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Bios Westvac WestVAC / WestVPR Conference March 6-7, 2014 Inn at Laurel Point, Victoria B.C . SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Mr. Stephen Mandel , Former Mayor, City of Edmonton Session #1 – PSE in Time of Austerity: An Alberta Perspective 9:00am Thursday, March 6, 2014 Stephen Mandel led the City of Edmonton as Mayor for nine years since being first elected to the role in October 2004. As an accomplished businessman, he brought 30 years of private sector experience to City Hall. Stephen is known for being a strong advocate for Alberta municipalities, ensuring they receive a fair share of funding to pay for vital infrastructure and community services in a rapidly growing community. His bold vision to improve the integration of services in the Edmonton region encouraged the Province to create a new governance body responsible for building a more effective regional plan, which has marked a new era of cooperation and growth. Stephen is a strong advocate and voice for the most vulnerable in society, including low-income families, seniors, newcomers and the homeless. His passion for people was the driving force behind several major initiatives including Edmonton's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, REACH Edmonton Council for Safe Communities, and the Africa Centre. Stephen has been a supporter of the arts which he believes are a critical factor in the confidence and character of a city. He also committed to preserving Edmonton's reputation as a global environmental leader, stewarding green and sustainable initiatives. He has been married to wife Lynn for 40 years. They have two grown children and one grandchild. WestVAC/VPR 2014 Page 1 Dr. Thomas Chase , Provost and Vice-President (Academic), University of Regina Session #2 – Challenges and Opportunities of On-line Learning 11:00am Thursday, March 6, 2014 Dr. Thomas Chase assumed the role of Provost and Vice-President (Academic) on 1 July 2011. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow (Scotland), where he held a doctoral fellowship in the Department of English Language . His research centered on theories of hyponymy and their application to the semantic classification of large samples of the English lexis, and is included in The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary , which was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press. He became Provost at Regina after having served from 2009-2011 as Vice-President (Academic) and Provost at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. At Royal Roads he was centrally involved in developing the University's new Strategic Direction, the reorganization of its academic administrative structure, and the renewal of many of the University's academic programs. Prior to his work at Royal Roads, Thomas Chase held a series of academic and administrative appointments at the University of Regina. These include the positions of Co-ordinator of the Linguistics Program, founding Director of the Centre for Academic Technologies, Associate Dean (Research and Graduate) of the Faculty of Arts and, for four years, Dean of the Faculty of Arts. In 2008, President Vianne Timmons named him to lead the team responsible for preparing the University of Regina's new strategic plan, mâmawohkamâtowin: Our Work, Our People, Our Communities (360KB) . He also served concurrently on the management team responsible for bargaining a new collective agreement with the Faculty Association. His academic appointment is in the Department of English. Holder of the licentiate diploma in organ performance from Trinity College (London), Dr Chase also works on French organ literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing especially on the music of Marcel Dupré. He has performed and lectured widely, including appearances in Vancouver, Quebec City, Philadelphia, New York, Seattle, Sao Paulo, Brazil and, most recently, Newark, New Jersey. In summer 2014, he will be speaking on Dupré's contested legacy at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Boston. In 2004, the Royal Canadian College of Organists awarded him the diploma of Fellow, honoris causa, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to organ music as performer, scholar, and visionary." WestVAC/VPR 2014 Page 2 Mr. Brian Stewart , Executive Program Director, University of Alberta Session #2 – Challenges and Opportunities of On-line Learning 11:00am Thursday, March 6, 2014 Brian Stewart is the Executive Program Director of the Campus Alberta Unified Services initiative at the University of Alberta. He was formerly the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Athabasca University, where his role was to provide strategic leadership to the application of IT to all the University’s activities. Throughout his career Brian has successfully applied technology to improve strategic and market position through organisational performance and operational and administrative effectiveness. He has many sector affiliations and is currently a Director and advisor to several innovative and IT related initiatives. Brian has also published and presented on elearning, IT cost management, strategic IT planning and the use of IT in higher education. He holds an MA in Economics from the University College Cork (Ireland) and an MBA from Athabasca University. Qwul’sih’yah’maht (Dr. Robina Thomas), Associate Professor, School of Social Work/Co- Chair First People’s House, University of Victoria Acknowledgement of the Territory 1:30pm Thursday, March 6, 2014 Qwul’sih’yah’maht (Dr. Robina Thomas) is Lyackson of the Coast Salish Nation. Robina is committed to Indigenous education and her research interests include Storytelling, Residential Schools, child welfare, Indigenous women and traditional Hul’qumi’num teachings such as Uy’skwuluwun - to be of a good spirit and mind. She is committed to understanding anti-racism and anti–oppression/colonialism and how these can be lived. WestVAC/VPR 2014 Page 3 Dr. Annemieke Farenhorst , NSERC Prairie Chair for Women in Science and Engineering and Professor, Soil Science, University of Manitoba Session #3 – Embracing Opportunities: Building Partnerships with Aboriginal Communities 1:30pm Thursday, March 6, 2014 Dr. Annemieke Farenhorst is Professor of Soil Science, University of Manitoba and the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for the Prairies. She was recently awarded The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her leadership in research on pesticide fate in soil and water, her contributions to community-based research in rural communities of Central America, and for her role in mentoring women in science. She is the principal investigator for the $3 million, 6 year CREATE H2O program, a research-training partnership between universities and First Nations communities, with support from First Nations organizations, industry and non-for-profit stakeholders. Dr. Farenhorst received a 2013 University of Manitoba outreach award for building strong partnerships with First Nation communities, including with Sapotaweyak Cree Nation to train youth on water issues. Dr. Linc Kesler , Director and Senior Advisor to the President on Aboriginal Affairs, University of British Columbia Session #3 – Embracing Opportunities: Building Partnerships with Aboriginal Communities 1:30pm Thursday, March 6, 2014 Linc Kesler is Associate Professor of First Nations Studies and English at the University of British Columbia and currently the Director of the First Nations House of Learning, a strategic planning and coordinating unit for Aboriginal initiatives across the university. He is also Senior Advisor to the UBC President on Aboriginal Affairs. After twenty years of teaching early modern English, American Indian, and American minority literature and working on American minority initiatives in the US, he came to UBC to be the initial Director of the First Nations Studies Program in the Arts Faculty and was Director and then Chair until 2012. Beginning in 2007, he was co-chair of a succession of committees resulting in the formation of the UBC Aboriginal Strategic Plan, and in his current role coordinates its implementation. Linc's personal work is on the relationship of communications technology to constructions of knowledge in the contexts of both Indigenous and early modern studies, and has been particularly interested in the relationship between electronic technology and Indigenous communities. His Indigenous ancestry is Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. WestVAC/VPR 2014 Page 4 Dr. Catherine A. Mateer , Associate Vice-President, Academic Planning, University of Victoria Session #3 – Embracing Opportunities: Building Partnerships with Aboriginal Communities 1:30pm Thursday, March 6, 2014 Catherine A. Mateer was appointed Associate Vice-President Academic Planning at the University of Victoria in 2006 and reappointed to this position in 2011. She is responsible for academic and enrolment planning, academic program quality, new program development and approval, and inter-institutional relationships. She also has responsibility for the Office of Co- operative Education and Career Services, the Teaching and Learning Centre, and Co-Chairs the Academic Advisory Council of CanAssist. Dr. Mateer is a Registered Psychologist and board- certified clinical neuropsychologist. She has a BA and an MSc from the University of Wisconsin, a PhD from the University of Western Ontario, and post-doctoral training at the University of Washington. She was appointed as a Professor in the Department of Psychology in 1994, is well known internationally, and has received many awards
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