certificates. By September 2011 Kwantlen will offer bachelors degrees in key areas of arts and sciences such as: anthropology, Asian Studies, creative writing, English, history, journalism, philosophy, policy studies, psychology, sociology, and visual arts. A bachelors degree in biology is in the works. Applied degrees are offered in fields such as business, criminology, design, horticulture, journalism, nursing, and information technology. Kwantlen has a library on each of its four campuses. The main library is on the Surrey campus. Smaller collections are available in Richmond, Langley, and Cloverdale. Books are freely delivered between campuses. The collections of the Kwantlen libraries total about 190,000 print monographs, nearly 1000 print journal subscriptions, and access to over 100 different on-line databases.
Several diploma or degree programs in Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond offer cooperative education. Such programs include dedicated work-placement semesters that match their field of study, in addition to regular studies. Kwantlen offers many transferable courses to other educational institutions, which often lead to direct transfers into second-year or third-year studies at other post secondary institutions. To aid in this, Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond is a part of the BC Transfer Guide Website, an online resource for planning and understanding transfer in the BC post-secondary education system. Additional major and minor programs are under development in anthropology, business, fine arts and geography. Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond offers CELTA the Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults - one of the most widely recognized certification in the world.
For the 2006 academic year, Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond had an enrolment of more than 18,000 students. Kwantlen's region (Richmond, Delta, Surrey, White Rock and Langley) has a population of over 775,000, and to serve it the BC provincial government funds 8,500 full-time equivalent student spaces (FTEs). A 1999 Ministry of Advanced Education study found the rate of participation in post secondary education in Kwantlen’s region (22%) to be lower than the provincial average. Faculty and staff employees number over 1,400. While some faculty are also involved in research, their primary role is undergraduate education. In 2007, Kwantlen Polytechnic University was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine.
In 2005, Kwantlen Polytechnic University – KPU Richmond launched an interactive component of the official Kwantlen website called The Digital Cafe, which features a number of promotional videos, music and blogs by Kwantlen students and photographs that highlight Kwantlen programs as well as student life on campus. The Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) is an elected student body that contributes to community life, and allocates student funds to social, cultural and entertainment programs for students. Through the KSA students and other members of the Kwantlen community are also eligible for special discounts including bus and train passes, discount movie tickets and other seasonal offers. Since the early 1980s the KSA has also been affiliated with the Canadian Federation of Students as one of its founding members. For a brief period of time in the late 1990s, the KSA was the only Student Association in Canada to have held membership within both the Canadian Federation of Students and the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations at the same time. In March 2008, the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) organized a referendum to disaffiliate from the CFS. In 2007, Global Television in British Columbia ran stories alleging corruption within the Douglas Students' Union, local 18 of the CFS.
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