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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 20, 2012 David Helfand's New Quest After 35 years at Columbia University, where he was chairman of the astronomy department and co-director of the Astrophysics Laboratory, David J. Helfand is on leave to serve as president of Quest University Canada, a tiny liberal arts college in British Columbia that graduated its first class last spring. It is Canada's only private, secular nonprofit university. Dr. Helfand had his share of crusades at Columbia: he waged a long campaign to have a science class added to the core curriculum (he won); he declined tenure, arguing that senior professors' performance should be reviewed every five years by an ad hoc faculty committee (he won for himself, but Columbia kept the tenure system for everybody else). Read more... |
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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... December 30, 2011 Quest's Knop shares Nobel glory When the Nobel Prize committee handed out the 2011 prizes on Dec. 11, Quest University's Dr. Robert Knop was there. Knop, a physical science tutor at the Squamish university, attended the ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the team that won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae, Quest officials said in a statement issued on Wednesday (Dec. 28). Read more... December 29, 2011 'Block plan' education finds new appeal among universities A teaching strategy that offers Canadian university students consecutive intensive courses compressed into a few weeks is making inroads at smaller postsecondary schools across the country. 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 Survey confirms Quest's 'leading position': Helfand Quest University officials this week expressed delight with the results of the latest National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), characterizing the numbers as confirmation of the school's efforts to provide meaningful student-faculty engagement and, ultimately, prepare them for future success. 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 13, 2011 Quest enrollment skyrockets Its nickname is "the little university that could." And despite getting its start in a flat economy and building slowly - almost to the point of confusion for Sea to Sky residents - Quest University has increased its enrollemt by over 50 per cent. 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... May 13, 2011 It's a small world, after all A contingent of young people from various parts of the world descended on the Quest University campus on the weekend, eager to build on their commitment to making the Earth a better place and to share success stories from around the world. Held from May 6 to 8, the first-ever Canadian Global Issues Network (GIN) conference attracted more than 60 participants from North America and Europe, including students from Howe Sound Secondary. Read more... May 4, 2011 The Quest for Knowledge No one denies Quest University was a risk. From the outset the small, private, non-profit secular liberal arts university faced enormous obstacles. But as the students of the first graduating class crossed the stage last weekend, those obstacles seemed less daunting and the future bright for a university that chose to break the mould of traditional post secondary education. 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 18, 2011 Squamish's Quest University looks forward to first convocation A small university has been experimenting with a new form of undergraduate education in the Squamish highlands for almost four years, and is now preparing for its first graduation ceremony this spring. It's an occasion many hope will also signal to the world its coming-of-age. Read more... February 24, 2011 The student's Quest When Celeta Cook of Deseronto, Ont., applied five years ago as a 17-year-old to Quest University, the hilltop site in the coastal mountain community of Squamish, B.C., was little more than dirt and dreams. "I did my preview day in a hard hat and a reflective vest," says Cook, now part of Quest's first grad class this April 30. The library will be finished, she was promised, "it just hasn't been built yet." Far from being put off, she was excited. "All right," she said, "I'll see you guys in September." She was one of 73 students in 2007. There are now about 300, as it builds toward its capacity of 650 - still smaller than most of the high schools the students came from. Read more... |
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