Northern Lights College

Last updated
Northern Lights College
Former name
BC Vocational School Dawson Creek
TypePublic
Established1975
Academic affiliation
CICan, BCC, UBC
Endowment $22,960,967 [1]
Chair Lorraine Audrey Archibald [2]
President Todd Bondaroff
Students594
Location
CampusMultiple sites, Rural
Colours Blue   & green  ;
Website www.nlc.bc.ca
Northern Lights College logo.svg

Northern Lights College (NLC) is a public [3] college in Northern British Columbia, Canada. It currently has campuses and access centers in eight communities across the northern third of British Columbia, with Regional Administration located at the Dawson Creek campus. As of 2021, international students comprised 25% of NLC's total student population and 20% identified as Indigenous. [4]

Contents

History

Jim Kassen began his 25-year career as the college president in 1980 and retired in 2005 seeing the college expand beyond the Dawson Creek campus to five campuses and three access centres. [5]

List of campuses

List of Access Centres

Programs

Northern Lights College offers programs in the following areas:

Aboriginal services

Northern Lights College has Aboriginal Gathering Spaces located at the following campuses: Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Chetwynd and Fort Nelson.

The Fort Nelson Gathering Space opened in 2009, while the remaining Gathering Spaces opened in 2011.

The opening of the Chetwynd Gathering Space was highlighted by the attendance of then Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Steven L. Point. [7]

In 2021 Northern Lights College received $70,000 to support two Indigenous education endowment and project funds. [8]

Scholarships and bursaries

The Northern Lights College Foundation is the recipient of funds held in trust for various awards for education. Formed in 1981, the Foundation's objectives are:

  1. to foster community interest in promoting higher education and training
  2. to act as a recipient of trust funds in the form of monies or other properties
  3. to assist in community projects and promotion of higher education and to grant monies to Northern Lights College for the designated use of scholarships and bursaries to be awarded to students.

The Government of Canada sponsors an Aboriginal Bursaries Search Tool that lists over 680 scholarships, bursaries, and other incentives offered by governments, universities, and industry to support Aboriginal post-secondary participation. Northern Lights College scholarships for Aboriginal, First Nations and Métis students include Awards for Aboriginal Women [9]

Notable Faculty and Alumni

Bob Zimmer, Canadian politician and a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada.

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References

  1. "Financial Statements Northern Lights College" (PDF). Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  2. "Board of Governors". Northern Lights College. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  3. Training, Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills. "Find an Institution - Province of British Columbia". www2.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  4. "Post-Secondary Central Data Warehouse Standard Reports May 2023 Data Submission Headcount Totals" (PDF). Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  5. "Northern Lights College mourns passing of longtime president". Alaska Highway News. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  6. "Northern Lights College Programs".
  7. "Lieutenant Governor opens Aboriginal Gathering Space at NLC's Chetwynd Campus". Northern Lights College. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
  8. "Northern Lights College, UNBC share in indigenous education grants". Alaska Highway News. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
  9. Aboriginal Bursaries Search Tool