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History

Early years

The University was established on March 15, 1827, when King's College at York (Toronto) was granted its Royal Charter. King's College became the University of Toronto in 1849. Several other universities joined the University of Toronto, becoming "federated" with it. The federated universities are St. Michael's, Victoria, and Trinity. University College is the name of the original portion of the University of Toronto from before federation. The other colleges were created later, to accommodate the school's growing size.

Activism

The University has borne witness to much activism over the years. The 1960s saw the creation of Rochdale College, a large high-rise residence where many students and staff lived, though it was "officially" not connected to the university. Rochdale was established as an alternative to what had been seen as the traditional, authoritarian, and paternalistic structures within universities.

In the fall of 1969, after Pierre Trudeau decriminalized homosexuality, the first gay and lesbian group in Toronto or on any Canadian campus — the University of Toronto Homophile Association — was formed. Jearld Moldenhauer, a research assistant at the Faculty of Medicine, placed an advertisement in The Varsity, asking others to join in setting up an organization. While the first meeting drew a meager 16 people — 15 men and one woman — the group quickly established a significant profile within the community and the city at large. Two decades later, David Rayside, a professor of political science, would organize the Committee on Homophobia. Ten years after that, he would help introduce a sexual diversity studies program at University College, to much success.

Academics

The University comprises three campuses, four constituent colleges, four federated colleges, and three federated universities (federated colleges and universities were incorporated into the University; constituent colleges were created by the University). U of T's four federated colleges are seminaries which are associated with the Toronto School of Theology.

Every arts and science student at U of T is a member of one of its seven "colleges" (the federated universities and constituent colleges), which acts, ideally, as a smaller-scale intellectual and social community for its members. In practice, however, they are simply residential and administrative in nature. While U of T's college system is based on the one in use at Oxford and Cambridge, U of T's colleges are not as autonomous, nor do they bear as much of an instructional responsibility to their students. However, some first-year seminars and academic programs are offered by some colleges.

To support its work of teaching and research, the University has collected a library that is the largest in Canada and among the best in the world. The library holdings at U of T ranks fourth among North American universities after Harvard, Yale, and UC Berkeley. [1]U of T's endowment exceeds $1.5 billion, far larger than that of any other Canadian university. U of T has also ranked first in the Maclean's rankings of Canadian medical doctoral universities eleven years in a row (as of 2004). In 2004, international rankings such as the Times Higher Education Supplement and the Institue of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked U of T 37th and 24th, respectively.[2]

The University of Toronto is widely acknowledged to be Canada's top school. It attracts many of the best students from Ontario and the rest of Canada, and has a significant number of international students. Its student selectivity is generally thought to be high and competition is extremely intense for programs from its Medical, Dentistry, Law, Business, Architectural, and Engineering schools.

Student life

Despite the prevalence of a wide variety of student interest groups and related organizations (likely more than in any other Canadian university), U of T suffers from the same impersonal atmosphere that plagues other large universities. Most students live off-campus, and for many the U of T experience is limited solely to attending classes. This has resulted in a general lack of school spirit and the disconnection many of its students feel from the school and other students. This lack of community has been detrimental to the solicitation of financial support from alumni. However, the school's rich and varied culture is available to those students who seek it out.

The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Toronto Varsity Blues.

Campuses

The St. George (downtown) Campus has a rich architectural history, making it a popular attraction for visitors to the city, as well as a common location for shooting movies. It is informally bounded by Spadina Avenue to the west, Bloor Street to the north, Bay Street to the east, and College Street to the south. The campus is well-served by public transportation (TTC), namely by the Spadina, St. George, Museum, and Queen's Park subway stations.

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UTM Student Centre.

Thirty kilometres (18 miles) west of the St. George campus is the University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM) or Erindale College in suburban Mississauga. Set on the banks of the Credit River, UTM's 224 acre (0.9 km²) campus is decidedly modern. It is off Mississauga Road between Dundas Street and Burnhamthorpe Road in the Erindale area. A shuttle bus connects the UTM and St. George campuses. UTM is currently undergoing massive construction, and will soon be the home of a new atheltics facility, including a state-of-the-art pool. Also in the works at UTM is brand new library called the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre, set to open its doors in June of 2006. In the summer of 2007, UTM will open a brand new residence building. In spite of being at some distance from main campus, UTM is the home of the Toronto Argonauts.

At the other end of the Greater Toronto Area is the University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC) or Scarborough College, approximately 30 kilometres east of the downtown campus. The 300 acre (1.2 km²) campus is on Highland Creek in the Scarborough area of eastern Toronto, on Military Trail, near Highway 401 and Morningside Avenue.

All three campuses are undergoing massive construction, with over 25 facilities recently completed, uprgraded or in the works. These capital expansion projects are designed to increase study space as well as attract top-level talent. The study space requirement is in large part due to the cancellation of OAC and predicted increases in enrollment.

Complete list of colleges and divisions

Federated universities

 
University College, 15 Kings College Circle.
 
Old Vic, on the campus of Victoria University.
 
Behind the Faculty of Law from Philosopher's Walk.
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The Rotman School of Management.
 
The Edward Johnson Building, Faculty of Music.
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Inside the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

Constituent colleges

Professional and graduate faculties

Colleges and faculties comprising the Toronto School of Theology

Other academic units

Former affiliated colleges

Senior Officers of the University of Toronto

List of Chancellors

List of presidents

Noted graduates and faculty

Academics and scholars

Business Leaders

Politics

Others

Noted Faculty

  • Arthur, James G.
  • Axelrad, Arthur A.
  • Beattie, John M.
  • Bissell, Claude T.
  • Bliss, Michael
  • Bond, J. Richard
  • Brook, Adrian G.
  • Brumer, Paul W.
  • Careless, J. Maurice S.
  • Chamberline, Edward J.
  • Ching, Julia
  • Collins, Michael P.
  • Cook, Stephen A.
  • Craik, Fergus
  • Creighton, Donald G.
  • Dainty, Jack
  • David, Tirone
  • Davison, Edward J.
  • Eichner, Hans
  • Etkin, Bernard
  • Fackenheim, Emil L.
  • Fitch, Brian T.
  • Frank, Roberta
  • Franklin, Ursula M.
  • Friedland, Martin L.
  • Friedlander, John B.
  • Fritz, Irving B.
  • Frye, H. Northrop
  • Glass, Irvine I.
  • Greenblatt, Jack
  • Hacking, Ian M.
  • Hagan, John
  • Hare, Kenneth F.
  • Henkelman, Mark R.
  • Hollander, Samuel
  • Hughes, Andrew
  • Hutcheon, Linda
  • Jackson, James R. de Jager
  • John, Sajeev
  • Johns, Harold
  • Jones, J. Bryan
  • LePan, Douglas V.
  • Lee, Richard B.
  • Litherland, Albert E.
  • MacLennan, David H.
  • Macpherson, C. Brough
  • Mak, Tak W.
  • McCulloch, Ernest A.
  • McInnes, Roderick
  • Millgate, Michael
  • Naldrett, Anthony J.
  • Olson, David R.
  • Ozin, Geoffrey A.
  • Packham, Marian A.
  • Pawson, Anthony J.
  • Peltier, W. Richard
  • Polanyi, John C.
  • Rapson, Howard
  • Reid, Nancy
  • Robson, John M.
  • Rossant, Janet
  • Rothstein, Aser
  • Russell, Peter H.
  • Salama, C. Andre T.
  • Salter, Robert B.
  • Sefton, Michael V.
  • Sigal, Israel M.
  • Siminovitch, Louis
  • Sparshott, Francis E.
  • St George-Hyslop, Peter
  • Stacey, Charles P.
  • Stein, Janice Gross
  • Stewart, Donna
  • Stoicheff, Boris P.
  • Stuss, Donald
  • Sumner, L. Wayne
  • Till, James E.
  • Trebilcock, Michael J.
  • Tsui, Lap-Chee
  • Tulving, Endel
  • Waddams, Stephen
  • Weinrib, Ernest J.
  • Wickens, George Michael
  • Winnik, Mitchell A.
  • Wonham, Murray
  • Yates, Peter
  • Yen, Jui Lin

See also

Student Societies

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