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Asima Vezina has big dreams for Algoma University.

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The university, for more than a decade, has wanted to expand enrolment to 3,000.

Student numbers are projected to stand at slightly more than 1,200 in January.

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Vezina, who became Algoma’s president last fall, wants members of Algoma’s board of governors and senate to consider what must be done to reach the student number target. The two university groups hold a retreat on Oct. 25.

If we want to be a school of 3,000, how might we get there?” Vezina asked during a board of governors meeting last Thursday. “What do we need to be thinking about in the next five years if we’re going to reach that 3,000 mark? We think it’s doable. We’re excited about it. We’d really like to see the board and the senate think very strategically about what their role would be in it and to start to brainstorm with us how we might get there.”

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A Sault College automotive program will be taught at a Chinese technical college.

The board of governors approved a program delivery partnership with Jiujiang Vocational Technical College at a meeting last Thursday.

Course content includes shop and parts management and hybrid technologies.

Motive power professors George Parsons and Jamie Schmidtt and acting quality assurance manager Jill Pateman visited Jiujiang in June.

To deliver the equipment they have the equipment,” Parsons told the board. He is concerned safety requirements, such as safety glasses and the wearing of steel-toe boots, are not present.

Sault College gets a share of the tuition collected for quality assurance oversight, said vice-president academic Colin Kirkwood. Faculty credentials, student work and course outlines will be reviewed.

Sault College started to meet with Jiujiang in 2016.

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