College of New Caledonia unveils new students-first program

Apr 28, 2026 | 4:19 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – A special event was held at the College of New Caledonia to celebrate the launch of a new program: “Create your Possibilities.”

“We’re working within a region with our community partners and with our school districts to really focus our vision into our different age groups of students and within their school systems so that they can become familiar, comfortable, aware, engage, and get an experience before they choose where to go to post-secondary. So it’s really about relationship building, it’s about information sharing, it’s about access,” said the College’s Vice-President of Student Affairs Shelley Carter-Rose.

Carter-Rose explains the College has already spent a lot of time with students in the grades 10-12 range, and this new Create your Possibilities program is focused on students of all ages, even as young as elementary.

“The more they become comfortable with being at CNC, they’ll be able to make some good choices for their future,” Carter-Rose said.

As for what this program will look like, Carter-Rose says there are several different areas of focus, although a student-first approach is the priority. By engaging with students, the College says it plans on learning what students are, or aren’t, interested in, and will move forward accordingly.

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“It’s really about experiential learning and it’s about creating an experience that students will say: ‘in a couple of years, I’d like to come to CNC to do this.’ It gives them some time to get prepared,” Carter-Rose said.

Some programs, like potential summer camps, are being discussed, although implementation for large events like that will take some time. That is one of several ideas the College hopes to explore, with other ideas likely coming sooner than potential camps.

“Some other activities we’ll be doing are Discovery Nights, we’ll be doing welcome events, we’ll be doing hosting and bringing people in for days. We’re forming an advisory committee, we’ll map out a first year, second year, third year strategy plan, and we’ll start working on those,” Carter Rose said.

The College will be working with SD57, SD28, SD91 and Immaculate Conception School in implementing this new program.

by Tommy Osborne

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