Photo: A new program for NAC

Michael Shouldice, president of Nunavut Arctic College, Keith Peterson, Nunavut’s fInance minister, and Bruce MacKenzie, a regional president of the Royal Bank of Canada, are all smiles in Iqaluit at the July 26 announcement that NAC and RBC are teaming up to establish a new, Nunavut-based Bachelor of applied business administration program. RBC will contribute $150,000 to help develop the program, the first of its kind in the North, which will build on NAC’s existing two-year Management Studies Diploma. The program is expected to begin in the 2012-2013 academic year. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE RBC)