British Columbia Open University
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| Motto | Quansem Ilep (To strive ahead) |
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| Type | Public |
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| Chancellor | Wally Oppal |
| President | Dr. Alan Shaver |
| Provost | Dr. Christine Bovis-Cnossen |
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Academic staff
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650 |
| Students |
On campus: 14,099 Distance education: 12,658 |
| Location | Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
| Campus | Urban |
| Sport Teams | Thompson Rivers WolfPack |
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Royal Blue Sage Green |
| Nickname | TRU WolfPack |
| Affiliations | U Sports, AUCC, IAU, CVU, CWUAA, CBIE, CUP, RUCBC. |
| Website | www |
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Coordinates: 50°40′6.32″N 120°21′56.22″W / 50.6684222°N 120.3656167°W
On campus: 14,099
Thompson Rivers University (commonly referred to as TRU) is a public teaching and research university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees and vocational training. Its main campus is in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, and its name comes from the two rivers which converge in Kamloops, the North Thompson and South Thompson. The university has a satellite campus in Williams Lake, BC and a distance education division called TRU-Open Learning. It also has several international partnerships through its TRU World division.
TRU offers 140 on-campus programs and approximately 60 online or distance programs through the Open Learning division, including trades apprenticeships, vocational certificates and diplomas, bachelor's and master's degrees and law.
Kamloops, the largest population centre in the regions now known as the Thompson-Okanagan and Cariboo-Chilcotin, was chosen by the BC provincial government as the site for one of several new two-year regional colleges to provide academic and vocational programs outside the urban centres served by the province's three universities. The Province founded Cariboo College in 1970, and classes for 367 full-time and 200 part-time students began in September, 1970, initially out of the Kamloops Indian Residential School facilities.
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