University of Manitoba

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**University of Manitoba**

Motto	Floreat (Latin for "may she flourish" or "may she prosper")
Established	1877
Type	Public
Endowment	$303 million
President	Emőke J.E. Szathmáry
Staff	2,348
Undergraduates	24,267
Postgraduates	3,332
Location	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Campus	Urban
Sports team	Manitoba Bisons
Mascot	Bison
Website	www.umanitoba.ca

The University of Manitoba is the largest university of the province of Manitoba, most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university.

1 Location
2 History
- 2.1 Early history
- 2.2 The University Today
3 Academics
4 Libraries (Alphabetically)
5 List of Presidents
6 Notable staff
7 Notable Alumni of the University of Manitoba
8 Maclean's University Rankings Crisis
9 Relations
10 Recreation
11 Footnotes
12 See also
13 External links
14 Reference

[edit] Location

The main Fort Garry campus is a complex on the Red River in south Winnipeg. It has an area of 2.74 square kilometres. More than 60 major buildings support the teaching and research programs of the university. In addition, SmartPark is the location of seven buildings leased to research and development programs involving university-industry partnerships.

The downtown Bannatyne campus of the University comprises a complex of ten buildings located west of the Health Sciences Centre between McDermot Avenue and Bannatyne Avenue in Central Winnipeg. This complex houses the medical and dental instructional units of the University. The Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Medical Rehabilitation, and the School of Dental Hygiene are the major health sciences units located on this campus. The Faculty of Pharmacy building is under constructions and expected to open in 2008 in the downtown campus.

[edit] History

[edit] Early history

The University of Manitoba was established in 1877 to confer degrees on students graduating from its three founding colleges - St. Boniface College, St. John's College, and Manitoba College. The University was the first to be established in western Canada.

In 1900 the Manitoba legislature changed the University Act so that the university could do its own teaching, and in 1904 a building in downtown Winnipeg became the first teaching facility with a staff of six professors, all of whom were scientists. By 1929, following the addition of more programs, schools, and faculties, the University had moved to its permanent home in Fort Garry.

By 1920, the University of Manitoba, still the only university in Manitoba, was the largest university in the Prairie Provinces and the fifth largest university in Canada. It had eight faculties: Arts, Science, Law, Medicine, Engineering, Architecture, Pharmacy, and Agriculture. It awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE), Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (BME), Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Bachelor of Pharmacy (PhmB), Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (BSA), Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Master of Arts (MA), Master of Civil Engineering (MCE), Master of Electrical Engineering (MEE), Doctor of Medicine (MD), and Doctor of Laws (LLD). It had 1,654 male students and 359 female students, and 184 academic staff, including only 6 women.^[1]

The Faculty of Law was actually an affiliated college, the Manitoba Law School, which was founded jointly by the university and the Law Society of Manitoba in 1914. In 1920 it had 123 students, including 5 women, and 21 academic staff.^[1] It became a full part of the university in 1966.^[2]

From its founding until the present time, the University has added a number of colleges to its corporate and associative body. In 1882 the Manitoba Medical College, which had originally been founded by some practising physicians and surgeons, became a part of the University. Other affiliations followed:

Methodist Church's Wesley College in 1888
Manitoba College of Pharmacy in 1902
Manitoba Agriculture College in 1906
St. Paul's College in 1931
Brandon College in 1938
St. Andrew's College in 1946

Among these colleges, St. Andrew's College where trained the ministry for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, became an affiliated College in 1981. Furthermore, St. Andrew's College is the first Ukrainian-language college opened by the Orthodox Church in North America. It is home to a large Ukrainian cultural and religious library. St. Andrew is the patron saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada.

Both the Canadian Mennonite University in Tuxedo, and the Canadian Nazarene College in Fort Garry have been designated by the University as approved teaching centres.

In 1967 two of the colleges that had been part of the University of Manitoba were given university status by the provincial government. United College, which had been formed by the merging of Wesley College and Manitoba College, became the University of Winnipeg, and Brandon College became Brandon University.

St. Boniface College and St. John's College, two of the founding colleges of the University, are still part of the University of Manitoba. St. Boniface College, the Roman Catholic institution which traces its beginnings back to 1818 and the earliest days of the Red River settlement, is the University's only French-speaking college; it offers instruction in French and facilities for the training of teachers who expect to teach in the French language. St. John's College, which dates back to 1820, offers instruction in Arts and Science and among other special programs prepares men and women for the ordained ministry of the Anglican Church.

[edit] The University Today

Thirty-three of the many buildings on the Fort Garry campus of the University of Manitoba are directly used for teaching. Four of these are the homes of colleges: St. John's College, St. Paul's College, St. Andrew's College, and University College. The remaining buildings contain special laboratories, administrative and service offices, residences, or they belong to research agencies.

In a typical year, the university has an enrolment of 24,542 undergraduate students and 3,021 graduate students. The university offers 82 degrees, 51 at the undergraduate level. Most academic units offer graduate studies programs leading to master’s or doctoral degrees.

In 2004-05, the university acquired more than $110.9 million in research income. The university currently holds 33 Canada Research Chairs, is the network leader of one of Canada’s 21 networks of excellence (ISIS Canada) and a participant in 14 others. It is also home to a wide range of research centers and institutes. Within the past decade, Smartpark was established with the assistance of provincial and national governments and is maturing as an environment where collaborations between university and industry enhance the commercialization of new technologies.

[edit] Academics

The University of Manitoba had a total enrollment of approximately 28,000 students (post-grad med: 1.8%, distance: 3.5%, grad: 12%, undergrad: 83%) in 21 faculties. Most academic units offer graduate studies programs leading to master’s or doctoral degrees.

The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Manitoba Bisons.

The current colleges are:

Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface (University College of St. Boniface)
St. John's College
St. Paul's College
St. Andrew's College
University College

The university today has twenty-one faculties:

[edit] Libraries (Alphabetically)

The University of Manitoba has 20 libraries:

[edit] List of Presidents

Administration Building

James Alexander MacLean (1913 - 1934)
Sidney Earle Smith (1934 - 1944)
Henry Percy Armes, acting (1944 - 1945)
Albert William Trueman (1945 - 1948)
Albert Henry S. Gillson (1948 - 1954)
Hugh Hamilton Saunderson (1954 - 1970)
Ernest Sirluck (1970 - 1976)
Ralph Campbell (1976 - 1981)
Arnold Naimark (1981 - 1996)
Emoke J.E. Szathmary (1997-)

[edit] Notable staff

Klaus Klostermaier, F.R.S.C., Professor Emeritus, Scholar of Indian Studies
Guy Maddin, Film director and former Professor
Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize winning author and former Professor
Ron Duhamel, a Canadian Member of Parliament and Senator
Waldron Fox-Decent, a professor, mediator and advisor on constitutional issues and labour

[edit] Notable Alumni of the University of Manitoba

Main article:Notable Alumni of the University of Manitoba

[edit] Maclean's University Rankings Crisis

According to National Post, in early 2006, Maclean's announced that in June, 2006, it would be introducing a new annual issue called the University Student Issue. The issue would feature the results of a survey of recent university graduates from each Canadian university. However, some universities, such as the University of Calgary, McMaster University and the University of Toronto, refused to take part in this exercise. In response, Maclean's sought the results of two university-commissioned student surveys: the Canadian Undergraduate Survey Consortium and the National Survey of Student Engagement. Results from these surveys, along with Maclean's own graduate survey, were published in the June 26, 2006, edition of Maclean's. As of September 2006, 22 prominent Canadian universities have withdrawn from the magazine's rankings, among them the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, McMaster University, the University of New Brunswick, the University of Manitoba, Simon Fraser University, the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge, the Université de Montréal, the University of Ottawa, York University, Concordia University, the University of Western Ontario, Queen's University, Carleton University, and the University of Alberta, as a means of voicing their displeasure with the methodology used to determine the Maclean's ranking.

[edit] Relations

Bill Norrie, a former mayor of Winnipeg and the Chancellor of the University of Manitoba
Gary Doer, one of the Board of Governors of the University of Manitoba
Robert Kroetsch, acclaimed poet and novelist.
Robert Archambeau, professor emeritus, renowned artist and recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

[edit] Recreation

The University of Manitoba offers several recreational programs year-round, including a well-established swimming program, adult classes and numerous summer for children.

[edit] Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Canada Year Book 1921, Ottawa, 1922
^ University of Manitoba Faculty of Law

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

	Wikimedia Commons has media related to: University of Manitoba

[edit] Reference

Notes & Numbers: 2004-2005. Public Affairs, University of Manitoba. Retrieved on September accessyear=2004, {{{accessyear}}}.

	Manitoba universities
Public
Brandon University \| University of Manitoba \| University of Winnipeg
Private
Canadian Mennonite University

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