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So little media coverage about this significant development in Canadian (in N. American) #highered. For example, is Primacorp Ventures actually Canada’s largest independent provider of private post-secondary education"? https://www.primacorpventures.com/about/ https://twitter.com/GlobalHigherEd/status/1339042327545966592
Will a "market-driven, career-training programs in the fields of business, art and design, healthcare, teaching education, technology, legal studies, and skilled trades" https://www.primacorpventures.com/about/ mesh well with Quest University's classic liberal arts college model?
Why didn't @CapilanoU, @UBC, @SFU or @uvic take over the @QuestUniCanada campus and operations, thereby expanding their institutional footprint into a key (spectacular) region in an expanding Vancouver city-region?
What role did @AnneKangMLA (BC's Minister of Advanced Education & Skills Training) play, if any, in enabling this private not-for-profit liberal arts college that former @UBC president David Strangway laboured over to be acquired by Primacorp Ventures https://www.primacorpventures.com/about/ ?
If there were no British Columbian HEIs in the running, why didn't a nationally or globally active HEI from the US, UK, or Australia acquire Quest University? Imagine an innovative partnership between 2-2 colleges & universities creating Harvey Mudd https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/ North.
So much potential, so little transparency, so little vision and ambition, IMHO. And so little informative coverage by the #highered, BC, and Canadian media. Where are the investigative journalists?
Finally, & I might be proved wrong, but this seems like an outcome not worthy of the vision & effort of David Strangway, Quest U's founder https://questu.ca/community-hub/news/dr-david-strangway-1934-2016/ & UBC’s esteemed 10th president. Given this history I assumed UBC would have inserted itself into this process.
In any case, this UBC alum (in the Strangway era), who has parental experience w liberal arts colleges in the US, & who studied the formation of one (Yale-NUS) in Singapore, is perplexed about what's going on in Squamish, BC. Strange times... https://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/after-receiving-court-permission-quest-university-signs-deal-with-primacorp-ventures-1.24255003
