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The University of Windsor (UWindsor, U of W, or UWin) is a
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in
Windsor, Ontario Windsor ( ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is situated on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from the U.S city of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Esse ...
, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has approximately 17,500 students. The university was incorporated by the provincial government in 1962 and has more than 150,000 alumni. The University of Windsor has nine faculties, including the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Engineering, Odette School of Business, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the Faculty of Human Kinetics, the
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, the Faculty of Nursing, and the Faculty of Science. Through its faculties and independent schools, the university has demonstrated its primary research focuses of automotive, environmental, social justice, and international trade research. In recent years, it has increasingly begun focusing on health, natural science, and entrepreneurship research.


History


Founding era

The university dates to the founding of the
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Assumption College in
Windsor, Ontario Windsor ( ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is situated on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from the U.S city of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Esse ...
, in 1857. Assumption College, a primarily theological institution, was founded by the
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in 1857. The Basilian Fathers assumed control of the college in 1870. The college grew steadily, expanding its curriculum and affiliating with several other colleges over the years. In 1919, Assumption College affiliated with the
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. This affiliation expanded the curriculum at Assumption, including new general and honours programs for Bachelor of Arts degrees, graduate courses in philosophy, and pre-professional programs in engineering, medicine, and law. The school became co-educational in 1934 when it formed and admitted women to attend Holy Names College. In 1937, the first class of women graduated from Assumption College, receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees. Escalating costs forced Assumption College, a Roman Catholic university, to become a public institution to qualify for public support. In 1953, through an Act of the Ontario Legislature, Assumption College received its own university powers, and ended its affiliation with the University of Western Ontario. In 1956, the institution's name was changed to Assumption University of Windsor, by an Act of the Ontario Legislature, with Reverend
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, C.S.B. named as its first President. The recently created Essex College, an independent non-denominational college led by Frank A. DeMarco, became an affiliate, with responsibility for the Faculty of Applied Science; the Schools of Business Administration and Nursing; and the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geology and Geography, and Mathematics and Physics.


Mid-twentieth century

In the early 1960s, the city of Windsor's growth and demands for higher education led to further restructuring. A petition was made to the province of Ontario for the creation of a non-denominational University of Windsor by the board of governors and regents of Assumption University and the board of directors of Essex College. The University of Windsor was established as an institution by the ''University of Windsor Act'' on December 19, 1962. The transition from an historic Roman Catholic university to a non-denominational provincial university was an unprecedented development. On July 1, 1963, the entire campus with all of its facilities and faculty became known as the University of Windsor. As a 'federated member', Assumption University remained as an integrated institution, granting degrees only in its Faculty of Theology. Father Eugene Carlisle LeBel from Assumption became the inaugural president of the University of Windsor, and Frank A. DeMarco, who had been holding both positions of Principal, as well as Dean of Applied Science at Essex College, became the inaugural Vice President. The university's coats of arms were designed by
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expert
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. Six months later, Assumption University of Windsor made affiliation agreements with Holy Redeemer College (now Académie Sainte-Cécile), Canterbury College and the new Iona College (affiliated with the
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). Canterbury College became the first
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college in the world to affiliate with a Roman Catholic University. In 1964, when President LeBel retired, John Francis Leddy was appointed president of the University of Windsor, and presided over a period of significant growth. President Leddy, "concerned that the University of Windsor should emerge as soon as possible from the status and reputation of a College to that of a University", set out to review the existing departments. Based on the strengths in the social sciences, economics, political science and psychology, Leddy proposed to the university's board of governors that a law school be established. In September 1968, the Faculty of Law opened with its first class of students. From 1967 to 1977, Windsor grew from approximately 1,500 to 8,000 full-time students. In the 1980s and early 1990s, this growth continued. Among the new buildings erected were the Odette Business Building and the CAW Student Centre. The university partnered with
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in 1996 to establish the Automotive Research and Development Centre, a research lab that focuses on automotive research and education.


Twenty-first century

Enrolment reached record heights in 2003 with 16,000 students registered, a 15% increase from the year previous. The increase was driven primarily by first-year students due to the elimination of Grade 13 in Ontario that year. The university developed a number of partnerships with businesses and industry, such as a partnership in 2013 with
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that introduced internships for students and research opportunities. In 2008, a satellite campus of the
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opened at the University of Windsor. The partnership between the University of Windsor and the University of Western Ontario followed several years of community and political organizing, and built upon an existing partnership that started in 2002 that sent Western medical students to Windsor for clinical training. The satellite school initially trained undergraduate medical students in the
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program and has since expanded to offer post-graduate residency programs in family medicine and psychiatry. As of 2023, the program has added almost 100 physicians to the region.


Campus

Located in Canada's traditional "automotive capital" across the border from
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, the campus is near the United States and its busy port of entry to and from the United States. It is framed by the
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to the west and the
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to the north. The campus covers (contiguous) and is surrounded by a residential neighborhood. The campus features a small
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, which represents most of the species from the
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. Campus is approximately a 10-minute drive from downtown Windsor. The university has moved some academic programs to the downtown core, including Social Work, the Executive and Professional Education program, Music and Fine Arts. Due to its historical roots in multiple religious institutions, the university's campus has many examples of Christian architecture in addition to its modern flagship buildings like the $10-million dollar Joyce Entrepreneurship Centre. The War Memorial Hall (more generally known as Memorial Hall) is a landmark building used as classrooms, labs, and offices. Memorial Hall honours alumni who had enlisted and died in the
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, and in the
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. A bronze tablet remembers the alumni of Assumption College who died in the Second World War. The Joyce Entrepreneurship Centre (formerly the “Innovation Centre”) is located on the main campus, on the south side of Wyandotte street. This building houses the EPICentre, and WEtech Alliance. The EPICentre (Entrepreneurship, Practice, and Innovation Centre) is a University of Windsor organization focused on providing students and alumni with the expertise and resources necessary to pursue entrepreneurial goals. The EPICentre is part of the Ontario Centres of Excellence and provides education, mentorship, office space and varying levels of funding to help support startup business. WEtech Alliance is a similar organization, also being an Ontario Centre of Excellence, whose main focus is to support technology startup companies. They provide services to technology startups in the Windsor-Essex and
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regions, not exclusively to students and alumni from the University of Windsor. The CAW Student Centre is the main, comprehensive centre servicing all student needs. It houses a large food court and the main campus bookstore. Also within the CAW Centre: Student Health Services, a dental office, counselling services, a photographer, a pharmacy, the University of Windsor Students' Alliance (UWSA), a Multi-Faith Space, the campus community radio station CJAM-FM, and an information desk. A large public area beside the food court is available for clubs and informational booths to be set up on certain days. For example, during October there is a period where many Canadian law schools set up booths with representatives who answer questions and provide information to undergraduate students. The St. Denis Centre, at the south end of campus on College Avenue, is the major athletic and recreational facility for students. It has a weight room, exercise facilities, and a swimming pool. The South Campus Stadium built for the 2005
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is beside the St. Denis Centre - which also has dressing rooms for Lancer teams - and borders Huron Church Road, the major avenue to and from the border crossing. The athletics department has become well known for Track & Field, and Men and Women's Basketball. In February 2018, the university announced plans to build a new athletic centre, titled the Lancer Sport and Recreation Centre. The new facility will cost $73 million and be 130,000-square-feet. Unlike the current St. Denis Centre, there will be many separate sections of the facility to host different athletic resources; such as a new gymnasium, pool, fitness gym and many multi-purpose rooms, as opposed to a single general-purpose space. Construction for the facility began in October, 2018. In June 2019, a new research facility opened up on the campus. The new facility, called the Essex Centre of Research (or CORe) is built on to the south side of the existing Essex Hall science facility. It is an open concept 46,000-square-feet facility, featuring state-of-the-art labs and will primarily be used as a research facility.


Student residences

The university houses students in three residence halls on campus, with a fourth under construction. Alumni Hall is home to first-year students and beyond first-year students. Alumni Hall has all-gender floors and it is a suite-style residence where suites have two bedrooms that share a kitchenette and a three-piece bathroom. Beyond first-year students are typically not assigned to the same suite as first-year students. Cartier Hall is home to first-year students. Cartier Hall has all-gender floors, two students share one room and four students share one washroom. Laurier Hall is home to beyond first-year students with single rooms on all gender floors. The University is expanding its residence offerings with a new 160,000-square-foot, six-storey building that will house 440 single rooms, with two students sharing each washroom. The residence will also feature dining facilities and other student amenities. It is expected to be ready for occupancy in Fall 2025.


Organization and administration


Governance

The university is governed as a
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,
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, and
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institution by the ''University of Windsor Act, 1962'', which sets out the basic legal obligations and purposes of the institution. Similar to most Canadian universities, the Act establishes the university as a bicameral institution, governed by a Board of Governors and Senate, and led by a chancellor and president. The Board is responsible for the oversight of all operational aspects of the university, including strategic direction, budgets, property management, and accountability for the university's financial, human, and physical resources. The Board is also responsible for appointing the chancellor, and the president and vice-chancellor. There are 32 members of the board, 20 external and 12 internal; this size was considered to be large without a compelling reason by the
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in a 2022 audit of Ontario universities. The
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is the supreme governing body of the university in academic matters. It is responsible for establishing academic policy, approving new programs and curricular changes, setting admission requirements, and overseeing academic regulation and discipline. It is the Senate that grants degrees, and has the authority to revoke them. The Senate is constituted by members of the faculty, who are either appointed ex-officio by virtue of their role, or elected by the faculty members from their home constituencies. Several students, staff members, and an alumni representative are also appointed to the Senate. There are several standing committees of the Senate that oversee different aspects of the Senate's mandate. As is common in Canada, Windsor is formally headed by the
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and led on a day-to-day basis by the president and vice-chancellor. The chancellor is the titular head of the university and confers all degrees. The role is mainly ceremonial. Since May 2019 this has been Mary Jo Haddad, a Windsor nursing alumnus and the first woman to take this role, who succeeded Ed Lumley. The president serves as the
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of the university and the chair of the Senate. As per the Act, the president has supervision and direction over the academic work and administration of the university. The current president is Robert Gordon who has been in this role since September 2019.


Faculties, schools, and departments

The university is organized into nine faculties and schools, which may also be made up of departments. These faculties and schools are led by a dean who is supported by an associate dean. These, along with the department heads and the faculty members, make up each of the faculty's Assembly or Coordinating Council. The university has 524 faculty members. Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences * Department of Communication, Media, and Film * School of Creative Arts * School of Dramatic Art * Department of English and Creative Writing * Department of History * Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures * Department of Philosophy * Department of Political Science * Department of Psychology * Department of Sociology and Criminology * School of Social Work Faculty of Education Faculty of Engineering * Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering * Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering * Department of Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering Faculty of Graduate Studies Faculty of Human Kinetics Faculty of Law Faculty of Nursing Odette School of Business Faculty of Science * Department of Biomedical Sciences * Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry * School of Computer Science * School of the Environment * Department of Economics * Department of Integrative Biology * Department of Mathematics and Statistics * Department of Physics


Federated and affiliated institutions

The University of Windsor has three federated or affiliated institutions. It is federated with Assumption University, a
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university offering graduate degree programs in religious subjects. The university is affiliated with Canterbury College, a public liberal arts college affiliated with the
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, and Iona College, a public liberal arts college formerly affiliated with the
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.


Finances

Windsor has an endowment of $139 million as of April 2023. The university's total assets (including its campus) are valued at $877 million. Its operating budget for the 2023-2024 academic year was $345 million. The
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provided 29% of the university's operating revenue, while tuition fees accounted for the bulk of the remainder at 69%. International student tuition fees comprised 62% of all tuition fee revenue. The growing reliance on tuition fees from international students is not unique to the University of Windsor and is common at Ontario's public universities. A 2023
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of experts reviewed the financial sustainability of Ontario's universities and colleges and found that Ontario funds universities at just 57% of the national average, due to the government's policies that reduced direct funding to institutions and cut tuition fees for domestic students.


Academics

The University of Windsor is a public research university and a member of
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. Full-time undergraduate students comprise the majority of the university's enrolment, with the university offering over than 120 majors and minors. There are more than 70 master's (course and research based) and doctoral degree programs. In 2020, the university conferred more than 2,700 bachelor's degrees, 1,900 master's degrees, and 50 doctoral degrees. The University of Windsor's philosophy department is known for its work in
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, and regularly hosts an international argumentation conference through the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. Students, faculty, and visiting researchers collaborate in the inter-departmental research group the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric. As of 2016, the University of Windsor offers an interdisciplinary PhD in Argumentation Studies, the only graduate program in North America with a focus on this field.The Faculty of Nursing offers several undergraduate and graduate programs. This includes the accredited clinical
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and
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programs, along with a research-based doctoral program. The undergraduate program is also offered in collaboration with St. Clair College. The
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, one of seven in Ontario, has a major teaching and research focus on social justice issues and criminal law. Two
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s offer training experience for students. The faculty offers a dual undergraduate law program with the
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, training students in both Canadian and US law, the only one of its kind in North America. University of Windsor also provides Inter-Faculty Programs offering cross-departmental majors like
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,
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and Arts & Science concentration. There are nine
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programs for 1,100 students.


Reputation and rankings

The University of Windsor has placed in higher-education school rankings. The 2025
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ranked the university 547 in the world, and 20th in Canada. The 2023
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placed Windsor 501-600 in the world. In the 2022-2023 '' U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking'', the university placed 1121 in the world, and 21st in Canada. In terms of national rankings, ''
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'' ranked Windsor 14th in their 2024 comprehensive university rankings.


Scholarships

The university joined Project Hero, a scholarship program cofounded by General (Ret'd)
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, for the families of fallen
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members. The university established Rosa Schreiber Award with the assistance of former University of Windsor Professor Economics, Alan A. Brown. From the university's Senate Committee on Student Awards: The competition award is open to arts or social science students in Year 2 or beyond. Applicants must submit a 1,500–2,000-word essay on some aspect of moral courage. Submission must be made to the Office of Student Awards. This competition will be held in alternate years. It was established in 1995 to honour Rosa Schreiber, an Austrian freedom fighter who risked her life to help others during World War II.


Student life

International students from nearly 100 countries make up approximately 29% of the student population. Despite the large number of international students, the majority of students are domestic and come from Windsor and Essex County; 12% of full-time students originate from the
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. Leddy Library is the main campus library. The
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Law Library serves the Faculty of Law. The Canadian Auto Workers Union helped to build the CAW Student Centre which is a central meeting place for students. The university has a unique agreement with the
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Duty-Free Store at Canada's busiest border crossing which provides student jobs, 400 parking spaces, and an annual cash annuity to the school. Toldo Lancer Center is the newest addition to the University of Windsor. It provides many different kinds of recreational services for students including free access to the Fitness Center to workout, opened every day. Students can also enjoy their access to the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse and state of the art additions including Lancer Commons, Pool, Triple Gymnasium and Multipurpose Rooms. The Toldo Lancer Center officially opened to students on July 4, 2022.


Student unions

There are three student unions at Windsor. The University of Windsor Students' Alliance, otherwise known as the UWSA, represents all full-time
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students at the University of Windsor, located in
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, Canada. It provides services such as an Office of Student Empowerment, financial awards, a food pantry, representation on various University of Windsor bodies, a weekly student newspaper, ''The Lance'', and various other services and programs. The Organization of Part-time University Students (OPUS) represents part-time undergraduate students, while the Graduate Student Society represents all graduate students at the university. All three student unions are affiliated with the
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.


Athletics

The University is represented in
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by the
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. The Lancers play within the
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conference. The University of Windsor Stadium plays host to a variety of intercollegiate sports including: * Football * Soccer * Outdoor track and field * Basketball * Volleyball * Curling * Ball Hockey * European Handball * Flag Football * Table Tennis * Indoor Rugby * Windsor Lancers Ice Hockey team plays at the South Windsor Arena.


Notable people


Alumni

* Lorne Abony, businessman * Navdeep Bains, Liberal MP for Mississauga—Malton, and
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* Melissa Bishop-Nriagu, Canadian Olympian * James Bondy, entertainer, co-star of '' Ribert and Robert's Wonderworld'' *
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, sportscaster, "The Voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs" * Patrick Brown, former Leader of the Opposition in Ontario and Mayor of Brampton *
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, actor *
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Faculty

* Iain Baxter&, Professor Emeritus School of Visual Arts, award-winning Canadian photographer, painter, sculptor, installation artist, and conceptual artist * Di Brandt, former Professor and poet * Alan A. Brown, Professor of Economics, founder of Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE), international honor society in Economics * Tricia Carmichael, Professor of Chemistry * John N. Deck, former professor, Plotinus Scholar * Craig Fleisher, Professor of Management and Windsor Research Leadership Chair, Odette School of Business, author of several key books on business and
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*
Alistair MacLeod Alistair MacLeod (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of ma ...
, Author, Arts Faculty Professor, and award-winning Canadian author * Howard McCurdy, former professor, scientist, department head, first black tenured professor in Canada, politician, and scholar *
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Presidents

#
Eugene Carlisle LeBel Eugene Carlisle LeBel, C.S.B., C.D., LL.D,''University of Windsor: Handbook Regarding Research Associates and Postdoctoral Fellows''. University of Windsor, 1971, iii. (July 27, 1899''The Canadian Who’s Who- A Biographical Dictionary of Notable ...
, 1963–1964 # John Francis Leddy, 1964–1978 # Mervyn Franklin, 1978–1984 # Ronald W. Ianni, 1984–1997 # Gordon W. Wood, 1997-1998 (Acting) # Ross H. Paul, 1998–2008 # Alan Wildeman, 2008–2018 # Douglas Kneale, 2018-2019 (interim) # Robert Gordon, 2019–present


Chancellors

# Keiller Mackay, 1964–1970 # Lucien Lamoureu, 1971–1977 # Richard Rohmer. 1978–1989 # William Somerville, 1989–1993 # Charles Clark, 1993–1996 # Richard Rohmer, 1996–1997 # Frederic Jackma, 1997–2006 # Edward Lumley, 2006–2019 # Mary Jo Haddad, 2019–2025 # Dwight Duncan, 2025–present


Others

Jennifer E. Jones was the university's chair of governors and she went on to be the first woman to lead
Rotary International Rotary International is one of the largest service organizations in the world. The self-declared mission of Rotary, as stated on its website, is to "provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and p ...
in 2022.


See also

* Canadian Centre for Alternatives to Animal Methods *
Higher education in Ontario Higher education in Ontario includes postsecondary education and skills training regulated by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities and provided by universities, colleges of applied arts and technology, and private career colleges.Ministry ...
* List of universities in Ontario


Notes


References


External links

*
Athletics website
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