"THIS IS MY DREAM JOB" SAYS NEW HEAD OF REGIONAL CAMPUS
September 8, 2004 for immediate release
With a new local campus under construction together with plans to expand local offerings, the University of Northern British Columbia has appointed a new person to provide direction to the University's activities in the region.
Dr
Blanca Schorcht is UNBC's new Regional Chair for the South-Central
region, which includes the Cariboo, parts of the Chilcotin, the Robson
Valley, and the Nechako Valley west of Prince George. She will be based
at the University's regional campus in Quesnel.
"This is my dream job," says Dr Schorcht, who completed high school in Prince Rupert and lived in northern BC before originally moving to Vancouver to pursue her university education. "I had been living in Vancouver for about 25 years when I accepted this new position, and I'm really excited to be in a smaller community where I can still pursue my research interests."
Dr Schorcht has studied at UBC and SFU and specializes in First Nations Literature and contemporary Canadian and BC literature. As regional chair, she will teach some courses for UNBC in the region, but her primary job will be to act as the University's eyes and ears.
"My top priority is to generate more awareness of local opportunities to pursue a university education," she says. "The new UNBC-CNC campus will really help to increase our profile when it opens next year, and the University's goal is to double the number of students pursuing courses locally. That will come in part by being responsive to local needs for programs and research."
With a new local campus under construction together with plans to expand local offerings, the University of Northern British Columbia has appointed a new person to provide direction to the University's activities in the region.
Dr
Blanca Schorcht is UNBC's new Regional Chair for the South-Central
region, which includes the Cariboo, parts of the Chilcotin, the Robson
Valley, and the Nechako Valley west of Prince George. She will be based
at the University's regional campus in Quesnel.
"This is my dream job," says Dr Schorcht, who completed high school in Prince Rupert and lived in northern BC before originally moving to Vancouver to pursue her university education. "I had been living in Vancouver for about 25 years when I accepted this new position, and I'm really excited to be in a smaller community where I can still pursue my research interests."
Dr Schorcht has studied at UBC and SFU and specializes in First Nations Literature and contemporary Canadian and BC literature. As regional chair, she will teach some courses for UNBC in the region, but her primary job will be to act as the University's eyes and ears.
"My top priority is to generate more awareness of local opportunities to pursue a university education," she says. "The new UNBC-CNC campus will really help to increase our profile when it opens next year, and the University's goal is to double the number of students pursuing courses locally. That will come in part by being responsive to local needs for programs and research."
