Laval University
The University of Laval (French Université Laval, ULAVAL ) is one of the oldest universities in the Americas, it is one of the largest and best research universities in Canada and is located in the city of Québec.
History
This year the university is given as 1663, it was first performed by the Canadian- French clergy. Today it is a private university, which is mostly financed by the Ministry of Education of Quebec. At the same time it is the oldest French-language institution of higher education in America and the sixth oldest university in Canada.
Foundation
The first bishop of Quebec Monsignor François de Montmorency -Laval, who only called himself " de Laval ", established with the approval of Louis XIV in "New France " the seminary of Quebec, with royal consent was this seminar 1852 in Laval University renamed. Opened in 1878, the University of Laval an office in Montreal, which the independent University of Montréal in 1919. The Laval University quickly developed over the years to the source of all French-speaking training on the North American continent.
Today's university management
In 1991, a bicameral body for management of the University was used. It is composed of the Academic Council and a Management Group. The rector is elected every five years and may be re-elected only once.
The governing bodies consist of:
- University Director
- Rector of the University
- Six Deputy Vice Presidents with different responsibilities
- Secretary General
- A deputy vice-principal
The campus
The campus covers 1.2 square kilometers on which there are 30 buildings, and gazebos, these were associated with a 10 -kilometer-long pedestrian tunnel system. The tunneling of the University primarily serves the mobility of university students during the harsh winter in Québec. A similar, yet Wider sweeping design can be found in Montreal.
The four halls of residence rooms have a capacity for 2,300 students, there's also a great social and economic complex, the Alphonse-Desjardins/Maurice-Pollack building. In addition to the university include individual buildings in the city of Quebec, with which the connection is to be maintained to the population, this includes the School of Architecture and the School of " visual arts".
Research and international cooperation
The research and international cooperation, is to fulfill the educational mission, given a significant role. Thus, the University has 125 research institutes, which are staffed by approximately 1,200 professors. Furthermore, the university is the main partner for the Canadian International Development Centre.
The University maintains exchange programs, among others, the University of Mannheim, University of Munich, Passau University and WHU.
Staff and students
2011 studied at the University of Laval, in 399 training courses and programs, more than 40,000 students with a graduate training objective. Of these students, more than 6,000 foreign students and over 1,000 students were coming from the other provinces of Canada. In 2011, the number of studies began with statements and the teaching staff as follows:
- Total 40 701 students, of whom 58.5 % were female and 41.5 % male
- Academic students 77 %, non- academic students 23%
- 2,600 professors (including visiting professors ) and faculty
- Approximately 9,000 employees
- Bachelor Certificate 4532
- Master Grade 1685
- Doctoral degrees 251
Faculties and teaching facilities
- School of Architecture and Visual Arts
- Geometry, and Forestry
- Faculty of Letters
- Medical and Dental School
- Faculty of Arts
- Academy of Music
- Technical School of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Administrative Sciences ( Business Administration )
- Agriculture and Food
- Education
- School of Nursing
- Social sciences
- Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
- University library (books, videos, and movies) and Internet
Personalities (selection)
- Roberto Andorno: bioethicist, University of Zurich
- Richard Beaulieu: Diploma PE teachers and sports scientists
- Marie -Claire Blais: writer
- Louis -Joseph- Napoléon Bruchesi: professor of dogmatic theology and Archbishop of Montréal
- Alain Buogo: Head of Coordination of geographic information and geographic information systems ( COGIS ) Switzerland
- Auriélie Campana: political scientist
- Patricia Hewes Corry: musical and opera singer
- Hamidou Dia: philosopher and writer
- Calixte Duguay: poets and musicians
- François Faucher: Artist
- Alexandre Gilbert: Physicists and people Scientists
- Gustave Guillaume: Professor and French linguist
- Hélène Guilmette: soprano and opera singer
- Adalbert Hamman Gauthier: Professor of Sacramental Theology
- Kevin Hébert: sociologist
- Theodor Heuss: first President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Laval
- Jean: Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- Alain François de Krassny: Dipl. Ing
- Christophe Lacroix: Professor of Food Biotechnology
- Eva Leonardi: communication studies
- Claude Lévi- Strauss: ethnologist and anthropologist
- CS Lewis: Writer and literary scholar, an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Laval
- Pauline Marois: politician, member of the Quebec National Assembly
- Jean Piché: Canadian composer and video artist
- Werner Ruhnau; architect; Professorship at the University of Laval
- Werner Schuessler: Prof. Dr. Dr.; Honorary doctorate from the University of Laval
- Susanne Sehili: linguist
- Elzéar -Alexandre Taschereau: first Canadian cardinal and co-founder of the University of Laval
- Hans Wolff: Mathematicians
- Georges M. Saad Abi Younes, Maronite Bishop in Mexico
- Alexandre Vachon Rector of the University and Archbishop of Ottawa