About the Institution
In 1975, North Island College was established as a result of a collaborative agreement between four school districts and the Ministry of Education. Dr. Dennis Wing was appointed as the College’s first principal. With a small and dispersed population to serve in coastal towns and villages, NIC initially opted for a distance education model with outreach operations that took the college to the people. Delivery methods, in an era before cable and satellite television, as well as before internet communications, included mobile units and a short-lived experiment with a 160 ft ex-whale catcher ship, the Samarinda. The college earned a well-deserved reputation as a leader in open learning. Trades, technology and vocational programming have also grown. In 2004, North Island College offered its first undergraduate degree in Nursing in collaboration with Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina University-College), which was soon followed by a degree in Liberal Studies, also with Malaspina, and a Fine Arts degree, in collaboration with the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. In 2006, North Island College was granted approval to offer its own degree – the Bachelor of Business Administration, with an Accounting major – the first rural college in the province to be accorded that privilege.

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