CAMPUS 2020: THINKING AHEAD

Campus 2020 is a planning process that will shape the vision, mission, goals and objectives of B.C.’s post-secondary education system for the next 10 to 20 years. The intent of Campus 2020 is to connect opportunities presented by higher education, training and lifelong learning to the health and sustainability of B.C.’s communities, economy and the province as a whole.

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Geoff Plant, QC, will lead Campus 2020. Plant is a partner at the Heenan Blaikie law firm in Vancouver. He was Attorney General of British Columbia and minister responsible for treaty negotiations from 2001 to 2005. He was first elected to the British Columbia Legislature in 1996. As Attorney General, Plant chaired the legislative review committee and was minister responsible for the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform. Plant was raised in Vancouver and received his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard, and law degrees from Dalhousie in Nova Scotia and Southampton and Cambridge in England. He has lectured and written extensively on Aboriginal and education law.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISERS

Dr. Harold Shapiro was president of Princeton University from 1988 to 2001. After retiring from the presidency, he returned to full-time teaching and research in the federal U.S. Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 1996, he was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton to chair the National Bioethics Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Philosophical Society.

Sara Diamond is president of the Ontario College of Art and Design. She received her post-secondary education in Canada and the U.K. as a social historian, communications and new media theorist and creative practitioner. She has developed international summits that explored the future of new media, and built alliances between artists, designers, architects, scientists, and international and Canadian businesses. A former director at the Banff Centre, she taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the California Institute for the Arts.

Graham Smith is a prominent Maori education activist. He is known for his involvement in developing Kaupapa Maori Schooling in New Zealand in the 1980s. Smith has served as pro vice-chancellor (Maori) of the University of Auckland, and chairman of the Council for the Tribal University-Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, both of New Zealand. He has also worked with other indigenous/ First Nations peoples throughout the world, including Canada, the U.S., Taiwan, Chile and Australia.

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