Shooting for the Moon...Again

Watching the construction of our campus near its end, while simultaneously observing the first class take shape, makes this one of the most exciting and rewarding times of my career. The only thing to even come close was working on the Apollo lunar landings during the halcyon days of the space program in the ‘60s and ‘70s.


The academic credentials and diversity of experience among these students applying to Quest are most impressive. We are very pleased to see students enrolling from all over Canada, the U.S. and such countries as Switzerland, Thailand, China, Bhuton, Germany and others. Our entire staff is thrilled by the scholastic achievements of our emerging student body. But we are also delighted by the curiosity demonstrated in the student dossiers. It turns out that “Questers” are an active, entrepreneurial lot who are deeply concerned about world poverty, the environment, self-improvement and making a difference - just as we had hoped they would be.

On the Quest web site, we have asked students from around the world to share their “quests,” to briefly outline a shape for their lives. You can read what dozens of young people have written about their journeys and the contributions they hope to make at http://www.questu.ca/about_quest/quests.php. Be sure to add yours as well.

My Quest may be even loftier than cracking the mysteries of the moon’s crust: To augment the Canadian landscape with a university that offers students and those who work with them, the opportunity to pursue personal quests that reverberate in wonderful ways all over this big blue planet.

Preview Days - A Window into Quest

I want to draw your attention to these recent photos of our campus in progress.

University Services (Front)

University Services Building (Back)

You can see from these images that the buildings at Quest University Canada—with their sweeping glass facades—were consciously designed to create openings to the natural world, not barriers to it.

Every day something emerges on our campus that wasn’t there before. A construction site begins to look like a building, which begins to look like a graceful modern library (below from a distance)—watching a university take shape is like watching a great work of art come to life.

For the parents and students reading this blog, I want to extend a personal invitation to our next campus Preview Day, Saturday, April 14, (click here) so you can experience Quest personally. Not only do our Preview Days offer you a glimpse of our splendid new facilities, these programs also provide a “taste of Quest,” offering mock classes and staff panels so you can experience the results of the philosophical revolution undergirding our classes and curriculum.

Of course, we offer admission and scholarship/financial aid information during these sessions. And I will be on hand to speak as well as answer any of your questions about Quest and why I think it’s the most important thing to happen in Canadian higher education in the last 50 years.

To make reservations for the April 14 event, simply complete the online registration form here. I very much look forward to meeting you.