The University of Windsor is a public research university in Windsor,Ontario,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 Winnipeg is a public research university in Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada. It offers undergraduate programs in art,business,economics,education,science and applied health as well as graduate programs. UWinnipeg's founding colleges were Manitoba College and Wesley College,which merged to form United College in 1938. The University of Winnipeg was established in 1967 when United College received its charter.
Henry George Thode was a Canadian geochemist,nuclear chemist,and academic administrator. He was president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University from 1961 to 1972. Thode built a cyclotron capable of making radioactive isotopes and,along with C. H. Jaimet,investigated the use of radioactive iodine in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease in humans,the first medical application of radioactive iodine in Canada.
Peter James George,was a Canadian economist and university administrator. On June 30,2010,he retired after serving three five year terms as President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton,Ontario.
William C. Leggett is a Canadian population biologist and university administrator who served as the 17th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University,Kingston in Canada,from 1994 to 2004,only the second scientist to hold the Principalship. He was previously the Vice Principal (Academic) of McGill University.
Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele is an academic and writer of fiction who is the former vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Cape Town (UCT). On 16 November 2012 he was inaugurated as the chancellor of the University of Johannesburg.
Bruce Kidd,is a Canadian academic,author,and athlete.
Thomas Sidney Axworthy,is a Canadian civil servant,political strategist,writer and professor. He is best known for having served as Principal Secretary and Chief Speechwriter to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Axworthy is currently the Secretary General of the InterAction Council. Previously,he was president and CEO of the Walter and Duncan Gordan Foundation. He is a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs,Massey College,and the Bill Graham Centre of Contemporary International History,Trinity College,at the University of Toronto.
Queen's University at Kingston,commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's,is a public research university in Kingston,Ontario,Canada. Queen's holds more than 1,400 hectares of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex,England. Queen's is organized into eight faculties and schools.
Sir Kenneth Octavius Hall served as the governor-general of Jamaica from 16 February 2006 to 26 February 2009. He was Jamaica's fifth governor-general since independence in 1962.
Henry Edmison Duckworth,was a Canadian physicist and university administrator.
Abraham Lincoln McCrimmon was a Canadian academic and Chancellor of McMaster University.
Daniel Robert Woolf is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston,Ontario,Canada,a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. In late 2017,Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019. He was succeeded by Patrick Deane,and became Principal Emeritus.
The principal is the chief executive and the chief academic officer of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth.
Imre Szeman is a Canadian cultural theorist,professor,and public intellectual. He is Director of the Institute for Environment,Conservation,and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Szeman was previously University Research Chair of Environmental Communication at the University of Waterloo(2017-2022),Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (2009-2016),and Senator William McMaster Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. In 2020,Szeman was named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2022,he was the Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. From 2021-2022,Szeman served as the Climate Critic for the Green Party of Canada.
Adam Maximilian Shoemaker is a Canadian-Australian academic and higher education administrator,and a scholarly authority within the field of Indigenous Australian literature. He currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University.
David H. Farrar is an academic and university administrator,serving as the eighth and current President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University. Farrar served as professor of chemistry and an academic administrator at the University of Toronto from 1981 to 2007 and the University of British Columbia from 2007 to 2017. From 1 July to 14 August 2016,Farrar briefly served as the interim president of University of British Columbia. In 2017,Farrar joined McMaster University,serving as its Provost and Vice President of Academics,before being named the university's interim president on 1 July 2019 for a one year term. However,in December 2019 McMaster named Farrar as its official president,with his first formal term beginning on 1 July 2020.
James William (Jim) Leech is a Canadian business executive. Since 2021,he has been chancellor-emeritus of Queen's University in Kingston,Ontario,Canada. From 2014 to 2021,he was the 14th Chancellor of Queen's University. Prior to that,he spent 12 years at the Ontario Teachers’Pension Plan (OTPP),first for 6 years as a senior vice-president of OTPP head of Teachers' Private Capital,OTPP's private investment arm,and then as president and chief executive officer of the pension plan until his retirement in 2013.
