University of Winnipeg

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University of Winnipeg


Motto	Lux et Veritas Floreant (Let Light and Truth Flourish)
Established	1967
Type	Public
President	Lloyd Axworthy
Staff	approx. 300
Undergraduates	8,699
Postgraduates	small number of
Location	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Campus	Urban
Sports team	Winnipeg Wesmen
Mascot	Wesley Coyote
Website	www.uwinnipeg.ca

The University of Winnipeg received its charter in 1967 but its roots date back more than 130 years. The founding colleges were Manitoba College 1871, and Wesley College 1888, which merged to form United College in 1938.

Located in downtown, the University of Winnipeg is a compact, diverse, multicultural academic community. As a university in the downtown of a large urban centre, the U of W has attempted to play a role in the downtown community. Many see the university being pulled in two directions. On the one hand there are attempts to make the university a part of Winnipeg's downtown renewal efforts. On the other hand security issues have made some concerned that the university, with its focus on increased security measures, is being drawn away from the community turning the institution into an isolated area of affluence, in an area of Winnipeg that is populated with many low-income families.

The University of Winnipeg lacks dormitory style campus housing. Current university housing exists in several houses and three floors of a seniors complex in the area surrounding the university. Due to its location in the heart of Winnipeg, the city has expanded around the university, often depriving it of area it can use for either on-campus housing or expansion of current facilities; back when the University was United College, there was dormitory housing, but that has long been taken over by much-needed classroom, office, and other space. With the closure of Spence Street on the university's west side talk has once again arisen of dormitories being built to house students.

It was ranked by graduates in Maclean's magazine University Graduate Survey (November 15, 2004) in the Top Ten of all Canadian universities when asked about their “Entire Educational Experience.”

The University of Winnipeg also contains a high school called the University of Winnipeg Collegiate, it is the only on-campus high school in Canada.

The University of Winnipeg is a provincially and privately funded post-secondary institution with undergraduate and selected graduate programs, as well as a Division of Continuing Education and a high school division.

Students at the University are represented by the University of Winnipeg Students' Association. The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Winnipeg Wesmen.

CKUW is the radio station based out of the University of Winnipeg.