Canyonville Academy New Name, New Strategy for Oregon School
CANYONVILLE, Ore. (PRWEB) July 04, 2018 -- Canyonville Academy will be the new name for an Oregon college preparatory high school founded in 1924. It marks that third time that the school has changed its name over its long history. It was most recently called Canyonville Christian Academy. "It will be a new name but the same heart," says the Academy president, Doug Wead.
The Academy has won national recognition for its stock market team, winning two national championships out of 37,000 competing high schools nationwide. Past team members met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office where the president joked with them about their investments. The president mentioned members of the team again in a Rose Garden ceremony this past Spring. In addition to the contest, Canyonville Academy students invest real money and saw growth of 120% on their fund last year. Says Academy stock market coach, Roger Shaffer, "students graduating from Canyonville Academy have a great understanding of world economics."
Canyonville's diversity program limits enrollment to ten students from any given country. Which means that students are exposed to a variety of languages. "Not only do foreign students learn English, but our American students have the chance to learn Mandarin," says President Wead. Canyonville's website features alumni, Richard Wang, who it says arrived unable to speak a word of English but by 2016 was finishing a graduate course at Stanford and had started a multi-million-dollar business.
"We want to make sure that local students from Roseburg and Douglas County have a chance to benefit from our Award Winning academic program," says Canyonville Academy CEO, Cori Burkhert. "A generous Alumni scholarship program makes that possible."
"Canyonville Academy has a focus. That focus is to assist students in reaching their educational goals which in turn helps them succeed in life."
The name change was part of a yearlong strategic analysis led by a former Canyonville alumni and past president of the University of Toledo, Dan Johnson. Entitled Preparing for Our Second Century; Strategic Plan for 2018-2024, the plan calls for a restructuring of the school's long-term goals. The first announcement of the plan’s completion and release came on May 16, at a mid-day chapel service. Two other meetings were convened that day to present and discuss the new plan with school faculty, staff and administrators.
Dan Johnson, Ph.D. from Toledo, Ohio, is a 1958 alum of Canyonville Bible Academy, the name of the school at that time. Johnson has served as a university administrator at several major public universities including University of North Texas, University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Toledo where he served as president. Johnson helped guide the strategic process which began in November, 2017.
The strategic plan set forth seven goals including a proposal to change the name to The Canyonville Academy. The school’s board of directors voted to change the name last week. The plan also called for a shortening of the school’s mission statement: The new mission statement is “Building Character, Engaging Cultures, Promoting Excellence.”
Doug Wead, Canyonville Academy, https://canyonville.net, +1 (541) 680-6016, [email protected]
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