MacEwan University

MacEwan University is a post-discretionary educational establishment arranged in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 

MacEwan University is the greatest move in post-discretionary establishment in Alberta. It offers nine baccalaureate degrees, two associated degrees and more than 40 acknowledgment and announcement programs. The school's five assets and schools offer programming in expressive expressions and trades, wellbeing and gathering considers, stylish sciences and sciences, nursing, and business. 

A few noncredit master and self-change courses are offered on low upkeep commence despite programming for school and school plan and English-as-a-Second-Language courses. In the midst of the 2014-2015 educational year, 19,606 full-and low support understudies were enlisted in credit programs. 

Substance 

1 History 

2 Academics 

3 Scholarships and bursaries 

4 Athletics 

5 Campuses 

5.1 City Center Campus 

5.2 Alberta College Campus 

5.3 Centre for the Arts and Communications 

6 Ranking and Reputation 

7 Controversy 

8 See as well 

9 References 

10 External associations 

History 

Developed in 1971 as Grant MacEwan Community College, the association was named after Dr. J.W. Stipend MacEwan, maker, instructor and past lieutenant administrative pioneer of Alberta. The school was developed by the Government of Alberta to fill an evident prerequisite for school level activities that focused on work change. Starting informative offerings included one and two-year presentation and authentication programs. 

In 1988 the school was permitted support to offer school trade credit. In 2004, MacEwan transformed into an authorized degree-yielding foundation offering its first baccalaureate degrees. On September 24, 2009, the association transformed into Alberta's sixth school and was formally renamed Grant MacEwan University. In September 2013, the school formally rebranded itself as "MacEwan University" for all open correspondence and advancing purposes; legitimately, the name remains Grant MacEwan University. 

Presidents 

Five people have held the position of President of MacEwan University: 

John Haar, 1971-1981 

Dr. Gerald O. Kelly, 1981-1996 

Dr. Harry Davis, 1996 

Dr. Paul J. Byrne, 1997-2011 

Dr. David W. Atkinson, 2011–present 

Scholastics 

MacEwan University is a student foundation disconnected into five schools and assets: 

Faculty of Arts and Science 

Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications 

Faculty of Health and Community Studies 

Faculty of Nursing 

Establishment of Business 

Beginning 2016, the school offers nine baccalaureate degrees, two associated degrees and more than 40 affirmation and support programs, in a collection of movement associations, including full-time, low upkeep, online and partition. 

MacEwan University considers itself to be to be an understudy centered foundation with a consideration on teaching. The school states it "gives understudy focused rule in a warm and solid air." It furthermore says, "We focus on training, so our understudies can focus on learning. It's been an establishment of who we are for more than 40 years. Besides, continue developing that reputation." 

Gifts and bursaries 

MacEwan University offers various awards, respects, and bursaries to program understudies looking for after post-assistant preparing. In the 2014/2015 insightful year, the Student Awards Office managed the dissemination of $7.4 million dollars, from inward and outside sources, to more than 5,300 understudies. 

Sports 

Logo of the MacEwan Griffins. 

MacEwan University's amusements gatherings are known as the Griffins. Men's and women's amusements include: b-ball, hockey, volleyball, soccer, crosscountry, contorting and golf. The Griffins fight in the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (ACAC), against 16 other post-helper foundations in Alberta and furthermore in the Canada West meeting of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). Understudy contenders on all gatherings are depended upon to meet educational necessities and stick to amusement specific athletic requirements. 

In 2011, MacEwan's athletic office introduced an application to Canada West Universities Athletic Association with a deciding objective to trade to the national Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) level of contention. MacEwan University was surrendered as a trial part in 2013. 

Grounds 

Beginning 2016, MacEwan University has three grounds. Downtown zone Campus is the greatest of the three grounds, starting now crossing six city impedes in downtown Edmonton. The Alberta College Campus (ACC) is also discovered downtown. The Center for the Arts and Culture is starting now arranged on the west end of the city in West Jasper Place; this grounds will close in the fall of 2017, when another Center for Arts and Culture opens on the school's City Center Campus. 

In its underlying years, MacEwan worked out of different little store-front-style grounds in Edmonton. The workplaces included Old Scona School (10523 - 84 Avenue), the Workmen's Compensation building (10048 - 101A Avenue), and the past Dominion Store in Cromdale (8020 - 118 Avenue), with working environments and association arranged in the Canada Trust building (10150 - 100 Street). In 1988, Don Getty's ordinary government submitted $100 million for the improvement of the City Center Campus which, at the time, was Alberta Advanced Education and Technology's greatest single capital undertaking in its history. 

Improvement on City Center Campus began in 1991 on the past site of the Canadian National rail yards on the northern edge of the downtown Edmonton focus. The region was given by CN. 

In September 2009, MacEwan University's Board of Governors embraced a plan to move most of the school's operations—spread transversely more than four grounds at the time—to the essential City Center Campus. The underlying stride of this mix was carried with the opening of the University Service Center in April 2011. Advancement for the new Center for the Arts and Culture began in 2014 on the west end of the City Center Campus, with a booked opening in the fall of 2017. The school's South Campus, arranged in the Mill Woods, close in 2014, with most of its undertakings moved to City Center Campus. 

Downtown zone Campus 

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Downtown zone Campus houses the bigger piece of MacEwan University's degree programs. The grounds is also home to school courses, acknowledgments and confirmations in wellbeing, human organizations and business. Most of the school's association is arranged at City Center Campus too. The south access to the essential complex is contained within the centremost of the three social affairs of strong towers, which in like manner contains an open clock. 

The guideline complex contains a long assembling of structures stretching out from east to west; the 105 Street (Building 5), the 106 Street (Building 6), the 107 Street (Building 7), and the Christenson Family Center for Sport and Wellness (Building 8). Between each of these structures is social event of four strong towers which gives the grounds its specific look. Each of these groupings of towers structures a completion vista both when seen from the north or the south, meddling with the paths after which the structures are named. The towers which end 107 Street moreover highlight open clock between the towers on the south face. The fragment of 108 Street toward the south of the grounds is known as "Capital Boulevard" and rushes to the Alberta Legislature Building seven squares toward the south where it shapes another completion vista. A pedway more than 109 Street interfaces these structures to the Robbins Health Learning Center (Building 9, 2007) and the University Service Center over the parkade (Building 10, 2011). 

The Christenson Family Center for Sport and Wellness is home to a pool, rec center and wellbeing center. The Griffins, MacEwan University's athletic affiliation, fight in intercollegiate recreations within the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) and the Canada West meeting of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). 

Alberta College Campus 

In June 2000, the organization of Alberta acknowledged control of the once in the past private Alberta College. Alberta College was then combined as a MacEwan grounds. Alberta College is only 1 km from the City Center Campus, and houses academic upgrading, music and English as a Second Language (ESL) programs. 

MacEwan University - Alberta College Campus 

Place for the Arts and Communications 

The Center for the Arts and Communications (prior known as Jasper Place Campus) is arranged in Edmonton's west end on the north east corner of 156 Street and 100 Avenue. This grounds is presently moving to new workplaces at the City Center Campus site once new workplaces are worked, for Fall 2017. 

The Center for the Arts and Communications houses a couple of innovative undertakings in expressions and social organization, plan, convincing work of art, correspondences, music, theater expressions and theater creation, including MacEwan University's new Bachelor of Music in Jazz and Contemporary Popular Music. 

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