Conestoga is growing to keep pace with student, industry and community expectations in this extremely competitive education environment.
What expansion projects are we developing right now?
School of Engineering and Information Technology and Institute for Food Processing Technology
The School of Engineering and Information Technology, home to Ontario’s first of its kind Institute of Food Processing Technology (IFPT), will be the anchor building on Conestoga’s new 130 acre Cambridge Campus. This unique 260,000 sq ft facility will focus its programming on training for advanced manufacturing, engineering, information technology, and food processing. This new building will open in the summer of 2011.
School of Health and Life Sciences and Community Services
Conestoga’s School of Health is a leader in the education of health care and life sciences practitioners. Our graduates serve in fields as diverse as front-line Nursing, Seniors Care, Emergency Services, Biotechnology, and Health Informatics. The establishment of a 70,000 sq ft applied learning and research facility at the Doon campus, will allow Conestoga to create Ontario’s most advanced health care/biotechnology training resource within a polytechnic / college environment and double the number of students trained.
Motive Power Skills Training Centre
In response to industry demand for a broader and more diversified offering of programs, Conestoga will create, through an addition and renovations, a dedicated 29,000 sq ft Motive Power Skills Training Centre. The Guelph campus will train practitioners (technicians, apprentices and pre-apprentices) in four specific high demand areas: Alternative Fuel Vehicles, Motor Coach Passenger Vehicles, Heavy Equipment and Small Engine Vehicles.
HRAC Skills Training Centre
Focused on providing the most innovative internal and external training environments in Ontario, the new 10,000 sq ft HRAC Skills Training Centre will serve the industry and enhance its base of qualified/highly trained professionals. In January 2011, Conestoga introduced several new programs in the new HRAC Skills Training Centre.
Ingersoll Power Centre
Working with the Town of Ingersoll and industry partners, Conestoga is creating a Power Centre of Excellence. In June 2010, a modern 12,000 square foot facility was opened in Ingersoll to support the Electrical Utilities in Ontario.
Roofing Skills Training Centre
In partnership with the Ontario Industrial Roofing Contractors Association (OIRCA), Conestoga is creating Ontario’s only dedicated Roofing Skills Training Centre. In May 2010; this modern 12,000 sq ft Centre was opened to support industry through the development of new training programs that will support new and emerging roofing technologies, construction practices and materials.
Over 60% of Conestoga students qualify for government assistance!
By choosing to direct your gift towards an award, bursary or scholarship you will be giving the gift of education to a deserving student and making a significant impact on the regional and national economies and society. You can either create your own fund or donate to an existing one.
Conestoga Student Excellence Fund
Gifts to the Conestoga Student Excellence Fund allow Conestoga the greatest flexibility in responding to students needs and reacting to changing circumstances. This endowed fund supports the demonstrated achievements and needs of outstanding potential of all Conestoga’s students, from all programs and years from entrance to graduation. Support this fund now!
Named funds
Choosing an endowed fund allows your contribution to become a permanent part of the College. Endowed funds ensure that awards, bursaries and scholarship live forever. A minimum gift of $12,500 will establish an endowed fund that may be named for you, or to honour a special person in your life - a family member, friend, or favorite teacher, for example. Each year income will be disbursed to students providing much needed financial support so they can complete their studies. There are many established endowed funds which you may also choose to support through your gift.
Examples of some Student Aid/Awards options:
- Scholarships are monetary awards based on academic excellence and, in some cases, other forms of earned merit. Scholarships have a specified value in terms of monetary benefit to the recipient. Scholarship categories, include entrance, in-course, part-time, specific achievement (open to all students, usually for achievement in a single course), and graduating students.
- Bursaries are monetary awards based on financial need as determined by Conestoga, and may also include a minimum expectation of academic achievement or other miscellaneous criteria.
- Academic Grants are monetary awards based on a combination of merit and financial need. A student may receive an Academic Grant in addition to any other scholarships, prizes, or bursaries for which she/he is eligible.
- Ontario Trust for Student Support (OTSS) Funds - In 2005, the Province of Ontario created the Ontario Trust for Student Support (OTSS) to encourage alumni and friends of post-secondary institutions to establish endowments to support Student Aid/Awards at a college or university of their choice. The OTSS matches endowed funds that provide bursaries and academic grants to Ontario students. Donors who create their own endowed award could see their gift matched up to 2.5 times through this program!
Please contact us for more information about establishing a student award at Conestoga.
School of Business and Hospitality Fund
Business students quickly learn that the world is their classroom and this fund supports student participation in competitions and conferences or through enabling other student initiatives such as guest speakers. This fund provides the School with the flexible resources to support student activities.
School of Engineering and Information Technology Fund
In a highly applied learning environment, this fund is used to support students as active participants in their own education through in-class projects, design teams, competitions, conferences, speakers and engineering student groups.
School of Health & Life Sciences and Community Services Fund
This student-focused fund ensures that students will be well prepared for the responsibilities ahead of them upon graduation. The School of Health & Life Sciences and Community Services Fundsupports visiting lecturers, participation in professional conferences, and the necessary resources to enhance and expand the learning environment.
School of Trades and Apprenticeship Fund
The School of Trades and Apprenticeship Fund ensures that students have the resources necessary to apply the theory they have learned in the classroom; this fund is used to purchase equipment and materials used on a daily basis.
As a donor you will have many ties to many areas of Conestoga. Perhaps you are wondering where your gift will have the greatest impact on Conestoga and our current students. Consider the Conestoga Annual Fund.
Make A Difference Today
The Conestoga Annual Fund is one of the few sources of undesignated income for the College. When you make an annual gift to the Fund, you give Conestoga the ability to direct your gift to the area of highest priority, urgent projects and emerging opportunities. Your gift will be used in the same year it is given to support projects that would otherwise not be possible.
Among other things, your gift today, and those of your fellow Conestoga donors, will:
- provide much needed financial aid to students who might not otherwise be able to afford an education at Conestoga
- enable students to work with the kind of leading edge technology they will use when they start their careers
- expand our library holdings
- build a closer relationship between you and Conestoga
Each year a growing number of donors make gifts through the Conestoga Annual Fund, helping to maintain Conestoga’s reputation for excellence.
Thank you for making your gift today.
Please contact us for more information about the Conestoga Annual Fund.