Grant MacEwan College should change its name to Grant MacEwan University in an announcement today with Premier Ed Stelmach and Minister of Higher Education, Doug Horner.
The directors were asked to change the name in June last, and their sister in Mount Royal College in Calgary became the University September 3. "Change of name does not change who you are," said Eric Young, chair of the board of governors. "We go not to become a research institution." Students have mixed reactions, some worried the school is leaving its roots. "I'm worried about class sizes will explode," said Janet Kelly physiotherapy student.
"It could become more competitive to get into because they have only so much space," said her friend, Heather Franz. But it was for a name change of all, because it could MacEwan help develop. Currently, students can obtain degrees from two years to MacEwan to be an assistant physical therapy, but have to transfer to university if they want the degree necessary to become a physiotherapist.
The name of the university really feels better, "said Karlie Ring, following a degree in social work. "It looks better on a resume." The decision to seek university status is lowered the prestige and perception, "said Young. In Canada, there is less respect for the way that college is located in the United States or Great Britain, he said. Here, a college diploma is despised by some students and other universities, even if a degree from either a college or university must be approved by the council of the same quality of provincially appointed.
Critics have accused MacEwan planning to abandon its certificate programs and diploma, but Young said MacEwan not trying to abandon all programs. "As long as there is a demand for these programs will be offered." As for abandoning the roots of the institution as a community college, he said, "I do not know that the roots are not necessarily exactly what you offer. The roots in this culture to be a very focused student on the institution. Our priority is our students. "
The college has launched four-year arts degree in 2006, and added others in nursing, business, child care and youth, and now science. The name change is "just official recognition of what we have done for some time," said Jerry Zdril, director of the Faculty Association. Faculty in the curriculum are already required to do more research, even if they are prohibited by the province to the joint research strictly enforced in institutions like the University of Alberta. But for more than 50,000 alumni of the college, the name change can not do much, at least not without avoiding a curriculum vitae, "said Barbara North, who holds workshops for curricula vitae and employment for BGS Enterprises Edmonton. "People can not go wrong. They are all university graduates at once, "she said. It would still write Grant MacEwan College, then add in brackets "now a university" in a CV. "The institution is really minor. This is the program that counts".
MacEwan was founded in 1971 as Grant MacEwan Community College, named after the former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. The college has abandoned the term "community" in 1999.
The directors were asked to change the name in June last, and their sister in Mount Royal College in Calgary became the University September 3. "Change of name does not change who you are," said Eric Young, chair of the board of governors. "We go not to become a research institution." Students have mixed reactions, some worried the school is leaving its roots. "I'm worried about class sizes will explode," said Janet Kelly physiotherapy student.
"It could become more competitive to get into because they have only so much space," said her friend, Heather Franz. But it was for a name change of all, because it could MacEwan help develop. Currently, students can obtain degrees from two years to MacEwan to be an assistant physical therapy, but have to transfer to university if they want the degree necessary to become a physiotherapist.
The name of the university really feels better, "said Karlie Ring, following a degree in social work. "It looks better on a resume." The decision to seek university status is lowered the prestige and perception, "said Young. In Canada, there is less respect for the way that college is located in the United States or Great Britain, he said. Here, a college diploma is despised by some students and other universities, even if a degree from either a college or university must be approved by the council of the same quality of provincially appointed.
Critics have accused MacEwan planning to abandon its certificate programs and diploma, but Young said MacEwan not trying to abandon all programs. "As long as there is a demand for these programs will be offered." As for abandoning the roots of the institution as a community college, he said, "I do not know that the roots are not necessarily exactly what you offer. The roots in this culture to be a very focused student on the institution. Our priority is our students. "
The college has launched four-year arts degree in 2006, and added others in nursing, business, child care and youth, and now science. The name change is "just official recognition of what we have done for some time," said Jerry Zdril, director of the Faculty Association. Faculty in the curriculum are already required to do more research, even if they are prohibited by the province to the joint research strictly enforced in institutions like the University of Alberta. But for more than 50,000 alumni of the college, the name change can not do much, at least not without avoiding a curriculum vitae, "said Barbara North, who holds workshops for curricula vitae and employment for BGS Enterprises Edmonton. "People can not go wrong. They are all university graduates at once, "she said. It would still write Grant MacEwan College, then add in brackets "now a university" in a CV. "The institution is really minor. This is the program that counts".
MacEwan was founded in 1971 as Grant MacEwan Community College, named after the former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. The college has abandoned the term "community" in 1999.
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