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Concordia University Rector's Report 2000-01 Le présent fichier est une publication en ligne reçue en dépôt légal, convertie en format PDF et archivée par Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. L’information contenue dans le fichier peut donc être périmée et certains liens externes peuvent être inactifs. Version visionnée sur le site Internet d’origine le 9 octobre 2008. Section du dépôt légal What best characterizes the University’s work during the past academic year is the concept of building on a sound foundation. We have ambitious plans for Concordia University and these depend for their success on the extent to which we prepare the ground and the infrastructure that will permit them to rise to unprecedented heights. No doubt the construction analogy was stimulated by the official groundbreaking for our new Loyola Science Complex at the end of the 2000–2001 academic year. By the time the Concordia University community and our friends read this, the foundations for the Science Complex will have been completed and the first of our new buildings will indeed have risen above the ground. And this will be followed by the erection of new buildings on the Sir George Williams Campus for the Faculties of Engineering and Computer Science, Fine Arts and the John Molson School of Business and the relocation of humanities and social science departments into renovated space in the Hall and McConnell Buildings. We expect all these buildings to have solid foundations. However, I intend the ‘foundation’ analogy to mean much more. Although the badly needed new facilities being built and planned are indeed important, even more important are the activities that will take place within them. During the next decade a larger and better focused university will have experienced a substantial renewal in terms of a revised curriculum, new professors, enhanced research programs and ever closer ties with the community. The steady growth in student enrolment experienced during the past four years will continue, underlining Concordia’s longstanding commitment to facilitating access to higher education. We will attract more out-of-province Canadian students and considerably more international students while at the same time continuing to serve our traditional Quebec-based anglophone, allophone and francophone students. Our admission requirements will rise modestly while student retention and graduation rates will rise sharply. Our new broader curriculum will provide a more comprehensive undergraduate experience. This will prepare students for the more specialized advanced degrees, highly focused graduate certificates and diplomas, and specific non-degree courses designed to upgrade skills and knowledge for the rapidly changing 21st century world. As always, Concordia will lead in offering education to part-time working and mature students. These developments will bring the University into even closer contact with both public and private sector enterprises. The foundations on which these developments will rest were strengthened during this past year. Our work with alumni and alumnæ, with our friends in the larger community and with all three levels of government has been expanded. Fundraising for our buildings has begun well, hard on the heels of our very successful 1997– 1999 Campaign for the New Millennium. We continue to operate within a balanced budget and are in the process of eliminating our long-term debt which stood at almost $36 million as recently as 1995. And our ongoing academic planning permits annual adaptation to changing needs while holding firm to what we regard as changeless: the broad principles embodied in the mission that was shaped by our two parent institutions. Our foundations are solid. Frederick Lowy Rector and Vice-Chancellor Next Section Return to top Credits Previous reports: 1999–2000 1998–1999 1997–1998 Challenges have been turning into exciting opportunities at Concordia. Rising enrolment, increased competition among universities for professors and research funds, continued underfunding of higher education, and an unparalleled technological revolution have provided the impetus for a new culture at Concordia that focuses more on the development of research and the university’s tradition of academic and learning excellence. Concordia began the fall semester with a fine new crop of tenure- Also in this section Faculty of Arts & Science track faculty members, about 65 per cent of whom are recipients of John Molson School of research grants. Indeed, over three years, the university is hiring Business 150 new full-time professors, to keep up with growing enrolment Faculty of Engineering & and the current rate of retirement. Computer Science Faculty of Fine Arts At the same time, Concordia is committed to sustaining the research School of Graduate Studies activities of the many leading professors already here. All four Colleges and Institutes Faculties are in the process of establishing new research chairs, which will ensure that the best of Concordia’s researchers receive recognition and research support. Concordia also continues to deliver vital retraining and retooling of skills through post-graduate and diploma programs; a number of new graduate certificates were introduced over the year. The intensive academic planning at the university over the past several years reflects Concordia’s belief in providing faculty and a curriculum that are responsive to the demand for university education that is relevant to modern society. Despite having to trim 25 per cent from its operating budget due to reductions in government funding over the past five years, Concordia is beginning to distinguish itself as an urban institution of cutting-edge research, which both attracts and produces critical thinkers of the future. Applications to the university have risen by eight per cent overall, and international applications are up 28 per cent. Enrolment at Concordia has grown to its highest level ever — in Engineering and Computer Science alone, there are nearly 1,000 more full-time students than four years ago. All Faculties have encouraged innovative programs and new teaching models that respond to the needs of information and digital technologies, while encompassing an understanding of the human and historical dimensions of our fast-changing, heterogeneous world. Next: Faculty of Arts and Science Rector’s Report Return to top 2000–01 Concordia University Credits Concordia’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance will be part of a $9-million research project with the Baltimore-based Success for All Foundation. The project involves developing new technological tools to enhance a literacy program now used in some 2,000 schools, mostly in high- poverty areas in the United States. Concordia will receive one-third of the U.S. federal government research grant, about $3 million over five years. A new state-of-the-art computer facility is saving researchers Also in this section Introduction innumerable hours of trial and error. Launched in January, the John Molson School of Centre for Research in Molecular Modelling provides researchers in Business computational chemistry and biochemistry with impressive Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science computing power for modelling chemical reactions at the molecular Faculty of Fine Arts level. The Centre is funded jointly by Concordia, the Canada School of Graduate Foundation for Innovation and the Quebec Ministry of Education. Studies Colleges and Institutes The Department of Theological Studies introduced an intensive three-credit course called Religious Pluralism in a Secular Culture, designed to respond to legislation that is revamping the way religion is taught in Quebec’s public schools. The course gives Quebec’s elementary and high school educators a broad-based overview of religions, as the province adopts a more pluralistic and secular approach to religious education. Participants who took the course in the fall explored the meaning of religious identity in the 21st century, and visited sacred sites of various religions in Montreal. Concordia has signed a partnership agreement with three Moroccan universities to foster academic cooperation in Women’s Studies, particularly in the areas of women and the law, entrepreneurship, media and cultural studies, and North African literature. Philip Abrami (Education), Shimon Amir (Psychology), William Bukowski (Psychology), Lisa Serbin (Psychology) and Peter Shizgal (Psychology) were appointed senior research chairs. Next: John Molson School of Business Previous: Introduction Rector’s Report Return to top 2000–01 Concordia University Credits The Global Aviation MBA program (GAMBA), launched last fall, is enabling 16 professionals from Canada, Ecuador, Estonia, Ghana, India, Italy, Mauritius, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Trinidad to continue to earn while they learn. The program, co-sponsored by the Montreal-based International Aviation Transport Association (IATA), is modelled on Concordia’s eight-year-old International Aviation MBA program. GAMBA is designed to meet the needs of professionals who want a graduate degree in aviation management without leaving their full-time jobs. The School also launched a new minor and graduate certificate in Also in this section Introduction Electronic Business Systems, MBA and Master’s programs in Faculty of Arts & Science Investment Management, and a graduate diploma in Investments. Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science Select business students are getting first-hand experience of the Faculty of Fine Arts intricacies of portfolio management,
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