Studies may be over for many of the students at Coast Mountain College as summer moves forward, but when the various programs resume in the fall, students, staff and faculty at the Prince Rupert campus will have a new Associate Dean on hand.
Mr. Matt Adolphe will be taking on the duties of Associate Dean of Business, Access Education and Fine Arts at the Prince Rupert campus as of July 15th, with Sarah Zimmerman from Coast Mountain College providing the North Coast Review with a thumbnail sketch of the newest member of the college administration ranks.
Mr. Adolphe arrives in Prince Rupert with a combined B. A. in History and Indigenous studies from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario and M.A. in Communication Management from the University of South Australia in Adelaide.
He has been working in post-secondary education for almost 20 years and in that time has been an instructor, a coordinator and an academic chair.
Away from his academic work he is also an author and speaker with a number of his published works related to career development, a topic that he is very passionate about.
Some of the titles that provide a glimpse at his interest in the genre include:
Would You Hire You?
Canadian Workplace Culture: Mastering the Unspoken Rules
A sample of some of his presentation skills can also be found from this webinar session.
In addition to his writing and speaking activities, Mr. Adolphe is also a founding member of the Metis Nation of Ontario, which should catch the eye of Prince Rupert's expanding Metis community, he also is looking forward to the opportunity to work with the Indigenous Nations that are across the Northwest and on Haida Gwaii.
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| Mr. Matt Adolphe will join the Prince Rupert campus of Coast Mountain College as an Associate Dean next month (photo from LinkedIn) |
He has had extensive travels and employment previously in a number of countries in Asia and his resume also includes work as a course facilitator, with experience in the development of courses for newcomers to Canada.
That's something that may just may find a few visitors from Prince Rupert's Multicultural community stopping by the Prince Rupert Campus to explore the prospect of some shared opportunities.
He arrives on campus on July 15th and he and his family will be settling into Prince Rupert life through the summer.
As Mr. Adolphe takes up his duties, he will be filling one of the recently vacated positions at the Prince Rupert Campus, which recently saw Mr. Jose Areekadan depart for Thomson Rivers University after a fifteen month stay in the city.
As well long time educator and former Dean of Instruction, Mr. Pouyan Maboubi has also relocated, leaving earlier this spring for the Lower Mainland.
Like his predecessors, the new Associate Dean will also find that he becomes somewhat of a liaison between the community and the main campus of Terrace, with a number of local items of interest sure to be brought to his attention once he has settled in to his office.
Among them, an ongoing desire for expanded course options at the Prince Rupert campus, as well as the often mentioned hopes for some form of campus housing; a need that would seem to be growing as Coast Mountain College expands its focus towards attracting more and more international students.
The topic of developing campus housing for Prince Rupert is a theme that goes back to the days of Mayor Jack Mussallem who raised the need often with both college and provincial officials, all in hopes of moving both towards a housing plan for this community.
That call for housing seems to have been less of a priority for the current City Council membership, which rarely has called attention to the topic over the last four years and for the most part rarely speaks to many notes of interest when it comes to the College.
At the moment, Campus housing is currently available at the Terrace campus and in May of last year, Coast Mountain College opened housing options for the growing number of International students at the Smithers campus.
Coast Mountain Accommodation
Considering how Prince Rupert is still facing somewhat of an affordable housing crunch, it would seem that the issue is still one which should make it towards some form or progress sooner rather than later.
For more items of note on Coast Mountain College see our archive page here.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
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