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NorQuest College

NorQuest College is the largest comprehensive community college in Alberta, serving students at two campuses in the Edmonton region and throughout the province with full-time, part-time, online, and face-to-face learning options. NorQuest helps learners with diverse educational backgrounds complete or further their studies through post-secondary diploma, university transfer, certificate programs, English language training, academic upgrading, and continuing education options for rewarding career paths in health, community studies, business, environment, technology, hospitality, and diversity and inclusion training. By collaborating with business, industry, government, and communities, NorQuest ensures its learners receive workforce relevant, inclusive, and transformative educational experiences.

Current Role(s):
  • Members

Carolyn Campbell President and CEO

Carolyn Campbell is the President and CEO of NorQuest College. She is a former Deputy City Manager, Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism, and Associate Dean of Executive Education at the University of Alberta. 

She is working part time on a Doctoral degree in board governance of major art museums and the repatriation of cultural property, at the University of Oxford. Carolyn currently co-chairs the national Colleges and Institutes Canada EDI committee, and the Alberta Chamber of Commerce/Alberta Post-Secondary Network Talent Development Taskforce. 

Carolyn has served on over 25 boards and committees over the past two decades. She is past Chair of the United Way Cabinet of the Alberta Capital Region, past Vice-Chair of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Board of Governors, and has served on the Premier’s Council on Culture, the boards of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Winspear Centre, the Brian Webb Dance Company, the Peter Lougheed Leadership College, and many others primarily in education, arts and culture and city building.  

Carolyn is a practicing visual artist and is passionate about enhancing NorQuest College’s impact in the community and beyond.