Canadore College and Nipissing University News Release ************************* Canadore College and Nipissing University announced a new downtown location today at the corner of Main and Ferguson Streets, 100 Main Street East.
Canadore College and Nipissing University News Release
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Canadore College and Nipissing University announced a new downtown location today at the corner of Main and Ferguson Streets, 100 Main Street East. The newly renovated facility will house two offices: Nipissing's Biidaaban Community Service-Learning and Canadore College's Continuing Education.
Nipissing’s Biidaaban Community Service-Learning (CSL) office provides experiential learning opportunities for students through community placements and, in turn, students provide a range of valuable services to community partners from literacy and math tutoring to developing marketing plans.
Canadore College’s Continuing Education department is committed to providing the community a variety of learning opportunities to achieve professional, personal and career development goals. There are approximately 3,500 Continuing Education registrations a year at Canadore, primarily in vocationally-related courses.
The institutions’ strategic plans identify increased town-gown relationships as an important objective to achieve and the programming at both offices were ideal for a co-location in the downtown core. For the past six months, Canadore College and Nipissing University have been looking for an opportunity that would make post secondary education more visible and more integrated into the city.
“We are extremely proud to be an integral part of the North Bay community and the new location makes that connection even stronger,” says Dennis Mock, president of Nipissing University. “Over the last couple of years, members from the community have suggested that we have a presence in the downtown core and town-gown relationships are a key objective in our strategic plan, so I’m very pleased that we have been able to move forward with those suggestions.” “At Canadore, we pride ourselves on responding to our community’s needs. By establishing a downtown storefront location, we are increasing our accessibility and our visibility in the community and reciprocating the ongoing support of the City and our region.” says Barbara Taylor, president of Canadore College.
The Main St. location will provide approximately 4,000 sq. feet of space for administrative offices and meeting rooms.
“We work so closely with the businesses and industries within our city that having a location in downtown North Bay is a natural fit. We value our relationship with all of the community members and see our presence in the downtown core as a way to strengthen existing relationships and establish new ones. We are extremely excited to be a part of downtown North Bay,” says Tracie Marsh-Fior, Canadore College Acting Director, Enterprise and Partnerships.
“The expansion of our office to this location provides an opportunity for us to strengthen ties within the North Bay community,” says Laurie McLaren, Nipissing University Manager of Biidaaban Community Service-Learning, “it also increases access to the members of the community we serve.”
