Sprott Shaw College

Sprott Shaw College

Motto	Learning with Purpose Since 1903
Type	Private career training institution
Established	1903
President	Patrick Dang
Students	4,500 (annually)
Location	, British Columbia, Canada
Nickname	SSC
Affiliations	College of LPN of BC
Website	http://sprottshaw.com/

Sprott Shaw College (SSC) is a private Canadian career training institution, headquartered in British Columbia.^[1] Over the years, Sprott Shaw has expanded its courses to offer programs in health care, tourism, hospitality, business, administrative, and international studies.

History

When Robert James Sprott became partners with William Henry Shaw of Shaw Colleges in 1903, they opened the first Sprott-Shaw school, called Vancouver Business Institute. Their development plan included four schools in Vancouver, one in Nanaimo and one in Victoria. In 1913, Robert James Sprott and James Beatty opened Sprott-Shaw College in Victoria, which has been in continuous operation since its opening. The college survived economic recessions, two World Wars and the Great Depression.

Sprott Shaw designed programs to retrain military personnel after World War II. The training included Morse Code, radio broadcasting and aviation. The college established a broadcast station for the school with a signal being picked up all the way in Hawaii. The station was known as CKMO, which is now CFTE. Broadcasters Jack Cullen and Ernie Rose were graduates of the school. Many well-known students including world-renowned artist Emily Carr spent time with Sprott Shaw.

In 1964, Ernie Henderson of Henderson Colleges bought Sprott Shaw and was the owner until his death in 1974. The Victoria school was then bought by Commander Robert N.G. Smith, who operated it until 1988 when Terry Hackett purchased the school. In 1991, the school was taken over by Dean and Sherri Duperron. Dean Duperron successfully grew the school from one small campus in Victoria to one of the largest career colleges in British Columbia. The college has grown to 20 locations across the province of British Columbia. Dean Duperron was responsible for many of Sprott-Shaw's innovative programs, such as the Class Act Canada Initiative.^[2]

In 2012, the school, then known as Sprott-Shaw Community College, restructured into Sprott Shaw College and Sprott Shaw Degree College. In 2013, Sprott Shaw Degree College was renamed Acsenda School of Management.

Corporate

In December of 2007, Dean Duperron sold Sprott Shaw Community College to CIBT Education Group Inc. They now operate under the legal name of Sprott-Shaw Degree College Inc. Sprott Shaw continues to expand its market and now has campuses in China and the Philippines and offers Bachelors and Pre-Master's degrees.

Since 2010, Patrick Dang has been the President of Sprott Shaw College. (see Financial Statements)

References

↑ "Private Career Training Institutions Act", SBC 2003, c.79
↑ Class Act Canada. Internationalscholarships.ca. Retrieved on 2014-04-12.

External links

Universities and Colleges in British Columbia

Public universities	British Columbia Capilano Emily Carr of Art and Design Fraser Valley Kwantlen Polytechnic Northern British Columbia Royal Roads Simon Fraser Thompson Rivers Vancouver Island Victoria

Private universities	Adler School of Professional Psychology Canada West Fairleigh Dickinson Quest Trinity Western

Public colleges	Camosun Douglas Educacentre Langara New Caledonia Northwest Community North Island Northern Lights Okanagan Rockies Selkirk Vancouver Community

Private colleges	Canadian Columbia Columbia Bible Coquitlam Native Education Sprott-Shaw Community Summit Pacific The War

Institutes	British Columbia Institute of Technology Justice Institute of British Columbia Nicola Valley Institute of Technology

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