Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface

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Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface

Motto: Je veux fair du bon (I aspire to be productive)
Established: 1818
Type: Public
President: Michel Tétreault
Rector: Mme Raymonde Gagné
Faculty: 38
Students: 1000 regular and 3000 continuing education
Undergraduates: 510 full time + 420 part time
Postgraduates: 54 part time
Location: Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
(cygestion@ustboniface.mb.ca)
Campus: Urban
Colours: Red      & White     
Affiliations: AUCC, IAU, AUFC, ACU
Website: http://www.cusb.ca/
Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface
Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface

The Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, or CUSB, is a university college affiliated with the University of Manitoba and located in Saint Boniface, Manitoba. It is oriented primarily towards the French-speaking community of St.-Boniface and others who want to learn, or be educated through, the French language and Franco-Manitoban culture.

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[edit] History

Louis Riel Sculpture @ Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface
Louis Riel Sculpture @ Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface

St-Boniface College, established in Manitoba has a strong Roman Catholic religious affiliation. [1]It originates from a school for boys founded in 1818 by Monseigneur Norbert Provencher. It was incorporated into its current form in 1871.

Consolidation was a way to strengthen this small and financially insecure institution. The University Of Manitoba was established in 1877 by combining 3 existing church colleges St-Boniface Roman Catholic; St John's Anglican and Manitoba College Presbyterian. [2]

In the early part of this century, professional education expanded beyond the traditional fields of theology, law and medicine. Graduate training based on the German-inspired American model of specialized course work and the completion of a research thesis was introduced. [3]

The policy of university education initiated in the 1960s responded to population pressure and the belief that higher education was a key to social justice and economic productivity for individuals and for society. [4]

By 2002 the college population was about 2/3 female.

[edit] Academic

It has about one thousand regular students and three thousand in its continuing education division, who study in the main building which is located right next to the St.-Boniface Cathedral, and a block away from Boulevard Provencher, the street located in the middle of St.-Boniface and at the heart of the Franco-Manitoban community.

[edit] Partnership

The Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface is a member of L'Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne, a network of academic institutions of the Canadian Francophonie. [5]

[edit] Aboriginal

The Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface’s Canada Research Chair on Métis Identity provides research into Aboriginal culture. [6]

[edit] See also

[edit] Books

  • Dr. John M (Jack) Bumsted 'The University of Manitoba: An Illustrated History (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press © 2001)'

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008242
  2. ^ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008242
  3. ^ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008242
  4. ^ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008242
  5. ^ AUFC
  6. ^ http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/cms-filesystem-action?file=pdfs/conferences/2007/aboriginal-rt-spring-report.pdf.

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Coordinates: 49°53′18″N, 97°7′17″W

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