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Motto | Latin: Fiat Lux |
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Motto in English | Let there be light |
Type | Public |
Established | 1967 |
Academic affiliations | Universities Canada, ACU |
Endowment | $104.5 million (2024) [1] |
Chancellor | Terry Whitehead |
President | Digvir Jayas [2] |
Provost | Michelle Helstein [3] |
Academic staff | 600 [4] |
Students | 8,263 |
Undergraduates | 7,528 [5] |
Postgraduates | 735 [5] |
Address | 49°40′42″N112°51′50″W / 49.6782°N 112.8640°W |
Campus | Urban 185 ha (1,850,000 m2) |
Colours | Blue and Gold |
Nickname | Pronghorns |
Sporting affiliations | U Sports, CWUAA, |
Mascot | Luxie — the pronghorn |
Website | www |
The University of Lethbridge (also known as uLethbridge, uLeth, and U of L) is a public comprehensive and research university located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with a second campus in Calgary, Alberta.
Founded in the liberal arts tradition, the university offers over 150 undergraduate degree programs in the Arts, Sciences, Management, Education, Health Sciences and Fine Arts. Further, the university has over 50 Masters and PhD programs.
Ranked as one of the top primarily undergraduate universities in Canada by Maclean's magazine, the university has a provincial economic impact of $2.0 billion. It is the second largest employer in the city of Lethbridge, with over 1,000 staff, including 600 academic staff. The student population consists of 7,528 undergraduates and 735 graduate students as of 2022. There are over 50,000 alumni around the world. [6]
Established by a provincial Order in Council as Alberta's third university during a period of rapid population growth in the province. The University of Lethbridge welcomed 650 students when it first opened its doors in 1967 on the Lethbridge Junior College campus. With the completion of University Hall in 1971, the university moved permanently to west Lethbridge with enrolment growing to over 1,200 students. [7] The current location of the university was chosen only after an intense community debate with the provincial government which wanted the university to be located in east Lethbridge. After the university's first convocation on May 18, 1968, more than 500 students, faculty and community members held a protest march in support of having the university located in west Lethbridge. Soon after, the government decided west Lethbridge would be the university's permanent location. [7]
University Hall was designed by the renowned architect Arthur Erickson and sits within the coulees above the Oldman River. University Hall was selected as one of four buildings to appear on a Canadian postage stamp celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC). [8]
On February 10, 2022, the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association began its first ever legal strike action over issues such as working conditions, collegial governance, and equitable pay and benefits. [9] The strike concluded on March 23, with the Faculty Association voting 91% in favour of a new collective agreement with the university lasting through June 2024. [10]
The University of Lethbridge offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in four faculties and three schools, as described below.
The university is accredited under Alberta's Post-Secondary Learning Act [11] and is considered a "comprehensive academic and research university" (CARU), which means offer a range of academic and professional programs that generally lead to undergraduate and graduate level credentials, and have a strong research focus. [12]
The University of Lethbridge offers over 150 degree programs. It has seven faculties and schools that administer its bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.
The Faculty of Arts and Science offers nine pre-professional programs in dentistry, journalism, law, medicine, nutrition and food sciences, optometry, social work, and veterinary medicine, as well as an engineering transfer program, through which students take their first year at the University of Lethbridge before completing their degrees at the University of Alberta or the University of Saskatchewan.
The Agility program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship was launched at the university in 2015. This program encourages transdisciplinary innovation, including social innovation, and will soon include a large makerspace in the new science and academic building to complement existing, specialized makerspaces. The university also partners with the Tecconnect centre for entrepreneurship and innovation (Economic Development Lethbridge), Regional Innovation Network of Southern Alberta (RINSA), and other organizations to encourage the production of spinoffs and collaboration with industry.[ citation needed ]
The University of Lethbridge provides special first-year bridging programs for Indigenous students. The University of Lethbridge's Niitsitapi Teacher Education Program with Red Crow Community College was developed in partnership with specific Indigenous communities to meet specific needs within Aboriginal communities. [13]
The University of Lethbridge and the University of Calgary signed a MOU to establish a new Rural Medical Education Training Program in Lethbridge to help increase the number of physicians practising in Southern Alberta. [14] The program will be located on the University of Lethbridge's main campus in the former building of the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience and once operational will enrol up to 30 students per year in the Cumming School of Medicine's accelerated 3-year undergraduate medical education curriculum.
The University of Lethbridge is a research-intensive university, named "Research University of the Year" in the undergraduate category in 2012, and consistently ranks highly in terms of TriCouncil funding, especially in the sciences, but increasingly in all fields of scholarly inquiry. [15] It is home to 60 research chairs, 8 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, and 2 Order of Canada recipients.
The university is home to 15 centres and institutes, which transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, including the Alberta Gambling Research Institute (AGRI), Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute (ARRTI), Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre (ATIC), Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN), Canadian Centre for Research in Advanced Fluorine Technologies (C-CRAFT), Centre for the Study of Scholarly Communication (CSSC), Centre for Culture and Community (CCC), Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT), Centre for Socially Responsible Marketing (CSRM), Health Services Quality Institute (HSQI), Institute for Child and Youth Studies (I-CYS), Institute for Space Imaging Science (ISIS), Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy, Small Business Institute (SBI), and Water Institute for Sustainable Environments (WISE).
The university's infrastructure in the sciences and information technology is accessible to undergraduate students and the university is a provincial leader in terms of undergraduate involvement in publishable and translational faculty research and innovation.
University rankings | |
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World rankings | |
THE World [16] | 1201–1500 |
USNWR World [17] | 1741 |
Canadian rankings | |
THE National [16] | 31 |
USNWR National [17] | 37 |
Maclean's Undergraduate [18] | 6 |
Maclean's Reputation [19] | 37 |
The University of Lethbridge was ranked 6th in Canada in the primarily undergraduate university category for Maclean's 2024 university rankings. [18]
The LINC (Library Information Network Centre) was opened in 2001 after a 10-year fundraising campaign. It houses the library, numerous individual and group study spaces, and some of the best views on campus.
The CCBN is home to Canada's first Department of Neuroscience, state-of-the-art labs, and has attracted world-class researchers, including: Dr. Bryan Kolb and Dr. Bruce McNaughton.[ citation needed ]
The 1st Choice Savings Centre includes the following facilities:
Opened in 2008, Turcotte Hall is home to the Faculty of Education, Counselling Services and the campus Physical Plant. [20]
The Alberta Water and Environment Science Building (AWESB) was completed in 2008 and contains numerous sustainable features that helped it earn silver LEED certification. The AWESB houses many of the country's most accomplished water researchers and is home to the Water Institute for Sustainable Environments. [21]
The $12-million facility was constructed through a partnership between the City of Lethbridge and the University of Lethbridge, with additional funding provided by the Government of Alberta. [22] The Stadium includes:
Named after Dr. Alan Markin in recognition of his generous financial support of the building, Markin Hall is home to the Dhillon School of Business and the Faculty of Health Sciences. [24] The building includes the Centre for Financial Market Research and Teaching (“Trading Room”) which provides direct connections to global trading markets, giving students hands-on experience with equities trading and risk management. Also has the Simulation Health Centre, which has patient simulators for the Health Sciences students. Students can engage in clinical practice on life like mannequins which can simulate body functions in a realistic setting set up to imitate a hospital. [25]
The most recent development at the University of Lethbridge is the "Destination Project", the first phase of which was a new $280M 38,500 square metres (414,000 sq ft) science and academic building, known as Science Commons. This facility, officially opened in September 2019, [26] features laboratory and teaching facilities, as well as "outreach" and "maker" spaces. The Science Commons houses over 100 faculty researchers in physics, astronomy, chemistry, biochemistry, biological sciences, neuroscience, and psychology.[ citation needed ] [27] In 2018, it was shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival [28]
The student body of the University of Lethbridge is represented by two students' unions, the University of Lethbridge Students' Union for all undergraduate students, and the Graduate Student Association for all graduate students. [29] There are over 70 student clubs that provide social and athletic activities, travel, religious fellowship, and charitable and cultural support. The undergraduate student union, as well as many of the student organizations and clubs, are centred in the university's student activity centre, the Students' Union Building. The building was opened in 1990, and hosts the majority of the Students' Union services and business operations.
The two primary media outlets amongst the student population are the student newspaper, The Meliorist, which has been in print since 1967 and the campus radio station, CKXU 88.3 FM, which first went to air in 1978.
The university is represented in U Sports by the Lethbridge Pronghorns, formerly known as the Chinooks. They have men's and women's teams in basketball, judo, rugby union (women only), soccer, swimming, and track and field. The university formerly had men's and women's teams in volleyball (the men's team was cut in 1988, followed by the women in the early 1990s) and ice hockey (the men's and women's teams were simultaneously cut in April 2020), [30] the latter of whom played off-campus at the Nicholas Sheran Ice Centre owned by the City of Lethbridge. [31] The Pronghorns have won national championships in men's hockey (1994) and women's rugby (2007, 2008, 2009). [32] The university has an intramurals program.
The home gymnasium for the Pronghorns is the 1st Choice Savings Centre for Sport & Wellness which includes three full-size basketball courts, an indoor track field, a rock-climbing wall, and an exercise room. The construction was finished in 2006 and is open to the public on a membership basis.
An outdoor stadium in the southern campus opened in fall 2009. It is the home of the Pronghorns soccer teams and the women's rugby team.
The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery was established in 1981 and houses one of the largest collections in Canada of 19th and 20th-century Canadian, American and European art, with over 13,000 pieces including drawing, print making, painting, photography, sculpture and installation.
The previous director, Jeffrey Spalding, spearheaded this nationally renowned art collection. Josephine Mills was appointed director/curator of the Art Gallery in 2001 and maintains a strong exhibition, publication, and research program.
The collection quickly outgrew available archiving and storage space, so a new building was completed in 1999 to house large works. Additional renovations were made in 2000 and 2003 to update a study area for the collection and an incoming/ outgoing art handling area.
In 2006, a comprehensive registration database was made available online of the University of Lethbridge collections.
Chancellor | Term start | Term end |
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Louis S. Turcotte | 1968 | 1972 |
James Oshiro | 1972 | 1975 |
Van E. Christou | 1975 | 1979 |
Islay M. Arnold | 1979 | 1983 |
William S. Russell | 1983 | 1987 |
Keith V. Robin | 1987 | 1991 |
Ingrid M. Speaker | 1991 | 1995 |
Robert Hironaka | 1995 | 1999 |
Jim Horsman | 1999 | 2003 |
Shirley DeBow | 2003 | 2007 |
Richard Davidson | 2007 | 2011 |
Shirley McClellan | 2011 | 2015 |
Janice Varzari | 2015 | 2019 |
Charles Weaselhead | 2019 | 2023 |
Terry Whitehead | 2023 |
President | Term start | Term end |
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Russell J. Leskiw (acting) | 1967 | 1967 |
Sam Smith | 1967 | 1972 |
William E. Beckel | 1972 | 1979 |
John H. Woods | 1979 | 1986 |
Gerald S. Kenyon (acting) | 1986 | 1987 |
Howard E. Tennant | 1987 | 2000 |
William H. Cade | 2000 | 2010 |
Michael J. Mahon | 2010 | 2023 |
Digvir Jayas | 2023 | |
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