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Article: BU"s Poff ready to serve community
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- The Brandon Sun
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- August 17, 2009
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Moving halfway across the country to take the reins of a 100-plus-year-old post-secondary educational institution isn't an easy learning curve to navigate by anyone's standards.
But Brandon University's new president and vice- chancellor, Deborah Poff, is prepared to take on the challenge.
On the job for little more than a week after relocating to Brandon from Prince George, B.C., earlier this month, Poff tells the Sun she's ready to dive straight into a community dialogue about the possibility of establishing a medical studies graduate program at BU.
"Universities are in a renewal process," she said. "There's a lot more of a push to professionalization and graduate education, so we'll be ...