Collège de l'Acadie was a

Francophone French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, by which time French was the l ...

post-secondary community college in the

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provinces of

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

and

Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has seve ...

with headquarters in the community of

Tusket Tusket is a small fishing community located in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia on route 308. History "Neketaouksit", the Mi'kmaq word for the "Great Forked Tidal River", evolved to what is now called Tusket. The village was originally settled by ...

. Its Nova Scotia operations are now part of

Université Sainte-Anne Université Sainte-Anne is a French-language university in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia, Canada. It and the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick are the only French-language universities in the Maritime Provinces. History It was found ...

while its operations in Prince Edward Island were renamed Collège Acadie Île-du-Prince-Édouard and later

Collège de l'Île Collège de l'Île (formerly Collège Acadie Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a Francophone post-secondary community college in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island with headquarters in the community of Wellington. It was originally a campus o ...

History

Collège de l'Acadie was founded in August 1988 in the Canadian province of

as the Francophone community college for that province. It subsequently expanded to Prince Edward Island in the 1990s under a joint-funding agreement between the two provincial governments. In 2003, the Nova Scotia operations of Collège de l'Acadie were merged with

. The PEI operations became

. Its main campus and administration were headquartered in

with satellite campuses in Francophone regions throughout Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island until its merger with Sainte-Anne.

Campuses

;Nova Scotia campuses *

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Meteghan River Digby County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. History It was named after the Township of Digby; this was named in honour of Rear Admiral Robert Digby, who dispatched HMS ''Atalanta'' to convey Loyalists from New York City in ...

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* Pomquet,

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* Dartmouth, Halifax County * Petit-de-Grat,

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* Saint-Joseph-du-Moine, Inverness County ;Prince Edward Island campuses *

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, Prince County *

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, Queens County * Deblois, Prince County *

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, Queens County * Souris, Kings County

2003-2008 restructuring

In 2003 the Nova Scotia operations of Collège de l'Acadie were merged into the

which is headquartered at Pointe-de-l'Église, however, the Prince Edward Island operations continued under the name Collège Acadie Île-du-Prince-Édouard. On June 23, 2008 the college was granted official status by the

Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island (french: Assemblée législative de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is the sole chamber of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The Legislative Assembly meets at Province House, which is locate ...

References

Programs

The college offered technical and professional programs and all campuses are equipped with

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ...

systems such as audiographic conference systems and videoconference systems, as well as access to the Internet.

External links

Collège Acadie Île-du-Prince-Édouard

Université Sainte-Anne, Études collégiales
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