挪亚省农业学院

 

　　NSAC中心国际作为国际化的校园，致力于为学生提供更为广阔的空间。NSAC欢迎来自世界各地的学生，我们的教室存在着各种各样的口音和理念，打造全球学习环境。学校距特鲁罗市仅两公里，交通便利，校园占地仅265公顷，校内有风景优美的花园及对外开放的植物标本展览馆，牧场，庄稼研究中心等，学习环境良好。学校在教育，研究，农业与食品工业的公众服务以及关联科学等方面均处于领先的位置。而且在人力与科学资源方面还在不断的加强。学校不断响应现代教育和研究的需要，重点是大西洋沿岸各省的农业与食品工业。学校开设了以理科，技术，商业与工程，联合学术与应用知识等为基础的学位课程和技术证书课程。校园内有专业实验室，农业部门和服务机构。

 

　　Nova Scotia Agricultural College was officially founded 14 February 1905 by the merger of The School of Agriculture (1885–1905) in Truro and The School of Horticulture (1893–1905) in Wolfville.NSAC was located on the provincial demonstration farm in Bible Hill along a bluff overlooking the north bank of the Salmon River; it expanded throughout the 20th century to a total area of 442 hectares (1,092 acres).

 

　　In the early years, NSAC focused on educating farmers in aspects of field and animal husbandry. These early graduates often went on to pursue a university degree, usually from Macdonald College at McGill University or the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario.

 

　　A bronze memorial plaque to the memory of former students of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College killed during the First World War was erected in Cumming Hall by their fellow students.

 

　　A disastrous fire in 1946 destroyed the science building and a temporary campus was set up in a former Canadian Army hospital at the Debert Military Camp. This temporary campus served students until the fall of 1953 when the new science building, now known as the Harlow Institute, was opened on the Bible Hill campus.

 

　　In 1980 the Government of Nova Scotia passed legislation authorizing NSAC to grant undergraduate B.Sc. (Agr.) degrees.The decision was made by the institution to do this in association with Dalhousie University and the first students graduated with the new degree in 1985. An agreement was later signed with Dalhousie University to grant M.Sc. degrees beginning in 1996. NSAC continued to grant its own diplomas for 2-year technology programs.

 

　　Throughout its history, the NSAC was an independent post-secondary research and education institution but it was directly funded by and administered by the provincial government's Department of Agriculture. On 23 March 2012 the Government of Nova Scotia announced that it had reached an agreement with Dalhousie University that would merge NSAC into that institution effective 1 September 2012 to become that institution's Faculty of Agriculture.