INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE/DECEMBER 13, 1988

 

The first phase of Kwantlen
College’s permanent Surrey
campus will begin construction
soon, after the provincial govern-
ment announced funding this
fall for the new $20 million cam-
pus. Phase I is slated to be
opened in early 1990, with
175,000 sq. ft. to serve the
equivalent of 2,000 full-time stu-
dents, reports the Now
Newspapers.

Tenders have been called to

prepare the 22-acre site in the
12700-block 72nd avenue in

© Newton. It will replace the
college’s existing Surrey cam-
pus, a collection of leased
portable buildings on 140th
Street.

The new campus will serve
the student population from Sur-

 

 

New Campus for
Kwantlen, Finally

 

 

 

 

 

rey, Delta, Richmond and
Langley. At the present time
many of the region’s students
are attending classes at better
equipped colleges such as
Douglas College and Vancouver
Community College.

In a Douglas College
Statistician’s report for the fall
of 1986, 1242 students from the

 

Kwantlen College region at-
tended Douglas College - just
over 26% of the total Douglas
College enrollment. More
recent figures were not available.
Phase II will be an additional
280,000 sq. ft to handle another

1,700 students from the
Kwantlen region.