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PART A ORGANIZATION REVIEW Organization Review Part A 2 1 Organization overview 1.1 Title Page Full Legal Name of Organization: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Operating Name of Organization: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Common Acronym of Organization: PIMS URL for Organization Homepage: www.pims.ca Date of Submission: Feb. 6 2008 Contact Information: Legal Address: 59 Queen’s Park Crescent Toronto Ont. M5S 2C4 Ont. Telephone: 416 926 7290 Fax 416 926 7292 E-mail: [email protected] Legal representative of organization: Last name: McConica First name: James Department: n/a Address: as above Telephone: 416 926 7288 Email: [email protected] Official function in organization: Praeses ( President) Contact person to liaise with the Organization Review Panel Name: Sheila Campbell Title: (past) Registrar Address: as above Telephone: 416 926 7290 cell 416 435 3465 email: [email protected] Programme Information: How many programmes are being submitted to the Minister for consent at this time: one (1) 1.2 Proposed Programs Organization Review Part A 3 Proposed Degree Title Proposed Degree Degree Level Ministerial Consent at Nomenclature another location Doctorate in M.S.D. Post Ph.D. No Mediaeval Studies Organization Review Part A 4 Organization Review Part A 5 Organization Review Part A 5 2.1 Information about the Organization and its Operations 1) Location 59 Queen’s Park Crescent Toronto Ont. M5S 2C4 416 926 7142 Fax 416 926 7292 2) Address where proposed programme will be delivered: as above This is the address from which the programme will be administered. The actual programme is undertaken independently, with advice and supervision given from the Pontifical Institute. The candidate for the degree may be located almost anywhere as there is no residency requirement. 3) Type of Ownership The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies is constituted by Bill Pr21, An Act to incorporate The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, which received Royal Assent December 15, 2005. It is a corporation without share capital and is composed of the members of its board of governors. 4) Officers of the Organization: Name: James Kelsey McConica President Length of time in position: 10 years Length of time in organization:38 years Name: Sheila Campbell Registrar (ret. July 2007) Length of time in position: 14 years Length of time in organization: 32 years Name: T.Allan Smith Registrar Length of time in position: 6 months Length of time in organization: 2 years Name: Ron.B.Thomson Treasurer (past, on leave 2007/8) Length of time in position: 11 Length of time in organization: 31 years Organization Review Part A 6 Name: James Farge Librarian Length of time in position: 9 yrs Length of time in organization: 19 years Name: Rev. Thomas Collins, Chancellor,Archbishop of Toronto Length of time in position: Appointed January 2007 Length of time in position: 1 year 2.2 Information about Owners The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies is constituted as a corporation without share capital and is composed of the members of its board of governors. The following constitute that board: Dr. Hans Abromeit c/o Parklane Limited Partnership, Suite 1210, 141 Adelaide St. West ,Toronto M5H 3L5 Dr. Richard Alway, President University of St. Michael’s College 81 St. Mary St. Toronto Most Rev. John Boissonneau, D.D.Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, 55 Shaver Ave. South, Etobicoke, Ont. M9B 3T3 Mr. William Broadhurst, 42 Garfield Ave., Toront Ont. M4T 1E9 Very Rev. Kenneth Decker, C.S.B. Superior General, Congregation of St. Basil 95 St. Joseph St., Toronto Ont. M5S 3C2 Mrs. Nicole Eaton (Chair) Suite 260, 55 St. Clair Ave. West, Toronto Ont. MJ4V 2Y7 The Hon. Henry N.R.Jackman, Chairman, Empire Life Insurance Co. 165 University Ave. Toronto M5H 3B8 Rev. James K. McConica, Praeses, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 59 Queen’s Park Cres.E.Toronto M5S 2C4 Mr. W.F.Morneau, Chairman, Morneau Sobeco One Morneau Sobeco Centre, Suite 700, 895 Don Mills Rd. Toronto M3C 1W3 Organization Review Part A 7 2.3 Institution Representatives for Meeting with Organization Review Panel James McConica, President Ron Thomson past Treasurer (On sabbatical) Sheila Campbell former Registrar Allan Smith - current Registrar Wm Broadhurst - Treasurer of Mediaeval Studies Foundation. Organization Review Part A 8 3.1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the years between the two world wars in Europe, the eminent French philosopher Etienne Gilson recognized that an increasingly secular society was unaware of the vastly important role which was played by Christianity during the Middle Ages in the formation of modern Europe. He was offered a post as visiting professor at Harvard which he accepted. After visiting Toronto and meeting such rising academic luminaries as Joseph Muckle C.S.B., Henry Carr C.S.B., and Monsignor Gerald Phelan, he recognized that North America was the place to establish an academic body which would concentrate on the mediaeval period. He consequently established such a body in Toronto, called the Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Although it had no power to grant degrees, its students preparing for MA’s and PhD’s, were registered in the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Toronto. During the middle ‘30's the work of the Institute was brought to the attention of the Sacred Congregation for Seminaries and Universities, in Rome, and the curriculum was reorganized to bring it into line with the requirements of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy See. During this time, as preparation for their potential teaching positions at the Institute, several young priests were sent abroad to study; George Flahiff C.S.B., studied mediaeval history at l’Ecole des Chartres; Wilfrid Dwyer C.S.B. achieved a doctorate in philosophy at Louvain; J. Reginald O’Donnell C.S.B studied palaeography and text editing at Krakow and Munich; Alexander Denomy C.S.B. and Laurence Shook C.S.B. went to Harvard for mediaeval vernacular literatures. Around this time also, the French philosopher Jacques Maritain came to the Institute to teach courses. In recognition of the high quality of academic work which was being done at the Institute, a petition, signed by all fifty-two Canadian bishops, was presented to the Vatican in the spring of 1939. On October 18 of that same year Pope Pius XII issued a mandate to the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities decreeing the canonical erection of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto with the right to confer academic degrees according to its approved Statutes. Those degrees were the Licence in Mediaeval Studies and the Mediaeval Studies Doctorate, a post PhD degree. In the mid 1960's a group of University of Toronto medievalists formed the Centre for Medieval Studies in collaboration with the Pontifical Institute. Students who took courses in both places were co-registered, and they all shared the Pontifical Institute Library, and had access to UofT bursaries. In 1998 the Pontifical Institute separated from the University of Toronto and after a hiatus of one year, the Institute Licence programme was once again offered . However this time the Licence was offered as a post-doctoral degree. The Mediaeval Studies Doctorate, which is offered only by invitation to a Candidate who has completed the Licence with exceptional distinction, is currently suspended, pending permission from the Ontario Government, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Organization Review Part A 9 Universities, Government of Ontario, to reinstate it. While the Pontifical Institute has always enjoyed the support of the University of St. Michael’s College, it became necessary in 2005 to apply for an independent status in order to maintain the Institute’s Pontifical Charter. To quote from the preamble to the Act to Incorporate the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, “ ....as a consequence of changes being made to the governance of The University of St. Michael’s College, the Institute must become a corporation independent of The University of St. Michael’s College in order to retain its canonical status as a Pontifical Institute.” The Act to incorporate The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies received Royal Assent on December 15, 2005. That Act gives the Objects of the Institute as: 3.1 a) to operate as a graduate school of research and theological studies: b) to conduct research in the thought, culture, writings and institutions of medieval society; and c) to promote knowledge of the Middle Ages by teaching and by scholarly publication. The Institute has as its primary purpose and goal, the conduct of research in the thought, culture, writings and institutions of mediaeval society; its secondary purpose is to promote knowledge of the Middle Ages, both by teaching and by scholarly publication. The Institute therefore undertakes to bring together a community of scholars, to provide them with facilities for research, to guide the work of more advanced students, to aid senior scholars both by mutual encouragement and by publication of their findings, and to foster scholarly cooperation among mediaevalists. Consistent with this is an in depth examination and subsequent publication of scholarly findings which can be made available to others. In order to study and understand the intellectual achievements of the mediaeval period, one must apply an interdisciplinary method. The programme of the Institute has always required an interdisciplinary approach, and the ability to work with original sources. Thus the courses offered in the past included such topics as history, law, vernacular literature, art, archaeology, philosophy, liturgy, theology, Latin language and palaeography, codicology, diplomatics, editing of texts, and also required the ability to read several relevant modern languages and where appropriate, additional mediaeval languages such as for example, Old Church Slavonic and Byzantine Greek. Relationship between the proposed programme and the mission and strengths of the Organization Review Part A 10 organization: As may be recognized from the preceding statement of history, mission and academic goals, the Pontifical Institute has been offering degree programmes for sixty- seven years.