Alma Matters summer 2011 - Marianopolis

Message from the Director General
Whether you graduated last year or you are an
alumna from our “university years,” you know that
Marianopolis College has consistently changed to
respond to the needs of the times: indeed, for more
than a century, the college has been a leader in
adopting new and winning ways to educate motivated
young people.
This coming fall is no exception: there is a sense of
palpable excitement at Marianopolis as we embark on
the only bilingual exchange program of its kind with
Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. Our second-year students
have the unique opportunity to perfect their Frenchlanguage
skills by completing their fourth semester at
Brébeuf. An exchange among equals, our connection to
Brébeuf is but one recent strategic partnership: this
summer, social science students traveled to Holland for
a first-of-its-kind intensive field course in partnership
with the University of Amsterdam.
Back at 4873 Westmount Avenue, the college is
literally noisy with activity, as our commitment to
taking care of our once former and again current home
is evidenced by ongoing renovation work. The multimillion-dollar
project that transformed former nuns’
quarters into state-of-the-art facilities has not translated
into a tuition increase, in large part thanks to donors,
many of them graduates of Marianopolis, who were
honoured at the unveiling of our new donor wall on
campus this spring. You can be proud to know that the
Moving hearts and minds capital campaign raised more
than $5.5 million in support of the college and that
Marianopolis continues to be a visionary institution that
is changing with the times to meet the needs of young
people seeking an excellent education. ◊
Len Even
Preparing for the future
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ALMA MATTERS | Summer 2011