OCAD, UOIT Looking for New Names

[urbandreamer]

The Alsop Worshippers School for Design?

The Tim Horton's Sharp Centre for Design of 'Bits 'n Double Double's?

The Ontario Coalition Against Design--yeah OCAD keep it just like Ford 500 rebranding was a dud!

 

[Dan416]

I think UOIT should just be the University of Oshawa, since it's in Oshawa.
OCAD could just me made OUAD or the Ontario University of Art.

 

[Mongo]

Hmmm... as part of their course load OCAD might want to include basic counting skills -- I make it FIVE names in its history, not six:

"We've had six names in our history, and each has, in a sense, represented a different stage of the institute," said President Sara Diamond. "We added `and design' a number of years ago, when design had become a critical and important part of what had been the Ontario College of Art."

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The Ontario College of Art & Design has had six names: 1876-1886 Ontario School of Art

1886-1890 Toronto Art School

1890-1912 Central Ontario School of Art and Industrial Design

1912-1996 Ontario College of Art (OCA)

July 1, 1996 Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)

I agree with OCA, Ontario College of Art -- simple, descriptive and elegant. For UOIT, I would go with OIT, Ontario Institute of Technology -- again, simple, descriptive and elegant.

Bill

 

[interchange42]

Ontechiversity, and Ontartitute of course.

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[samsonyuen]

I'm putting forth University of Central Ontario for UOIT. Central for short, just like Western...

And Ontario University of Art sounds nice.

 

[adma]

"Ontartitute" sounds like a provincial training school for sex trade workers...

 

[Dan416]

A University of CENTRAL Ontario shouldn't be located in Oshawa, period. Oshawa isn't central. It's in the east.

Anyway, the whole point of new names is to get the word "University" into their names.

So as much as we might like OCAD to be renamed the "Ontario College of Art", it won't happen. Maybe "Ontario University of Art" (OUA) as I suggested earlier.

And UOIT won't become OIT (though that would sound nice vis à vis MIT), it'll probably be the Ontario University of Technology or something (OUT).

So OCAD and UOIT would become OUA and OUT.

 

[urbandreamer]

Oshawa Techical University: OTU.

Toronto School of Art and Design: T.O.SAD

 

[Irishmonk]

 

[adma]

And, after...

 

[vicente]

Change UOIT to OIT: Ontario Institute of Technology

Many states have "Institute of Technology"'s and no one associates them with community colleges, perhaps by attaching the province's name it won't give that impression.

It can be known informally as "Ontario Tech" or even "OnTech" kind of like how the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA is known as Caltech

I don't see anything wrong with OCAD, it has a nice ring to it.

 

[Hydrogen]

Ontechiversity, and Ontartitute of course.

With a new campus at the Waterfronto?

 

[scarberiankhatru]

A new campus on Oshawa's waterfront could be called Oshawaterfrontechiversity.

 

[Hydrogen]

Kinda rolls off the tongue...

...and onto the floor.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

On Sheppard East, there's the Beijing Capital University of Medical Sciences' College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology, or, for short, the BCUoMSoTCM&P. The name is so long it takes two trips driving by to read it.