University of Toronto

The Université of Toronto ( University off Toronto , U off T ) is a public Université Canadian anglophone. With more: 70000 students, it constitutes the largest university of Canada. It is distributed on three Campus: the principal campus, St George, are in the center of Toronto, around Queen' S Park, while the two others are in the Toronto-native agglomeration, respectively with Mississauga ( University off Toronto At Mississauga , UTM) and with Scarborough ( University off Toronto At Scarborough , UTSC).

Initially established by royal Charter in 1827 under the name of King' S College , it took the name of University of Toronto in 1849, after having broken with the Église Anglican to become a laic establishment. The university is made up of seven colleges , of which four were created and are managed today by it ( University College , the first, created in 1853, New College , Innis College and Woodsworth College ). The three others were independent before and were later federate ( Trinity College , Victoria University and St Michael' S College ). The university counts also five independent colleges in denominational matter and a college Postgraduate .

The University of Toronto east, according to many classifications, one of the best North-American universities. It constitutes also a pole of research considered, at the origin, inter alia, of the first artificial Pacemaker, nervous transplantation, the Pancréas and artificial Larynx, as well as first Electron microscope.

History

The establishment was created the March 15th 1827, when King' S college obtained its statute of university by royal Charte. King' S College had been founded by John Strachan, bishop Anglican of Toronto, and was consequently very dependant with the Anglicanisme, then official religion of the High-Canada. The majority of the inhabitants not being however confession Anglican, the establishment became laic, under the name of Université of Toronto, when the province obtained a responsible Gouvernement in 1848. Following the closing of the building which sheltered King' S College since its origin (located at the site of current the assembled legislative of Ontario), the university was transferred in 1853 in the buildings from new the University College , then known under the name of Provincial College .

The university federated then little by little the majority of the denominational institutions of the area of Toronto, which resigned themselves to join the U off T because they could not face the competition of a large public university. Its federal organization was inspired by that of the Université of London, which had as a result to confer on its colleges a great autonomy, in particular financial. The three colleges thus federated were the university of Victoria (methodist, federate in 1892), Trinity College (Anglican, in 1904) and St Michael' S College (catholic, in 1910). The organization of the university is governed today by the University off Toronto Act of 1971.

After one difficult period related to Large depression and on two world wars - during which many students of the U off T were mobilized -, the university knew a strong growth in the Années 1950 and 1960, as well because of the Baby-boom as because of massification of higher education. Five new colleges were then created: New College , Innis College and Woodsworth College on the campus of St George, Erindale College with Mississauga (30 kilometers in the west of Toronto) like, with Scarborough, the University off Toronto At Scarborough (30 kilometers in the east of Toronto).

In the Years 1980 and 1990, Canadian higher education knew important changes, the government reducing the budgetary equipments of the universities: those had then more to turn to the private sector to obtain financings or patronages. The University of Toronto, because of its at the same time geographical position (in the center of the economic capital of Canada) and institutional (the majority of the Canadian elite are graduate U off T ), was capable to find the required funds with its good performance: it has a budget today of more than one billion and the half of Canadian dollars, most important of Canada, all confused universities. At the dawn of the 21e century, the U off T remains still and always a university in full expansion.

The university today

Academic profile

The University of Toronto proposes an offer of lesson extremely varied, which goes from the Sanskrit to the Génomique while passing by the Estonian Littérature . However, it does not exempt a course of Journalisme on the campus of St George, partly because of proximity of the Université Ryerson, whose school of journalism is very famous. A die journalism exists on the other hand on the campus of Scarborough, in partnership with the Centennial College. The many newspapers of the campuses are of this fact often considered as a semi-official school of journalism.

The university accommodates more: 70000 students, of which nearly the three quarters are Undergraduate . The courses in first year of Sociologie, Psychologie or Histoire are thus exempted to several thousands of students, and it is frequent that courses in amphitheater gather more than one thousand of students. On the whole, the university accommodates each year 6000 foreign students, who on the whole account for 9% of the students and 13% of the Postgraduate .

In the field of research, the U off T accommodated in its center eight prizes winner of the Nobel Prize - six graduates of the university and two teachers. Although the university is particularly known for its research in medicine, two of these Nobel Prize were rewarded for their work in Chimie, two in Physique and two were named Nobel Prize of peace. The U off T is moreover the second North-American university of many publications, just behind Harvard.

Classifications and reputation

The academic classification of the world universities of the university Jiao Tong of Shanghai place the University of Toronto to the 24e world rank and with 1st for Canada. However, in August 2006, eleven Canadian universities, of which the U off T , announced that they would refuse to communicate to Maclean' S the data necessary to the classification, thus expressing their dissension with the method used.

Libraries

The network of Bibliothèque S of the University of Toronto is the more important fourth of North America of many works, just behind Harvard, Yale and the Université of Illinois with Urbana-Champaign, and the first in terms of electronic files.

The Robarts Library , which extends on fourteen stages, is the principal library in Social sciences and Social sciences of the campus of St George: it has the greatest reserve of books of Canada, among which rare books preserved by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library . The Gerstein Library is, as for it, the principal library of medicine of the U off T .

In 2006, the university made an agreement with the Internet Files concerning the digitalization of a great number of its collections, for their provision on line within the framework of vast a Numeric library.

Three campuses

The University of Toronto is distributed on three Campus, all located in the Toronto-native agglomeration. The three campuses are in constant expansion, of many pupils like buildings.

St George

The campus of St George, campus historical of the U off T , remains still most important today. It shelters the whole of the colleges of the university, except for one only, Erindale College . St George has two major assets:

  • the buildings oldest of the university, famous for their architecture, are located there, which attracts many visitors not-students and makes of it a place privileged for turnings of cinema.

  • It is located in full downtown area of Toronto and, is very so well served by public transport, with step less than four subway stations in the vicinity (Spadina, St George, Museum and Queen' S Park).

The campus is delimited by College Street in the south, Spadina Avenue in the west, Bloor Street in north and Bay Street in the east. In the center of the campus are Queen' S Park and the Ontarian provincial Parliament, while a little more in the west is the royal museum of Ontario.

Mississauga

Located at 30 kilometers in the west of Toronto and St George, the Université of Toronto with Mississauga (UTM) has a campus not only wider than that of St George (0,9 km ² against 0,6), but also much more modern. Located in the district of Erindale, on the banks of the River Credit, it is delimited by Dundas Street and Burnhamthorpe Road . The UTM is a campus in full expansion: its new library, the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centers (name of the mayor of Mississauga) and a new sporting center, including a stage of athletics and a swimming pool were recently inaugurated there. The university should also soon obtain a new medical school as well as new residences. The UTM accommodates each year the Argonauts of Toronto for their pre-season and their drives.

Scarborough

At the other end of the Toronto-native agglomeration (30 kilometers in the east of St George), is the Université of Toronto with Scarborough ( University off Toronto At Scarborough Campus , UTSC). Located on the banks of the Brook Highland, near highway 401, it represents largest of three campuses (1,2 km ²). Many buildings were built there at the beginning of the Années 2000, in particular those of the departments of arts and management, as well as a residence, a library and a building dedicated to the life coed. A new building of sciences should be built there from here 2009.

The majority of the part-time courses of the U off T proceed with the UTSC, in particular in management and data processing.

Life coed

The University of Toronto has very rich community life: more than 400 organizations are present there, that they are political associations, humane or Community, or of corporations or “clubs” (of choral society, ski, dance…). The UTM and the UTSC accommodate also tens of associations in any kind.

The representation coed is articulated around the student board of directors ( Students' Administrative Council ), elected by the students (rate of participation with the elections recently exceeded the 15%). Its role is to ensure the management of various services the students, in particular the health insurance, the reductions of tariff on transport or the sale of the school handbooks of occasion. Each faculty and each college also have of a representation coed and, for the majority, organizations coeds in responsibility of animate the life coed.

The U off T takes part in the Canadian inter-University Sport via its team, the Toronto Varsity Blues. The university finances teams of hockey, of Canadian Football, Basket-ball, Athlétisme, soccer and Natation. The football team Canadian has a relatively prestigious past, having in particular gained the first cut Vanier. The other sports are financed either by gifts, or by the participants themselves.

In addition to the innumerable newspapers specific to the colleges , faculties or associations coeds, the university has two principal newspapers: The Varsity and The Newspaper . There exists also a local radio station at the university, CIUT-FM .

Militancy

The militant tradition of the university goes back to: in 1895, the students of University College organized a boycott of the one week courses, following the setting with foot of the editor association of The Varsity , which had published articles anti-administration. One generally allots the direction of this movement to William Lyon Mackenzie King, although recent studies affirm that its role would have been over-estimated.

In the Years 1960, students and professors of the U off T created Rochdale College , a college self-managed located in the district Hippie of Toronto, Yorkville. Although officially not attached to the university, Rochdale wanted to be an alternative to the traditional university system and its authoritative and paternalist structures. Rochdale however closed in 1975.

After the de-penalization of the Homosexuality by the Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1969, of the students and professors off created the University Toronto Homophile Association (“association homophile of the university of Toronto”), the first gay association and Canadian Lesbienne university, and also the first Toronto-native gay association. It is Jearld Moldenhauer, research assistant at the medical college, which passed a classified in The Varsity inviting all the people interested in a meeting: begun to sixteen (fifteen men and a woman), association will take very quickly importance, not only within the U off T , but also in the city. Twenty years later, David Rayside, a professor of political science, the “committee against the homophobie will found”; ten years afterwards, finally, it will be at the origin of the creation of the department of studies on the sexual diversity of University College , which represents today one of the major assets of the college . The U off T shelters always today an important association LGBT, named Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans People off the University off Toronto ( LGBTOUT ).

Housing

If the university always guarantees a housing for all its first-year students, the price of the residences coeds is generally raised, particularly on the campus of St George. The price of the residence however includes food in the majority of the residences ( meal plans , generally obligatory). A great number of students prefer collocation except campus, the more so as one finds around the campus a great number of small houses and apartments intended for coeds collocations.

The system of the colleges

The system of the colleges of the U off T in the beginning is copied on that of the university of Oxford: they do not enjoy however an autonomy as large as their British counterparts, since the majority of the courses are managed by faculty and not by the colleges themselves. All the students of the faculty of arts and sciences of the campus of St George - principal and the oldest - must certainly choose their fastening with the one of the seven colleges , but they can also follow courses exempted in the six others, since the whole is chapeauté by faculty. It is with the administration of the college that they chose that the students manage their inscriptions in the courses of faculty.

The colleges moreover are equipped with one or several residence halls, mixed or not. The great number of residences available allows the U off T to guarantee to any student full-time first year which requires it, a housing on the campus. This engagement was held besides even in 2003, year when the reform of secondary education in Ontario led the two year old pupils to enter to the university at the same time.

The colleges differ at the same time by their identity and the teaching resources which they provide: thus, each college has its own offer of specific course. For example, Trinity College , selective college , propose a center of international studies, University College shelters the Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies and a center of studies on sexual diversity, while St Michael' S , catholic college , point of disjunction an institute of medieval studies.

In addition to these seven colleges , there exist four in theological matter about it, which form off the Toronto School Theology , and a college Postgraduate affiliated at the university.

List colleges

Organization

The university is divided into faculties, which have various degrees of independence. Although some are intended to the students Undergraduate , the majority are reserved for the Postgraduate and have agreements with the faculty of arts and sciences to offer their courses to its students. Here a list of faculties:

  • Faculty of sciences applied and engineering ( Faculty off Applied Science and Engineering )

  • Faculty of architecture, town and country planning and design ( Faculty off Architecture, Landscape and Design )
  • Faculty of arts and sciences ( Faculty off Arts and Science )
  • Faculty of odontology ( Faculty off Dentistry )
  • Faculty of sylviculture ( Faculty off Forestry )
  • School of formation postgraduate ( School off Graduate Studies )
  • Faculty of information sciences ( Faculty off Information Studies )
  • Faculty of Law ( Faculty off Law )
  • Medical college ( Faculty off Medicine )
  • Faculty of music ( Faculty off Music )
  • School of male nurses ( Faculty off Nursing )
  • Institute of the teaching studies of Ontario ( Ontario Institute for Studies in Education , OISE)
  • Faculty of pharmacy ( Faculty off Pharmacy )
  • Faculty of physical education ( Faculty off Physical Education )
  • School of management ( Rotman School off Management )

Centers and institutes

  • Canadian Institute of theoretical astrophysics ( Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics )

  • Fields Institute for mathematical research ( Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences )
  • Institute of biomedical engineering and biomaterials ( Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering , IBBME)
  • pontifical Institute of medieval studies ( Pontifical Institute off Medieval Studies )
  • Center Trudeau of studies on peace and the conflicts ( Trudeau Centers for Peace and Conflict Studies )
  • Academic institute of aerospace studies ( University off Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies , UTIAS)
  • Center of excellence spouse for research in immigration and integration ( Toronto Centers off Excellence for Research one Immigration and Settlement , CERIS)
  • theological Center mennonites of Toronto ( Toronto Mennonite Theological Center )
  • Data center of search for Statistique Canada, area of Toronto ( Toronto Region - Statistics Canada Research Data Center , Toronto DRC)

Personalities related to the university of Toronto

Vice-chancellors

Prizes winner of the Nobel Prize

Some famous former students and professors

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