College of Rockies continually to grow

The College of Rockies was been established in the month of May 1975 of this East Kootenay Community College. It started for about 24 employees and about $1.2 million annual budget. As for today, the COTR got more than 840 employees and about $32 million of its annual budget. As of now, the College had already serves on this regional population for about 84,000 just over these 45,000 square kilometer areas and even injects on for just more than $133 million for their annual regional income from their respective College operations and to its capital spending. From about 543 learners at their respective five school campuses of 1975, the COTR now will be enrolling for about 2,273 that will be considered as full time equivalent learners of these seven campus schools that includes 1,621 that will be enrolled in Business, Vocational programs, University Studies, Career/Technical, 482 Apprentices and for just about 170 for this Foundation Trades. It’s been estimated that about 8,000 registrants of part time continuing education they got. With that, this International Education learner’s enrollment had already grown that includes these 125 international learners from 26 nations. Since, 2001 for just over 100 COTR learners and interns have just traveled overseas in order to continue their respective work and study in the nation of HongKong, Kenya, China, Vietnam, Mozambique, Peru, Guyuna and Ecuador.

The College had some close ties with this educational career development institutions in various nations of Kenya, France, Sweden, and Japan together with the transfer agreements in Australia and Ecuador and able to exchange some agreements with Spain, Finland, Chile, and Scotland. As part of the continual physical growth, the COTR had entirely acquired this former TransCanada Gas buildings for the Gold Creek last February 2007 that entirely become this trades educational training facilities. In the month of September, a further expansion of $16.2 million in this Cranbrook got on their main educational campus had saw on this construction for just two additional buildings that includes this Summit and Pinnacle Halls that would entirely allows the growth for trades and academic program in a respective manner. In the current years, about $12.7 million of both provincial and federal government have funded on this construction project will now be underway to this Cranbrook main school campuses that will entirely see on its new entrance and for their interior renovations upon developing their delivery services intended for learners and to those in public and for additional respective classroom spaces.

As this College continually to grow, it also continues for its revision and even expanded to its school campus program and for their career course offerings. Continually keeping on this latest career course delivery technology had entirely seen this mere popularity for their COTR online career education courses for just more than double during the past five years for just more than 1,000 online learners from around the globe. With that, the President and this CEO Dr. Nick Rubidge have entirely summed it up that been considered as paramount to continually keep it in an upward manner with this changing global education. So, the college of Rockies got on this mere history to adapt the changes and its growth within itself that have resulted for more and better chances towards the citizenship of this East Kootenay and beyond.