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University of New Brunswick UNB QUICK FACTS • 50 degree and certificate or diploma programs • 9,500 full-time students • 18:1 student to faculty ratio • 100 per cent employment for UNB forestry graduates • 90 countries represented by international students • More than 8,000 (electronic or text) current periodicals in UNB libraries • Guaranteed scholarship for students with scholarship average of 80 per cent or better • 70 special interest clubs and societies, university wide • 8 Varsity Reds teams • 60 exchange programs worldwide • Internships/co-op opportunities • UNBF has the largest residence community in Atlantic Canada UNB Firsts, Bests, One-Of-A-Kinds • UNB is the oldest English language university in Canada • UNB was the first public university in North America • 60 per cent acceptance rate of UNB students into medical schools • The faculty of arts was the first in Canada to create a major in multimedia studies • The military and strategic studies program has been Canada’s centre of excellence in military and defence relations history for over 30 years • Renaissance College, offering studies in leadership, is the only program of its kind in Canada • The Planetary and Space Science Centre is the only NASA-supported planetary imaging facility in Canada • Students at UNB Fredericton are among the first undergraduate in North America to study computer-assisted drug design. • UNB Institute of Biomedical Engineering is a world leader in the development of prosthetic limbs. Did You Know • Close to 80 per cent of research conducted at New Brunswick universities takes place at UNB • 70 per cent of UNB nursing grads stay and practice in New Brunswick • 75 per cent of our province’s educators graduated from UNB • 87 per cent of the engineers employed in New Brunswick are UNB graduates • 75 per cent of decision-makers in New Brunswick’s forestry industry are UNB graduates • 42 per cent of the lawyers in the province graduated from UNB • UNB alumni number more than 60,000 across Canada and the world, with 31,000 in New Brunswick • In 2004-05, UNBF students raised over $50,000 for food banks, hospitals, women's shelters, the Canadian Cancer Society and Child Find, just to name a few. Some Significant UNB Stats • UNB Fredericton engineering faculty has been rated among the top 20 per cent in North America • UNB established the first faculty of computer science in Canada and developed the first software engineering degree program in Atlantic Canada • UNB Fredericton law faculty is one of the Top 5 in Canada • UNB established the first undergraduate forestry program in Canada. Its forest engineering program is the only accredited program of its kind in Canada • UNB Fredericton arts faculty’s creative writing program is widely known as one of the nation’s best. ResNet 2008 @ University of New Brunswick
University of New Brunswick UNB History As the American Revolutionary War drew to a close, thousands of Loyalists gathered in New York City to await transportation to homes in other British Colonies. Among these Loyalists were Charles Inglis, a former interim President of King's College, New York (Columbia University); Benjamin Moore, later President of Columbia; and Jonathan Odell, minister, poet and pamphleteer. These men were the visionaries of their day. In the midst of war, privation and exile, they drew up a plan for the future education of their sons in the Nova Scotia wilderness. Recognizing that the new American nation would provide instruction only in revolutionary "Principles contrary to the British Constitution" and that the cost of an overseas education would be prohibitive, they urged the representatives of the British government to consider the "founding of a College . . . where Youth may receive a virtuous Education" in such things as "Religion, Literature, Loyalty, & good Morals . Initially, these gentlemen intended that the area of Nova Scotia have only one college. However, in 1784 when the Province of New Brunswick was created from a part of Nova Scotia, New Brunswickers began a clamour for their own school which led to the foundation of two of Canada's oldest institutions of higher learning - King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia (now affiliated with Dalhousie University) and the academy which became the University of New Brunswick. UNB began with a petition presented to Governor Thomas Carleton on 13 December 1785. Headed by William Paine, the seven memorialists asked Carleton to grant a charter of incorporation for an "academy or school of liberal arts and sciences," which they maintained would result in many "public advantages and . . . conveniences." In addition, the "principal Officers of disbanded Corps and other Inhabitants" in and around the provincial capital of Fredericton asked that the Governor reserve a substantial grant of land in support of this academy. Despite the approval of Carleton, it was many months before the academy opened. During this period a draft charter was written, based on the 1754 Charter of King's College, New York, urging that the college never "exclude or restrain any Person . . . of any religious Denomination, Sect, or Profession . . . from equal . . . Liberties, Privileges, [or] Degrees" - a very liberal notion in the eighteenth century. Unfortunately, times were changing in New Brunswick and such sentiments seemed to recall the recent American Revolution. Therefore, while the academy had commenced operation by the 1790s, it functioned less as a college and more as a symbol of Carleton's governmental policy for the promotion of the twin tenets of the Anglican religion and the British Constitution. As the provincial leaders of the opposition dismissed the academy as nothing but a "country school," Carleton realized he must more actively and effectively offer it support. On 12 February 1800, over the signature of Provincial Secretary Jonathan Odell, the College of New Brunswick received a Provincial Charter, the first college in Canada to be so honoured. It was intended that the academy would serve as the College's preparatory school and that the two would be governed by a common College Council drawn almost entirely from the ranks of a governmental hierarchy. As for the professors, they were all to be Anglicans. For a number of years, the history of the future University continued to lie with the academy. A series of masters came and went until 1811 when the Reverend James Somerville, an ex-patriate Scotsman, took the position of Principal Preceptor. There can be no question that Somerville, a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, was a superb teacher who provided the Council and New Brunswick with their first chance to have a real College. In 1820, Somerville was formally named President of the College of New Brunswick and, in April 1822, he held the very first college classes in Fredericton. This development helped spur efforts to set the institution on a firmer footing. A new Charter for "Brunswick College" was proposed in 1823, asking for permanent and substantial funding directly from the King. Lieutenant Governor Sir Howard Douglas quickly threw his influence behind the scheme. Douglas viewed the welfare of the College to be of prime importance to the success of New Brunswick. To this end, he pressed for a Royal Charter and urged the erection of a fine stone building to house the institution. Three designs for the building were submitted in 1825 to the Council, which selected that drawn by J.E. Woolford. There was, of course, a good deal more involved in the transformation of the neglected College of New Brunswick into King's College, Fredericton. Douglas spent the next four years keeping a wary eye on the growth of his "child." In 1826, having chosen the site for the building himself, Douglas laid the cornerstone. In December 1827, largely through Douglas' efforts in Great Britain, King's College, Fredericton, received a Royal Charter nearly identical to that granted to King's College, Toronto. Before allowing the new Charter to take effect, the College of New Brunswick performed one final, official act, on 21 February 1828, by awarding degrees to its first and last three graduates. On 1 January 1829, King's College and the structure (now known as Sir Howard Douglas Hall, formerly referred to as the Old Arts Building) erected to house it were officially opened. In one way, King's was a failure. In its thirty-year tenure it graduated fewer than ResNet 2008 @ University of New Brunswick
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