UNBC will be refocusing on growth at its regional campuses in the coming years and the first step was announced yesterday when the university announced that the current interim president Mark Dale would take on a new position as the first Dean of Regional Programs.
Mark says there are a number of unique challenges UNBC faces when is comes to growing these satellite campuses.
“Student demand is relatively low, and relatively sporadic.” He says; “Northern BC has a relatively low population spread over a very large area. If you think about the rule of thumb used in Europe; a university needs about a million people in the population base and here we have 300 thousand spread over an area the size of France”
The search for Mark Dale’s replacement as Vice President Academic and Provost is already underway.