"Robert Galster -
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AFTER nearly a decade
“of-successful growth,
_Canadian International °
College (CIC) is starting
to feel the effects of the .
“recent economic melt-
: down i in “Asia.

Falling oO
conoinic *

hange | rites and |
uncertainty: have

conspired to reduce the flow of.

® Asian’ students coming to the
Lower Mainland:

~Asia result, C IC, which has
been operating: a “caiTipus in

“increase the size of the’ school

Nelson \ in | addition: to . the”:

Dollarton Highway facility, has:

decided to’ combine the two:
But-CIC: president. Gary

‘Mullin said the school is view-

first rec

ing ‘the ‘regent Yownturn i

enrollment as only a crmpomary S

trend.
. “Japan, right now in ‘the last
8 ntonths, is \periencing its
ion in 30 years,” said
Mullins.
tain” amount of
“Japan.”
As aresult, the Nelson cam-
- pus is not closing. Rather, said
Mullins,
nite. programs:

for. “non-

‘Japanese. students. However, :
CIC's: decision to consolidate '
the owo campuses into one’ in.

North. Vancouver. will, actually

and its student body.

Mullins said CIC has experi~

enced 'a*15% -reduction. in its

total number. of offshore stu-"”

“North
student

e but: ‘the
cam us”.

I: Collega pres’

That is causing a.cer-:,
distress in;

itll be used tor alter-

“sem 300- “plus students ta’ lite.

tle more than 400.

CIC offers a-variety of pro-
vrams.10 students of different:
nationalities, bur the bulk GF its

- student: body is composed “oi”.

Japanese students: enrolled ina
four-year diploma program in,
international relations.)

‘To date, those students have

and * Vancouver; but: ‘starting
next September all of them, will,

‘be based in North Vancouver.

“The plan. is to accommo-
date’'all four years on’ the
Vancouver — campus,” “said

‘Mullins.

While CIC vis” raking. the |
drop in ‘enrollment. in Strid

_other.. companies’ ‘and hom

owners . with” student: lodgers

care. beginning to. feel. the
“squeeze.

“The Koreans have dropped

nd particularly.in Japan, constitute little more than é ‘a short term’ problem. :

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