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The University of Guelph has announced to shut down its two agricultural campuses in Eastern Ontario, as it aims to save millions of dollars amid lack of enrolments in recent years. The university revealed that its campuses in Kemptville and Alfred, Ont., both near Ottawa, will no longer be accepting any new students and will eventually stop teaching at the end of 2015. The announcement added that almost all their existing programs will be relocated or replaced at other schools, however the move will still cause at least 112 job losses.
According to a statement issued by the U of Guleph’s president, Alastair Summerlee, the provincial funding was squeezed and fewer students were enrolling in diploma and bachelor’s programs, which made running the two campuses unsustainable. Dr. Summerlee explained that the university will save approximately $7-million after relocating the programs and other research needs at a time when his school is trying to close a $32.4-million budget gap and facing pressure from the province to be more efficient. Dr. Summerlee stated that “the whole thing is just not working,” and “… the students are no longer regional. The jobs are no longer as regional as they were.”
The two campuses were being managed by Guelph since 1997 and had enrolled almost 145 students this year in diploma and bachelor’s programs ranging from horticulture to food and equine disciplines. Additionally, the campuses had also enrolled dozens students in short-course certifications like welding, as Kemptville focused mostly on agronomy and the Alfred location is Ontario’s only French-language agricultural college.
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