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April 11, 2012 Quest University Canada Announces New Chancellor Quest University Canada is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Daniel R. Birch as the University's Chancellor. The appointment has been confirmed by a unanimous vote of the Quest Board of Governors. Read more... February 14, 2012 Quest University Canada Ranked Number One Among Canadian Institutions By National Survey of Student Engagement Quest University Canada, a university that welcomed its first students in September 2007, has confirmed that its results from the 2011 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) place it first in Canada in undergraduate educational quality. NSSE only provides the average scores for Canadian and US schools. While Quest is notably higher than these averages, Macleans.ca 'On Campus' has now revealed the full ranking of scores showing Quest on top in all five of the survey's benchmark categories. Read more... |
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January 23, 2012 Study of Volcanology Leads Quest University Canada Students to Hawaii While most university students are settling back into their campus classrooms after the holiday break, a group of students from Quest University Canada is engaging in a classroom setting like no other. The Volcanology class at Quest is Hawaiibound this month (January 20-30) to explore first-hand how a volcanologist conducts research. The trip is a critical part of Quest's commitment to experiential learning, and is enabled by the fact that Quest operates on a Block Plan schedule. Read more... January 3, 2012 Quest University Canada's Robert Knop Part of Nobel Prize-Winning Physics Team When the 2011 Nobel Prizes were handed out in Stockholm, Sweden on December 11, Quest University Canada's physical science tutor Dr. Robert Knop was there. Knop attended the event to celebrate the awarding of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". One half of the prize went to Berkeley scientist Saul Perlmutter with whom Knop worked closely in Berkeley during the final analysis that led to the discovery. Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess shared the other half of the prize. Read more... November 1, 2011 Quest University Canada's Unique Educational Model Underscored in Independent Survey North American schools are once again combing through results from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to understand how students rank their level of engagement in their university studies. This year, both first-year and fourth year students at Quest University Canada completed the survey, and the results were again notably higher than the scores of other universities. Read more... October 31, 2011 John Sollers to Give Free Public Lecture at Quest University Canada Quest University Canada is pleased to welcome Professor John Sollers from the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Faculty of Medical & Health Science at the University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ. Dr. Sollers will give a free lecture on Monday November 14th, 2011 at 7:30pm in the Multipurpose Room at Quest University Canada. This talk is part of Quest's monthly colloquium series speakers. Read more... September 8, 2011 First Year Enrolment Increases 51% at Quest University Canada As schools everywhere welcome students back to class this week and celebrate the start of a new year, Quest University Canada in Squamish, British Columbia has an even bigger cause for celebration. The graduating class of 2015 will be significantly larger than its predecessors due to a major increase in enrolment this September. The incoming class in 2011 is 51% larger than last year. Read more... August 31, 2011 NSSE Rates Quest Well Above Other Canadian and US Institutions The results of the 2010 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) show Quest University Canada's undergraduates are receiving a high quality undergraduate education and are amongst the most engaged in their studies. This is the first time Quest, which welcomed the first students to its unique program in 2007, has taken part in the survey. Read more... July 11, 2011 Helfand to Serve as Full-Time President at Quest University Canada The Board of Governors of Quest University Canada announced today that Professor David J. Helfand has agreed to serve as full-time President of the University. Helfand became a Founding Tutor at Quest when he took a leave from his faculty position at Columbia University during the Fall of 2007. For the past three years, he has led the institution on an interim basis, much of the time while commuting to New York. Read more... April 30, 2011 Historic Class of 2011 Graduates From Quest University Canada in First-Ever Commencement Ceremony Today, Quest University Canada (Quest) bestowed degrees upon 49 young men and women at the University's very first Commencement Ceremony. Hailing from Canada, Australia, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Germany, Nigeria, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the graduates became firmly entrenched in the University's history books as its inaugural "Class of 2011". Quest, founded four years ago to provide an innovative approach to post-secondary education in Canada, is today the focus of celebration for all that has been accomplished by so many. Read more... March 2, 2011 Quest University Canada Celebrates Top Rankings in Student Engagement Survey and Preps for First Graduating Class In the current issue of Maclean's Canada, a magazine well-regarded for its in-depth reporting on Canada's post-secondary education system, editorial staff zero in on results from the highly regarded National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), and cite Quest University Canada (Quest), located in Squamish, British Columbia, as having "an astonishing level of student participation". In the five key outcomes surveyed by NSSE in 2010, Quest students ranked their school higher than all other schools in North America. As Quest prepares to hand out degrees to its first graduating class this April, the survey results clearly indicate that Quest's founding vision for a new kind of undergraduate education is being realized. Read more... |
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