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Final Report ADVANTAGE NEW BRUNSWICK | AVANTAGE NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK September | Septembre 2 0 0 7 IN MEMORIAM Jennifer Kathleen MacKenzie 1974-2007 Daughter of Commissioner Miner ISBN 978-1-55396-871-9 September 2007 Dear Premier Graham and Minister Doherty, Due to the complexities and interrelationships involved, this is a document that cannot be On the 19th of January 2007, when you appointed easily scanned. Readers will need to spend time us as commissioners and asked us to review the understanding the dynamics and relevance of the New Brunswick post-secondary system, we had no issues raised. At the risk of stating the obvious, the idea of the magnitude of the task and the extent to recommendations are also highly interrelated and which New Brunswickers wanted and were willing to should not be considered discrete advice. Such an embrace change. Over the last eight months, we approach could result in the essence of the report have been consistently impressed with the quality and being misinterpreted. quantity of the individual and institution submissions we have received. Over 100 formal briefs were submitted While we accept full responsibility for what we have and we heard from hundreds and hundreds of people done, we need to publicly acknowledge that we during the 12 public sessions we conducted around have received a great deal of support from a variety the province. In addition, we met with scores of others of people as part of this process. In particular, we who had particular interests in New Brunswick’s post- would like to thank our advisors, our secretariat and secondary system. We certainly had a wealth of ideas the students of New Brunswick. to draw upon, and clearly your decision to review your post-secondary system was a decision supported Our advisors were invaluable. We met with them by many. often and they routinely challenged us, entered into robust discussions and demanded an evidence Reforming any post-secondary system is not a task based approach. They made our report better and that meets with instant approval. This is an extremely we are indebted to their commitment and would like complex problem that becomes even more complex to publicly recognize them: Isabelle LeBlanc, Anne when the system is defined as broadly (public, private, Marie Levi, Denis Losier, Jean-Yves Ouellette, Léo-Paul university, college, apprenticeship) as you did in your Pinet, Gerry Pond, Andrew Steeves, and terms of reference. So one should be prepared for a Elizabeth Weir. variety of reactions to what we have proposed. Our recommendations are not provided lightly. We have As for our secretariat, there is not enough praise to go proposed a student-focused system that we firmly around. We were an extremely lean organization that believe is in the short and long term best interest of the required everyone to pitch in when help was needed. province. It is highly integrated, as one would expect, Our executive director, Léandre Desjardins, did a and we have spent a lot of time and thought in trying masterful job of organizing the resources and finding to get the various aspects aligned in such a way as to the people we needed to complete our work on time provide New Brunswick with a strategic advantage in and under budget. A special recognition for David the area of post-secondary education. Cameron is needed. He worked with us throughout this process to turn our ideas into text that was accurate and easily understandable. On the communications side, Diane Gauthier was efficient, competent and a Now the hard work begins. You and your government supportive colleague. Tim Andrew helped us with our will be tested. The recommendations are not easy research needs, Pascal Robichaud supported us in ones to implement, but you asked us to be bold, a variety of administrative ways,and Joanne Neilson as did many of the individuals we met. There will provided a great deal of administrative support be controversy and resistance. Yet, we do think the for everyone in the office. Finally we had some direction provided is the one that New Brunswick occasional support that was also extremely valuable. should follow, and we are convinced it will provide Suzanne Cyr helped us with our public hearings by the province with the educational advantage you recording the information presented. Louise Chené directed us to achieve. and Lucie Roy fullfilled the important role of reviewing and summarizing submissions to ensure that key ideas Sincerely, were not inadvertently missed. Finally, there needs to be some recognition of the student contributions and these come in two Rick Miner forms. First, over the summer we had a number of students working with us providing valuable insight and research. Some of their contributions can be seen in the report in the form of vignettes. Thanks to Jacques L’Écuyer Xavier Bériault, André Caissie, Brendan Glauser, Kevin Godbout, Jennifer Pitre, Lyne Robichaud and Sophia Rodriguez Gallagher. Second, special recognition must be given to all the student leaders in the province. We were impressed with their insightfulness, thoughtfulness, and their willingness to look at issues from the basis of a problem rather than starting from a deeply entrenched position. Clearly, the New Brunswick institutions are doing a good job at conveying appropriate critical thinking skills. We take great pride in having been able to work with such a dedicated group of advisors, staff and students. Content Seizing the Opportunity: An Action Plan to Create New Brunswick’s Strategic Advantage 1 Introduction 1 Our Vision 2 What Type of Post-Secondary System Would be Best for New Brunswick? 3 Accessible 3 Relevant and Responsive 3 Comprehensive 4 Efficient 4 Of High Quality 4 Accountable 4 A Brief Description of the System 5 Setting the Context for Action: The Necessary First Steps 8 The Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour 8 The New Brunswick Post-Secondary Education Commission 9 Quality Control/Assessment/Assurance 9 An Application/Information Portal 11 Data Collection and Analysis 11 Policy Advice to the Department 12 Review of Institutional Strategic Plans 12 Credit Transfer 12 System-Wide Support and Initiatives 13 Regional and National Co-ordination 13 Duality and Linguistic Obligations 14 The Presidents’ Council 14 Organizing the System 16 A New Kind of Institution for New Brunswick 16 The Saint John Polytechnic 19 The Northeastern New Brunswick Polytechnic 20 The Northwestern New Brunswick Polytechnic 21 The New Brunswick Community College/ Le Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick 22 Content i New Brunswick’s Four Public Universities 24 The University of New Brunswick 24 Université de Moncton 24 St. Thomas University 25 Mount Allison University 26 An Emphasis on Graduate Studies and Research 27 Apprenticeship 29 Distance Education 31 Private Universities and Colleges 31 Reaching Out 33 International Students 33 First Nations and Post-Secondary Education 34 New Brunwick High Schools 35 Paying for Post-Secondary Education 36 Tuition Fees, Debt and Student Aid 36 Government Funding 40 The Current MPHEC Funding Formula 41 A New Approach to Funding 42 The Challenge of Change 45 Summary of Recommendations 47 Appendices 50 Appendix A: Proposed Membership of the New Brunswick Post-Secondary Education Commission 50 Appendix B: Proposed Board Membership of the Presidents’ Council 51 Appendix C: Proposed Board Membership of Polytechnics 52 Appendix D: Those who made presentations to the Commission on Post-Secondary Education in New Brunswick 53 ii Commission on Post-Secondary Education in New Brunswick Seizing the Opportunity: An Action Plan to Create New Brunswick’s Strategic Advantage Introduction New Brunswick has the opportunity to take on a lower birth rates. At the same time, we know that the leadership role amongst Canadian provinces in need for post-secondary education and training is the quality and effectiveness of its post-secondary reaching further and further into the workplace. education. By investing in its future it can offer students a fully integrated, seamless system that is accessible, The new reality is that more and more of what we affordable, and of high quality. The social, cultural do, in work and in life, requires a level of knowledge and economic benefits to the province and its and skill associated with a post-secondary education. communities would be substantial. This would give We are told that within this generation, 75 to 80 New Brunswick an enormous social and economic per cent of those employed will need some form advantage. We now live in a knowledge-based of post-secondary education (the current rate is society in which a post-secondary education has around 55 per cent) while in the United States it is become essential for the vast majority of individuals estimated that 90 per cent of the new economy and should be the birthright of every New Brunswicker. jobs created will require a post-secondary degree, This is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. The diploma or certificate. Combine these two factors – a alternative is neither acceptable nor prudent. declining population in the traditional post-secondary age group (18 to 24) and the increasing need for To seize this opportunity will require change; indeed, advanced education and training – and you have some significant changes. Yet, New Brunswick the outlines of the crisis we will face if we do not act has never shied away from such transformational appropriately and quickly. In short, we can celebrate changes before. The improvements in the post- the past, but we must build on it to secure our future. secondary system resulting from the Deutsch Commission’s in 1962 recommendations were not In meeting this challenge, we believe New Brunswick’s made without inconvenience or cost. But what a post-secondary system must pursue two overriding difference they made! A rationalization of institutions priorities.
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