Receiving a worldly and personal education all at once
Popular culture would have you believe that college lecture halls and classrooms are faceless, massive, densely populated spaces.
For 18 year old first-year NorQuest College Business Admin student Kendal Schamber, seeing the opposite came as quite a relief. Her high school graduating class featured 11 students.
“The small class sizes really attracted me to NorQuest because I am from a small town,” says the native of Goodsoil, Sask., population 300. “It would have been overwhelming to go into a large class. So the small classes made it more comfortable and easier to learn.”
Once Schamber began to settle in at NorQuest, the college’s additional attributes added to her comfort level. NorQuest is a student-centred and progressive learning institution with 55 per cent of students born outside of Canada, representing 87 countries.
“It feels really inclusive here,” she says. “You can see that this is an accepting place. There are so many different nationalities and it is not discriminating in any way.”
For the college, fostering that atmosphere isn’t done just for the sake of college harmony. The world, especially the business world in which Schamber hopes to one day be a part of, is getting smaller and smaller. NorQuest offers students the tools they need, both academically and culturally, to succeed on the global stage.
“The instructors are very personal,” she says. “And they are definitely here to try and help me succeed. I feel there are so many possibilities out there for me.”
The small class sizes really attracted me to NorQuest because I am from a small town. The small classes made it more comfortable and easier to learn.