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Provincial cash boosts campus expansions
ELIZABETH CHURCH
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
March 27, 2008 at 4:06 AM EDT
Plans for three new collaborative projects on Ontario campuses moved closer to reality this week with a total of $34-million in provincial funding.
The three initiatives, two in Toronto and one in Stratford, will include an expanded school of international studies at the University of Toronto, a digital media lab at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and a new University of Waterloo campus in Stratford.
Backers of the Stratford Institute hope it will eventually fill the same role for digital media that the Banff Centre occupies for the arts.
"It will focus on what we describe as the 21st-century triangle: culture, technology and commerce," explained Ken Coates, Waterloo's dean of arts. The Stratford Festival is a partner in the project and it is expected that its artists will become instructors and participants in programs. The city will donate land for the site that has yet to be chosen.
In the fall and winter, the new institute will offer a two-year program for third- and fourth-year students from a variety of disciplines. In the summer, the institute will hold conferences and retreats at the same facilities, Dr. Coates said.
Yesterday, software company Open Text, a partner in the project, donated $10-million in software, financial support and services over five years. The company, which started life as a U of W spinoff, will provide senior staff as instructors and offer 50 co-op spots to students.
Collaboration also is the focus of the new school announced this week at U of T. The Munk School of International Studies would act as a hub for graduate work on all aspects of international studies, incorporating work done in the Munk Centre for International Affairs, the school of public policy and governance, and the business school, a spokesman said.
The $25-million grant from the province will be used to leverage money from private donors for a new building. It is understood that the university has been in talks with several donors about the project.
At OCAD, $9-million in provincial funds will be the seed money for a fundraising campaign for a third building. President Sara Diamond said the new facility will be used to expand the school's research and graduate studies and to marry art and science.
ELIZABETH CHURCH
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
March 27, 2008 at 4:06 AM EDT
Plans for three new collaborative projects on Ontario campuses moved closer to reality this week with a total of $34-million in provincial funding.
The three initiatives, two in Toronto and one in Stratford, will include an expanded school of international studies at the University of Toronto, a digital media lab at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and a new University of Waterloo campus in Stratford.
Backers of the Stratford Institute hope it will eventually fill the same role for digital media that the Banff Centre occupies for the arts.
"It will focus on what we describe as the 21st-century triangle: culture, technology and commerce," explained Ken Coates, Waterloo's dean of arts. The Stratford Festival is a partner in the project and it is expected that its artists will become instructors and participants in programs. The city will donate land for the site that has yet to be chosen.
In the fall and winter, the new institute will offer a two-year program for third- and fourth-year students from a variety of disciplines. In the summer, the institute will hold conferences and retreats at the same facilities, Dr. Coates said.
Yesterday, software company Open Text, a partner in the project, donated $10-million in software, financial support and services over five years. The company, which started life as a U of W spinoff, will provide senior staff as instructors and offer 50 co-op spots to students.
Collaboration also is the focus of the new school announced this week at U of T. The Munk School of International Studies would act as a hub for graduate work on all aspects of international studies, incorporating work done in the Munk Centre for International Affairs, the school of public policy and governance, and the business school, a spokesman said.
The $25-million grant from the province will be used to leverage money from private donors for a new building. It is understood that the university has been in talks with several donors about the project.
At OCAD, $9-million in provincial funds will be the seed money for a fundraising campaign for a third building. President Sara Diamond said the new facility will be used to expand the school's research and graduate studies and to marry art and science.