| Université de Moncton | |
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| Motto | Surge illuminare |
| Motto in English | (?) |
| Established | 1963 (Merger of Collège Saint-Joseph, Collège du Sacré-Cœur and Collège Saint-Louis) |
| Type | Public |
| Chancellor | Louis R. Comeau1 |
| President | Andre G. Richard Q.C. |
| Rector | Yvon Fontaine1 |
| Admin. staff | Teaching staff: 3771 Other staff: 434 |
| Students | Total full-time students: 51781 Moncton campus: 4187 Edmunston campus: 549 Shippagan campus: 442 |
| Location | Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colours | Blue and Gold |
| Sports | Blue Eagles (French: Aigles Bleu) |
| Mascot | Super Blue (French: Super Bleu) |
| Affiliations | AUCC, IAU, AUFC, AUS, AUFSC, CBIE, CUP. |
| Website | http://www.umoncton.ca |
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The Université de Moncton (abbr. U de M, transl. University of Moncton) is a French language university located in Moncton, New Brunswick serving the Acadian community of Atlantic Canada. It is the only francophone university in New Brunswick and is one of only two such universities in the Maritimes, the other being the Université Sainte-Anne in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia.
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Founded on 19 June 1963, the modern Université de Moncton is the result of the merger of three colleges: Collège Saint-Joseph (Memramcook, 1864), Collège du Sacré-Cœur (Bathurst, 1999), and Collège Saint-Louis (Edmundston, 1946).[1] In 1989, the Université of Moncton founded undergraduate degrees in adult education. Alan Beddoe designed the university coats of arms.[2]
The National Film Board of Canada documentary Acadia Acadia ?!? (1971), co-directed by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, documents how student protests at the university in 1968-69 sparked an awakening of Acadian nationalism.[3]
The university is divided into three campuses
The university is a member of L'Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne (en: Association of Universities of the Canadian Francophonie), a network of academic institutions of the Canadian Francophonie.[5]
The main campus at Moncton has eight faculties:
The University of Moncton's Faculty of Law is one of only three French-language common law schools in Canada. (The University of Ottawa and McGill University also offer common law degrees in French.) The school was founded in 1978 in order to respond to the needs of francophone communities outside of Quebec. As Quebec practices civil law, there was a need to instruct francophone lawyers in common law to practice in other parts of Canada. The University of Ottawa law school teaches both common and civil law, as does McGill; thus the University of Moncton's Faculty of Law is the only exclusively French, exclusively common law school in Canada.[7]
U de M offers both the basic LLB and the graduate LLM. The school also offers joint degrees: the LLB-MBA (Masters of Business) and LLB-MEE (Masters of Environmental Studies). As well, students who already possess a civil law degree (an LL.L or a BCL) from a Canadian school can enroll at the University of Moncton for two semesters to complete an LLB.[8]
The University of Moncton's Faculty of Medicine is the first such francophone school in the Maritimes, outside the province of Quebec.
There are six libraries and resource centers across the three campuses: Bibliothèque Champlain (Moncton), Bibliothèque Michel-Bastarache (Moncton), Centre d'études acadiennes (Moncton), Centre de ressources pédagogiques (Moncton), Bibliothèque Rhéa-Larose (Edmundston) and Bibliothèque Shippagan.[9] All records from these libraries are gathered into one catalogue: Catalogue Éloïze.[10]
Two of these libraries, Michel-Bastarache and Centre de ressources pédagogiques, are special libraries, catering to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Education, respectively. The Centre d'études acadiennes, found on the lower level of Bibliothèque Champlain, is a world-renown and primary resource and archive center for Acadian studies.[11]
The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Moncton Aigles Bleus. The Aigles Bleus have a male and female hockey team, a male and female soccer team, a male and female athletics, a male and female Cross country running team and a female volleyball team.
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