Successes
In 2011-2012, NBCC demonstrated its success by increasing: capacity, enrolment, Aboriginal student participation and international student admissions.
Capacity Building:
- NBCC’s new $26-million E-Building on its Saint John Campus is designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver-rating standards. Showcasing advanced green-energy systems, the E-Building serves as a teaching tool for energy, environment, and engineering technology students. The 7300 sq. metre E-Building has a capacity of 550 students, houses ten classrooms, 22 laboratories, contains 50 faculty and staff office spaces, a faculty lounge, a student lounge, plus two student study rooms.
- A new campus in Fredericton, which opened in September 2011;
- The Allied Health Education Center, located in Saint John on the UNBSJ campus in Tucker Park, which also opened in September 2011;
- A new wing, and welding shop, at NBCC Moncton campus (also opened September 2011); and
- Upcoming construction of a $5.5 million expansion at NBCC Miramichi Campus.
International Projects and Research Initiatives:
- Pan-Canadian Student Mobility Program (PSMP) (2004-2007), which provided numerous exchange opportunities between New Brunswick (East Coast) students and British Columbia (West Coast) students.
- NBCC was a founding member in the formation of the Atlantic Colleges Tourism Education Consortia (ACTEC) whose membership included post-secondary education institutional representatives from the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. ACTEC provided cross-institutional learning opportunities for tourism students as well as professional development possibilities for faculty and staff in the industry.
- NBCC is a founding member of the Cross-border Higher Education Program, which provides a supported transition for college students who wish to continue academic pathways in post-secondary studies in bachelor’s or master’s degree programs. Member partners also include St. Stephen’s University (St. Stephen, NB), Washington Co. Community College (Calais, Maine) and University of Maine (Machias, Maine).
- In 1999, NBCC received the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Award of Excellence for its Canadian College Partnership Programs work in Jordan.
- Again in 2002, NBCC was recognized by CIDA (Award of Excellence) for its international partnership with Universidad de Cienfuegos (UCF) in Cuba. Of critical importance for UCF was the development and implementation of the Extension Services Centre.
- For over two decades, NBCC has been a leader in post-secondary education and TVET at home and internationally. The College’s expertise and assistance in thoughtful project management now reaches over 20 countries.
Results of NBCC’s 2011 Graduate Follow-up Survey data, administered annually by a third-party:
- 90% of NBCC graduates find employment within their first year of graduation.
- 94% of employed grads work in New Brunswick
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Famous quotes containing the word successes:
“Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me, that a scholar is the favorite of Heaven and earth, the excellency of his country, the happiest of men. His duties lead him directly into the holy ground where other men’s aspirations only point. His successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men. Eyes is he to the blind; feet is he to the lame. His failures, if he is worthy, are inlets to higher advantages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)