Our commitment to communities and industry begins with our learners. We believe in creating and inspiring transformative learning experiences that foster the lifetime achievement of our learners and alumni. With an emphasis on applied, outcomes-focused education, our learners gain the technical skills, interpersonal skills, and discipline to be productive and adaptive in industry as well as engaging in community.
Our College is experiencing tremendous growth as more adult learners turn to our focused foundational and career programs to invigorate their career and attain personal fulfillment. Through small class sizes, accessible learning resources and supports, and flexible program delivery options, we ensure that diverse peoples can find a place here that meets with their learning styles, attends to their aspirations, and fits around life's other responsibilities.
As the comprehensive community college for Calgary and the surrounding region, our future and vitality are bound to those of our communities. Our success is our communities' success and vice versa. Together with our partners in community, industry, and governments, we are acting in concert to make an enduring contribution to a modern and diversified economy and to our communities' well-being.
We are proud to teach and support adult learners, encouraging them to vigorously pursue their full potential, which in turn supports communities and industries in reaching theirs.
Sincerely,
Dr. Misheck Mwaba
President and CEO
Dr. Misheck Mwaba is the College’s 6th President and CEO. He has been a proud Calgarian since 2017, bringing extensive knowledge to Bow Valley College and the Calgary community. He has a breadth of experience across the Canadian post-secondary sector and internationally.
Before joining Bow Valley College, Misheck was the Dean of Media, Trades, and Technology at Niagara College. His professional experiences include designing experimental facilities and managing research and development projects at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, and teaching and research at several post-secondary institutions, including the University of Zambia, Eindhoven University of Technology, Carleton University, University of Ottawa, and Algonquin College.
Misheck’s academic journey started as a mechanical engineering student at the University of Zambia. After achieving a Master’s and Ph.D., he arrived in Canada in 2003 for a postdoctoral fellowship at Carleton University. After working at Atomic Energy of Canada as a mechanical R&D engineer, he embarked on building a career in post-secondary education, first as a chair of Mechanical & Transportation Technology at Algonquin College. In 2017, he moved west to Alberta, first as Vice-President of Academic at Bow Valley College, before being appointed President and CEO in November 2020.
In January 2023, Misheck was appointed to a three-year term on the Calgary Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Vertigo Theatre Board of Directors, the Windmill Microlending Board of Directors, and previously served as a council member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He was also previously the chair of the Alberta Comprehensive Community College Presidents and other board experience also includes Vice-Chairing the Niagara Industrial Association; Chairing the Council of Deans of Trades and Apprenticeship Canada; Vice-Chair of the Pembroke Regional Hospital Board; Member of the Arnprior Regional Health Board; and Council Member of the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists. Most recently, Misheck was appointed chair of the Government of Alberta’s newly created Foreign Credential Advisory Committee.
In 2022, Dr. Mwaba was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal and an Alberta Newcomer Recognition Award. He was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal in 2025.
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