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Quest University Canada is a private secular non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. The university opened in September 2007 with an enrollment of 74 students; its current enrollment is 700. Quest University is located on a hill-top campus on the edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is approximately from Vancouver and from Whistler. Quest University is approved by the Degree Quality Assessment Board (DQAB) under the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education. Quest University Canada is registered as a British Columbia Education Quality Assurance (EQA) approved post-secondary institution. (EQA is a quality assurance designation that identifies BC public and private post-secondary institutions that have met or exceeded provincial government recognized quality assurance standards and offer consumer protection.) ==History== Quest University Canada is a private, secular, non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. It was created as "Sea to Sky University" on May 29, 2002, by the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia's passage of the Sea to Sky University Act, which had been introduced as a private member's bill by MLA Ralph Sultan. The act's aim was to create a university that would "offer a rigorous and well-rounded university education in the arts and sciences with a global focus".〔http://www.questu.ca/pdfs/_uploads/content/ssu_act.pdf ‘‘Sea to Sky University Act'‘〕 The university was the brainchild of David Strangway, OC, FRSC, who, after his retirement as president of the University of British Columbia, had begun to explore the possibility of creating a four-year, residential, liberal arts institution in Canada. Strangway wanted to create a university "where the student-teacher ratio was better than the Canadian national average of 30 to one, and where students could get a general arts and sciences curriculum that focused not on specific disciplines, but rather how those disciplines operated within the world at large." A parcel of clear-cut land was purchased in the Garibaldi Highlands neighborhood of Squamish, BC; the central was designated as the campus, with the surrounding lands zoned for housing development. The fledgling university received grants from the J.W. McConnell Foundation, R. Howard Webster Foundation, and the Stewart and Marilyn Blusson Foundation, which enabled the university to begin construction on its campus and hire staff.〔 In October 2005, the university changed its name to Quest University Canada The first administrative staff and faculty were hired in 2006, and began developing a curriculum and institutional policies that would shape a university that was "intimate, integrated, and international". On August 29, 2007, Quest University Canada held its opening convocation for its first 74 students, who were from four Canadian provinces, seven U.S. states, and eleven countries outside North America. Over the next year, the university underwent a number of administrative changes. David Strangway stepped aside as president and was named chancellor; he was replaced as president by Thomas L. Wood, who had previously served for 14 years as president of Mount Royal College and three years as Quest's chief academic officer. Less than a year later, Wood was replaced by an interim president, Dean Duperron. Duperron's appointment was the result of a proposed alliance with CIBT Education Group, but, within a month, the alliance was dissolved. The board then invited Professor David Helfand, chair of the astronomy department at Columbia University in New York, to serve as interim president. Helfand had been asked in 2005 to consult with the founders of the new university, and had been a visiting tutor at Quest since 2007. Helfand has overseen the expansion of Quest University Canada, which has grown to 525 students as it begins its seventh academic year. There are now 40 full-time faculty. The faculty come from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Switzerland. In addition, there are three additional academic staff working directly with students and a total support staff of 45. Visiting tutors have included faculty and researchers from the Universities of McMaster, Dalhousie, Toronto, Ottawa, and British Columbia and the Canadian Center for Human Health, as well as from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Caltech and Colorado College in the United States and the Open University in the United Kingdom. On April 30, 2011, Quest University Canada graduated its first class, bestowing the degree of Bachelor of Arts and Sciences on 49 students. On May 19, 2015 the universities fourth president and vice-chancellor was announced. As of August 1, 2015 Dr. Peter Englert will succeed Dr. David J. Helfand who has stepped down from his position after seven years. Dr. Englert received his academic degrees from the University of Cologne and was a research fellow at the University of California, San Diego. He participated in NASA’s Mars Observer and Mars Odyssey Missions, and was an elected board member of the International Association of Universities.〔 Dr. Peter Englert’s selection follows a search process conducted by a Search Committee consisting of Quest’s board members, founding tutor Eric Gorham, and alumna, Rebecca Dickinson. With the assistance of search firm Isaacson Miller, the Search Committee conducted an exhaustive search, meeting multiple times over the course of close to a year and sifting through many candidates.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quest University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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