Technical University of British Columbia

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The Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC)는 1999년부터 2002년까지 캐나다브리티시컬럼비아 주 서레 시에 있었던 특수목적의 공립대학이다. 브리티시컬럼비아 주정부에 의해 폐교되기 전까지 운영되었으며 폐교시 소속 학생들과 교육 프로그램들은 SFU Surrey의 기반을 이루기 위해 Simon Fraser University로 통합되었다.

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The roots of TechBC were in demand from Fraser Valley residents for a full-service university in the region. In 1991, the Fraser Valley University Society was formed to organize public pressure towards this goal. (Ironically in light of later events, one of its first actions was to lobby SFU president William Saywell to open a satellite campus in the region.)

The policy of both Social Credit and New Democratic Party (NDP) governments of the day was to grant degree-granting status to the existing post-secondary institutions in the region, today's Kwantlen University College and University College of the Fraser Valley. By the mid-1990s, however, the ability of these institutions to keep up with rapid population growth was increasingly in question. Of greater concern was the Fraser Valley's abysmally low university participation rate -- a rate that contributed to BC's ninth-place standing among Canadian provinces on this factor.

Public opinion polling and the skills-development policies of the Mike Harcourt government led the province to announce, on 2 February 1995, the establishment of a free-standing technical university, to be located on a $100 million campus in Cloverdale. Legislation for the new institution was passed in July 1997. Controversially, the Technical University of British Columbia Act did not provide for an academic senate, a standard feature of faculty curriculum control in other universities. This, coupled with news that the new university would operate without tenure, led to a year-long boycott by the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

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