Université ~ Bishop's ~ University
Motto:	Recti cultus pectora roborant Sound learning strengthens the spirit.
Established	1843
Type:	Public
Chancellor:	Scott Griffin
President:	Robert Gordon
Principal:	Jonathan Rittenhouse
Undergraduates:	1764 (2006)
Location	Sherbrooke (Lennoxville), Quebec, Canada
Campus:	Rural Lennoxville
Colours:	Purple, Grey
Nickname:	Gaiters
Website:	http://www.ubishops.ca

Bishop's University is an English-language liberal arts university located in the borough of Lennoxville, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Primarily undergraduate, it also offers graduate courses and M.A. and M.Ed. degrees in education and M.Sc in Computer Science and Physics. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... Scott Griffin is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the worlds most generous poetry awards in 2000. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... The Principal is the chief executive and the chief academic officer of a University in Scotland and at certains institutions in Canada and other parts of the Commonwealth. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... “Sherbrooke” redirects here. ... This article is about the Canadian province. ... Sign in a rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Qichun, a rural town in Hubei province, China Rural areas (also referred to as the country, countryside) are settled places outside towns and cities. ... Lennoxville, population 4,963 (2001), is a borough (Fr. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States of America is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... SLennoxville, population 4,963 (2001), is a borough (Fr. ... “Sherbrooke” redirects here. ... This article is about the Canadian province. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... The Master of Education (M.Ed or M.A.E.) is a degree conferred by American institutions for educators moving on in their field. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ...

Bishop's is one of the oldest universities in Canada. The fact that it is a small university is one of its trademarks. There were about 2100 full time undergraduate students enrolled in the university in 2007. The school was originally founded in 1843 under the Church of England, and remained under their direction until 1947 when the university became a non-denominational institution. One of Canada's few primarily undergraduate universities, Bishop's carries a strong academic history which includes fifteen Rhodes Scholars. The Church of England logo since 1998 The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...

In addition to its arts and sciences programs, Bishop's business school is known as The Williams School of Business, which is its second largest faculty at the school, next to Humanities. In addition to business, Bishop's also offers educational degrees under its own School of Education.

The Bishop's campus

McGreer Hall (1846) of Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada.

The Bishop's campus is located on 500 acres of land at the junction of the St. Francis and Massawippi rivers. It is located in the Eastern Townships section of Quebec. The campus enjoys some of the most impressive architecture in Canada, with a significant influence from the Gothic Revival period, and is home to some of Quebec's most historic buildings, including St. Mark's chapel. The construction on campus began with "Old Arts" in 1846 and continues today with the University's most recent building, Paterson Hall, in 2003. The students are known for their strong affinity towards their school especially during sports games. The local meeting spot is the nearby Golden Lion Pub. Image File history File links McgreerFeather. ... Image File history File links McgreerFeather. ... The Eastern Townships (in French les Cantons de lest) is a region in south central Quebec, lying between the Saint Lawrence River and the US border. ...

Areas of study

Bishop's offers several programs from five different divisions:

• William's School of Business and Economics
• Division of Humanities
• Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• Division of Social Sciences
• Division of Education

All of these divisions focus on providing a well-rounded education for all students. They enjoy an average class size (as of Fall 2004) of 36 people for first-year courses and 12 people for upper-year courses. 32% of the courses offered at Bishop's have 10 or fewer people in them, providing students with a feeling that they can have their voice heard among their classmates. In economics, a business is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within an economically free country designed to sell goods and/or services to consumers, usually in an effort to generate profit. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... For other uses, see Humanities (disambiguation). ... The term natural science as the way in which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day meaning of the words. ... For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. ...

Principals of Bishop's University

• Rev. Jasper H. Nicolls, 1845
• Rev. J.A. Lobley, 1878
• Rev. Thomas Adams, 1885
• Rev. J.P. Whitney, 1900
• Rev. T.B. Waitt, 1905
• Rev. H. de B. Gibbins, 1906
• Rev. R.A. Parrock, 1907
• Rev. Canon H.H. Bedford-Jones, 1920
• Rev. Arthur Huffman McGreer, 1922
• A.R. Jewitt, 1948
• C.L.O. Glass, 1959
• A.W. Preston, 1969
• D.M. Healy, 1970
• C.I.H. Nicholl, 1976
• H.M. Scott, 1986
• Janyne M. Hodder, 1995
• Robert Poupart, 2004-2007
• Jonathan Rittenhouse, 2007

Jasper Hume Nicolls (17 October 1818 – 8 August 1877) was a Canadian Anglican priest and first Principal of Bishops College (now Bishops University). ...

Sports

Bishop's Canadian Interuniversity Sport teams are known as the Bishop's Gaiters. Although their logo and mascot suggest the term "gaiter" stems from the word alligator, the term "gaiter" actually refers to a sock-like article of clothing worn by Anglican bishops up until the beginning of the 20th century. CIS Logo. ... For other uses, see Alligator (disambiguation). ... Gaiters are protective clothes or parts. ...

The Bishop's Gaiters have a long history with the University. Rugby football began in 1888 and Canadian football was a budding varsity sport by the 1930s. From 1961 until 1987 the Bishop's University sidelines were patrolled by the legendary Bruce Coulter, who went into retirement with the CIAU record for wins, having recorded 137 (137–80–3). In 1991 the football stadium was renamed in his honour. Each year the Bishop's football team competes for two trophies. The Bigg Bowl, which is awarded to the winner between Bishop's University and St. Francis Xavier University, and the Mayor's cup, which is awarded annually to the winner of Bishop's University and the Université de Sherbrooke. For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ... Diagram of a Canadian football field. ... St. ... The Université de Sherbrooke is a large university with three distinct campuses, two of which are located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, and another, which is located in Longueuil, approximately 170 km west of Sherbrooke. ...

The hard-court has also brought Bishop's great success. The Lady Gaiters won back-to-back National Basketball championships in 1983–84 and in 1998; the men's team captured the CIS National Championship becoming the smallest school in history to do so. Today Bishop's competes in a number of varsity and club sports.

Noted former students and alumni

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio audio broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.

• Maude Abbott — one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates, founder of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada
• Nick Arakgi — CFL football star and CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award winner.
• John Bassett — publisher of the Montreal Gazette, owner of the Toronto Argonauts, 1961–1971
• Peter Blaikie - Rhodes Scholar, Lawyer, Former President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, television commentator
• Rita H. Cheng - Vice Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• The Hon. Roy Cullen - M.P. Etobicoke North
• Jim Corcoran - singer, songwriter and radio host.
• Reginald Fessenden — radio pioneer
• C.J. Michael Flavell — Leading international trade lawyer in Canada
• Robert Ghiz — Premier of Prince Edward Island
• Robert Gordon — Former President of Humber College, President of Canada Basketball, President of Bishop's University
• Scott Griffin — Chancellor of Bishop's University, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
• Ralph Gustafson — poet
• Sydney R. McMorran — Retired Vice Chairman of TD Bank
• Michael Ondaatje — poet, writer - spent one year at Bishop's
• Alex Paterson — Senior Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP ; Order of Canada, Former Chancellor of Bishop's University
• Damian Pettigrew — film director
• Rev. Canon Frederick Scott - Senior Chaplain, First Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, WW I

Rev. Canon Frederick Scott, Senior Chaplain, First Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

• Francis Reginald Scott — poet, constitutional expert
• Larry Smith — President of the Montreal Alouettes
• David Stockwell — Canadian High Commissioner to the Republic of Zambia, former Ambassador to Ethiopia
• Norman Webster — former Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail, Chancellor of University of Prince Edward Island

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See also

• Bishop's College School
• Bishop's University Students' Representative Council
• The Campus (Lennoxville)
• Champlain Regional College
• CJMQ-FM

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References

Further reading

• Donald C. Masters, Bishop's University: The First Hundred Years (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1950)
• Elizabeth H. Milner, Bishop's Medical Faculty, 1871–1905 (Sherbrooke: Rene Prince, 1985)
• Christopher Nicholl, Bishop's University, 1843–1970 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's, 1994)

External links

• Bishop's University
• Bishop's Gaiters
• Foreman Art Gallery