Former TRU president and Order of British Columbia recipient Dr. Roger Barnsley was recently appointed to the role of special advisor to the president of Yorkville University. In his new post, the Parksville, B.C.-based retired academic will draw on his decades of experience in post-secondary educational leadership – most recently as the founding president of Thompson Rivers University – to provide advice, information, support, facilitation and counsel to Yorkville’s new president, Dr. Julia Christensen Hughes. Read more