Governance

Board leadership requires that the board provide the vision, values, mission and outcomes. To do so, the board must first have an adequate vision of its own job. The Policy Governance approach provides a powerful framework for structuring this task. Following this approach, boards can free themselves from unnecessary, time-consuming involvements and focus on the real business of governance: creating, sustaining and fulfilling the vision, values, mission and outcomes.

Board Policy: Governance as Stewardship Policy Manual

Board Minutes: March 22, 2018

Board of Governors

Olds College is a board-governed public College operating under the Post-Secondary Learning Act.

Olds College - Mandate Statement

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Olds College is a board-governed public College operating under authority of the PSLA.

The College awards certificates, diplomas, applied degrees, and baccalaureate degrees designed to meet the needs of both learners and the communities served by the College. Olds College programs offer learning opportunities in agriculture, horticulture, land and water resource management, animal science, business, fashion, technology and apprenticeship training. A number of additional programs and services are offered to serve the needs of the region including adult basic education, career training and non-credit courses, as well as cultural and recreational activities.

The expertise and facilities at Olds College are both specialized and unique, including a significant land base for hands-on learning. The College works with industry partners and clients to develop and deliver a range of training programs and products designed to meet desired specifications. These outreach services are offered throughout the Province of Alberta, across Canada and internationally.

Olds College programs require learners to acquire and demonstrate competencies defined and updated through collaboration with representative industry partners and advisory groups. The quality of Olds College programs is continuously improved through a policy-­based cyclical review process that seeks input from learners, graduates, employers, industry advisors, faculty, and staff.

Olds College offers a residential campus environment that helps learners to achieve successful outcomes by providing a safe, caring, living and learning community in rural Alberta. Learners at Olds College have access to a complete range of services designed to enable each of them to meet their educational goals.

Olds College is committed to using innovative partnerships to sustain and enhance the ability of the institution to achieve the outcomes established by the Board of Governors. Olds College is an active participant in eCampus Alberta, promoting and supporting learning through technology. Consistent with the Campus Alberta concept and the Pan Canadian Protocol on Mobility and Transfer, the College is signatory to articulation agreements with universities and colleges provincially, nationally and internationally. Olds College, through the Community Learning Campus and other initiatives, is committed to expanding learning opportunities for rural Albertans and works with educational partners in the secondary schools in Olds and the regional community. Through its affiliation with the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics of the University of Alberta, Olds College participates in a broad range of joint educational and research activities.

The College actively pursues involvement in applied research that advances innovation-based rural economic development in Alberta. The applied research activity undertaken by the faculty and research staff at the College supports and informs the curriculum through exposing learners to the most innovative and up-to-date information available in a variety of disciplines. 

Approved by the Minister of Innovation and Advanced Education, June 12, 2014