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Questions beyond majors: developing mental maturity in students
Check out this piece published in the Times Higher Education on how self-directed learning benefits undergraduates. This article was written by Quest Life Sciences Tutor, Dr. Marjorie Wonham, and former Quest Chief Academic Officer and tutor, Dr. Ryan Derby-Talbot who also recently published an article in Studies of Higher Education titled “Questions instead of majors:…
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Quest Alumnus Rayyan Chanda ’22 and Quest Academic Dean Halia Valladares Win Award at AIB Conference
At the most recent Academy of International Business (AIB) conference Quest student Rayyan Hamza Chanda was recognized for Best Undergraduate/Graduate Student Paper. His paper, entitled The Future of Supply Chain Management: Introducing Circularity, was the result of a collaboration with Quest Academic Dean Halia Valladares. Rayyan and Halia first began chatting about their shared research…
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Upcoming: Wool Weaving Workshop
On September 27th, Quest University is hosting a wool weaving workshop led by Tsawaysia Spukwus of the Squamish Nation. Squamish Nation member and educator Tsawaysia Spukwus, also well-known in the community as Alice Guss, has been weaving for ten years and making drums for twenty years. Join to learn a new skill and get in touch with…
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Upcoming: Wool Weaving Workshop
On September 27th, Quest University is hosting a wool weaving workshop led by Tsawaysia Spukwus of the Squamish Nation. Squamish Nation member and educator Tsawaysia Spukwus, also well-known in the community as Alice Guss, has been weaving for ten years and making drums for twenty years. Join to learn a new skill and get in touch with…
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Every Bird, Bee, Mollusk and Tree
Andrew Simon, a Quest alum, is leading Galiano residents in a project to document every species on their island home. [This is a teaser story made of excerpts from the full and fascinating article over at The Tyee!] One of the first steps of the project was collecting the names of every species that had…
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Pride Month Through a Quest Student’s Eyes
Gerhardt Troan (he/she/they) is a fourth-year student at Quest, originally from Langley, British Columbia. In their years at Quest, Gerhardt has been coordinator to the Lumen Room, performer at Cabaret, both to the Quest Annual Drag Show, and speaker alongside Pride Squamish on the Squamish Welcome Centre’s panel on LGBTQ2S+ and Queer Experiences in Squamish.…
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From Question to Answer: Building a Green Business with Juan Pablo Alcocer
While studying at Quest University, Juan Pablo Alcocer’s Question was, “How can one create and develop a green business?” Today, he is providing an answer to that question by launching his own green business, Casa Akaw, building a sustainable housing community for surfers and digital nomads in Mexico. Casa Akaw consists of 18 tiny homes…
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Chief Dale Harry Appointed as Quest’s Next Chancellor
Quest’s longest serving board member, Hereditary Chief Pekultn Siyam (Dale Harry), has been appointed as the university’s fifth Chancellor. The succession ceremony was woven into this year’s graduation ceremony, wherein Chief Dale took over the role from Peter W. Webster, who had served as Chancellor since 2017. Chief Dale was born and raised in Squamish.…
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All together! A Quest Graduation unlike any other.
Quest University celebrated its first in-person graduation with graduates from the past three years after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With graduating classes from the past three years crossing the stage, the atmosphere was full of joy and accomplishment with grads having completed their education both on campus and online throughout the…
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Art Unveiling Event Raises $10K for Biodiversity Resilience Scholarship
The elusive white-haired Kermode bear—also known as the “Spirit Bear”—resides in the lush temperate rainforest of coastal British Columbia, rarely observed by human eyes despite its bright pelt. The rare white coat of the Kermode—antithetically still a subspecies of the normally dark-furred American black bear—contrasts starkly with the myriad shades of green found throughout the…
