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Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology
Motto	An Environment for Learning
Established	1967
Type	Public College of Applied Arts and Technology
President	Barbara Taylor
Students	3500
Undergraduates	Available
Postgraduates	Available
Location	North Bay, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
Campus	the Education Centre is on 720-acre (2.9 km2) wooden escarpment; Aviation Campus, Commerce Court
Sports	varsity and extramural
Mascot	panther
Affiliations	CCAA, ACCC, AUCC, CBIE, CUP.
Website	http://www.canadorec.on.ca/

Coordinates: 46°20′39.08″N 79°29′30.79″W / 46.3441889°N 79.4918861°W / 46.3441889; -79.4918861

Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology is a community college located in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1967 as a campus of Sudbury's Cambrian College, and became an independent institution in 1972. Canadore has a full-time enrolment of 3500 students and is well known for its popular summer arts program, "Artsperience". The three main campuses of Canadore are the Aviation Campus, Commerce Court Campus, and the Education Centre (College Drive Campus). There are also satellite campuses in Parry Sound, Mattawa, and West Nipissing. The Education Centre is situated on a 650-acre (2.6 km²) wooded escarpment with over 26km of wilderness trails.

[edit] Programs

Canadore offers more than 95 full-time post-secondary programs, focused in several key academic sectors: aviation, business, communication arts, health sciences, hospitality and tourism, recreation and leisure, human services, information technology, law and justice, skilled trades, apprenticeship, "Artsperience", and preparatory studies.

Canadore College Hospitality and Tourism program is one of the top programs in all of Canada. With a fully functional dining room open during the day, first semester three days a week and in second semester four days. The dining room is also open for night service on Wednesdays in first semester and Tuesday, Wednesdays in second Semester.

[edit] Student life

[edit] The Wall

The Wall Bar & Grillhouse is owned and operated by the Canadore Students Representative Council and the Nipissing University Students Union. Located in the Student Centre at the College Drive Campus, this 700-capacity student centre features a sports bar, lounge, is host to bands, entertainment and comedy acts throughout the year.

[edit] Sports and recreation

Canadore athletes (Panthers) compete at the varsity level in men's and women's fastball, volleyball, and indoor soccer. There are basketball and hockey teams at the extramural level. Snofest is the annual winter carnival, leagues, tournaments, and activity days.

[edit] Media

Canadore Broadcast: Radio students run the Panther Radio station, CRFM, which is broadcast only on the Internet on the station's website.^[1] Students in the college's journalism program produce an online campus newspaper and podcast series, The Claw.^[2]

[edit] Buildings and features

Canadore shares its main campus facilities with Nipissing University. There is also a satellite campus at the Jack Garland Airport for their aviation programs, and a campus on Commerce Court where the theatre arts, police foundations, computer programming and other related programs are conducted.

Cafeteria: Full-course meals and short-order lunches are available, along with Pizza Pizza, Mr. Sub and Tim Hortons. Access to microwaves is available.
The Wall Bar & Grillhouse: A student operated restaurant/bar with a full roadhouse menu.
Tim Hortons: Three on-campus locations
The Canadore Room: lunches and dinners are offered at reasonable prices within this dining room, which is operated as part of the Hospitality/ Tourism program.
Pal's Variety: An on-campus convenience store which offers food and snack items.
Euphoria: An on-campus smoothie bar located beside Pal's Variety.

[edit] Residences

Canadore has two residences, a town-house style residence located directly beside the Education Centre (College Drive Campus), and a new apartment-style residence at the bottom of College Drive. Both residences provide single rooms.

Canadore’s town-house residence offers accommodation for 350 students and the apartment-style residence houses 146 students. The townhouses have six bedrooms, a four-piece and a two-piece washroom, a kitchen, a large combined dining and living room area and limited storage space. The bedrooms are furnished with a bed, desk, bookshelf, dresser, full-length mirror, study desk lamp, wall-to-wall carpeting and a closet.

Shared facilities include the kitchen, which is equipped with a fridge and stove, and the dining room, which is furnished with a table and six chairs. Two couches, a coffee table, two chairs and a lamp are also provided to make each living room.

The apartment-style residence, also referred to as Lower Residence, opened in September 2004. This new facility features six floors of four bedroom suites. A laundry room, mailboxes, a games room with a pool table, and assembly room can be found on the main floor. A lounge with a television and couches can be found on every other floor of this six-storey building. The room features a single bed, a desk with chair, shelving with space to hang clothes and a telephone. The suite includes two full bathrooms featuring a bath and shower, a common area with a television with cable, chairs and a coffee table, and a dining table with four chairs. A shared kitchen with cabinets, sink, stove and refrigerator is also in the common area.

Residence assistants

Residence assistants are senior students who live right in residence and will help students with academic or personal problems. If they cannot help, residence assistance will refer students to someone who can.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

Higher education in Ontario

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