University of Toronto at Mississauga
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| Motto | Tantum Nobis Creditum (So much has been entrusted to us) |
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| Established | 1967 |
| Type | Public |
| Principal | Cheryl Misak (acting) |
| Faculty | 254 |
| Staff | 106 |
| Undergraduates | 7,952 full-time, 842 part-time |
| Postgraduates | 231 |
| Location | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| Campus | Suburban (224 acres) |
| Mascot | Eagles
website = http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/ |
| Crest image © University of Toronto at Mississauga | |
The University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM), known as Erindale College until 2002, is a campus of the University of Toronto, with an enrollment of approximately 8,500 students. UTM is in Mississauga, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto on its western border, set upon a park-like campus on the Credit River. The surrounding neighbourhood (the Mississauga Road area and the Credit Woodlands) is a fairly affluent section of the city. UTM is approximately 33 km away from downtown Toronto.
UTM offers 125 programs among 70 areas of study. The University's most popular programs include anthropology, biology, commerce, CCIT (communications, culture and information technology), computer science, crime and deviance, environmental studies, history, management, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Canada's only program in forensic science is available at UTM. In addition, UTM students can apply for joint-degree programs in art and art history or theatre and drama through an arrangement with Sheridan College, allowing students to obtain both a university degree from UTM and a college diploma from Sheridan. The CCIT program is a recent creation and partnership between UTM and Sheridan College.
Other undergraduate programs offered at UTM include, but are not limited to professional writing and communication, mathematics, chemistry, languages, physics, environmental sciences, geography, and earth sciences (geology).
UTM also hosts one of the few palaeomagnetism laboratories in Canada. Currently run by Dr. Henry Halls, this lab investigated the palaeomagnetic properties of rocks collected from the Apollo missions in the 1970s. UTM's most famous president was J. Tuzo Wilson, a geologist and pioneer in plate tectonics. A research wing in the South Building of UTM is named after him. In addition to Dr. Henry Halls, Dr. D. J. Schulze and Dr. P.Y. Robin (professor emeritus) call UTM a home and specialize in mantle petrology and structural geology, respectively.
Graduate degrees offered include the Master of Management and Professional Accounting, Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting, Master of Biotechnology and the Master of Biomedical Communications.
UTM is in the midst of an expansion, with student enrollment being projected to reach 12,000 by the end of the decade.
[edit] Campus
The campus was the former estate of Reginald Watkins, which was acquired by the University of Toronto in 1965, and today consists of a number of buildings arranged across a large, treed lot. The original, and largest, building was built as a megalithic structure, predominantly out of concrete, as was typical of the brutalist architecture style of the late 1960s. It was one of architect Raymond Moriyama's first major commissions. Other buildings were added over the decades, but, with the enlarged enrollment at the beginning of the new millennium, the pace of construction increased.
A new CCT building, designed by Saucier + Perrot, was opened in September of 2004. The new library and academic learning centre, designed by Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners, and named after Mississauga's mayor, Hazel McCallion, opened October 8, 2006, and the new Wellness, Recreation and Athletics Centre, also by Shore Tilbe, opened less than a month previous to that. As well, an Academy of Medicine is in the beginning of creation and will be affiliated with the Credit Valley Hospital and the Trillium Health Centre.
Mississauga campus will be home to a first in Canadian education. Canada's first Forensic Science Institute will be created at the UTM location, opening for the 2007 - 2008 school year. The new institute for postgraduate students will forge close ties with the Centre of Forensic Sciences.
The campus is also home to CFRE Radio, broadcasting twenty-four hours a day at 91.9FM out of the Student Centre. With a focus on Canadian and independent music, students and community members are encouraged to apply for a show, as no experience is required.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Dionne Brand - poet, novelist and community activist
- Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga - president of the Republic of Latvia
- John Roberts (J.D. Roberts) - CNN Chief National Correspondent. (former CBS News White House reporter and fill-in national news anchor for Dan Rather.
- Eira Thomas - President and Chief Executive Officer, Stornoway Diamond Corporation
- Roberta Bondar - female Astronaut
- Ruben Vicente Gomes Tavares - Award winning scientist and philanthropist
- Bruce Dowbiggin - former CBC TV sports journalist, author of hockey books, and current Calgary Herald columnist
