As of June 29, the College had received 4,324 applications, up 622 from the previous year and up 750 from the same time in 1996.

“We passed the 5,000 application mark for the first time last year in late August,” says registrar Linda Hoover. “I expect we’ll be there by the end of July.”

Admissions staff also estimates that the College is receiving an average of three applications per day through the LCC website. “Many more prospective students are using the web as tool for researching their options for post-secondary education,” says Hoover.

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University of Alberta: Faculty of Extension to offer Master of Arts in Communications and Technology

The Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta will soon be offering a new multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Communications and Technology (MACT). The new program is intended to address a need among workers in a variety of positions and fields for systematic study of communications in their workplaces. Since many of the issues in this area of study are related to the impact of modern communications technologies on the workplace, the MACT program will include a secondary focus on communications technologies.

The intended audience is knowledge workers filling a variety of positions in fields including: communications, promotions and marketing, human resources, fund development, design, writing and editing, consulting, management, and other knowledge sector areas. What these people have in common is that they operate in environments where productivity depends on effective communi-cation, and in which much of this communication is mediated by advanced technologies.

The MACT will be largely distance delivered via the Internet on a cohort, part-time basis. However, each May the cohort will be brought together for a three-week intensive Spring Institute on the University of Alberta campus