Dalhousie University
| Dalhousie University | |
|---|---|
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| motto |
Ora et Labora ("Pray and Work") |
| founding | 1818 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place |
Halifax ( Canada ) branches: Bible Hill
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| president | Richard Florizone |
| Students | 18,200 (2017) |
| Employee | > 6,000 |
| including professors | 999 (2017) |
| Annual budget | US $ 270.6 million (2008) |
| Foundation assets | US $ 337 million (2006) |
| Networks | CARL , IAU , U15 , AUS , NIBS |
| Website | www.dal.ca |
The Dalhousie University is a State University in Halifax . As the largest university institution in the Atlantic provinces , it offers a comprehensive range of courses. She is a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities , a group of leading universities in Canada.
history
The university was founded as a state university in 1818 by George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie . To finance it, Ramsay used tax money that he had acquired in occupied Maine during the British-American War . At the laying of the foundation stone on May 22, 1820, Ramsay said that the university was founded “on the principle of tolerance of all religions”. It is one of only three universities whose secular roots go back that far. Although Dalhousie University was officially founded in 1818, the first students did not begin their studies until November 1, 1838. After the death of the first dean Thomas McCulloch in 1843, the university temporarily closed its doors. It was only reopened in 1863.
In 1866 the Bachelor of Arts degree was awarded for the first time .
In 1876 exams in art, medicine and law were held and corresponding degrees were awarded.
Dalhousie University was different from other educational institutions because of its central location in downtown Halifax. Today the town hall is located on the site of the original campus . This location was not only used by a brewery, which was still using the basement of the university building as a warehouse in the founding years. The large number of students who came from the city and the composition of the teaching staff from local specialists can be explained by this situation. The faculties of medicine (from 1868) and law (from 1883) were established early on .
Funding for teaching remained difficult until the 1880s. Only with the donations of the philanthropist George Munro did the situation relax, the number of students rose and the university became known beyond the city limits.
The university's black and gold colors have their origins in the rugby team's jerseys , which they still wear today along with the coat of arms.
When the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia burned down in 1920 , it received a donation from the Carnegie Corporation of New York . With the help of this money, the move to Halifax could take place. A close partnership has now developed between Dalhousie and King's College University, which continues to this day. Both universities have a joint faculty for art and science.
In 1936 the Institute for Public Affairs was established.
From 1960, the university built a sports hall, the Killam Library , a center for life sciences , the building for the student union and its own thermal power station. From this the main Studley Campus developed .
At the same time, the Tupper Building , which houses the medical faculty , was built and extensions were made to various buildings to make room for the pharmacy and dentistry faculties . These buildings form the Carleton Campus , which is in close proximity to the main campus and two teaching hospitals.
In 1961, the Nova Scotia Technical College began teaching. The Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) later developed from this as an initially independent university. In 1997, under government pressure, Dalhousie University merged with the Technical University of Nova Scotia and the faculties of engineering , architecture and computer science were created. While the last two are on the Sexton Campus , east of the Carleton Campus , the computer science faculty is housed in the Goldberg Computer Science Building on the Studley campus .
Faculties
Dalhousie University consists of thirteen faculties:
- Agricultural Sciences
- Architecture and planning
- College of Continuing Education (continuing education)
- Arts and Social Sciences (including the English language department )
- Computer science
- Dentistry
- Engineering students can specialize in the following subjects: biotechnology , process engineering , civil engineering , electrical engineering , industrial engineering , mechanical engineering , metallurgy and mining engineering
- Research Training Group
- Health sciences
- law Sciences
- management
- medicine
- Natural sciences
Life on Campus
The university newspaper Dalhousie Gazette was launched in 1868, making it the oldest of its kind in Canada and one of the longest-running papers in North America.
The song Carmina Dalhousiana (Halifax 1882) is considered the university's hymn and is regularly sung at official occasions such as graduation ceremonies and sporting events.
The first Friday in February of each year is celebrated as Munro Day in honor of the patron George Munro.
Sports
The university's sports team, the Dalhousie Tigers, is part of Atlantic University Sport (AUS) , an association of Canadian university teams . The university also has 14 other men's and women's sports teams such as soccer , basketball and volleyball . In total, these teams comprise over 300 athletes, trainers and supervisors.
Since 1990, the Dalhousie Tigers have won 127 AUS titles, five Canadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS) titles and countless individual medals.
University institutions
The university buildings are spread over three locations on the peninsula around the city of Halifax, which are only a few minutes' walk apart. The largest site is Studley Campus , which was designed by architect Andrew R. Cobb . The campus is in the shape of a rectangle and is bounded to the north by Coburg Street, to the east by Robie Street, to the south by South Street and to the west by Oxford Street. University Avenue runs through the compound.
Studley Campus is the main campus on which events for the arts, social and natural sciences courses as well as the lectures of freshmen of the engineering and law faculties take place. Among many other buildings are the Henry Hicks Building , which houses the administration, the Killiam Library , the Center for Life Sciences, the Marion McCain Building , which houses the faculties of arts and social sciences, and the Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building and the student union building. The Mona Campbell Building opened at the end of 2010 and is home to, for example, the Faculty of Social Sciences.
If you follow Robie Street to the east you will get directly to the Carleton Campus . The buildings of the Faculties of Dentistry, Medicine and Healthcare are located here.
The Sexton Campus is another piece towards the city center . The Technical University of Nova Scotia was originally located here . The facilities of the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering are now located here.
Current development
The number of first-year students studying full-time was 16,189 in the 2012/2013 academic year. Of these, 12,955 are enrolled in Bachelor courses and 3,234 in postgraduate courses. The university's budget is balanced.
In the last ten years, various new buildings have been built on the university campus, including a building for the Faculty of Computer Science in October 1999. Shortly afterwards, the Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building was inaugurated. The Howe Hall student residence was expanded and the Fountain House added. In addition, with the John Risley Hall additional accommodation for students was created. The Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building opened in October 2005. The new Life Sciences Research Institute is currently under construction.
On March 6th and 7th, 2007, the students voted on the university's plan to create new rooms for students and to renovate existing ones. The plan was rejected with 57.3% of the vote. Had the plan been adopted, the tuition would have increased by $ 10 per class.
Selected faculty members
- Said Awad , urology
- Ford Doolittle - Biochemistry, Evolution
- Axel Becke - chemistry
- Jonathan Borwein - Computer Science , Experimental Mathematics
- David M. Cameron - Political Science
- Lars Osberg - Economics
- Robert Rosen - Biophysics
- Keith R. Thompson - Oceanography , Statistics
- Richard J. Wood - Mathematics
- Jeff Dahn - electrochemistry
Alumni
- Richard Bennett Hatfield (1931–1991), former Prime Minister of the Province of New Brunswick
- Scott Brison (* 1967), Member of the House of Commons - Bachelor of Commerce
- Barbara Fris , Soprano - Bachelor of Music (Performance)
- Erik Demaine , John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow
- Albert Ross Hill , President of the University of Missouri (1908–1921)
- George Laurence , nuclear physicist
- Michael Leir , Canadian High Commissioner in Australia
- Shaun Majumder , actor
- Alexa McDonough , former New Democratic Party leader
- Lucy Maud (LM) Montgomery (1874–1942), author of the children's book Anne on Green Gables (1895, 1896)
- Chris Murphy , bassist and singer for the Sloan group
- Kathryn D. Sullivan (* 1951), astronaut
- George Elliott Clarke , author
- Charles Peter McColough , CEO of Xerox
- Kishore Mahbubani (* 1948), former Ambassador of Singapore to the United States, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
See also
literature
- Heather Alder 'The Lives of Dalhousie University, Vol. 1: Lord Dalhousie's College, 1818-1925' (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, January 6, 1994).
- Peter Busby Waite: 'The Lives of Dalhousie University' Vol I (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994) ISBN 978-0-7735-1166-8 .
- Peter Busby Waite: 'The Lives of Dalhousie University' Vol II (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998) ISBN 978-0-7735-1644-1 .
- Henry Roper and James W. Clark. "Religion and Intellectual Freedom on the Dalhousie Campus in the 1920s: The Case of Norman J. Symons." Dalhousie Review 69, no. 2 (Spring 1989).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About at: del.ca, accessed March 4, 2018.
- ↑ Human Resources on the university's homepage
- ↑ Quick facts and figures on the university's homepage
- ^ Dalhousie University ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- ↑ 'The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People, A historical review' by John George Bourinot, House of Commons, Ottawa, February 17, 1881 for Project Gutenberg EBook # 6466
- ^ Architectural Education ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- ↑ List of faculties on dal.ca, accessed on August 31, 2017
- ↑ Dalhousie University Song-book, compiled by Charles B. Weikel [Halifax 1904] College Songs and Songbooks ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- ↑ Dalhousie Tigers
- ↑ Press release from Dalhousie University of September 20, 2010
- ↑ ACUD 2012 on dal.ca.
- ^ Dalhousie News (2007). Dalhousie News - A chance to shape Dalhousie for the better .