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The board is composed of up to 11 voting members appointed by the Minister of Advanced Education and includes a chair and vice-chair.
Nicholas Rubidge, Chair
Roger Blackman, Vice-Chair
Richard Tees
Harro Van Brummelen
Robert Rogerson
John Stubbs
John Winter
Stanley Shapiro
Don Ramos
Tim McEwan
Thomas Johnstone
There are 3 ex-officio members appointed by the Minister of Advanced Education:
Frank Gelin
Jim Wright
Ruth Wittenberg
To contact the board or members of the board, please e-mail the board secretariat.
Nicholas Rubidge, Chair
Nicholas Rubidge is the president and chief executive officer of College of the Rockies. He has more than 30 years' experience in the post-secondary system. Before joining the College of the Rockies, Rubidge served as director of the colleges and institutional planning branch at the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, Training and Technology in Victoria and as vice-president of Royal Roads University. In 1975, Rubidge was one of the educational administrators hired to create a multi-campus college for the East Kootenay region. That college became East Kootenay Community College and was later renamed College of the Rockies. Rubidge serves as chair of the Post-Secondary Employers Association. His educational background includes a master's degree in agricultural economics and a doctorate in adult education from the University of British Columbia, and a bachelor of science degree from London University in England.
Roger Blackman, Vice-Chair
Roger Blackman is special adviser to the dean of arts for Simon Fraser University, where he has taught psychology since 1967. He is a fellow of the Canadian psychological association, was a founding member of the provincial degree program review committee and served on the board of the B.C. Council on Admissions and Transfer. Blackman received his PhD and master of science in psychology from McGill University. He holds a bachelor of science with honours from Edinburgh University and a bachelor of science from London University.
 Richard Tees
Richard Tees is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British Columbia. He has acted in UBC management and advisory roles for 40 years, serving as head of the psychology department and on its senate for 15 years. Tees was a member of the executive of the UBC Okanagan transition management team that oversaw the establishment of a second campus of UBC in Kelowna, serving as its acting deputy vice-chancellor and academic vice-president until July 2006. He is the past president of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science and the Canadian Council of Departments of Psychology, a past chair of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grant selection committee and is currently the chair of the board of directors of Cetecea Networks Corp. Tees received his PhD in psychology (biopsychology) from the University of Chicago and a bachelor of arts with honours from McGill University. His academic honours include election as a Fellow in each of the three major North American scholarly societies: the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.
Harro Van Brummelen
Harro Van Brummelen is a founding professor of Trinity Western University's teacher education program. He worked for 23 years in public and private schools as a teacher, principal and provincial co-ordinator before joining Trinity Western University in 1986. At Trinity Western, where he is currently professor of education, he has served as dean of undergraduate studies and dean of the School of Education. He is also the past chair of the Association of British Columbia Deans of Education. He received his doctor of education from the University of British Columbia, his master of education from the University of Toronto and a bachelor of science in mathematics and physics from McGill University.
Robert Rogerson
Robert Rogerson is the vice-president academic at University Canada West. He is the former dean of arts and science at the University of Lethbridge, and he has also held academic appointments at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he served as head of geography, assistant director to the Labrador Institute for Northern Studies and executive director of Oceans 2000. At the University of Lethbridge, he most recently completed a second term as professor and chair of the geography department. In 2001, he was awarded the Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Excellence in Teaching Geography, and in 2005 was presented with the J. L. Robinson Award for Meritorious Service to the Discipline of Geography by the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers. He is president (2007-2009) of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Rogerson holds his bachelor of arts (honours) from the University of Liverpool in the U.K., his master of science from McGill University, and his PhD from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
John Stubbs
John Stubbs is a professor of history and past president and vice-chancellor of Simon Fraser University. A long-time university executive and educator, Stubbs has served as president and vice-chancellor of Trent University, associate dean of arts at the University of Waterloo, governor of Sir Sandford Fleming College, and a member of the executive of the Council of Ontario Universities. He has taught politics and history at Trent University and history at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of articles and papers on British political history and the history of journalism. Stubbs is a former director of BC Hydro and the Laurier Institution. In the past, he served as a director for the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the Vancouver Board of Trade, and the Business Council of British Columbia. He has served as a director of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation since 1999. Stubbs holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto, a master of science from the London School of Economics, and a doctor of philosophy from Oxford University.
John Winter
John Winter is president of the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce. He has experience in the private and non-profit sectors and with government at all levels. His 29-year career in management with Molson Breweries included assignments in British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, Newfoundland and California. He has served as a director of the Vancouver Board of Trade, on the board of Tourism Vancouver and on the executive cabinet for the United Way of the Lower Mainland. Winter holds a bachelor of commerce from Memorial University and has studied marketing at the University of Western Ontario.
Stanley Shapiro
Stanley Shapiro is a retired professor emeritus of marketing and former dean of business at Simon Fraser University. He has taught marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and at McGill University, where he also served as dean of management. The author of over sixty academic publications, he was one of the first Distinguished Fellows selected by the Academy of Marketing Science. Shapiro is a former president of both the McGill and the SFU faculty associations. After retiring from SFU in 1999, he taught for four more years in the online graduate diploma of business administration, the management of technology, and the business and liberal studies programs. He was also a member of the academic council of the Open University of British Columbia. Shapiro holds a PhD and a master of business administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor of arts from Harvard University.
Don Ramos
Don Ramos is pursuing his PhD in education in the school of curriculum studies at the University of British Columbia. He received his master of arts in communication from Simon Fraser University in January 2001 and his bachelor of business administration from Simon Fraser University in August 1993, and also holds degrees in religious studies and music. He has over 20 years' experience in the field of entertainment arts in music and video/film production. Since 1985 he has held educational positions as a project manager, instructor, department head, director and dean of education. He currently is the vice-president of education for a Vancouver educational management company.
Tim McEwan
Since February 2008, Tim McEwan has served as president and CEO of Initiatives Prince George, a corporation owned by the City of Prince George that is responsible for facilitating economic development in Prince George and Northern B.C. Before this, he was principal of T. M. McEwan Consulting Ltd., a firm providing management and public policy consulting services in Vancouver. McEwan previously served as founding executive director of the B.C. Progress Board, provided key leadership for the B.C. Business Summit and served as director of programs and policy with the Business Council of British Columbia. He holds a master of public administration and a bachelor of arts, both from the University of Victoria.
Thomas Johnstone
Tom Johnstone is chair of the advisory board of the International Property Tax Institute. He has led commissions of inquiry in real property taxation for the provinces of New Brunswick and Alberta and delivered a workshop on valuation for 10 Eastern European countries in Prague, and consulted for the Ministry of Finance in Poland, and the governments of Tanzania and Uganda. Previous to this position, he was chief executive officer of the B.C. Assessment Authority and the assessment commissioner for the Province of British Columbia. Johnstone is a former director of the United Way in Victoria and a former director of the Quality Council of B.C. He is currently a trustee and chair of finance with the Islands Trust board. Johnstone received the award of excellence in process management from the Quality Council of British Columbia and is published in Canadian and international journals on assessment, valuation, management and administrative issues. He holds a diploma in urban land economics from the University of British Columbia.
Ex-officio members
Frank Gelin,
executive director and co-chair, British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer.
The mandate of the British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer is to facilitate admission, articulation and transfer arrangements among institutions, public and private, that are members of the BC transfer system. The Council provides information and assistance to private institutions that are seeking baccalaureate degree approval and that anticipate articulating their courses for transfer credit.
Jim Wright, Registrar, Private Career Training Institutions Agency.
The agency has responsibility under the Private Career Training Institutions Act to provide consumer protection to the students and prospective students of registered institutions; establish standards of quality that must be met by accredited institutions; and establish and manage the student training completion fund.
Ruth Wittenberg, assistant deputy minister, post-secondary education division, Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development.
The post-secondary education division manages the overall funding and program co-ordination for the public post-secondary education system, provides co-ordination and support to the private post-secondary education system in the province and is responsible for implementing the goals outlined in the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development annual service plan.
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