www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca UNIVERSITY ~ OF ~ TORONTO THE BULLETIN MARCH 13, 2000 ~ 53RD YEAR ~ NUMBER 14 Academic Board NET WORTH OKs Expansion Framework BY MEGAN EASTON comprehensive funding for operating, capital and student support costs. The HE UNIVERSITY IS PREPARED TO appropriate human resources — both Taccommodate at least 8,000 faculty and staff — must be in place additional students over the next for every program slated for growth, decade but enrolment expansion will along with adequate student housing only occur where it is fully funded, and services, academic facilities and enriches the student experience and research infrastructure. advances the university’s mission, The most dramatic growth would states a report endorsed by Academic be on the two suburban campuses, Board March 9. with U of T at Scarborough taking in STREET DAVID A Framework for Enrolment from 2,100 to 4,200 new students and Expansion at the University of U of T at Mississauga accepting 2,400 Toronto (a supplement to this issue) to 4,700.These numbers translate to a presents the university’s guiding prin- 50 to 100 per cent increase in enrol- ciples in anticipation of demographic ment. The St. George campus would and social changes in Ontario that will grow by 11 to 14 per cent, or 3,500 to see up to 40 per cent more people 4,500 students. The maximum seeking post-secondary education growth scenario is a total increase of Neteka colleagues Wilson Chow, David Leung, Edmon Chung, Ken Lee, Rebecca Chan and Ketan Patel display over the next 10 years.The framework 14,400 students. what they hope will make them very wealthy young entrepreneurs — a new software program that makes the is not a blueprint, said President This total is less than the 16,500 Internet multilingual. Robert Prichard, but it will be a refer- students that represent U of T’s pro- ence point for more concrete plans in portional share, based on recent enrol- the future. ment numbers, of the expected boom Grads Make Web Multilingual “We are thinking forward and in applications to Ontario’s universi- BY JANET WONG Chung was searching the Internet University of Calgary management imagining how we would like the ties. “That creates opportunities for for information about a particular grad Ketan Patel as director of business University of Toronto to evolve over other Ontario universities to more N A DISCOVERY SURE TO TRANS- company and realized he only knew development. the next decade rather than waiting to fully realize their ambitions while pre- form how one works and plays on its Chinese name. “As with most Some companies do offer the use of see what particular forces and pres- venting the University of Toronto I the Internet, U of T grads have made people, I had become used to typing different languages and extended charac- sures arise and responding to them from becoming unreasonably large or it possible for people all over the the company name and appending ters for Web site addresses but they either one by one,” he said at the board out of balance,” Prichard said. As a world to surf the Net in their own .com for its Internet address, but this don’t offer a direct path to a fully univer- meeting. “This document speaks to result, admissions standards may go language. wasn’t as possible with Chinese sal naming system or aren’t compatible both the future size and future shape up and will at least be maintained. The six 20-something entrepre- script. I realized that the Internet with the majority of the world’s existing of the University of Toronto.” There will be no enrolment expan- neurs have created a server software naming system must evolve to take name servers, said Chung. In November an initial discussion sion in first-entry programs at the St. program that allows users to access e- into account a more global audience.” In contrast, Neteka has designed a paper on the enrolment issue was George campus beyond the extra stu- mails or Web pages by typing in a He approached friend David system that takes the entire Internet published in The Bulletin and was cir- dents completing a fourth year, but Web site address in any language — Leung, a fellow U of T industrial into account.The Neteka Name!t soft- culated at boards of governance and to there will be expansion in second- be it Chinese, Arabic, Greek or engineering graduate, to design the ware uses Unicode, a type of program- all divisions. Input from those consul- entry programs such as physical ther- Russian — a feature that has not software to solve the problem. They ming code that captures the character- tations was then incorporated into the apy, pharmacy and nursing and in been universally available until now. recruited four others to Neteka: istics underlying each letter or word in present framework which will go to doctoral-stream programs. Edmon Chung is the 24-year-old U of T computer science grad Wilson a language. Unicode can accommodate Governing Council for final approval Expansion at the suburban campus- president and chief creative officer of Chow to edit the software; U of T up to 65,000 letters or characters, more April 6. es will enhance the curricular strengths Neteka and a graduate of the University master of engineering grad Rebecca than enough for any major language, A prerequisite to any expansion is of each, the document stated. All of of Toronto’s master of industrial engi- Chan as human resources director; and allows for symbols such as the the growth at Scarborough will be in neering program. He took particular U of T industrial engineering grad Ken co-op programs, with the goal of mak- notice of the problem last May. Lee as director of operations; and ~ See WEB: Page 4 ~ ing it a leading co-op university in INSIDE Ontario. At Mississauga, about 1,000 new places will be added to the pro- posed joint program in communica- Feds Fund “Ideas, Innovation” Weird and tions, culture and information technol- wonderful ogy with Sheridan College while the BY SUSAN BLOCH-NEVITTE over five years for the full 2,000. Chairs initiative and the increased rest of the expansion will be in unique In addition, the Canada investment in the Canada A NEW COLUMN BY MICHAH areas such as biotechnology where the HERE WAS GOOD NEWS FOR Foundation for Innovation infra- Foundation for Innovation will Rynor explores out of the way places university has distinguished itself. U of T in the Feb. 28 federal structure program has been extend- propel Canada forward as an inter- on our campuses. Curiosities. Page 3 T To help accommodate the infusion budget with the expansion of pro- ed by three years to 2005 and will nationally competitive nation in the of new students, the framework pro- grams that will benefit faculty have an additional $900 million for new economy. It is the best budget Birgeneau speaks poses a restructuring of many first- recruitment and retention as well as research-based infrastructure in over a decade for our cause.” BIRGENEAU DISCUSSES WITH THE entry programs so that they run priority capital projects. needs. First proposed in 1997, the Prichard said that the federal Bulletin his love of science, what throughout the year. The three- Among key initiatives is the fed- program has produced some 56 government’s budget is “domi- he’s learned about U of T since his semester model, it states, would allow eral government’s commitment to awards for U of T and its affiliated nated by research — something appointment as president and students to complete 20-credit funding 2,000 faculty chairs teaching hospitals, for a total of $75 we could not have contemplat- more. Page 5 degrees more quickly, add greater flex- through its Canada Research million or approximately 15 per ed even five or 10 years ago.” ibility for professors and encourage Chairs program. Announced in last cent of CFI awards nationally. As part of its commitment to more efficient use of campus facilities. October’s throne speech, the pro- “The budget’s central focus on research, the government will 50 years young Professor Fred Wilson of the gram was originally to support ideas and innovation is extraordi- allocate $160 million to create THE FACULTY OF LAW CELEBRATES department of philosophy motioned 1,200 chairs with another 800 to be narily welcome,” said President the Genome Canada project. Five its 50th as the modern law school. funded at a later date. The govern- Robert Prichard. “The combined Pages 10 and 11 ~ See ACADEMIC: Page 4 ~ ment will commit $900 million force of the Canada Research ~ See IDEAS: Page 4 ~ IN BRIEF AWARDS & HONOURS Faculty of Arts & Science presentation and usability” as well as being “one of the New home for Bulletin online most valuable and reliable on the Internet.” PROFESSOR JEFFREY HAMBURGER OF FINE ART WAS THE BULLETIN’S ONLINE VERSION HAS MOVED TO A NEW WEB SITE the winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Faculty of Medicine and a new format. 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