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Collège de l’Acadie is a Francophone post-secondary community college in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island with headquarters in the community of Wellington.
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History
Collège de l’Acadie was founded in August 1988 in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia as the Francophone community college for that province. It subsequently expanded to Prince Edward Island in the 1990s under a joint-funding agreement between the two provincial governments.
Its main campus and administration was headquartered in Tusket with satellite campuses in Francophone regions throughout Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Campuses
- Nova Scotia campuses
- Tusket, Yarmouth County
- Meteghan River, Digby County
- Pomquet, Antigonish County
- Dartmouth, Halifax County
- Petit-de-Grat, Richmond County
- Saint-Joseph-du-Moine, Inverness County
- Prince Edward Island campuses
- Wellington, Prince County
- Charlottetown, Queens County
- Deblois, Prince County
- North Rustico, Queens County
- Souris, Kings County
2003-2008 restructuring
In 2003 the Nova Scotia operations of Collège de l’Acadie were merged into the Université Sainte-Anne which is headquartered at Pointe-de-l'Église, however, the Prince Edward Island operations continued under the name Collège Acadie Île-du-Prince-Édouard. On June 23, 2008 the college was granted official status by the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.
Programs
The college offers technical and professional programs and all campuses are equipped with distance education systems such as audiographic conference systems and videoconference systems, as well as access to the Internet.
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- Universities and colleges in Prince Edward Island
- Educational institutions established in 1988
- Education in Digby County, Nova Scotia
- Education in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
- Education in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia
- Education in the Halifax Regional Municipality
- Education in Richmond County, Nova Scotia
- Education in Inverness County, Nova Scotia
- Education in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
- Education in Queens County, Prince Edward Island
- Education in Kings County, Prince Edward Island
- Acadia
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