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Universities and colleges in Saskatchewan :
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Bethany College
Bethany College (formerly Bethany Bible Institute) is a
Bible college established in the town of Hepburn, Saskatchewan in 1927. Bethany
is co-sponsored by the Mennonite Brethren Churches of Alberta and Saskatchewan,
and the Saskatchewan Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference churches. The
mission of Bethany College is to nurture disciples and train leaders to serve.
It is named after the village of Bethany near Jerusalem.
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Briercrest College and Seminary
Briercrest College and Seminary is a private Christian
post-secondary educational institution located in Caronport, Saskatchewan,
Canada. It comprises a college and a seminary, and operates the local Caronport
High School.
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Cypress Hills College
Cypress Hills College is a community college based in Swift
Current, Saskatchewan that provides post-secondary education in the southwest
region of the province. This college and Prairie West College will merge to
create a new institution called Great Plains College starting July 1, 2008. The
new name reflects both the geography and the aspirations of the region given the
booming economy of the area. The slogan of the new college is "Education with
Energy" to reflect not only the spirit of the new institution but also a renewed
focus on the opportunities in the energy sector.
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Nipawin Bible College
Nipawin Bible College is a fundamental, evangelical and
interdenominational training school on a 135 acres (0.55 km2; 0.211 sq mi) site
just south of Nipawin Saskatchewan. The College is affiliated with the Canadian
Council of Christian Charities, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and the
Prairie Athletic Conference. Mr. Wes Fehr is the President and an instructor at
the College.
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Paul J. Hill School of Business
The Paul J. Hill School of Business is the business school
at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan. Previously known as the
Faculty of Business Administration, it was renamed for local benefactor Paul J.
Hill who donated $10 million to the school. It is associated with the Kenneth
Levene Graduate School of Business.
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University of Saskatchewan
The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a coeducational
public research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan
River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, founded over 100 years ago in 1907.
The University of Saskatchewan Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of
Saskatchewan in 1995. It established the provincial university on April 3, 1907
"for the purpose of providing facilities for higher education in all its
branches and enabling all persons without regard to race, creed or religion to
take the fullest advantage". The University of Saskatchewan is now the largest
education institution in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
The university began as an agricultural college in 1907 and established the
first Canadian university-based department of extension in 1910. 300 acres (1.2
km2) were set aside for university buildings and 1,000 acres (4 km2) for the U
of S farm, and agricultural fields. In total 10.32 km² was annexed for the
university. Currently, main University campus is situated upon 2,425 acres (10
km2) with another 500 acres (2 km²) allocated for Innovation Place Research
Park. The University of Saskatchewan agriculture college still has access to
neighbouring urban research lands. University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and
Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) facility, (2003) develops DNA-enhanced
immunization vaccines for both humans and animals. Since its origins as an
agricultural college, research has played an important role at the university.
Discoveries made at the U of S include sulphate-resistant cement and the
cobalt-60 cancer therapy unit. The university currently offers over 200 academic
programs. Duncan P. McColl was appointed as the first registrar, establishing
the first convocation from which Chief Justice Edward L. Wetmore was elected as
the first chancellor. Walter Charles Murray became the first president of the
university's board of governors.
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University of Regina
The University of Regina is a public research university
located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Founded in 1911 as a private
denominational high school of the Methodist Church of Canada, it began an
association with the University of Saskatchewan as a junior college in 1925, was
disaffiliated by the Church and fully ceded to the University in 1934; in 1961
it attained degree-granting status as the Regina Campus of the University of
Saskatchewan and has been an autonomous university since 1974. It had an
enrolment of over 12,500 full and part-time students as of the 2002-03 academic
year and was rated sixth in the 2005 Maclean's magazine Canadian National
Comprehensive Universities Rankings. The university press, The Carillon, is a
member of CUP.
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St. Petro Mohyla Institute
St. Petro Mohyla Institute (SPMI) is located near the
University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies
The Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT) is
a post-secondary institution offering training and educational programs to First
Nations adults in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
(SIAST) is a diploma granting College that has four campuses across
Saskatchewan. SIAST is a nationally recognized, pre-eminent provider of skills
and technical training. More than 12,000 students are enrolled in its programs
and has approximately 29,000 additional individual registrations.
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Western Christian College
Western Christian College is located in Regina,
Saskatchewan, in Canada. It is a private Christian college associated with the
Churches of Christ. Western also has a high school program which results in the
overall institution being known in many cases as Western Christian College and
High School.
Western Christian College ("WCC") was originally founded in Radville,
Saskatchewan. The school was also located in Weyburn, Saskatchewan and Dauphin,
Manitoba before settling in Regina. It occupies the premises of the former
Canadian Bible College, which moved from Regina to Calgary in order to obtain
academic accreditation which had been denied it in Saskatchewan, and is now
named Ambrose University College. WCC has a total enrollment of some 100
students.
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