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Yukon University, from training centre to university

View west from the roof of Yukon College in Whitehorse, 2007; the institution later became Yukon University.
View west from the roof of Yukon College in Whitehorse, 2007; the institution later became Yukon University. Panorama for the Yukon College Roof · grampymoose · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Yukon University traces its history to the Whitehorse Vocational and Technical Training Centre, founded in 1963. It became Yukon College in 1983, moved to its present Whitehorse campus in 1988 and was granted university status in 2020. Elder Angela Sidney named the campus Ayamdigut, a Tlingit name meaning “she got up and went.”

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The university as described on its own history page.

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Yukon University

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