Before being allowed power as a University school, Kwantlen Polytechnic University was established as Kwantlen College. In 2008, the …show more content…
There were more than 200 proposals in a challenge to name the new South Fraser area school. The triumphant passage "Kwantlen" was put together by Stan McKinnon. "Kwantlen" originates from the name of the Kwantlen First Nation in whose conventional region the college is found. Boss Joe Gabriel of the Kwantlen First Nation gave authorization for the school to utilize the Kwantlen name.
Taking after a commonplace government activity intended to expand access to degree programs in British Columbia, started in 1988, five junior colleges were conceded power to offer baccalaureate degrees. These five establishments—Cariboo, Fraser Valley, Kwantlen, Malaspina, and Okanagan—were renamed college universities. At first, they offered degrees under the aegis of one or a greater amount of the three common colleges. In 1995 they were recompensed the power to offer degrees in their own particular right. Likewise in 1995, the territory of British Columbia ordered enactment changing the establishment's name to Kwantlen University College.
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The fundamental library is on the Surrey grounds. Littler accumulations are accessible in Richmond, Langley, and Cloverdale. Books are unreservedly conveyed between grounds. The accumulations of the KPU libraries absolute around 190,000 print monographs, almost 1000 print diary memberships, and access to more than 100 distinctive on-line databases.
Understudy enrolment
For the 2011/2012 scholastic year, KPU had an enrolment of more than 19,500 understudies. KPU's area (Richmond, Delta, Surrey, White Rock and Langley) has a populace of more than 800,000.
Staff and workers
As of Fall 2011, Faculty and staff workers number more than 1,600 (129 Administrators, 515 Staff, and 1,026 Faculty). While some workforce are likewise included in exploration, their essential part is undergrad instruction. In 2011, for the fifth time consecutively, Kwantlen Polytechnic University was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as distributed in Maclean's magazine. What's more, KPU was named a BC Top 50 business for the seventh continuous year in 2013.
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