Quest University

Quest University Canada is a clandestine civil non-profit advanced arts and sciences university in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. The university opened in September 2007 with an acceptance of 74 students; its accepted acceptance is 700.[1] Quest University is amid on a 60-acre (24.3 ha) hill-top campus on the bend of Garibaldi Bigoted Park. It is about 73 km (45 miles) from Vancouver and 57 km (35 miles) from Whistler. Quest University is accustomed by the Amount Superior Assessment Lath (DQAB) beneath the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education.[2] Quest University Canada is registered as a British Columbia Apprenticeship Superior Affirmation (EQA) accustomed post-secondary institution.[3] (EQA is a superior affirmation appellation that identifies BC accessible and clandestine post-secondary institutions that accept met or exceeded bigoted government accustomed superior affirmation standards and action customer protection.)

Quest University Canada is a private, secular, non-profit advanced 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 access of the Sea to Sky University Act, which had been alien as a clandestine member's bill by MLA Ralph Sultan. The act's aim was to actualize a university that would "offer a accurate and ample university apprenticeship in the arts and sciences with a all-around focus".

The university was the abstraction of David Strangway, OC, FRSC, who, afterwards his retirement as admiral of the University of British Columbia, had amorphous to analyze the achievability of creating a four-year, residential, advanced arts academy in Canada. Strangway capital to actualize a university "where the student-teacher arrangement was bigger than the Canadian civic boilerplate of 30 to one, and area acceptance could get a accepted arts and sciences chic that focused not on specific disciplines, but rather how those disciplines operated aural the apple at large."

A 240-acre (97 ha) bindle of assured acreage was purchased in the Garibaldi Highlands adjacency of Squamish, BC; the axial 60 acreage  was appointed as the campus, with the surrounding acreage benumbed for apartment development. The apprentice university accustomed grants from the J.W. McConnell Foundation, R. Howard Webster Foundation, and the Stewart and Marilyn Blusson Foundation, which enabled the university to activate architecture on its campus and appoint staff.

The aboriginal authoritative agents and adroitness were assassin in 2006, and began developing a chic and institutional behavior that would appearance a university that was "intimate, integrated, and international". On August 29, 2007, Quest University Canada captivated its aperture assemblage for its aboriginal 74 students, who were from four Canadian provinces, seven U.S. states, and eleven countries alfresco North America.

Over the next year, the university underwent a amount of authoritative changes. David Strangway stepped abreast as admiral and was called chancellor; he was replaced as admiral by Thomas L. Wood, who had ahead served for 14 years as admiral of Mount Royal College and three years as Quest's arch bookish officer. Less than a year later, Wood was replaced by an acting president, Dean Duperron. Duperron's arrangement was the aftereffect of a proposed accord with CIBT Apprenticeship Group, but, aural a month, the accord was dissolved. The lath arrive Professor David Helfand, armchair of the astrochemistry administration at Columbia University in New York and a visiting babysitter at Quest back 2007, to serve as acting president.

Helfand has overseen the amplification of Quest University Canada, which has developed to 525 acceptance as it begins its seventh bookish year. There are now 40 full-time faculty. The adroitness appear from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Switzerland. In addition, there are three added bookish agents alive anon with acceptance and a absolute abutment agents of 45. Visiting advisers accept included adroitness and advisers from the Universities of McMaster, Dalhousie, Toronto, Ottawa, and British Columbia and the Canadian Center for Human Health, as able-bodied as from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Caltech and Colorado College in the United States and the Open University in the United Kingdom.

On May 19, 2015 the universities fourth admiral and vice-chancellor was announced. As of August 1, 2015 Dr. Peter Englert will accomplish Dr. David J. Helfand who has stepped down from his position afterwards seven years. Dr. Englert accustomed his bookish degrees from the University of Cologne and was a analysis adolescent at the University of California, San Diego. He alternate in NASA’s Mars Observer and Mars Odyssey Missions, and was an adopted lath affiliate of the International Association of Universities.

Dr. Peter Englert’s alternative follows a seek action conducted by a Seek Committee consisting of Quest’s lath members, founding babysitter Eric Gorham, and alumna, Rebecca Dickinson. With the abetment of seek abutting Isaacson Miller, the Seek Committee conducted an all-embracing search, affair assorted times over the advance of abutting to a year and coursing through abounding candidates