sentences:  In December 2002 the British Columbia Progress Board submitted a report to the provincial government, recognising the need to expand post-secondary education in the Okanagan.The board, chaired by then University of British Columbia president Martha Piper, recommended that the province extend "the mandate of an existing provincial University to Kelowna..."
  
  In March 2004, BC Premier Gordon Campbell and the UBC President Martha Piper held a press conference, announcing that OUC would be dissolved.Okanagan University College's university operations would be consolidated at its North Kelowna Campus and would come under the control of the University of British Columbia.