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Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) is a public degree-granting undergraduate polytechnic university in British Columbia, Canada, with campuses in Surrey, Richmond, Cloverdale, Whalley, and Langley. KPU is one of the largest institutions by enrolment in British Columbia garnering a total of 20,000 students and 1,400 faculty members across its five locations, encompassing the gestalt of the Metro Vancouver district. KPU provides undergraduate and vocational education including bachelor's degrees, associate degrees, diplomas, certificates, apprenticeships, and citations in more than 140 diverse programs.

The school operates largely as an undergraduate polytechnic university, but also serves as a vocational school offering apprenticeships for the skilled trades as well as citations, certificate, and diplomas for skilled technicians and workers in support roles in various professional fields related to academia, engineering, high technology, accountancy, business administration, financial services, hospitality, nursing, medicine, architecture, and criminology.

Kwantlen Polytechnic was founded as Kwantlen College in 1981; as a response to the growing need for expanded vocational training across the Fraser Valley. In 1995, it became a university college. In 2008, the provincial government announced its intention to amend the University Act to appoint Kwantlen University College a polytechnic university. The legislation renaming the university college to university received royal assent on May 29, 2008, and KPU began operation as Kwantlen Polytechnic University on September 1, 2008.

KPU became a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) on October 24, 2008. Also in affiliation with KPU include: the International Association of Universities (IAU), the Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan), the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), and the Canadian University Press (CUP).

The Globe and Mail Canadian University Report ranked KPU among the top post-secondary institutions in terms of enrolment across Canada, earning numerous grades in the A-to-B range in categories such as quality of teaching and learning, career preparation, student satisfaction and information technology. Published in Maclean's magazine, the National Survey of Student Engagement also listed KPU among the top Canadian institutions in terms of student participation, educational practices, and quality of education.

Kwantlen College was formed in 1981 by separation from Douglas College. There were more than 200 suggestions in a contest to name the new South Fraser region college. The winning entry "Kwantlen" was submitted by Stan McKinnon. "Kwantlen" comes from the name of the Kwantlen First Nation in whose traditional territory the university is located. Chief Joe Gabriel of the Kwantlen First Nation gave permission for the college to use the Kwantlen name.

Following a provincial government initiative designed to increase access to degree programs in British Columbia that began in 1988, five community colleges were granted authority to offer baccalaureate degrees. These five institutions— Cariboo, Fraser Valley, Kwantlen, Malaspina, and Okanagan—were renamed university colleges. Initially, they offered degrees under the aegis of one or more of the three provincial universities. In 1995, they were awarded the authority to offer degrees in their own right. Also in 1995, the province of British Columbia enacted legislation changing the institution's name to Kwantlen University College.

In 2005, Kwantlen University College began a campaign to convince elected officials at the municipal and provincial levels, and various key community leaders, to support its efforts to become a university. Removing "college" from its official name would require approval from the government of British Columbia. In its case for the university status, Kwantlen's administrators claimed the change to Kwantlen University would:

In 2007, Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education and Minister responsible for Research and Technology was joined by special advisor Geoff Plant, to release the Campus 2020 report that recommends Kwantlen University College become Kwantlen University.

On April 22, 2008, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell announced that Kwantlen would become Kwantlen Polytechnic University. On April 22, 2008, the provincial government announced its intention to amend the University Act to make Kwantlen a polytechnic university, in recognition of its "versatility in providing academic, trades and horticultural training." The legislation renaming the University College to University received royal assent on May 29, 2008.

By 2017 the university agreed to lease space for a private high school intended to teach Mainland Chinese citizens intending to enter Western university systems.

On October 24, 2008, KPU became a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).

Although the AUCC is not an official government accreditation body, its standardized membership benchmarks and requirements for members serves to ease a student's ability to transfer from undergraduate to graduate programs across Canada and the world.

KPU campuses are all in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. They are located in:

KPU Tech, formerly known as KPU Cloverdale is the second newest of the five KPU campuses, opening in April 2007. The Cloverdale campus replaced the aging Newton campus facilities which had served as the home for trades training since Kwantlen's inception. The Cloverdale building is certified as an LEED Gold building and houses KPU's Trades & Technology programs, which include appliance servicing, automotive servicing, carpentry, farrier science, masonry, parts and warehousing, welding, plumbing, and CADD technologies.

The Langley campus is home to the university's School of Horticulture - which includes a field lab, greenhouses, and gardens. The Institute for Sustainable Horticulture (ISH) is also housed on this campus. The Langley campus is also home to the university's nursing programs.

The award-winning KPU Brewing and Operations is also located on this campus. KPU Langley also offers science programs, and has biology, chemistry, physics, and geology labs with industry-standard equipment.

KPU Richmond was KPU's first official campus, established in 1981 when the institution split from Douglas College. In 2018, the campus underwent major renovations with the addition of the Wilson School of Design (WSD), named after Chip and Shannon Wilson. In January 2018, the new WSD facility officially opened its doors beside the KPU Richmond campus. This includes teaching studios and labs, gallery space and 3D printers. The campus is also home to many art and business courses as well as many science courses. The physics in modern technology program and part of the sustainable agriculture program is also based out of the Richmond Campus.

KPU Surrey, often called the main campus, is the largest of the five campuses and offers a range of courses across multiple faculties. It is the primary location for the university's Melville School of Business and Office of the President. It is also home to research facilities like the Applied Genomics Centre and the Lifespan Cognition Lab.

All KPU Sport + Recreation operate out of Surrey, where the university's gymnasium and fitness centre, along with many recreational facilities, are located.

KPU Civic Plaza, the newest and smallest campus at KPU, opened in Spring 2019 in 3 Civic Plaza, a new skyscraper in the city centre. The campus occupies 5 of the lower floors of the building. It was designed to focus towards post-baccalaureate education for mature students as well as business education.

KPU has over 140 different programs across seven distinct faculties — Academic and Career Preparation, Arts, Business, Design, Health, Science and Horticulture, and Trades and Technology — where students can pursue a degree, diploma, certificate, citation, or work towards completing an apprenticeship.

KPU operates three farms that offer "Farm School" training as a non-credit continuing education program. The Tsawwassen First Nation Farm School, the Richmond Farm School and the Sik-E-Dakh Farm School teach students applied sustainable farming practices and include a farm incubator program for alumni.

KPU has a library on all of its campuses, with the exception of Civic Centre. The largest library is on the Surrey campus with smaller program focused collections available in Richmond, Langley, and Cloverdale. KPU students and faculty have access to millions of items through the library, including online journal and newspaper articles, print and ebooks, streaming media and more. Items from other parts of Canada and around the globe can also be accessed through the library's free interlibrary loans service.

KPU library recently launched the χʷəχʷéy̓əm Indigenous Collection at the Surrey, Richmond and Langley campuses, with Cloverdale to follow. Each collection has a theme focussed on programs taught on that campus.

KPU has an enrolment of more than 20,000 students annually and over 12,000 FTE (full-time equivalency) students annually. KPU's region (Richmond, Delta, Surrey, White Rock and Langley) has a population of over 800,000.

As of winter 2023, faculty and staff number over 1,400. Over 70 faculty are involved in active sponsored research projects. KPU was named a BC Top 50 employer for the tenth consecutive year in 2017. KPU was named one of BC's Top Employers, most recently in 2023.

KPU offers cooperative education in several degree programs including Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Technology as well as diploma programs. Such programs include dedicated work-placement semesters that match their field of study, in addition to regular studies.

KPU offers many transferable courses to other educational institutions, which often lead to direct transfers into second-year or third-year studies at other post secondary institutions. To aid in this, KPU is a part of the BC Transfer Guide Website, an online resource for planning and understanding transfer in the BC post-secondary education system.

KPU now offers a BSc Physics for Modern Technology, based out of the Richmond campus. In February 2023, the university started offering metal fabrication as a 23 week foundation program.

In 2020, the university launched a new graduate certificate in sustainable food systems and security.

In September 2018, KPU launched a new Mechatronics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Diploma program, along with two graduate diplomas in green business management and sustainability, and global business management.

KPU was previously a member of the Pacific Western Athletic Association (or PacWest) which is affiliated with the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association. The university had six varsity teams competing in four sports (Men's & Women's Soccer, Men's & Women's Basketball, Badminton, and Golf).

The athletic teams, known as the Kwantlen Eagles, were supported by "Kwinten" - the university's mascot.

KPU Athletics had notable results in the following sports: Women's Soccer - 2009 & 2010 PacWest Provincial Champions, 2009 CCAA National Bronze medalists Badminton - 2010 National Women's Doubles Bronze, 2011 National Mixed Doubles Gold, 2012 National Men's Doubles Bronze, 2013 National Men's Doubles Silver.

The Eagles athletics program ceased operations after the 2015–6 academic year.

KPU Sport + Rec offers fitness centres and studios on all campuses. Free membership to fitness centre is available to all current students, employees, and alumni.

Tournaments, sports leagues, intramurals along with various Lunch & Lawn activities are available through KPU Sport + Rec.

The Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) is an elected student body that contributes to community life, and allocates student funds to social, cultural and entertainment programs for students. The KSA was founded as the Kwantlen College Student Society under the Society Act of British Columbia in August 1981.

Since the early 1980s the KSA has also been affiliated with the klan Canadian Federation of Students as one of its founding members. For a brief period of time in the late 1990s, the KSA was the only Student Association in Canada to have held membership within both the Canadian Federation of Students and the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations at the same time. In March 2008, the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) organized a referendum to disaffiliate from the CFS. One of the reasons given for disaffiliation was media coverage in 2007, alleging corruption within the Douglas Students' Union of the CFS. The KSA also criticized the financial transparency of CFS-BC and argued that the CFS was ineffective at lobbying for students. As of January 2013, the KSA has been attempting to de-federate from the CFS and has joined the "Alliance of BC Students" as an alternative lobbying body.

At a Special General Meeting held on November 30, 2011, Kwantlen students voted 352 to 0 to remove thirteen directors of the KSA and place them into "bad standing" where they would be unable to run for future office. The vote was held over allegations of conflicts of interest in settling litigation, association with the embezzlement of two million dollars of student funds, and a 40% pay raise to the elected officials on their first day of office among other things.

The highest authority within the Kwantlen Student Association lies with the membership (who are the students of Kwantlen Polytechnic University). Membership is mandatory. The membership delegates its authority over the day-to-day operations of the society to an elected Board of Directors (Council), which is bound to operate under a Constitution and a set of Bylaws.

Each year in February KPU students may run for and elect a Council to a one-year term of office that spans April 1 to March 31. The Council is responsible for, and exercises full control over the affairs of the Society while the executive members assist with the management of the day-to-day operations of the society. The Council holds regularly scheduled meetings at least twice each month, excluding the months of July, August and December.

The KSA operates a student ran cafe, Grassroots Cafe, and a social justice centre on campus. It employs an ombudsperson, distributes day planners, and provides advocacy services as well as funding for campus clubs, events, conferences, and political special interest groups. Through the KSA, students and other members of the Kwantlen community are also eligible for special discounts including bus and train passes, discount movie tickets, and other seasonal offers. Finally, full-time students who do not have comparable coverage elsewhere, are automatically eligible to receive benefits from a health and dental plan.

The organization's main office is located at the Surrey Campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University. The society also has offices and provides services at KPU's three other campuses in Cloverdale, Langley and Richmond. The KSA does not own a student union building.

The Runner is the institution's independent student newspaper. It is a member of the Canadian University Press. Since early 2009, The Runner has added to Kwantlen student life by providing the community with "a freely distributed, year-round, multi-campus, student-owned, student-run news and campus culture publication".

It receives some of its funds from the Kwantlen Student Association under a levy; however, it is run as separate, autonomous incorporated B.C. non-profit society, Polytechnic Ink Publishing Society (PIPS), with its own Kwantlen student board of directors.

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If you see the related red X from the above situation or after transferring files from your hard drive to OneDrive, which means that some files or folders located in your OneDrive folder cannot be synced to the OneDrive server.

Don’t worry, here we will show you the causes and proven solutions for you to fix it quickly and helps you sync files easily.

There are some reasons should be responsible for OneDrive red X next to files or folders, that is:

OneDrive red X problems have been reported on many Windows platforms, and there are common issues in Windows 10 and Windows 11. In the next part, you can find the proven ways to troubleshoot the problem, just follow the step-by-step guide to resolve it.

If you want to fix red X on OneDrive, you can try to uninstall the OneDrive desktop app from your computer, then the problem will be fixed and never bother you again.

1. Please input control panel in Windows 11 search box, and choose it.

2. Hit Uninstall a program under Programs.

3. Scroll down to find Microsoft OneDrive, and select it, then hit Uninstall.

Now, the OneDrive red X has been fixed.

1. Please input cmd in the Windows search box, and run Command Prompt as administrator.

2. Then execute the following commands one by one with the Enter key:

cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local

attrib -h IconCache.db

delete IconCache.db

start explorer

Now, your OneDrive red X should be fixed and the corrupted icon caches have been rebuilt

3. Restart your computer and the OneDrive folder should appear as normal without a red X.

1. According to the above steps and run Command Prompt as an administrator.

2. Input sfc /scannow to start the system scan, and it will automatically fix the problems that are found.

3. Type dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth and hit enter.

Wait for a while, it will take some time to finish.

4. Restart your computer to check if OneDrve red X has been fixed.

The file path, including the file name, can't contain more than 400 characters for OneDrive. Besides, you should be aware of the computer limitations, no more than 255 characters within the file or folder path (including the file name).

If you meet OneDrive sync problems, OneDrive will show you the error message and click it, you will find the files that have problems, and you will be given the possible solution to fix it, just check it if you meet OneDrive red X.

Some special characters that aren't allowed in file and folder names in OneDrive for home, OneDrive for work or school: " * : < > ? / \ |

And these characters can’t be in file and folder names in OneDrive for work or school: ~ " # % & * : < > ? / \ { | }.

Just find the files or folders that contain the invalid characters, and rename them to sync to OneDrive.

Sometimes, there are some bugs in OneDrive that might prevent OneDrive from syncing files, so you can try unlinking OneDrive and relinking it to check if OneDrive red X can be fixed.

1. Click the OneDrive icon on the taskbar, and select Help & Settings > Settings.

2. Tap Account > Unlink this PC.

3. Hit the Unlink account button to confirm.

4. Input your OneDrive email address, and hit Sign in.

5. Customize your OneDrive folder location, and hit Next to confirm.

6. Hit Use this folder instead of Choose new folder.

7. Follow the steps to finish the setup. Now OneDrive red X problem should be fixed.

However, you might encounter the problem “you now have two copies of a file”, which makes your OneDrive create duplicate files, and take up much more disk space on your hard disk.

It’s an emergency for you to sync files to OneDrive but OneDrive has a red X on folders and prevents you from syncing files, you can reinstall OneDrive to fix it.

1. Follow the above steps to uninstall OneDrive, then download the latest OneDrive desktop app.

2. Double-click the OneDrive installer, then follow the steps to install.

3. Sign in to your OneDrive account, and the red X on OneDrive folder should have disappeared.

Sometimes, you might find that there is a red X on OneDrive folder but no sync issues, reset OneDrive can be the fix for OneDrive sync issues, as well as the red X on OneDrive folder. Here are the steps to reset OneDrive:

1. Press the Windows + R key combination, enter wsreset.exe in the Run dialog, then select OK.

2. A blank Command Prompt window will open automatically, and stay with you for about a few seconds. Then the Microsoft Store window shows up, just close it.

3. If OneDrive has a red X after this operation, you can press Windows + R to open the Run window.

4. Input the following command, and hit enter:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset

5. If you get the window showing “Windows cannot find ‘C:\Users\Ailsa\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.”, just input one of the two commands:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset

6. Then start OneDrive from the Start menu.

OneDrive red X should be fixed now.

Red X on OneDrive folders or files means that the files or folders can’t be synced to the OneDrive server. It’s possibly caused by the lack of available storage space on OneDrive, so please check your OneDrive storage space, then sync files.

1. Please open your OneDrive desktop app, then sign in.

2. Click the OneDrive icon from the taskbar notification area, and select Help & Settings > Settings.

3. Check the OneDrive storage, including used storage and the available OneDrive storage space on the bottom left.

If your OneDrive is full, OneDrive red X will appear as well. So, it’s highly recommended to clean up OneDrive storage space by deleting unnecessary files, emptying the trash bin, removing duplicate files, and removing shared files to SharePoint, etc. Or you can increase OneDrive storage space for free with the following information.

The above effective ways might be cannot fix the red X on OneDrive folders, and there are some tips and tricks for you.

Here, you can take full use of all the idle cloud space by merging multiple cloud drives with the free cloud backup service, CBackup, then you can get a huge cloud space to store more files.

Here are the steps to increase OneDrive storage space for free with CBackup:

1. Please download and install the CBackup desktop app, then create a CBackup account and sign in.

2. Tap the Storage tab, then select OneDrive and hit Authorize Now. Follow the same step to add other clouds that has the idle cloud space, no matter the Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.

3. Now tap + Add Combined Cloud under Storage.

4. Tick all the cloud drives that you added, and hit Next > Combine to confirm.

5. You can enjoy the huge combined cloud by clicking Backup > Backup PC to Combined Cloud.

If you cannot fix OneDrive red X and don’t want to use OneDrive anymore, you can try CBackup to backup and sync files to OneDrive easily. Besides, CBackup use incremental backup or sync to speed up the transfer as well as shorten the time you cost. Other cloud drives are supported in CBackup, like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.

1. Ensure you have added OneDrive to CBackup. Then hit Sync > Sync PC to Public Cloud.

2. Select the files on your computer, then choose a OneDrive folder as the destination.

3. Hit the Start Sync button to sync files to OneDrive directly.

You can enjoy the valuable features in CBackup while performing online backup: