College Expansion Initiative

Operational Assumptions

CEI operates under the assumptions that it will:

• Invest in cost-effective programming that fosters and maintains a comprehensive college-system
• Encourage programs that enhance the linkages between colleges, between the colleges and the universities and between the colleges and the secondary school system in order to achieve a more co-ordinated approach to labour market development
• Enhance the linkages between the colleges and business and industry that have been carefully forged over the years
• Ensure that new programming meshes with key socioeconomic policy areas given the close connection between economic prosperity and training
• Build upon the strengths of the colleges and, through investments in new programs, refine their respective roles
• Recognize that Red River College, because of its size and location, plays a lead role in developing and maintaining the system's comprehensiveness
• Use existing infrastructure as much as possible