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McMaster University
McMaster University
MottoΤΑ·ΠΑΝΤΑ·ΕΝ·ΧΡΙΣΤΩΙ·
ΣΥΝΕΣΤΗΚΕΝ (Greek)
Motto in English
All things cohere in Christ
TypePublic university
Established1887
Endowment$522 million[1]
ChancellorLynton Wilson
PresidentPatrick Deane
Academic staff
1,709[2]
Administrative staff
5,986[2]
Undergraduates22,852[3]
Postgraduates3,588[3]
Location
Hamilton
,
Ontario
,
Canada

43°15′48″N 79°55′8″W / 43.26333°N 79.91889°W / 43.26333; -79.91889
CampusUrban, 1.2 square kilometres (300 acres)
Library2,000,000 + volumes[4]
ColoursMaroon and Grey    
AffiliationsACU, AUCC, CARL?, IAU, G13, COU, ATS, CIS, CUSID, Fields Institute, CUP.
MascotMac the Marauder[5]
Websitemcmaster.ca
McMaster University

Template:FixBunching McMaster University (commonly referred as McMaster or Mac) is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario. The main campus is located on 300 acres (1.2 km2) of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens.[6] The university operates six academic faculties, comprising Engineering, Health Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and the DeGroote School of Business. It is a member of the Group of Thirteen, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada.[7]

The university bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian Senator and banker who bequeathed C$900,000 to the founding of the university.[8] McMaster was incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1887, merging the Toronto Baptist College with Woodstock College. McMaster was originally located in Toronto but moved to its present location in Hamilton in 1930. McMaster continued to be controlled by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec until it became a privately chartered, publicly-funded non-denominational institution in 1957.

History

McMaster University resulted from the outgrowth of educational initiatives undertaken by Baptists as early as the 1830s.[9] Canadian Senator William McMaster, the first president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, bequeathed funds to endow a university which was incorporated through a merger of Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College. In 1887 the Act to unite Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College was granted royal assent and McMaster University was officially incorporated.[10] The new University, housed in McMaster Hall in Toronto was sponsored by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec as a sectarian undergraduate institution for its clergy and adherents. The first courses, initially limited to arts and theology, leading to the BA degree were taught in 1890, and the first degrees were conferred in 1894.[11]

McMaster University in Toronto circa 1906

As the university grew, McMaster Hall started to become more confined. The suggestion to move the university to Hamilton was first brought up by a student and Hamilton native in 1909, although the proposal was not seriously considered until two years later.[12] By the 1920s, after previous proposals between various university staff, the Hamilton's Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to bring McMaster University to Hamilton.[13] As the issue of space at McMaster Hall became more acute, the university administration began to debate the future of the university. The university nearly became federated with the University of Toronto, as had been the case with Trinity College and Victoria College. Instead, in 1927, the university administration decided to transfer the university to Hamilton.[13] The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec managed to secure $1.5 million, while the citizens of Hamilton managed to raise an additional $500,000 in order to help finance the move to Hamilton.[14] The lands for the university and new buildings were secured through gifts from graduates.[11] Lands were transferred from the Royal Botanical Gardens to establish the campus area. To help finance the move, the university sold its properties in Toronto including McMaster Hall, which now houses the Royal Conservatory of Music.[11][14] The first academic session on the new Hamilton campus began in 1930.[14]

Professional programs during the interwar period had been limited to theology and nursing.[15] By the 1940s the McMaster administration was under pressure to modernize and expand the university's programs.[15] During the Second World War and post-war periods the demand for technological expertise, particularly in the sciences, increased.[15] This problem placed a strain on the finances of what was still a denominational Baptist institution.[15] In particular, the institution could no longer secure sufficient funds from denominational sources alone to sustain science research.[15] Since denominational institutions could not receive public funds, the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec decided to reorganize the university, creating two federated colleges. The arts and divinity programs were reconstituted as University College and science was reorganized under the newly incorporated Hamilton College as a separate division capable of receiving provincial grants.[15] Hamilton College was incorporated in 1948 by letters patent under The Companies Act, although it remained only affiliated with the university.[16]

Hamilton Hall was constructed in 1926 in preparation for the university's move to Hamilton.

The University had traditionally focused on undergraduate studies, having not offered a PhD program until 1949.[17] Through the 1950s increased funding advanced the place of sciences within the institution.[18] Public funding was eventually necessary to ensure the humanities and social sciences were given an equal place.[18] Thus, in 1957 the University reorganized once again under The McMaster University Act, 1957, dissolving the two colleges, having its property vested to McMaster and becoming a nondenominational institution eligible for public funding.[16] The historic Baptist connection was continued through McMaster Divinity College, a separately chartered affiliated college of the university.[11][19] Also in 1957, Ph.D. programs were consolidated in a new Faculty of Graduate Studies.[17] Construction of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor also began in 1957 and was the first university-based research reactor in the Commonwealth when it began operating in 1959.[20]

In 1965, with the support of the Ontario government, the University established a medical school and teaching hospital, graduating its first class of physicians in 1972.[21] In 1968, the university was reorganized under an amended act of the McMaster Act, into the Divisions of Arts, Science, and Health Sciences each with its own Vice-President, while Divinity College continued under its existing arrangement.[16][22] In 1974 the divisional structure of the university was dissolved and reorganized again under The McMaster University Act, 1976 and the vice-presidents were replaced by a single Vice-President (Academic).[16] The Faculties of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences were retained, each under the leadership of a dean.

Campus

McMaster University is situated in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, located in the Golden Horseshoe along the western end of Lake Ontario. The main campus is bordered to the north by Cootes Paradise, an extensive natural marshland, to the east and west by residential neighbourhoods and to its south by Main Street West, a major transportation artery of Hamilton. Its northern boundaries are a popular destination for walkers who make use of the many trails that connect the campus to the Royal Botanical Gardens lands. While the main campus is 300 acres (1.2 km²), the majority of the teaching facilities has been centered within the core 30 acres (0.12 km2).[6] In addition to its main campus in Hamilton, McMaster owns several other properties around the city of Hamilton, Burlington, Kitchener and St. Catharines, Ontario.

McMaster's campus buildings vary in age from Hamilton Hall in 1926 (the oldest building located in its present day campus) to its newest business facilities in Burlington, completed in 2010.[23][13]

Panoramic view of McMaster University from the Southwest

Academic facilities

Archway of University Hall, displays the unique Gothic architecture style

The university's campus has gone through continuous development since 1928. The main campus's six original are of neo-Gothic architecture, although they are now flanked by over fifty structures built predominantly during booms in the early 1970s and the late 1990s to present. The largest facility located at the university is the McMaster University Medical Centre, a multi-use research hospital that ranks among the largest public buildings in Canada.[24] It is connected to the Life Sciences building and the recently completed Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning & Discovery, which houses many well-funded research groups in areas of genetics, infectious diseases and several specific conditions.[25]

The McMaster Nuclear Reactor (or the MNR) is a university-based research reactor that is today the only Canadian medium flux reactor in a university environment. It is a "pool-type" reactor with a core of enriched uranium fuel moderated and cooled by light water. While the MNR's primary purpose is for research and for the production of medical isotopes, the MNR is also provides students in nuclear engineering, medical and health physics and other applied radiation sciences.[26] The university also provides a wide range of irradiation, laboratory and holding facilities which include a cyclotron, an accelerator, a small-angle neutron-scattering detector and wide-angle neutron scattering facilities.[27] The cyclotron is presently used for the production of fluorine-18, and used for research purposes, particularly the development of novel molecular imaging agents.[28]

McMaster's four libraries are all part of the collective McMaster University Libraries, which comprises 1,303,969 volumes and 3,495,444 total resources, including videos, maps, sound recordings, and microfilm.[29] Mills Library houses the Humanities and Social Sciences collections, with a wide range of print and digital resources.[30] Innis Library houses content which supports the academic and research interests DeGroote School of Business.[31] Thode Library houses academic material of various disciplines of science and engineering, while the Health Science Library houses books pertaining to the field to medical sciences.[32][33]

Housing and student life facilities

McMaster University Student Centre on the left next to Mills Library to the right

Currently McMaster has twelve smoke-free residence buildings totalling approximately 3,700 bed-spaces.[34] The latest residence to be built is Les Prince Hall, a large co-ed building, completed in 2006. It was named for a long-time hall master in the residence system, living with his family on campus until after his retirement in 1980.[35] Building choices include the traditional room and board style, furnished apartment style and suite-style. Brandon Hall and Whidden Hall house the university's substance-free lifestyle living spaces.[36] The residence system is supervised by Residence Life staff who provide guidance and help the transition to university life for many first-year students.[37] Residence students are represented by the Inter-Residence Council (IRC), with two representatives in each residence building who represent the students at the upper administration level.[38]

The McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC) is the center of student life and programming. It contains a café, study space, common areas, and a number of administrative departments, including the CIBC Conference Hall. The MUSC also contains the offices of a number of student organizations including the McMaster Students Union and The Silhouette weekly newspaper as well as other services such as the Campus Health Centre and the campus dentist.[39] The university also has over twenty dining outlets located throughout the campus, including two major residence dining facilities.[40] Notably, the university has a number of vegetarian options, with a completely vegetarian cafe known as Bridges Café. The university, as a result had been voted as the country's most vegan friendly university through PETA for a number of years.[41] Several other dining outlets at McMaster have also garnered a number of awards throughout the years for food services.[42]

Off campus facilities

McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business currently operates a 4.5-acre (0.018 km2) site in the neighbouring city of Burlington. Dubbed the Ron Joyce Centre, construction of the building began on June 17, 2009.[43] The building itself is a four-story, 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m2) building.[44] With the building's official opening on October 7, 2010,[23] the Ron Joyce Centre currently fields both DeGroote's MBA program as well as its business management program (both degree and non-degree programs).[45] Considerations for the new building began in 2004 when McMaster University announced that in partnership with the neighbouring city of Burlington, planning on constructing a new arts and technology intensive campus in that city. In 2009, the City of Burlington, Halton Region, and McMaster University signed an official agreement laying out the timelines and next steps for the university's expansion into Burlington.[46]

McMaster has a number of administrative offices at its Downtown Centre. The centre, located in downtown Hamilton, was formally the Wentworth County Courthouse.[47] The centre also holds McMaster Centre for Continuing Education, which offers a variety of certificate and diploma programs as well as personal and professional development programs.[48]

The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine is located on the main campus as well as in St. Catharines and Kitchener. The two campuses in St. Catherines and Kitchener are referred to as the regional campuses. The Waterloo Regional Campus is located in the downtown Kitchener, sharing facilities with the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Waterloo.[49] The campus in St. Catherines is located at Brock University's Niagara Health and Bioscience Research Complex.[50] Approximately 30 medical students in each year of the program attend each campus.[51] Those who apply to McMaster's School of Medican are asked to rank their site choice (Hamilton, Niagara Region, Waterloo Region) from first to third, or no preference. Offers of admission to the medical school are made from a rank list irrespective of geographical preference. Subsequent to filling the positions, registrants to the class will be offered a position based on their preference and geographical background. The offers given out by McMaster are binded to the assigned site.[51]

McMaster purchased a large industrial park three kilometres east of its main Hamilton campus in 2005 with the intention of redeveloping the site to contain an array of research facilities for the development of advanced manufacturing and materials, biotechnology, automotive and nanotechnology.[52] In July 2005 the federal government announced that it would be relocating CANMET, a federal government materials research laboratory, from its Ottawa centre to Hamilton, helping spear-head the development of the McMaster Innovation Park.[53] The United Nations University-International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) is currently headquartered within the innovation park. UNU-INWEH is currently the only United Nations agency headquartered in Ontario and the only North American host site for a United Nations University.[6][54]

Sustainability

The Office of Sustainability, created as the All-modes Commuting & Transportation Office in 2002, is currently charged with promoting sustainable operations and growth at the university.[55][56] The Office of Sustainability, headed by the Manager of University Sustainability, works with members of the university population, external community groups as well as the government.[57] In November 2009, McMaster, along with the other members of the Council of Ontario Universities, signed a pledge known as Ontario Universities Committed to a Greener World, with the objective of transforming its campus into a model of environmental responsibility.[58][59] On 21 October 2010, the university had signed two accords addressing the issue of climate change, the Talloires Declaration, as well as the University and College Presidents’ Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada.[60][61][62]

The university campus had received a B grade from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card 2011.[63]

Administration

Peter George was the university's longest serving president, holding the office from 1995-2010.

The governance of the university is conducted through the Board of Governors and the Senate, both of which were established in the Act to unite Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College in 1887.[10] The Board is responsible for the university's conduct, management and control of the university and of its property, revenues, business and affairs.[64] Ex officio governors of the Board include the university's chancellor, president, and the chairman of the board-senate committee on long range planning. The Board also consists of 34 other governors either appointed or elected by the various members of the university's community, including elected representatives from the student body.[64] While the McMaster University Act, 1976 outlines that the board be only composed of 37 members, the Board presently includes 12 honorary members of the board, bringing the total number of governors to 51.[65]

The Senate on the other hand is responsible for the university's academics, including standards for admission into the university and qualifications for degrees, diplomas and certificates.[64] Ex officio members of the Senate include the chancellor, the president, the vice-presidents, the senior dean of each faculty, the dean of graduate studies, the dean of adult education, the principal of McMaster Divinity College and the head of each college hereafter affiliated with the chairman of the Board-Senate Committee on Long-Range Planning and the Chairman of the Undergraduate Council. The senate also consists of 51 other members appointed or elected by the various communities of the university including elected representatives of the student body.[66] The meetings of both the Board of Governors and Senate are also open to the public.[64]

The president acts as the chief executive officer of the university under the authority of the Board and the Senate, and supervises over and direction of the academic and administrative work of the university and of its teaching and non-teaching staffs.[64] Patrick Deane is the seventh and current president of the university, serving the post since 1 July 2010, although he would not be sworn in by the university until 20 November 2010.[67] The office was created in 1949, with George Gilmour serving as the university's first president. The office of the vice-chancellor, created at the same time as the office of president, has always been held by the incumbent president of the university.[68]

The university is financed by means of endowment income, gifts, fees, and annual grants from the City of Hamilton, the Hamilton-Wentworth Region, The Province of Ontario, and the Government of Canada.[22]

Current Faculties of McMaster University
Faculties[69] Established
DeGroote School of Business 1952[70]
Faculty of Engineering 1958[71]
Faculty of Health Sciences 1974[72]
Faculty of Humanities 1887
Faculty of Science 1887
Faculty of Social Sciences 1887

Programs, departments and schools at McMaster are currently divided among six faculties. By enrolment, the three largest programs were engineering, with 3,662 full time and part time students enrolled in the program, followed by the social sciences, with 3,376 full time and part time students enrolled in the program.[73] At the graduate level, the School of Graduate Studies serves as the central administrative unit of graduate education at the university.[74] The School of Graduate Studies however is not considered it's own faculty. One program at McMaster, the Arts and Science program is a program which is taught jointly by the other faculties at McMaster.[75] Created in 1981, the program aimed towards a broad-based, liberal education, providing substantial work in both the arts and sciences.[76][77]

Academics

McMaster is a publicly-funded research university, which is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.[78][79] McMaster functions on a semester system, operating year-round on academic semesters, fall/winter and spring/summer.[80] The full-time undergraduate programs comprise the majority of the school's enrolment, made up of 22,852 full time and part time undergraduate students.[78] The university conferred 4,549 undergraduate degrees, 202 graduate degrees, 832 master degrees, and 181 first professional degrees in 2008-2009.[78]

Students may also apply for financial aid through the federal and provincial government, such as the Ontario Student Assistance Program and Canada Student Loans and Grants. The financial aid provided by these institutions may come in the form of loans, grants, bursaries, scholarships, fellowships, debt-reduction, interest-relief and work programs.[81][82]

The McMaster Model

The McMaster Model is the university's policy for student-centred, problem-based, interdisciplinary approach to learning, a policy which has been adopted by other several other universities around the world.[6] Notably, the university's Faculty of Health Science pioneered the problem-based learning tutorials since adopted by other programs and faculties within the university — during the 1960s. However, it quickly grew with programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy, midwifery, and other allied fields.[83][84] Most medical schools in Canada and more than 80% of medical schools in the United States now employ PBL in their curriculum, and many international universities are continuing to do to the same.[85]

In 1991, McMaster's School of Medicine had decided to adopt progress testing, developing the personal progress index (PPI), based on progress testing invented concurrently by the University of Missouri-Kansas City's medical school and the Maastricht University. The PPI is used as an objective method for assessing acquisition and retention of knowledge for students in the medical program.[86] The PPI is administered at routine intervals to all students in the program, regardless of their level of training, and plots students' increases in scores as they move through the program. Students typically score 20% on their first examination, and increase 5-7% with each successive examination.[86] Students are able to monitor the changes in their scores and receive formative feedback based on a standardized score relative to the class mean.[86] Due to the overwhelming success and research supporting the use of the PPI as an evaluation tool, it is now used in Canada, US, Europe, and Australia.[87]

Reputation

University rankings
World rankings
ARWU World[88]88
THE World[89]93
Canadian rankings
Maclean's Medical/Doctoral[90]6

McMaster University has consistently been ranked one of Canada's top universities. According to the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities rankings, the university ranked 88th in the world and the fourth highest in the country.[91] Similarly, the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed McMaster 93rd in the world, and the fourth in Canada.[92] The 2010 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 162nd in the world.[93] In terms of national rankings, Maclean's had ranked McMaster 6th in their 2010 Medical Doctoral university rankings.[94] McMaster was ranked despite opting out, along with several other universities in Canada from participating in their graduate survey since 2006.[95]

In more specific fields of study, McMaster University was also ranked 40th in the ARWU 2010 in the field of social sciences, the highest in Ontario, and the second highest in the country.[96] McMaster's Health Science program has consistently been ranked well within the top 100 of university rankings. In the 2010 Times Higher Education rankings of clinical, pre-clinical and health universities, McMaster's Health Science program ranked 30th in the world and the fourth in Canada.[97] The program had also ranked within the U.S. News & World Report university rankings for life sciences and biomedicine, placing 82nd in the world and fourth in the country.[98] In the field of clinical medicine and pharmacy, the ARWU in 2010 had similarly ranked the program 51st-75th in the world and third in Canada.[99] In addition, McMaster's DeGroote School of Business has gathered both national and worldwide recognition as it was accredited by the AACSB in 2006. Less than 10 percent of business schools worldwide have earned this accreditation.[100]

Research

Pictures of McMaster Nuclear Reactor, when it was under construction in 1957, and the reactor in 2004.

In Research Infosource's Decade in Review, McMaster was designated the top performer in research income growth from 1999 to 2009 in the medical doctoral category as well as the second-top performer in research intensity growth for the same period.[101] For the year 2010, Research Infosource had ranked McMaster University the sixth most research intensive school in the country, averaging $309,400 per faculty member, well above the national average of $167,200. In 2004, McMaster earned the designation of research university based on its ability to attract and capitalize on its research income.[102] Its research activities exceed those of universities twice its size and no Canadian university receives a higher proportion of research funding relative to its operating budget than McMaster.[27] With a total sponsored research income of $345 million, McMaster was ranked first in the country in 2006 in research intensity, with a measure of research income per full-time faculty member averaging $308,300 CAD per full time faculty.[6][103][104]

In terms of research performance, High Impact Universities 2010 had ranked McMaster 62nd out of 500 universities and ranking fourth on the national scale.[105] The university was also ranked 25th out of 500 universities, second in the country for research performance in the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, and health sciences.[106] The university was also ranked 83rd out of 500 universities, ranking third nationally for research performance in the fields of engineering, computing and technology.[107] In the fields of arts, humanities, business and social sciences, the university's research performance was ranked 60th out of 500 universities, again the third highest nationally.[108] The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) had also ranked McMaster in its 2010 rankings 58th in the world and fourth nationally for research performance in social sciences.[109]

McMaster has been particularly renowned for its academic strengths, most notably in the field of health sciences.[110] For five years in a row, McMaster has ranked second in Canada for biomedical and health care research revenues. In 2008-2009, Faculty investigators were overseeing $133 million a year in research, much of that research conducted by scientists and physicians who teach in the medical school.[111] For its 2010 rankings, HEEACT had ranked McMaster 26th in the world and second on a national scale for scientific papers in clinical medicine.[112] The Faculty of Health Sciences operates several research institutes, including the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, the DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, and the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute.[113][114][115] A portion of Albert Einstein's brain is preserved and held for medical research at the McMaster brain bank. Researchers there have identified differences in his brain that may relate to his genius for spatial and mathematical thinking.[116]

The Brockhouse Institute for Material Research (BIMR) is also located at McMaster. Created in 1960 by Howard Petch, the institute was named after McMaster alumnus Bertram Brockhouse. The BIMR is the interdisciplinary research organization with the mandate to develop, support and co-ordinate all materials research-related activities at McMaster.[117] Its membership of 123 faculty members is drawn from 13 departments in the Faculties of Science, Engineering and Health Sciences and several Canadian and international universities.[117] Facilities of the BIMR includes the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, Centre for Crystal Growth, McMaster Analytical Xray Facility, Electronic and Magnetic Characterization Facility and the Photonics Research Laboratories.[118] The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy is currently home to the world's most advanced microscope. The titan 80-300 cubed microscope has a magnification of 14 million and is used for material, medical and nano-research.[119]

McMaster has had a nuclear reactor[27] (MNR) since 1959 for nuclear science and engineering research. The strength of nuclear science at McMaster under the presidency of Dr. H.G. Thode, was augmented in 1968 by the construction of a 10MV Model FN Tandem particle accelerator. Along with this was added the 3MV Model KN single-ended accelerator in the same year.[120] Being primarily, in the early days, a nuclear structure laboratory, the academic direction of the laboratory fell to the Physics Department. During the next 28 years, the nuclear research effort was extensive with hundreds of graduate students trained and many publications generated.[121] The reactor at McMaster is responsible for half of Canada's production of iodine-125. The production of molybdenum-99 at the National Research Universal Reactor (NRU) has also been occasionally moved to the university's reactor, notably in 1970 and during the 2009 shutdown of the NRU.[122]

Admissions

The requirements for admission differ between students from Ontario, other provinces in Canada and international students due to the lack of uniformity in marking schemes.[123] From 2002 to 2003, the acceptance rate of the university was at 55.9%, although it had shown steady decline in the five years previous. McMaster's more high profile programs however, had carried much lower acceptance rates.[124] The secondary school average for full-time first-year students at McMaster University was 84.9%. However, students entering McMaster's more selective undergraduate programs, such as its Health Science program and its Arts and Science program had a secondary school average of 95.1%.[125] McMaster's medical school receives twice the number of applications as other medical programs in Canada, with more than 4,500 applicants competing for 204 positions.[111] In 2004, McMaster developed the multiple-mini interview to address long-standing concerns over the standard panel interviews as being poor reflectors of performance in medical school.[126] This format uses short, independent assessments in a timed circuit to obtain aggregate scores in interpersonal skills, professionalism, ethical/moral judgment, and critical thinking to assess candidates. The multiple-mini interview has consistently shown to have a higher predictive validity for future performance than traditional interviews.[127]

Student life

File:Iron Ring Clock.jpg
The Iron Ring Clock located in the McMaster University Student Centre

Student groups

The main student unions on administrative and policy issues are the McMaster Students Union for full-time undergraduates, the McMaster Association of Part-Time Students for part-time undergraduates and the McMaster Graduate Students Association for postgraduates.[128][129][130] In addition, each faculty has its own student representative body. Students within the residence are represented by the Inter-Residence Council.[131] There are more than 200 student organizations and clubs, covering a wide range of interests of academics, culture, religion, social issues and recreation areas.[132] Many of them are centred around the McMaster student activity center, the McMaster University Student Centre. The university student-run The Silhouette newspaper is the oldest student service at McMaster University and has been in publication since 1929.[13] Since 1968, the McMaster Engineering Society has published The Plumbline, the main satire magazine of McMaster University.[133] The campus radio station CFMU-FM (93.3 FM) is Canada’s second oldest campus radio station and has been broadcasting since 1978.[134] MacInsiders, a popular online student-run forum and information network, has been operating since 2007.[135]

The university hosts a number of honour societies including the McMaster Honour Society and a chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society.[136][137] The university is home to two semi-professional acting companies, McMaster Musical Theatre and the McMaster Thespian Company[138] The McMaster Engineering Musical is an annual musical production that is written, directed and cast by engineers that often features unique interpretations of popular songs or musicals.[139] The university, nor the student unions, recognize any fraternity or sororities and existing chapters operate as non-accredited off-campus organizations.[140] Only two fraternities currently operate an active chapter at the university, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Phi Delta Theta.[141][142]

Athletics

The head of a hawk-like bird, facing towards the right, screened over a capital M with the text "McMaster Marauder" written below
McMaster's athletic logo

Athletics at McMaster is currently managed by the university's student affairs, under their athletics & recreation department. The university's varsity teams compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport. The varsity teams have been known as the McMaster Marauders since 1948.[143] The university's team sports programs include baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, volleyball and water polo.[144] The men's water polo team has won the Ontario University Athletics championship 25 times, making it the most successful team at the provincial level. The men's wrestling team has been the most successful team at the national level, winning the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship four times.[145] McMaster University has graduated 34 Olympic athletes, eight Olympic coaches, two Olympic administrators and two Olympic officials.[146] As is mandatory for all members of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, McMaster University does not provide full-ride athletic scholarships.[147]

The university's sports facilities are located in the northeast corner of the main campus. The university has a number of sports facilities including the David Braley Athletic Centre and the Ron Joyce Stadium.[148] Ron Joyce Stadium fields a full sized Canadian football field and FIFA sized soccer pitch. The stadium is also equipped with permanent seating for 5,500.[149] Ron Joyce Stadium is not only used by the university's football team, it is also used as the training camp for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.[150]

Intramural sport leagues and tournaments are widely participated at McMaster. Participation opportunities are offered at multiple skill levels and across a variety of sports to service a range of interest and abilities. Sport offerings include traditional sports like volleyball, basketball, soccer and cricket, as well as less traditional events like dodgeball, inner tube water polo and extreme potato sack racing.[151]

Insignias and other representations

Motto and songs

McMaster motto, chosen from Colossians 1:17, is ΤΑ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΕΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩΙ ΣΥΝΕΣΤΗΚΕΝ.[152] The motto was adopted in 1888 and when translated from Greek into English means "In Chris all things consists".[152] Typical, university motto's when not in English are in Latin, reflecting the origin of universities in mediaeval institutions in which Latin was more prominent than Greek.[153][154] The McMaster motto is unusual in that it employs Greek instead of Latin or English. McMaster's founders desired to go back to the middle ages to the earliest days of the Christian faith, and therefore used the Greek form.[154]

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement and convocation, and athletic games are: he Alma Mater Song (1935), with words by Mrs. A.A. Burridge and music by Hugh Brearly; The McMaster March, with words by Claire Senior Burke et al., and music by Arthur Burridge; My Mac (1982), with words and music by Fred Moyes.[155]

Coat of arms

After the university moved to Hamilton in 1930, the university petitioned Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh for a coat of arms.[156] The request was granted on behalf of The Crown on 20 October 1930.[153][156] In 1997, the Board of Governors introduced a simplified shield design which recognized the tradition of McMaster’s heraldry while improving the quality of print and electronic reproduction.[156] The university's arms and badge was finally registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on 15 October 2006.[157]

The coat of arms consists of a shield, a crest, and a motto, together with a helmet. The shield contains an eagle, as a symbol of the heavenly vision, with a cross on its breast to identify the university's vision as Christian in inspiration.[158] The chief of the shield bears an open book, a common symbol of learning, with a maple leaf on each side, signifying that McMaster's charter was granted by the Province of Ontario.[158] The helmet, above the shield, has the open visor and forward facing style typically used by universities.[158] The mantling surrounding the shield and helmet represents the cloak worn over a knight's armour as protection from the sun. The crest, located above the helmet, is a stag and oak tree which serves as a tribute to Senator McMaster, who also used a stag and oak on his insignias.[156] The motto, ΤΑ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΕΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩΙ ΣΥΝΕΣΤΗΚΕΝ, is located above the crest as is commonly the case in Scottish heraldry.[159]

Notable alumni and faculty

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Tommy Douglas, former premier of Saskatchewan and alumnus of McMaster
Main article: List of McMaster University people
See also: List of McMaster University Olympic athletes, coaches and officials

McMaster University currently has over 141,672 alumni residing in over 129 countries.[160] Throughout McMaster's history, faculty, alumni, and former students have played prominent roles in many different fields. McMaster also has a number of faculty as well as alumni who have earned Nobel prizes and awards such as the Rhodes Scholarships.[161] Nobel Prize winners include alumni Myron Scholes, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997, faculty member Bertram Brockhouse who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 and alumni James Orbinski who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 on behalf of Doctors Without Borders.[162]

Many former students have also gained local and national prominence for serving in government. Lincoln Alexander served as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, also becoming the first visible minority Lieutenant Governor in Canada.[163] Two premiers from Canada, the current premier from Ontario, Dalton McGuinty and the former premier of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas were both graduates of McMaster University.[164][165] A number of alumni have also made their mark in the fields of social sciences. Prominent faculty members in the field of social sciences includes Ruth Landes, a cultural anthropologists, and Henry Giroux, one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy.[166] A prominent alumnus in the field of social sciences was Harold Innis, who helped shaped both communication theory and the staples thesis.[167]

A significant number of prominent business leaders have also studied at McMaster. Such examples include Stephen Elop, current president and CEO of Nokia and former president of Microsoft's business division,[168] James V. Sardo, former CEO and chairman of Firestone Canada,[169] Lynton Wilson, current chairman of Nortel and chancellor of McMaster,[170] William Waugh, former vice-president, CFO and director of General Motors Canada,[171] Tayce Wakefield, former vice president of corporate affairs for General Motors Canada,[172] Michael Lee-Chin, current chairman, CEO and CIO of AIC Limited,[173] and Teresa Cascioli, current president and CEO of Lakeport Brewing Company.[174]

Two members of McMaster University had traveled in space, including faculty member Dafydd Williams, who currently is a physician scientist at McMaster Centre for Medical Robotics at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton,[175] and astronaut Roberta Bondar, who was the first Canadian woman in space.[176]

See also

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Further reading

  • Charles M. Johnston 'McMaster University, Vol. 1: The Toronto Years' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
  • Charles M. Johnston 'McMaster University, Vol. 2: The Early Years in Hamilton' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
  • Herb Jenkins 'Combining Two Cultures: McMaster University's Arts And Science Programme' (University press of America, August 31, 2004)
  • Paul Axelrod 'Scholars and Dollars: Politics, Economics, and the Universities of Ontario 1945-1980' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, September 1, 1982)
  • W.S.W. McLay, C.W. New and G.P. Gilmour. 'McMaster University, 1890-1940' (Hamilton, 1940)
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