CONA Clarenville Campus

CLARENVILLE CAMPUS
COLLEGE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
PROFILE DOCUMENT
Prepared by Paul Tilley
Business Instructor
Clarenville Campus
Paul.tilley@cna.nl.ca
709.466.6948
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ABOUT CLARENVILLE CAMPUS – COLLEGE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
Clarenville Campus – College of the North Atlantic
Clarenville Campus is one of 17 provincial campuses in the College network. For almost 50 years,
Clarenville campus has been played a vital role in skills development and in economic development in
this region. Graduates of this campus can be found working in industry and in business throughout and
several have gone on to be successful entrepreneurs.
As of Fall 2011 it offers eight programs (plus a general option) in:
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Adult Basic Education (Level 1, 2 &3)
Business Administration (2 year)
Carpentry (Entry year)*
College Transition (CAS)
First Yr. Engineering Technology
Office Administration (2 year)
Practical Nursing (2 year)
Steamfitting/Pipefitting (Entry year)*
General Studies
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Clarenville Campus - Program Enrollments
(September 2011)
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- * Both Carpentry and Pipefitting offer Apprenticeships training for students who have
gained the required work experience occurs at the campus. Apprentice Students attend
the campus in eight week training blocks. There are approximately 5 sessions offered
per year with a normal enrolment of 10-15 students per block.
Contract Training - Customized Training
For business, for industry, for governments, The College develops customized training options from
a list of over 100 full-time diploma and certificate programs and a comprehensive range of 300
part-time courses.
Through our Contract Training offices, industrial partners like North Atlantic Refining and Provincial
Government departments regularly hold training workshops at the campus. As well, specialty
courses such as Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), Workplace Hazardous Material Information
System (WHMIS), Traffic Control and Fire Arms Safety are commonly held at the campus.
Clarenville Campus: Host to the College’s Distributed Learning Service (DL)
The offices of Distributed Learning (DL) for the College of the North Atlantic are located at Clarenville
campus.
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Distributed Learning has developed and delivered innovative credit and continuing education courses in
Academics and Applied Arts, Business and Information Technology, Engineering Technology, Health
Sciences, Industrial Trades / Apprenticeship, and Tourism and Natural Resources. To date, more than
200 courses have been developed for online delivery. Each semester DL offers over 100 for credit
online courses with over 1500 course registrations. A list of course offerings is advertised in local and
provincial newspapers and magazines and online here. (See
http://dls.cna.nl.ca/current_offerings_W12.asp )
Distributed Learning Programs
Certificate
Business Administration
Office Administration
Diploma
Business Administration General
Business Administration Human Resources Management
Office Administration Executive
Office Administration Medical
Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood Education information site
Web Development
Rehabilitation Assistant (OTA/PTA) information site
Rehabilitation Assistant (OTA/PTA)
Post-Diploma
Information Management
Research at Clarenville Campus
Several years ago the College formally created its “Research and Innovation Network”. Its goal is to
enhance the economic prosperity of the province by coordinating its strengths with that of the private
and public sector through partnerships. At Clarenville campus, our researcher of not is Dr. Sanat
Mandal. His research is focused on identifying Cancer related genes.
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SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) Clarenville
We are justifiably proud of our accomplishments with our award winning SIFE Clarenville chapter!
SIFE’s is a global organization whose mission is to bring together a diverse network of college and
university students, academic professionals and industry leaders around the shared mission of creating a
better, more sustainable world through the positive power of business. SIFE Clarenville is one of 52
Canadian SIFE teams and each year our students (consisting of business as well as students from other
disciplines) design and develop projects that allow them to apply the concepts that they learn in school
to the real world. Through community involvement our students not only learn more but become
better citizens. Our team gets to highlight their accomplishments at annual conferences in Halifax,
Toronto and Calgary.
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Accreditation: Ensuring Skill Value
The College and the campus have put considerable effort into ensuring
that our programs meet international accreditation. At the Campus,
our Business, Carpentry and Pipefitting programs were amongst the
first accredited programs in the College.
Encouraging Non-Traditional career Choices: Women in Trades
Clarenville Campus has always been progressive in encouraging women to
explore non-traditional careers. Each of our programs is well represented by
women. Each year schools tour the campus and many young girls are
exposed to non-traditional careers choices.
During the summer, Clarenville campus hosts GETT camp - Girls Exploring
Trades and Technology. GETT is a program designed and administered by
Women in Resource Development and it introduces girls to technology and
trade careers and encourages them to consider a variety of career choices.
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Awards
Every year across the College and at Campus, thousands of dollars’ worth of scholarships are awarded.
More and more of these scholarships are being funded by the oil industry and more and more of our
students are benefiting directly from them.
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Key Links
What follows is a series of web links that allow you get a much richer understanding of the people and
the activities of our campus. Please take a few minutes to review each of the links.
Non-Academic
Campus Videos: This site hosts a number of videos made on and about Clarenville Campus.
http://paultilley.wikispaces.com/Videos
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Our Campus Facebook Site: this is our Campus Facebook site. It’s regularly updated and allows for us
to reach students on their own terms. www.facebook.com/clarenvillecampus
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SIFE Clarenville Facebook Site: This is our SIFE Chapter’s Facebook page. Information placed on this
page gets integrated into the national SIFE page.
http://www.facebook.com/clarenvillecampus#!/sifeclarenville
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Paul Tilley’s Clarenville Campus Life Blog: This is my Blog that tracks/reflects on activity here at the
campus http://clarenvillecampus.blogspot.com/
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Academic:
Campus Website: http://www.cna.nl.ca/campus/ca/
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College Website: http://www.cna.nl.ca/
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Distributed Learning Centre (headquartered in Clarenville Campus) : http://dls.cna.nl.ca/
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