Campus Plan
Vision
Vancouver Community College’s Campus Plan is designed to propel our institution into a new era of academic excellence, innovation, and community engagement. This plan reflects our commitment to creating an environment that fosters learning, collaboration, and sustainability, ensuring that our campus meets the evolving needs of our students, faculty, staff, and the broader community.
The plan guides VCC’s long-term development of its two urban campuses located in Downtown and East Vancouver. The catalyst project for the Campus Plan is the Centre for Clean Energy and Automotive Innovation.
Our vision
Campuses that embody innovation and respond to a changing city and region.
Objectives
In support of the Campus Plan vision, a series of six objectives were developed. These objectives served as the "backbones" of the plan while the concepts for the campuses emerged.
Campus Indigenization
VCC’s physical campuses will recognize, support, and celebrate past and present Indigenous learners. VCC will engage with Indigenous peoples and communities in meaningful ways, and advance recommendations in learning, campus planning, support services, and reconciliation.
Accessibility
VCC is a leader in the provision of programs for people of all abilities and backgrounds. VCC will strive for community members to continue to feel welcomed, safe, and engaged, 24/7. VCC’s diverse community will support an attitude that welcomes everyone and encourages community members to express their cultural identities and lived experiences.
Wellbeing
Through thoughtfully designed spaces supported by cutting edge technology, VCC will support a wholistic approach to wellbeing for its students, employees, and surrounding communities.
Sustainability
VCC seeks to be a leader in environmental stewardship and, in doing so, provide ethical and forward-thinking learning opportunities for its students. This will be achieved by embracing innovations in energy generation, greenhouse gas reductions, water conservation, food production, waste reduction, social wellbeing, and cultural awareness.
Collaborative Opportunities
As geographic and symbolic doorways to their respective neighbourhoods, VCC’s campuses will serve as visible and tangible centres for collaboration. VCC will prioritize inclusiveness and community by building and maintaining learning-centered relationships both internally among its departments and externally with its diverse community.
Strategic Partnerships
VCC is committed to exploring a wide range of potential strategic partnerships to leverage prevailing land and building assets for the future in the most effective way possible. These strategic partnerships include working with employers, other academic institutions around sectoral collaboration, and with others to explore opportunities to creatively develop land and new buildings.