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Carleton University

February 13, 2023

This article is about the university in Ontario, Canada. For the college in Minnesota, United States, see Carleton College. For the fictional diploma mill, see Fortress Besieged.

Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World War II veterans.[5] Carleton was chartered as a university by the provincial government in 1952 through The Carleton University Act, which was then amended in 1957, giving the institution its current name.[5] The university is named for the now-dissolved Carleton County, which included the city of Ottawa at the time the university was founded. Carleton County, in turn, was named in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, who was Governor General of The Canadas from 1786 to 1796. The university moved to its current campus in 1959,[5] growing rapidly in size during the 1960s as the Ontario government increased support for post-secondary institutions and expanded access to higher education.

Carleton University
Motto"Ours the Task Eternal"
TypePublic
Established1942; 81 years ago (1942)
Academic affiliations
AACSB, ASAIHL, APSIA, CARL, COU, Fields Institute, Universities Canada
EndowmentC$353.0 million[1]
BudgetC$502 million[2]
ChancellorYaprak Baltacioğlu
PresidentBenoit-Antoine Bacon[3]
Administrative staff
5,328
Students32,116
Undergraduates27,829
Postgraduates4,287
Address
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

45°22′59″N 75°41′51″W / 45.3831°N 75.6976°W / 45.3831; -75.6976Coordinates: 45°22′59″N 75°41′51″W / 45.3831°N 75.6976°W / 45.3831; -75.6976
CampusUrban, 62 ha (150 acres)
NewspaperThe Charlatan
Colours   Black and red[4]
NicknameRavens
Sporting affiliations
U Sports, OUA, RSEQ
MascotRodney the Raven
Websitecarleton.ca

Carleton offers a diverse range of academic programs, and is organized into six faculties and more than 65 degree programs. It has several specialized institutions well-regarded in their fields, including the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, the Carleton School of Journalism, the School of Public Policy and Administration, and the Sprott School of Business.

As of 2021, Carleton yearly enrolls more than 27,000 undergraduate and 4,000 graduate students.[6] Carleton has a 150-acre campus located west of Old Ottawa South, close to The Glebe and Confederation Heights. It is bounded to the North by the Rideau Canal and Dow's Lake and to the South by the Rideau River.[7] Carleton has more than 165,000 alumni worldwide, producing 7 Rhodes Scholars,[8] 2 Pulitzer Prize awardees,[9][10] 8 Killam Prize winners,[11] and several recipients of the Order of Canada. Additionally, the university is affiliated with 53 Royal Society Fellows and members and 3 Nobel laureates.[12] Carleton is also home to 28 Canada Research Chairs,[13] 1 Canada 150 Chair, 13 IEEE Fellows and 10 3M National Teaching Award winners.[6]

Carleton competes in the U Sports league as the Carleton Ravens. The Carleton Ravens are nationally renowned for their men's basketball team; a team which has won 16 of 19 national championships since 2003.

Carleton University Campus in 2022

History

I learned very early the life lesson that it is people, not buildings, that make up an institution. And if we put our hearts to it we can do something worthwhile.

– Henry Marshall Tory
 
Historical plaque commemorating the inaugural meeting of the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning in December 1941
 
Henry Marshall Tory, first President of Carleton College

Carleton College (1942–1957)

Discussions on establishing a second post-secondary institution in Ottawa began in the fall of 1938 among a committee of members from the local YMCA chapter, who looked to create a school to meet the educational needs of Ottawa's sizeable non-Catholic population. While the Second World War abruptly ended the committee's activities, a new committee was organized by Henry Marshall Tory as the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning at a meeting held in December 1941, with formal incorporation in June 1942.[14]

Established in 1942 as Carleton College, a non-denominational institution, the school began offering evening courses in rented classrooms at the High School of Commerce, now part of the Glebe Collegiate Institute. Classes offered during the first academic year included English, French, history, algebra, trigonometry, chemistry, physics, and biology.[15] With the end of the war in 1945 and return of veterans from the frontlines, the college experienced an unexpected upsurge in student enrolment during the 1945–46 academic year, enrolling about 2,200 new students.

To accommodate increased enrolment, the school rented facilities in various buildings throughout the city, including classrooms at the Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottawa Technical High School, and the basements of several local churches. Higher enrolment also gave way to an expansion of the college's academic offerings with the establishment of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and new coursework in journalism and engineering.[16]

In 1946, the college gained possession of its first campus, situated at the corner of Lyon Street and First Avenue in The Glebe neighbourhood. The four-story building was the former location of the Ottawa Ladies' College, which was purchased during the Second World War for use as barracks for the Canadian Women's Army Corps.[17] Carleton's first degrees were conferred in 1946 to graduates of its Journalism and Public Administration programs.[18]

For nearly a decade after opening, the college operated on a shoestring budget, using funds raised mainly through community initiatives and modest student fees. Student fees during the school's first academic year from 1942 to 43 were modest at about $10.00 per course for first-year students, equivalent to $166 in 2021 dollars.[19] Fundraising efforts spearheaded by the college's president, Henry Marshall Tory, worked to raise $1 million for the institution from donors throughout the Ottawa area, with half of the proceeds going towards the debt incurred by the purchase of the new building, and the other to endow the college.[20] Carleton's faculty then was composed largely of part-time professors who worked full-time in the public service, some of whom were eventually convinced to leave government for full-time tenure positions.

In 1946, Carleton began the process of developing a crest and motto, as was tradition with other institutions of higher learning. The first motto proposed by Tory in 1946 was a crest with a maple leaf and open book surrounded by a scroll which read "Carleton College" and another scroll reading "Mos Inter Bellum Natus". The Board of Governors did not approve the motto and instead changed it to "Quaeceumque Vera". In 1948, the Board of Governors agreed to change the motto yet again as it was determined to also be the motto of the University of Alberta.[21] James Gibson, chair of the Committee on Symbols and Ceremonials, proposed a Latin motto, "Opera nobis aeterna" derived from the Walt Whitman poem Pioneers! O Pioneers!,[5] a translation of the phrase "We take up the task eternal". The Board of Governors rejected the Latin motto as it was perceived as too pretentious for an institution focused on egalitarianism, leading to Carleton's current motto, "Ours the task eternal". In October 1951, the Board of Governors formally adopted the new crest and motto.[22] and the approval to draft the artist's rendering of it by Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison was approved in April 1951.[23]

In 1952, the Carleton College Act was passed by the Ontario Legislature, changing the school's corporate name to Carleton College and conferring upon it the power to grant university degrees. Carleton thus became the province's first private, non-sectarian college.[24] The governance system was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a Faculty Senate, responsible for academic policy, and a Board of Governors composed of local community members, exercising exclusive control over the institution's finances and formal authority over all other matters. The President, appointed by the Board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership.[25]

Though the acquisition of land tracts now part of the current campus began in 1947, it was only in 1952 that the college gained possession of the entire 150-acre property, a significant portion of which was donated by Harry Stevenson Southam, a prominent Ottawa business magnate.[26] In March 1956, the college released a 75-year master plan for the development of the campus in stages, with the first stage costing an estimated $4.2 million, equivalent to $41.9 million in 2021 dollars, foreseeing the development of academic buildings, student residences, and athletic facilities on the new site.

In October 1956, the beginning of construction at the Rideau River campus was celebrated with a ceremonial sod-turning by Dana Porter, then Treasurer of Ontario.[27]

Carleton University (1957–present)

 
Bronson entrance

In 1957, the Carleton University Act was enacted[28] as an amendment to the Carleton College Act, granting Carleton nominal status as a public university and resulting in its current name, Carleton University.[29] This did not result in substantive changes to the school's governance and academic organization as it had already been granted university powers through the existing legislation.

Rapid development and growth (1960–69)

The completion of initial construction at the Rideau River campus in 1959 saw the university move to its current location at the beginning of the 1959–60 academic year. Completed at a cost of $6.5 million, the first three buildings, the Maxwell MacOdrum Library, Norman Paterson Hall and the Henry Marshall Tory Building became the centre for academic life at Carleton, with Paterson Hall and Tory Building respectively serving the arts and sciences disciplines.[30]

The 1960s saw meteoric growth in student enrolment, with the number of full-time students ballooning from 857 to 7,139 within the decade,[31] which coincided with a sharp uptick in financial support from the provincial and federal governments towards post-secondary institutions.

An increasing share of these students came to the school from outside the National Capital Region, prompting the university to open its first purpose-built residence halls, Lanark and Renfrew Houses in the fall of 1962. The residences were initially segregated by sex, with Lanark House reserved for male students and Renfrew for female students. However, Carleton did away with the practice of mandatory sex segregation in 1969 in favour of co-educational housing, becoming the first university in North America to adopt this practice. By the end of the decade, the increased need for space to accommodate the growing faculty and student body saw the completion of several major academic buildings, including the Loeb Building in 1967 and the Mackenzie Building in 1968.

In 1967, a Catholic liberal arts college, Saint Patrick's College, became affiliated with Carleton. Saint Patrick's College was founded by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate to meet the higher educational needs of Ottawa's growing English-speaking Catholic population. Originally housed in a separate building Old Ottawa East, now the campus of Immaculata High School, a new building for the school was erected on the north end of the Carleton campus in 1973.

Steady expansion (1970–1999)

The arrival of a new decade ushered in the inauguration of the long-awaited University Centre, designed to be the linchpin for student life on campus, housing a student-operated pub and other administrative services. With growing restrictions in physical space, the university hailed the completion of Dunton Tower, then referred to as the Arts Tower, in September 1972, which was the then-tallest academic building in Canada.

Rising attention towards recreation and fitness, coupled with generous grants from the provincial government, spurred the construction of the Athletics Centre in 1974, housing a multiplicity of different sports facilities, including a pool, squash courts, and gymnasium.[32]

In 1979, Saint Patrick's College was dissolved and merged into Carleton with Gerald Clarke, a professor at the school since 1954, serving as its final Dean. While Carleton is a secular institution, the name of the St. Patrick's Building was kept as a nod to Carleton's historical relationship to the Catholic institution.[33]

Although Carleton experienced a temporary decline in student enrolment toward the latter half of the 1970s, the 1980s saw a resurgence in the number of students attending the school, representing an increase of 76%, or 5,582 students over the course of the decade, leading to overcrowding in many of the school's buildings.[34] Responding to the demands of a larger student population during the 1980s, the university built the Life Sciences Research Centre, the Minto Centre of Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE), and funded an extension to MacOdrum Library.

Following renovations led by Toronto-based architect Michael Lundholm, 1992 saw the opening of the Carleton University Art Gallery in the St. Patrick's Building, supported by a fundraising drive within the local community and the bequest of several pieces of Canadian art from the estate of Frances and Jack Barwick.[35] In fall 1994, a new computing system was introduced at Carleton, extending Internet and e-mail access to all students and faculty, where this had previously been only accessible to graduate and undergraduate students in specific courses.[36]

Contemporary developments (2000–present)

 
Health Sciences Building, completed in 2019.

The new millennium brightened prospects for Carleton's finances, allowing it to fund the construction of several new buildings during the 2000s. These include, inter alia, the $30-million construction of new athletics facilities, the $22-million, 9,011 m2 (97,000 ft2) Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute Facility and Centre for Advanced Studies in Visualization and Simulation (V-SIM), and the $17-million upgrade and expansion to the University Centre. In 2008, a sustainably-designed residence hall was added named Frontenac House, primarily serving returning second-year students.[37] During this decade, Carleton inaugurated its first female President and Vice Chancellor, Roseann Runte in 2008, who served in this position until 2017, resigning to fulfill a new position as president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Runte's leadership also pushed forward the planning and construction of three new academic buildings, Canal Building (2010), and River Building (2011), and the Health Sciences Building (2018), as well as a new residence building, Lennox and Addington House in 2011.

 
Green wall installed in Richcraft Hall.

At the behest of Runte's successor, Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Carleton has continued to pursue several major construction projects, notably the Advanced Research and Innovation and Smart Environments (ARISE) Building, replacing the existing Life Sciences Building, to house applied research in smart technology.

In 2018, Carleton purchased the Dominion-Chalmers United Church located in Ottawa's Centretown neighbourhood to serve as a community and cultural hub, and host to artistic performances and academic lectures.[38] The facility represents Carleton's first building situated in Ottawa's downtown area.

In 2021, Carleton completed construction on the Nicol Building, the new home of the Sprott School of Business. Located in the heart of Carleton's campus, the Nicol Building was designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects and provides 115,000 square feet of new, collaborative learning space.[39] The cost of the building was estimated at around $65 million, but was offset through a sizeable donation of $10 million from the late Ottawa real estate developer and Carleton alumnus, Wes Nicol, for whom the building is namesake.[40]

COVID-19 pandemic

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Carleton joined other Canadian post-secondary institutions in a decision to suspend in-person classes for the remainder of the 2019–2020 academic year, effectively moving instruction online. This move also saw the temporary withdrawal of non-essential services, such as athletics facilities, in order to contain the spread of COVID-19 on campus.[41] Unlike other institutions, Carleton did not immediately move to evict students from residence buildings, but instead allowed students to leave early at their own discretion.

To accommodate the disruption to the semester resulting from the abrupt suspension of in-person classes, the Carleton University Senate approved an unprecedented proposal to provide students with the option to receive a SAT or UNSAT grade in place of typical letter and grade point for their courses.[42] The school also cancelled in-person classes for the summer semester, allowing courses to only be delivered online.[43]

In July 2020, Carleton announced that classes for the Fall 2020 semester would be held entirely online, citing the potential risk posed by a second wave of COVID-19 and inequities to accessing physical classes for international students, who may encounter difficulties coming to Canada due to travel restrictions.[44] Additional waves of COVID-19 in Ontario in early 2021 prompted the university to continue with online course delivery for the remainder of the academic year.

With the implementation of a mass COVID-19 vaccination program, and widespread uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine in Canada, Carleton prepared for a gradual return of in-person learning for the 2021–22 academic year, offering a number of course delivery methods to students, including fully in-person classes, hybrid classes, and virtual classes.[45] In August 2021, announced that all students, staff, and faculty would need to receive a complete series of a Health Canada or World Health Organization-approved COVID-19 vaccine to receive full access to campus, including attending in-person classes. In May 2022, Carleton suspended its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, following similar decisions made at other Ontario schools. [46] The following month, the university indefinitely paused its mask mandate, while maintaining strong recommendations to students, staff, and visitors to continue wearing masks indoors.[47]

Organization and administration

Governance

The university's governing framework is established through the Carleton University Act, 1952, enabling legislation which sets out the basic legal obligations and purposes of the institution. The Act establishes Carleton as a bicameral institution, governed by a Board of Governors and Senate.[48] The Act establishes the objects and purpose of the university as the advancement of learning; the dissemination of knowledge; the intellectual, social, and moral development of its members and the community at large; and the establishment of a non-sectarian institution within the City of Ottawa.

Board of Governors

The Board of Governors oversees the corporate affairs of the institution, including finances, real property, risk management, and strategic direction.[48] The Board is also responsible for appointing the President and Chancellor, and determines the compensation of staff, faculty, and members of the senior administration. The Board of Governors is composed of 36 members, with 18 members derived from the students, staff, and administration of Carleton. These include four students, two faculty members, two members of the University Senate, two alumni, two staff, as well as the President and Chancellor, who are ex-officio members of the Board.[49] The remainder of the representatives are selected from the local community at large.

To support its mandate and oversight function, the Board has six standing committees, with each Governor holding membership in one or two of these committees over the course of a year. These standing committees include Executive, Audit & Risk, Building Program, Advancement and University Relations, Governance, and Finance.[50]

The Board is led by the board chair, who presides over meetings, evaluates executive performance, advises senior administration, and represents the university's interests to government. The current board chair is Dan Fortin, former President of IBM Canada and Carleton alumnus.

Senate

The Senate is the Carleton's highest academic body and is responsible for university's academic governance. The Senate's duties include conferring degrees, approving recipients of honorary degrees, developing scholarships and selecting recipients thereof, approving new programs and curricular changes, in addition to overseeing academic regulations.

The Senate comprises 86 members, including 40 faculty members, two contract instructors, 10 undergraduate students, three graduate students, 23 ex-officio members, four members of the Board of Governors, and up to four special appointments.[51]

Finances

For the 2020–21 academic year, Carleton reported an estimated annual operating budget of $502 million, with the largest expenditures for the institution being employee salaries, campus infrastructure, and student support services.[52]

The largest annual sources of revenue for Carleton are tuition fees, which generate 50% of the university's income, representing $336 million in earnings, and provincial government funding, representing 26% of the university's income, or $174 million.[53]

In 2019–2020, Carleton received $86.5 million in sponsored research funding.[6]

Carleton has an endowment fund of $353 million as of April 2021, with an increase of $54.4 million over the previous year.[54]

Academics

Carleton is a mid-sized comprehensive and research-intensive public university, and is part of several pan-institutional bodies, including Universities Canada and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. As of the 2020–21 academic year, Carleton received 23,544 applications, producing a first-year cohort of 6,227[55] In 2021, the school reported an enrolment of 32,116 students, comprising 27,829 undergraduate and 4,287 graduate students, supported by 969 full-time faculty members and 835 contract instructors.[6] Carleton's graduation rate within seven years is approximately 70.4% as of the 2017–18 academic year, with a graduate employment rate of 92.7% within two years of graduation.[56]

Faculties of Carleton University
Faculties[57] Established
Faculty of Arts & Social Science 1997[58]
Faculty of Engineering & Design 1963[59]
Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Affairs 1974[60]
Faculty of Public Affairs 1997
Faculty of Science 1963
Sprott School of Business 2006[61]

Academic units

Arts and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) offers a variety of programs (27 majors and 19 minors) leading to the Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Bachelor of Arts (Combined Honours), Bachelor of Cognitive Science (B.Cog.Sci.), Bachelor of Global and International Studies (B.GINS) degrees, and Bachelor of Humanities (B.Hum.) degrees. The faculty oversees a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social science fields, including African studies, anthropology, English, French, geography, history, music, psychology, and sociology.

The Faculty also houses the College of the Humanities, one of Canada's few Great Books programs, which leads to a B.Hum (Bachelor of Humanities) degree,[62] and Carleton's Institute of Cognitive Science, which offers the only fully structured PhD program in Cognitive Science in the country, as well as undergraduate and masters programs. There is also a collaborative M.A. in Digital humanities, one of the first in Canada. The Public History Program is known nationally for its innovative teaching and research,[63] having recently won national prizes.[64][65] FASS offers, in total, 14 master's and nine doctoral programs.

Engineering and Design

 
Carleton's engineering program is known for its leather jackets, pictured above.
 
Minto Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE), one of several buildings housing departments in the Faculty of Engineering and Design

The Faculty of Engineering and Design is among the oldest within the university, with the first engineering courses offered in 1945, and four-year engineering degrees being offered by the school beginning in 1956.[66] The Faculty of Engineering and Design has since developed a broad range of coursework in the fields of engineering, architecture, industrial design, and information technology housing 20 distinct undergraduate programs[67] under the Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS), Bachelor of Industrial Design (BID), Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT), and Bachelor of Media Production and Design (BMPD), along with 37 graduate programs at the master's and PhD level.[68] As of the fall 2019 semester, more than 5,800 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students are enrolled in the Faculty.[69]

The Faculty offers a renowned Bachelor in Industrial Design, representing one of the oldest degrees of its kind in Canada,[70] immersing students in an interdisciplinary approach toward industrial design, combining the disciplines of psychology, physics, economics, and marketing.[71] The Faculty also houses one of Canada's first undergraduate programs focusing on aerospace engineering, and is considered to be one of the flagship offerings of the Faculty and the university at large. The program itself divides students into four streams, enabling students to specialize in a particular field within the broader spectrum of aerospace engineering. This includes Stream A: aerodynamics, propulsion, and vehicle performance, Stream B: aerospace structures, systems and vehicle design, Stream C: aerospace electronics and systems, and Stream D: space systems design.[72]

The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism embodies another highly reputable institution within the Faculty of Engineering Design, housing undergraduate and graduate programs in its field. Students in the Bachelor of Architectural Studies can specialize one of three areas: Design, Urbanism, and Conversation and Sustainability.[73] The program is also unique within its discipline as it offers a Directed Study Abroad (DSA) option annually, enabling a select group of students to venture to a particular location to explore its architectural history in greater depth. Recent visit locations include Istanbul and Northern Europe[74]

Carleton's Bachelor of Information Technology programs are offered jointly with Algonquin College, while the university's Bachelor of Media Production and Design is offered jointly between the School of Information Technology and the Faculty of Public Affairs’ School of Journalism and Communication.

Public Affairs

The Faculty of Public Affairs (FPA) houses the university's academic disciplines that deal directly with government, civil society, and the relationship between them, comprising twelve academic units, offering 12 undergraduate programs and 21 graduate programs in criminology, economics, European studies, legal studies, journalism, political science, and public policy.

Many of Carleton's flagship offerings are housed in the Faculty of Public Affairs (FPA). This includes the School of Journalism and Communication, which offers the university's Bachelor of Journalism and Master of Journalism programs[75] and has educated many leading personalities in the field,[76] and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), which houses Canada's oldest foreign affairs graduate program. NPSIA, founded in 1965, is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA).[77] The School of Public Policy and Administration is the oldest such academic division in Canada and one of the most respected, with the university's first graduate degree in the discipline being granted in 1946. Carleton's Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs offers two unique honours degrees: the Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management (BPAPM) and the multidisciplinary Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS). The college is also home to the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management.[78]

In September 2006, Carleton was designated a European Union Centre of Excellence by the European Commission in Brussels and was the first university to offer a BA (Honours) in European and Russian Studies and MA in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. Its Department of Law & Legal Studies offers a BA (Honours) in Law and M.A and Ph.D. programs in Legal Studies, and is Canada's oldest legal department to take an epistemic, rather than professional approach to studying the influence of law within civil society. The faculty also features the Institute of Political Economy, the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice and African Studies, and is home to the School of Social Work and Department of Economics.

In 2019, Carleton ranked 101–150 in the world for politics and international studies, placing it within the top one percent of global universities in this field.[79]

Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
 
Richcraft Hall, home Carleton's Faculty of Public Affairs and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs

The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs is a professional school of international affairs at Carleton University. Founded in 1965, the school has distinguished itself as Canada's leading school in the field of international affairs, producing graduates that have progressed onward into key leadership positions within the federal government, think tanks, and academia. Established during a 'golden age' of Canadian diplomacy, the school adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of global issues, divided into seven clusters organized according to different areas of study under the umbrella of international affairs. NPSIA is the only full Canadian member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, a group of the world's top schools in international affairs.

NPSIA is well-regarded among the scholarly community in international affairs, with admission to the school is highly selective. In 2007, a poll of Canadian academics, intended to determine the best professional masters programs in international affairs, ranked NPSIA at No. 2, tied with Georgetown University, and ahead of programs at universities like Harvard and Columbia.[80][81]

Science

 
Carleton University's Institute for Advanced Research and Innovation in Smart Environments (ARISE)

The Faculty of Science offers 86 undergraduate and 39 graduate programs across various fields including biology, chemistry, physics, health sciences, mathematics, computer science, neuroscience, and earth sciences, with over 6,500 students enrolled, served by 177 faculty members.[82] Initial coursework on biology, chemistry, geology, and mathematics was first introduced in 1942 as night classes. In 1947, the school introduced its first undergraduate degrees in science, graduating its first cohort of honours degrees by 1950.[83]

The Faculty of Science is divided into eleven departments, each with distinct teaching and research focuses. Departments are housed in several buildings across campus, including Herzberg Laboratories, Steacie Building, Tory Building, the Nesbitt Biology Building, and the Health Sciences Building.[84] Each of these buildings house laboratories and other facilities for faculty and students alike to conduct research. The Nesbitt Biology Building contains several climate-controlled greenhouses that are host to an annual Butterfly Show in late September to early October, attracting visitors throughout the National Capital Region.[85] The National Wildlife Research Centre, a research facility of Environment and Climate Change Canada is also located on campus, and is home to the National Wildlife Specimen Bank, a repository of over 12,000 specimens of wildlife native to Canada. The centre conducts important research on the effects of toxic substances on wildlife, international migratory bird patterns, and the effects of human activities on wildlife.[86]

Sprott School of Business

 
Nicol Building, the home of the Sprott School of Business.

Carleton first began offering a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) degree beginning in 1949, and functioned as a department-level academic unit under the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and lastly the Faculty of Public Affairs and Management before its establishment as a separate faculty in 2006.[87] The School currently offers two undergraduate programs, the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of International Business, in addition to five graduate-level programs and several certificate programs for professionals. As of the 2018–2019 academic year, Sprott programs are attended by 2,668 undergraduate students, served by a full-time faculty of 61.[88]

Sprott is accredited internationally by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and by the Network of International Business Schools. The school has been at the forefront of educating business students through a global lens, having been the first in Canada to offer a Bachelor of International Business (BIB).[89] Its principal undergraduate offering, however, is the four-year Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree, and at the postgraduate level, MBA and PhD programs are offered.[90] The Sprott School has won the Overall Institution Performance Award, for its research contribution, at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012[91] among business schools at Canadian comprehensive universities.

Admissions

For the 2018–2019 academic year, Carleton admitted 5,988 first-year undergraduate students,[92] with a median admission average of 83.9% for students applying from Canadian high schools.[93] Undergraduate admission averages and requirements vary by academic program, with some specialized and limited enrolment offerings (e.g., B.Sc., Bachelor of Journalism, B.Hum., B.P.A.P.M. and Aerospace Engineering) requiring admissions averages markedly higher (i.e., in the A/A+ range) compared to their counterparts in other faculties (generally in the B+/A- range).[94]

Scholarships and bursaries

During the 2020–21 academic year, Carleton awarded 14,709 scholarships and bursaries totaling $28.6 million awarded to undergraduate students.[6]

Students admitted from high school with an academic average above 80% qualify for an entrance scholarship starting at $4,000 over four years, with $1,000 disbursed annually. The amount students receive increases incrementally with their admission average, with students entering with an average above 95% receiving $16,000 over four years.[95] Nevertheless, students must maintain a minimum 10.0 CGPA (A-) year-to-year in order to retain their scholarship[96]

Beyond automatic entrance scholarships, the university also awards 25 Prestige Scholarships, which represent the highest institutional scholarships awarded by the university. Incoming students must submit a supplementary application, in addition to an admission average above 90% in order to qualify and demonstration of extracurricular involvement during their secondary school years to qualify.[97] Prestige Scholarships vary in value from $20,000 to full tuition, and generally do not have additional qualification criteria beyond the supplementary application, with the exception of the Carleton Shad Valley Scholarship of Excellence, which requires recipients to have been alumni of the Shad Valley program.

Additional scholarships, such as the Arthur Kroeger National Scholars Program, are awarded to students entering a specific program based on their academic merit upon entering their undergraduate programs.

Reputation

University rankings
Global rankings
ARWU World[98]501–600
QS World[99]601–650
Times World[100]601–800
U.S News & World Report Global[101]526
Canadian rankings
ARWU National[98]20–22
QS National[99]21
Times National[100]20–27
U.S News & World Report National[101]20
Maclean's Comprehensive[102]5

Carleton has been included in several Canadian and international college and university rankings. The 2022 international Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the university in the 501–600 range.[98] In the 2023 international QS World University Rankings, Carleton ranked in the 601–650 range, and 21st in Canada.[99] According to the international 2023 listings for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Carleton ranks in the 601–800 range.[100] In the 2022–23 U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking, the university was ranked 526th in the world, and 20th in Canada.[101]

In terms of specific program rankings, Carleton has fared quite well in many of its flagship programs. In a 2009 worldwide survey of academics, which sought to determine the best professional Master's programs in International Affairs, Carleton's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) was the only Canadian school to rank, and ranked 14th in the world.[103] This was followed by a more recent domestic survey of International Relations academics, which, in 2015, recommended Carleton as the best choice for students seeking a career in policy.[104]

Maclean's is a Canadian magazine that publishes an annual ranking of Canadian universities, which is intended to measure a university's overall "undergraduate experience."[105] In its 2023 edition, Carleton ranked fifth in the comprehensive category, tied with York University.[102]

In 2015, Maclean's began publishing program rankings for biology, business, computer science, education, engineering, mathematics, medicine, nursing, and psychology.[106] As of 2019, Carleton is ranked 7th in Canada for engineering,[107] 10th in computer science,[108] 10th in mathematics[109] and 14th in psychology.[110] Notably, Carleton does not have ratings in nursing, medicine, or education programs, specifically; however, it does have a Health Sciences faculty, which includes a biomedicine program and a disability and chronic illness program, and does have, in its Arts faculty, a Childhood and Youth Studies program originally rooted in Early Childhood Education (ECE).

Affiliated institutions

Campus

Carleton University campus
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    Parking garage near Bronson Avenue entrance

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    Architecture Building, housing the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urban Design

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    Richcraft Hall, formerly known as River Building, home of Carleton’s journalism, public policy, and international affairs programs

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    University Centre, containing various student service centres and classrooms

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    Southam Hall and Loeb Building

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    View of the main academic quadrangle, facing MacOdrum Library

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    Dunton Tower viewed from Hartwells Locks

 
Carleton University campus as seen from the south.

Carleton's campus is situated on 153 acres (62 ha) bounded to the west by Colonel By Drive and the Rideau Canal, to the east by Bronson Avenue, and the south by the Rideau River. The campus is situated adjacent to the Dominion Arboretum and the Central Experimental Farm.

During its initial construction in 1959, the campus consisted of three buildings, the MacOdrum Library, the Tory Building, and Paterson Hall, forming a quadrangle situated at the heart of the university's academic buildings. Since then, the university has expanded to forty-eight buildings, the newest addition being the Nicol Building, which was inaugurated in 2021.

The campus is accessible to road traffic through two entrances respectively located at Bronson Avenue and Colonel By Drive. Carleton's campus contains a series of surface roads to facilitate traffic in and out of the university, the most heavily used of them being Campus Avenue, which was converted to a single-direction road in 2019 to ease congestion.

Several OC Transpo bus lines, including the 7, 10, and 111, serve the campus directly, in addition to the O-Train's Carleton station, located at the centre of campus.

The campus is bisected by the O-Train Trillium Line, with several pedestrian and vehicular bridges and tunnels facilitating access between either side. The majority of the university's academic and residential buildings are situated on the western side of campus, while the eastern side contains the university's athletics facilities and administrative offices.

Architecture

The prevalence of modernist and brutalist architecture in the design of the earliest academic buildings on the Carleton campus represented a stylistic departure from traditional collegiate architecture in North America, which historically emulated the Gothic style dominant in many European universities. The decision to incorporate modernism into the campus' design was intentional, presenting Carleton as an egalitarian, progressive, and forward-thinking institution.[112]

Architectural critics have looked to Carleton as a leading example of modernist collegiate architecture in Canada. The campus became the subject of Modern U, an exhibition by local artist Adrian Gröllner that sought to highlight the late modernist architecture embodied by many of Carleton's early buildings.[113]

Tunnel system

 
Junction between tunnels near the Health Sciences Building. Note the alphabetic wayfinding signage distinguishing tunnel routes.

Buildings on campus, with a few exceptions, are connected by a five kilometre-long system of underground pedestrian tunnels. The Carleton University tunnel system is the most extensive network of tunnels at a Canadian university or college campus. The tunnels were initially built as part of the second phase of initial construction on campus in the 1960s. Originally conceived as a maintenance crawl space connecting heating and ventilation between campus buildings, a suggestion by a staff member transformed them into accessible pedestrian tunnels[5] for students and faculty to use when travelling between different buildings on campus. The tunnels receive heightened usage during the winter months due to the severity of winters in Ottawa. Maintenance staff use modified golf carts in the tunnels to transport personnel, supplies, and mail to different locations on campus.

In 2019, Carleton introduced a new wayfinding system to assist students, faculty, and visitors in navigating the tunnel networking, using a metro-style map to display the network.

Student housing

Residence houses at Carleton University

Traditional residences

  • Dundas House (1991)
  • Glengarry House (1969)
  • Grenville House (1965)
  • Lanark House (1962)
  • Lennox and Addington House (2011)
  • Renfrew House (1962)
  • Russell House(1965)
  • Stormont House (1991)

Suite-style residences

  • Frontenac House (2008)
  • Leeds House (2001)
  • Prescott House (2003)
 
Residence Commons, Glengarry House, and Frontenac House viewed from the Residence Quad
 
Lennox & Addington House, the newest residence house at Carleton, at dusk

Carleton has eleven student residence buildings clustered together in the northwest section of campus, and are connected to the university's tunnel system. The first residence buildings constructed on campus were the Renfrew and Lanark Houses, which began accommodating students in 1962.

In 1969, the university introduced the first co-educational dormitories in North America.[5] Since then, the university has gradually expanded the number of dormitories as enrolment has risen. On-campus housing at Carleton is configured in traditional and suite-style residences, with the latter offering students a kitchenette shared between four students. Unlike most collegiate dormitories, bathroom facilities are usually shared between two rooms, in contrast to the typical communal bathrooms. Residence floors are staffed by dedicated Residence Fellows, upper-year students hired by the university's Department of Housing and Residence Life Services to provide personal and academic support to students.

Although the majority of students housed on-campus are first-year students, Frontenac House is reserved for returning second-year students, while Leeds House is reserved for upper-year and graduate students. Residence Commons serves as a hub for students living in residences, as it houses The Caf, the university's main dining hall, the Residence Reception Desk, a Starbucks location, and Abstentions, a convenience store operated by the Rideau River Residence Association (RRRA), which functions as the student government for residence students.

During the summer months, some residence halls are turned over to Conference Services for use as hotels for visiting school and tourist groups to Ottawa. The Canadian Armed Forces uses some facilities, notably Glengarry House and Residence Commons, to house and feed the Ceremonial Guard, which conducts the renowned Changing of the Guard ceremony on Parliament Hill and posts sentries at Rideau Hall. It is possible to see practice marches and drills occurring on campus during this season.

Library and collections

 
Main facade of MacOdrum Library, renovated in 2013
 
View of study carrels on the second floor of MacOdrum Library

MacOdrum Library

One of the three original buildings on the Carleton campus, the MacOdrum Library has served as Carleton's central library and archives. The library is named for former Carleton President and Vice-Chancellor Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum. As of 2017, the Library maintains a collection of approximately 1.8 million print items, 161,396 cartographic materials, and 876,396 e-books.[114]

Since 1959, the library has undergone expansion and renovations on several occasions, the most recent of which was completed in late 2013. The facility contains computer labs, study carrels, and meeting rooms for students to complete assignments and conduct academic research. During midterm and final examination periods, the Library extends its operating hours to twenty-four hours to accommodate students preparing for their examinations or completing assignments. On an annual basis, the library receives upwards of 1.6 million visits from students, faculty, and researchers.[115]

In 2013, the Library inaugurated the Discovery Centre for Undergraduate Research, a multi-purpose space containing meeting tables, multimedia collaborative spaces, video game laboratories, as well as 3D printers.[116]

The Library occasionally hosts special artistic and historical exhibitions on the first floor, covering a broad spectrum of topics and academic disciplines.

Archives and Special Collections

The MacOdrum Library maintains extensive archives and research collections of documents, artifacts, and other materials related to specific academic disciplines, as well as the personal effects of various persons of historical significance. Notable collections include the W. McAllister Johnson Collection, containing artwork and other documents pertaining to French art history in the 17th and 18th centuries,[117] The Uganda Collection, which houses newspaper clippings, documents, and artifacts related to the expulsion of Uganda's South Asian minority under the rule of Idi Amin,[118] as well as Carleton University heritage material, storing yearbooks, student newspapers, photographs, and ephemera significant to the history of the university itself.

Carleton University Art Gallery

 
Carleton University Art Gallery, second floor exhibitions.

Since 1992, the Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG), located in a 9,255 sq ft (859.8 m2) facility in the St. Patrick's Building at the north end of campus, has served as a community hub for the visual arts at Carleton. CUAG contains three distinctive galleries on two floors, offices, collection storage vaults, and exhibition preparation room.

Admission to the gallery is free, and is open from Tuesday to Sunday weekly, with the exception of statutory holidays. In addition to its main exhibitions, the CUAG has a Curatorial Laboratory dedicated to installations curated by members of the Carleton community.[119]

Past notable exhibitions include The Other NFB, which featured photography taken by the now-defunct Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada during World War II and through the post-war years,[120] Here Be Dragons, which sought to display new experimental forms of protest art,[121] and Dorset Seen, showcasing Inuit printmaking and its relation to the Inuit experience with the Canadian identity.[122]

CUAG also oversees the university's art collection, which focuses on twentieth-century Canadian art after 1950, European prints and drawings from the 16th to 19th centuries, as well as Inuit and First Nations art.[123]

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

 
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

In 2018, Carleton purchased Dominion-Chalmers United Church, securing a future rehearsal and performance space for its Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Renamed, the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC), it is now Carleton's Carleton's arts, performance and learning centre.[124] The CDCC is the Carleton's first downtown Ottawa building and is managed by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The centre is about 37,000 square feet with a seating capacity of approximately 1,000. It continues to host religious services for the church's congregation as well as serve a variety of user groups from the community at large in addition to providing programing and experiential learning opportunities in arts and performance.

Student Life

Demographics of student body (2015–16)[125]
Undergraduate Graduate
Male 52.7% 51.5%
Female 47.3% 48.5%
Canadian student 88.6% 78.8%
International student 11.4% 21.2%
 
Dunton Tower, the tallest building in the world.

Student union and services

Carleton University Students' Association

All undergraduate students are members of the Carleton University Students' Association (CUSA), Canadian Federation of Students Local 1.[126] The organization was established in 1942 and has a long history of being a nucleus of political activity on campus.[127] The organization advocates for the interests of undergraduate students to the university's administration, organizes and delivers the annual Orientation Week in conjunction with the university, certifies and financially supports student-run clubs and societies and provides a variety of services to students.

CUSA is led by a six-member executive body comprising the President and Vice Presidents of Finance, Internal, Student Issues, Student Services, and Student Life, who are elected annually by the undergraduate student body.[128] Undergraduate students also elect twenty-eight Councillors allocated proportionately to each faculty, with 2 seats to Business, 4 to Engineering & Design, 4 to Arts and Social Sciences, 8 to Public Affairs, and 3 to Science, in addition to ex-officio representatives from RRRA and the GSA.[129]

The organization administers a number of student centres designed to cater to the safety and well-being of various members of the student body; these are the Mawandoseg Centre, the Carleton Disability Awareness Centre, Food Centre, Foot Patrol, Gender and Sexuality Resource Centre, the Racialized and International Student Experience Centre and the Womxn's Learning, Advocacy, and Support Centre.[127] CUSA also runs a number of businesses: Oliver's Pub and Patio, an undergraduate student pub located on the first floor of University Centre which in addition to serving traditional pub fare, hosts a range of student events throughout the year;[130] Rooster's Coffeehouse, a café located in the University Centre that primarily serves coffee, baked goods, and light meals;[131] Haven Books, a discount bookstore and coffeehouse located off-campus in the Old Ottawa South neighbourhood,[132] and The Wing, a pop-up convenience store located in the University Centre Atrium, adjacent to Rooster's.

Rideau River Residence Association

Undergraduate students living in the university's residence facilities are also members of the Rideau River Residence Association (RRRA). Founded in 1968 and incorporated in 1976, students elect a three-member executive consisting of a President and Vice Presidents for Programming and Administration respectively, in addition to floor representatives to the RRRA Council, which endeavours to represent the interests of Carleton's undergraduate residents.[133] RRRA hosts a variety of events for students in residence, including an annual formal,[134] and runs Abstentions, a convenience store located in Residence Commons.[135]

Graduate Students' Association

All of the university's graduate students are members of the Carleton University Graduate Students' Association (GSA), Canadian Federation of Students Local 78.[126] Graduate students elect an executive and council members to represent their respective interests within the organization, which in turn advocates on their behalf and provides a variety of services that cater to postgraduates, which include the operation of a Grad Lounge and Mike's Place, a student pub located in University Centre specializing in Anglo-Indian cuisine, namesake of late Prime Minister and former Chancellor Lester B. Pearson. The GSA is also responsible for the provision of access to a variety of office services for graduate students.[136]

Fraternities and sororities

Greek organizations at Carleton University

Fraternities

Sororities

Co-educational

Greek letter organizations are an active part of student life at Carleton, affiliated with both local and international organizations. From an administrative perspective, Carleton does not formally recognize fraternities and sororities, and has prohibited them from tabling in the University Centre Atrium and Residence Commons while wearing their letters.[137]

Since 2007, most Greek activities at Carleton are overseen by the Carleton University Greek Council (CUGC), a student-led organization which plans and coordinates social, philanthropic, and academic events throughout the school year between fraternities and sororities.[138] Three international sororities, Phi Sigma Sigma, Alpha Omicron Phi, and Delta Phi Epsilon are governed separately by the Carleton Panhellenic Council, which fulfills a mandate parallel to that of the CUGC.[139]

In early 2016, a Carleton sorority became the locus of controversy after an incident in which several chapter members decided to pop 80 balloons simultaneously during a meeting in the Tory Building, followed by celebratory screaming which falsely triggered an active shooter lockdown on campus. This led to some students advocating for an outright ban of the sorority responsible for the false alarm.[140]

Arts and media

Student newspapers

Carleton's primary undergraduate student newspaper is The Charlatan, which was founded in 1945 and known as The Carleton until 1971. Until 2019, the newspaper published print editions on a bi-weekly basis when budgetary restraints forced the paper to reduce its frequency to once monthly. The Charlatan's operations are overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors, composed of representatives from the newspaper's staff, students, faculty, and the community at large.[141]

Carleton is also served by The Leveller, a monthly newspaper established in 2009, representing student voice throughout the National Capital Region. The publication is characterized by its radical left editorial stance toward social issues.[142]

The Resin was a newspaper for students living in residence which was published in 2014, when the Rideau River Residence Association decided to discontinue it.

During the school year the School of Journalism publishes a community newspaper, Centretown News, which reports on the Centretown neighbourhood of Ottawa, and an online newspaper, Capital News Online.

The Department of English Language and Literature supports the student-run writers' zine, In/Words, featuring creative writing and short stories from Carleton students. Engineering students are similarly are served by The Iron Times, which is published by the Carleton Student Engineering Society.

Broadcasting

Carleton is home to a community radio station, CKCU-FM. Since its first broadcast in November 1975, CKCU-FM was the first licensed community-based campus radio station in Canada.[143] CKCU-FM broadcasts a broad range of student and multicultural programming, featuring genres such as world music, avant-garde music, indie pop, and blues. In addition to an optional student-levy, CKCU-FM relies largely relies on donations from the local community and program sponsorships for financial support.[144]

Theatre

The Sock 'n' Buskin Theatre Company,[145] which was founded in 1943, is Carleton's amateur theatre company, having distinguished itself as one of Carleton's most important cultural fixtures. The Company puts on diverse showcase of theatrical productions each year, with recent productions including The Crucible, As You Like It, Twelfth Night., and Angels in America. Sock 'n' Buskin is entirely run and governed by student volunteers, who also comprise the actors and stage managers involved in each production.[146]

Athletics

Main article: Carleton Ravens
 
Basketball game between the Carleton Ravens and Ottawa Gee-Gees, 2005.

Carleton competes as the Carleton Ravens, participating in intercollegiate competitions at both the national and provincial levels. Carleton is a member of both U Sports and Ontario University Athletics, with some teams competing in the RSEQ, encompassing 13 varsity sports.

Men's basketball

Carleton is recognized for the strength of its men's basketball team, which has accumulated the highest number of national titles of any collegiate basketball team in Canadian history. Between 1999 and 2019, Dave Smart served as the head men's basketball coach at Carleton, and is credited for building the team's capacity to its current reputation of repeated success. Smart resigned from his position in 2019 to serve as Carleton's director of basketball operations.[147]

The Ravens men's basketball team has won the national championship fifteen times,[148] with five consecutive titles between 2002–03 and 2006–07 and seven consecutive titles between 2010-2011 and 2016–2017, surpassing the University of Victoria at the top of the all-time list.[149] The Vikes had seven consecutive wins in the 1980s. With its 12th crown in 2016, the Ravens eclipsed the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team as the college with the most national basketball titles, a feat accomplished in 14 years, compared with UCLA's 11 titles in 32 seasons.

Outside of its typical season games, the men's basketball team plays exhibition games with NCAA teams from the United States during the summer months, billed as the Can-Am Shootout. During these games, Carleton has garnered significant wins over reputable Division I teams such as the University of Mississippi, University of Cincinnati, and South Dakota State University.[150]

As part of its athletic rivalry with the University of Ottawa, the team has participated in Capital Hoops Classic since its inception in 2007, which typically takes place in late January and early February at the arena at TD Place. In fourteen years of the event, Carleton has won on eleven occasions.

Women's basketball

The Ravens’ basketball strength continues to the women's side with Carleton being home to the 2018 U SPORTS National Championship.[151] The team, previously coached by now men's coach Taffe Charles, is coached by Dani Sinclair.

The Ravens women's team has helped to develop a number of professional players including Marlee Ball, Nicole Gilmore, Alyssa Cerino and Catherine Traer.

Football

Main article: Carleton Ravens football

Carleton established a football team during the 1945–46 academic year, losing 15–0 to Macdonald College during its debut match.[152] In tandem with basketball and hockey, Carleton's football matches transformed into a staple of student life at Carleton during the early years of the school, securing funding for sports equipment early in the school's history.[153] In 1959, Carleton's move to the Rideau campus provided the team with updated facilities, including a field, training room, and equipment room.[154]

In 1955, the football team began competing in the much-celebrated annual Panda Game against their rivals, the Ottawa Gee-Gees. The game evolved into an iconic highlight within student life at Carleton, gaining a sordid reputation for heavy drinking and outlandish parties.[155] In 1999, the cancellation of Carleton's football program placed the game on indefinite hiatus, though was eventually revived in 2013. Since 2014, the game has taken place at TD Place in Lansdowne Park. While Ottawa holds a historical advantage over Carleton in terms of Panda Game victories, the current iteration of the Panda Game saw four consecutive victories for Carleton between 2014 and 2017.

From 1999 to 2013, Carleton suspending its football program, citing a lack of success and the ensuing financial burden, then revived for the 2013 season.[156] In the intervening years, several proposals to revive the football program were brought forward by the Carleton community and alumni, notably in 2000 with advocacy efforts by the Old Crow Society, which represents Carleton Football's alumni, but it was deemed premature at the time.[156] Subsequently, a 2008 survey indicated 86% of students were in favour of resuscitating the university's football program.[156] The team planned to form an independent corporate entity with its own revenue stream—a model that has proven successful at other schools, notably Laval University.[156]

Other sports

The Carleton Ravens men's ice hockey team plays within the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports.[157] Carleton also maintains a rivalry with the University of Ottawa in this field, having competed in the annual Colonel By Classic at TD Place Arena since the tradition began during the 2016–17 academic year for the men's team, and during the 2018–19 academic year for women.

The Ravens women's hockey team plays within the RSEQ.

Carleton is also home to a highly successful soccer program. Having recently won silver at the 2021 U SPORTS Men's Soccer Championship.[158] The men's soccer team has won silver three times, 2021, 2002 and 1984. Recent success has seen the team reach the final-eight tournament in four consecutive tournaments from 2017 to 2021.[citation needed]

The men's and women's soccer programs both compete in the OUA, playing their home games on the Ravens’ Perch.

Like women's hockey, Carleton women's rugby compete in the RSEQ. The program, which recently celebrated its tenth season, finished 2021 with a program best 3rd-place finish, securing the RSEQ Bronze Medal in overtime.[citation needed]

Notable alumni and faculty

Main article: List of Carleton University people

Notable faculty

Past faculty include three Nobel laureates (pioneering scientists in physics and chemistry Gerhard Herzberg and Peter Grünberg and the former Prime Minister of Canada, Lester B. Pearson) as well as six Order of Canada recipients. The Right Honourable Herb Gray, Canada's longest-serving continuous Member of Parliament, former Cabinet minister in the Trudeau, Turner, and Chrétien governments, former Deputy Prime Minister, and acting Leader of the Opposition, was the 10th Chancellor of the university.[159] Gray was succeeded as Chancellor by Charles Chi (BEng '88), a venture capitalist and executive chairman of Lytro. His company has designed a revolutionary new camera that uses light field technology.[160] Yaprak Baltacioğlu, former Secretary of Treasury Board Secretariat, was named the university's 12th Chancellor in December 2018.[161] In 2022, Chancellor Professor Lenore Fahrig was awarded the prestigious Herzberg Prize for outstanding contributions in the field of conservation biology. She is the first Carleton faculty member to win the award.[162]

Notable alumni

Carleton has produced notable graduates across numerous disciplines, including politicians, journalists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, architects and entertainers. Journalism being one of Carleton's traditional fortes, many of its alumni have gone on to leading positions in Canadian and international media outlets. These include Rosemary Barton and Andrew Chang, co-anchors of The National, Paul Watson, Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist, Greg Ip, chief economics commentator for The Wall Street Journal, Trina McQueen, founding president of the Discovery Channel, media mogul Conrad Black, Robert MacNeil, news anchor and journalist, Peter Worthington, Canadian News Hall of Fame inductee, Arthur Kent, Emmy Award–winning war correspondent, Nahlah Ayed, Middle East correspondent for the CBC, and Edward Greenspon, former Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail. [163] Moreover, Chairman of Vice Media Shane Smith founded the media company alongside alumnus Gavin McInnes.[164]

Carleton alumni have served at all levels of government. These include John Manley, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Paul Okalik, former Premier of Nunavut, Peter MacKay, former Minister of National Defence, Rob Ford, former Mayor of Toronto, and Jim Watson, former Mayor of Ottawa and former MPP for Ottawa West–Nepean. In architecture, Gregory Henriquez of Vancouver is well known for his inclusive mixed-use rezonings and UNHCR social justice work. Another notable alumnus, Israeli-Canadian real-estate billionaire and architect David Azrieli, is the donor of the Azrieli Pavilion and the Azrieli Theater on campus. [165]

Dan Aykroyd attended Carleton but did not graduate. In 1994, Aykroyd was conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the university. Comedian Norm Macdonald and journalist Peter Jennings also attended the university. Jennings was bestowed with an honorary doctorate in 1997.[166][167] Other alumni in entertainment include the Canadian rapper k-os, Eisner Award–winning comics author Ryan North, YouTube personality Cristine Rotenberg, pop singer Mia Martina, actress Melody Anderson, and Grammy award–winning setar player Kayhan Kalhor. While in the legal field, Louise Charron, a Puisine Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, is also a Carleton alumnus.

Arms

Coat of arms of Carleton University
 
Notes
Granted 5 November 1992
Crest
A phoenix Gules quilled and beaked Or issuing from flames Proper.
Escutcheon
Sable a maple leaf Gules irradiated and charged with an open book Argent.
Supporters
On a grassy mount on either side a raven Sable beaked and membered Or armed Gules.
Motto
Ours The Task Eternal

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Further reading

  • Axelrod, Paul (1982). Scholars and Dollars: Politics, Economics, and the Universities of Ontario 1945–1980. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5609-1.
  • Neatby, Blair (2002). Creating Carleton: The Shaping of a University. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 077352486X.
  • Mesley, Roger J. (1989). Art Carleton: Carleton University Art Collection. Ottawa: Carleton University Press. ISBN 0-88629-083-X.

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This article is about the university in Ontario Canada For the college in Minnesota United States see Carleton College For the fictional diploma mill see Fortress Besieged Carleton University is an English language public research university in Ottawa Ontario Canada Founded in 1942 as Carleton College the institution originally operated as a private non denominational evening college to serve returning World War II veterans 5 Carleton was chartered as a university by the provincial government in 1952 through The Carleton University Act which was then amended in 1957 giving the institution its current name 5 The university is named for the now dissolved Carleton County which included the city of Ottawa at the time the university was founded Carleton County in turn was named in honour of Guy Carleton 1st Baron Dorchester who was Governor General of The Canadas from 1786 to 1796 The university moved to its current campus in 1959 5 growing rapidly in size during the 1960s as the Ontario government increased support for post secondary institutions and expanded access to higher education Carleton UniversityMotto Ours the Task Eternal TypePublicEstablished1942 81 years ago 1942 Academic affiliationsAACSB ASAIHL APSIA CARL COU Fields Institute Universities CanadaEndowmentC 353 0 million 1 BudgetC 502 million 2 ChancellorYaprak BaltaciogluPresidentBenoit Antoine Bacon 3 Administrative staff5 328Students32 116Undergraduates27 829Postgraduates4 287Address1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa Ontario Canada45 22 59 N 75 41 51 W 45 3831 N 75 6976 W 45 3831 75 6976 Coordinates 45 22 59 N 75 41 51 W 45 3831 N 75 6976 W 45 3831 75 6976CampusUrban 62 ha 150 acres NewspaperThe CharlatanColours Black and red 4 NicknameRavensSporting affiliationsU Sports OUA RSEQMascotRodney the RavenWebsitecarleton wbr caCarleton offers a diverse range of academic programs and is organized into six faculties and more than 65 degree programs It has several specialized institutions well regarded in their fields including the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs the Carleton School of Journalism the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Sprott School of Business As of 2021 Carleton yearly enrolls more than 27 000 undergraduate and 4 000 graduate students 6 Carleton has a 150 acre campus located west of Old Ottawa South close to The Glebe and Confederation Heights It is bounded to the North by the Rideau Canal and Dow s Lake and to the South by the Rideau River 7 Carleton has more than 165 000 alumni worldwide producing 7 Rhodes Scholars 8 2 Pulitzer Prize awardees 9 10 8 Killam Prize winners 11 and several recipients of the Order of Canada Additionally the university is affiliated with 53 Royal Society Fellows and members and 3 Nobel laureates 12 Carleton is also home to 28 Canada Research Chairs 13 1 Canada 150 Chair 13 IEEE Fellows and 10 3M National Teaching Award winners 6 Carleton competes in the U Sports league as the Carleton Ravens The Carleton Ravens are nationally renowned for their men s basketball team a team which has won 16 of 19 national championships since 2003 Carleton University Campus in 2022 Contents 1 History 1 1 Carleton College 1942 1957 1 2 Carleton University 1957 present 1 2 1 Rapid development and growth 1960 69 1 2 2 Steady expansion 1970 1999 1 2 3 Contemporary developments 2000 present 1 2 4 COVID 19 pandemic 2 Organization and administration 2 1 Governance 2 1 1 Board of Governors 2 1 2 Senate 2 2 Finances 3 Academics 3 1 Academic units 3 1 1 Arts and Social Sciences 3 1 2 Engineering and Design 3 1 3 Public Affairs 3 1 3 1 Norman Paterson School of International Affairs 3 1 4 Science 3 1 5 Sprott School of Business 3 2 Admissions 3 3 Scholarships and bursaries 3 4 Reputation 3 5 Affiliated institutions 4 Campus 4 1 Architecture 4 2 Tunnel system 4 3 Student housing 5 Library and collections 5 1 MacOdrum Library 5 1 1 Archives and Special Collections 5 2 Carleton University Art Gallery 5 3 Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre 6 Student Life 6 1 Student union and services 6 1 1 Carleton University Students Association 6 1 2 Rideau River Residence Association 6 1 3 Graduate Students Association 6 2 Fraternities and sororities 6 3 Arts and media 6 3 1 Student newspapers 6 3 2 Broadcasting 6 3 3 Theatre 7 Athletics 7 1 Men s basketball 7 2 Women s basketball 7 3 Football 7 4 Other sports 8 Notable alumni and faculty 8 1 Notable faculty 8 2 Notable alumni 9 Arms 10 See also 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External linksHistory EditI learned very early the life lesson that it is people not buildings that make up an institution And if we put our hearts to it we can do something worthwhile Henry Marshall Tory Historical plaque commemorating the inaugural meeting of the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning in December 1941 Henry Marshall Tory first President of Carleton College Carleton College 1942 1957 Edit Discussions on establishing a second post secondary institution in Ottawa began in the fall of 1938 among a committee of members from the local YMCA chapter who looked to create a school to meet the educational needs of Ottawa s sizeable non Catholic population While the Second World War abruptly ended the committee s activities a new committee was organized by Henry Marshall Tory as the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning at a meeting held in December 1941 with formal incorporation in June 1942 14 Established in 1942 as Carleton College a non denominational institution the school began offering evening courses in rented classrooms at the High School of Commerce now part of the Glebe Collegiate Institute Classes offered during the first academic year included English French history algebra trigonometry chemistry physics and biology 15 With the end of the war in 1945 and return of veterans from the frontlines the college experienced an unexpected upsurge in student enrolment during the 1945 46 academic year enrolling about 2 200 new students To accommodate increased enrolment the school rented facilities in various buildings throughout the city including classrooms at the Lisgar Collegiate Institute Ottawa Technical High School and the basements of several local churches Higher enrolment also gave way to an expansion of the college s academic offerings with the establishment of the Faculty of Arts and Science and new coursework in journalism and engineering 16 In 1946 the college gained possession of its first campus situated at the corner of Lyon Street and First Avenue in The Glebe neighbourhood The four story building was the former location of the Ottawa Ladies College which was purchased during the Second World War for use as barracks for the Canadian Women s Army Corps 17 Carleton s first degrees were conferred in 1946 to graduates of its Journalism and Public Administration programs 18 For nearly a decade after opening the college operated on a shoestring budget using funds raised mainly through community initiatives and modest student fees Student fees during the school s first academic year from 1942 to 43 were modest at about 10 00 per course for first year students equivalent to 166 in 2021 dollars 19 Fundraising efforts spearheaded by the college s president Henry Marshall Tory worked to raise 1 million for the institution from donors throughout the Ottawa area with half of the proceeds going towards the debt incurred by the purchase of the new building and the other to endow the college 20 Carleton s faculty then was composed largely of part time professors who worked full time in the public service some of whom were eventually convinced to leave government for full time tenure positions In 1946 Carleton began the process of developing a crest and motto as was tradition with other institutions of higher learning The first motto proposed by Tory in 1946 was a crest with a maple leaf and open book surrounded by a scroll which read Carleton College and another scroll reading Mos Inter Bellum Natus The Board of Governors did not approve the motto and instead changed it to Quaeceumque Vera In 1948 the Board of Governors agreed to change the motto yet again as it was determined to also be the motto of the University of Alberta 21 James Gibson chair of the Committee on Symbols and Ceremonials proposed a Latin motto Opera nobis aeterna derived from the Walt Whitman poem Pioneers O Pioneers 5 a translation of the phrase We take up the task eternal The Board of Governors rejected the Latin motto as it was perceived as too pretentious for an institution focused on egalitarianism leading to Carleton s current motto Ours the task eternal In October 1951 the Board of Governors formally adopted the new crest and motto 22 and the approval to draft the artist s rendering of it by Mrs Elizabeth Harrison was approved in April 1951 23 In 1952 the Carleton College Act was passed by the Ontario Legislature changing the school s corporate name to Carleton College and conferring upon it the power to grant university degrees Carleton thus became the province s first private non sectarian college 24 The governance system was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a Faculty Senate responsible for academic policy and a Board of Governors composed of local community members exercising exclusive control over the institution s finances and formal authority over all other matters The President appointed by the Board was to provide a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership 25 Though the acquisition of land tracts now part of the current campus began in 1947 it was only in 1952 that the college gained possession of the entire 150 acre property a significant portion of which was donated by Harry Stevenson Southam a prominent Ottawa business magnate 26 In March 1956 the college released a 75 year master plan for the development of the campus in stages with the first stage costing an estimated 4 2 million equivalent to 41 9 million in 2021 dollars foreseeing the development of academic buildings student residences and athletic facilities on the new site In October 1956 the beginning of construction at the Rideau River campus was celebrated with a ceremonial sod turning by Dana Porter then Treasurer of Ontario 27 Carleton University 1957 present Edit Bronson entrance In 1957 the Carleton University Act was enacted 28 as an amendment to the Carleton College Act granting Carleton nominal status as a public university and resulting in its current name Carleton University 29 This did not result in substantive changes to the school s governance and academic organization as it had already been granted university powers through the existing legislation Rapid development and growth 1960 69 Edit The completion of initial construction at the Rideau River campus in 1959 saw the university move to its current location at the beginning of the 1959 60 academic year Completed at a cost of 6 5 million the first three buildings the Maxwell MacOdrum Library Norman Paterson Hall and the Henry Marshall Tory Building became the centre for academic life at Carleton with Paterson Hall and Tory Building respectively serving the arts and sciences disciplines 30 The 1960s saw meteoric growth in student enrolment with the number of full time students ballooning from 857 to 7 139 within the decade 31 which coincided with a sharp uptick in financial support from the provincial and federal governments towards post secondary institutions An increasing share of these students came to the school from outside the National Capital Region prompting the university to open its first purpose built residence halls Lanark and Renfrew Houses in the fall of 1962 The residences were initially segregated by sex with Lanark House reserved for male students and Renfrew for female students However Carleton did away with the practice of mandatory sex segregation in 1969 in favour of co educational housing becoming the first university in North America to adopt this practice By the end of the decade the increased need for space to accommodate the growing faculty and student body saw the completion of several major academic buildings including the Loeb Building in 1967 and the Mackenzie Building in 1968 In 1967 a Catholic liberal arts college Saint Patrick s College became affiliated with Carleton Saint Patrick s College was founded by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate to meet the higher educational needs of Ottawa s growing English speaking Catholic population Originally housed in a separate building Old Ottawa East now the campus of Immaculata High School a new building for the school was erected on the north end of the Carleton campus in 1973 Steady expansion 1970 1999 Edit The arrival of a new decade ushered in the inauguration of the long awaited University Centre designed to be the linchpin for student life on campus housing a student operated pub and other administrative services With growing restrictions in physical space the university hailed the completion of Dunton Tower then referred to as the Arts Tower in September 1972 which was the then tallest academic building in Canada Rising attention towards recreation and fitness coupled with generous grants from the provincial government spurred the construction of the Athletics Centre in 1974 housing a multiplicity of different sports facilities including a pool squash courts and gymnasium 32 In 1979 Saint Patrick s College was dissolved and merged into Carleton with Gerald Clarke a professor at the school since 1954 serving as its final Dean While Carleton is a secular institution the name of the St Patrick s Building was kept as a nod to Carleton s historical relationship to the Catholic institution 33 Although Carleton experienced a temporary decline in student enrolment toward the latter half of the 1970s the 1980s saw a resurgence in the number of students attending the school representing an increase of 76 or 5 582 students over the course of the decade leading to overcrowding in many of the school s buildings 34 Responding to the demands of a larger student population during the 1980s the university built the Life Sciences Research Centre the Minto Centre of Advanced Studies in Engineering CASE and funded an extension to MacOdrum Library Following renovations led by Toronto based architect Michael Lundholm 1992 saw the opening of the Carleton University Art Gallery in the St Patrick s Building supported by a fundraising drive within the local community and the bequest of several pieces of Canadian art from the estate of Frances and Jack Barwick 35 In fall 1994 a new computing system was introduced at Carleton extending Internet and e mail access to all students and faculty where this had previously been only accessible to graduate and undergraduate students in specific courses 36 Contemporary developments 2000 present Edit Health Sciences Building completed in 2019 The new millennium brightened prospects for Carleton s finances allowing it to fund the construction of several new buildings during the 2000s These include inter alia the 30 million construction of new athletics facilities the 22 million 9 011 m2 97 000 ft2 Human Computer Interaction HCI Institute Facility and Centre for Advanced Studies in Visualization and Simulation V SIM and the 17 million upgrade and expansion to the University Centre In 2008 a sustainably designed residence hall was added named Frontenac House primarily serving returning second year students 37 During this decade Carleton inaugurated its first female President and Vice Chancellor Roseann Runte in 2008 who served in this position until 2017 resigning to fulfill a new position as president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation Runte s leadership also pushed forward the planning and construction of three new academic buildings Canal Building 2010 and River Building 2011 and the Health Sciences Building 2018 as well as a new residence building Lennox and Addington House in 2011 Green wall installed in Richcraft Hall At the behest of Runte s successor Benoit Antoine Bacon Carleton has continued to pursue several major construction projects notably the Advanced Research and Innovation and Smart Environments ARISE Building replacing the existing Life Sciences Building to house applied research in smart technology In 2018 Carleton purchased the Dominion Chalmers United Church located in Ottawa s Centretown neighbourhood to serve as a community and cultural hub and host to artistic performances and academic lectures 38 The facility represents Carleton s first building situated in Ottawa s downtown area In 2021 Carleton completed construction on the Nicol Building the new home of the Sprott School of Business Located in the heart of Carleton s campus the Nicol Building was designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects and provides 115 000 square feet of new collaborative learning space 39 The cost of the building was estimated at around 65 million but was offset through a sizeable donation of 10 million from the late Ottawa real estate developer and Carleton alumnus Wes Nicol for whom the building is namesake 40 COVID 19 pandemic Edit In response to the COVID 19 pandemic Carleton joined other Canadian post secondary institutions in a decision to suspend in person classes for the remainder of the 2019 2020 academic year effectively moving instruction online This move also saw the temporary withdrawal of non essential services such as athletics facilities in order to contain the spread of COVID 19 on campus 41 Unlike other institutions Carleton did not immediately move to evict students from residence buildings but instead allowed students to leave early at their own discretion To accommodate the disruption to the semester resulting from the abrupt suspension of in person classes the Carleton University Senate approved an unprecedented proposal to provide students with the option to receive a SAT or UNSAT grade in place of typical letter and grade point for their courses 42 The school also cancelled in person classes for the summer semester allowing courses to only be delivered online 43 In July 2020 Carleton announced that classes for the Fall 2020 semester would be held entirely online citing the potential risk posed by a second wave of COVID 19 and inequities to accessing physical classes for international students who may encounter difficulties coming to Canada due to travel restrictions 44 Additional waves of COVID 19 in Ontario in early 2021 prompted the university to continue with online course delivery for the remainder of the academic year With the implementation of a mass COVID 19 vaccination program and widespread uptake of the COVID 19 vaccine in Canada Carleton prepared for a gradual return of in person learning for the 2021 22 academic year offering a number of course delivery methods to students including fully in person classes hybrid classes and virtual classes 45 In August 2021 announced that all students staff and faculty would need to receive a complete series of a Health Canada or World Health Organization approved COVID 19 vaccine to receive full access to campus including attending in person classes In May 2022 Carleton suspended its COVID 19 vaccine mandate following similar decisions made at other Ontario schools 46 The following month the university indefinitely paused its mask mandate while maintaining strong recommendations to students staff and visitors to continue wearing masks indoors 47 Organization and administration EditGovernance Edit The university s governing framework is established through the Carleton University Act 1952 enabling legislation which sets out the basic legal obligations and purposes of the institution The Act establishes Carleton as a bicameral institution governed by a Board of Governors and Senate 48 The Act establishes the objects and purpose of the university as the advancement of learning the dissemination of knowledge the intellectual social and moral development of its members and the community at large and the establishment of a non sectarian institution within the City of Ottawa Board of Governors Edit The Board of Governors oversees the corporate affairs of the institution including finances real property risk management and strategic direction 48 The Board is also responsible for appointing the President and Chancellor and determines the compensation of staff faculty and members of the senior administration The Board of Governors is composed of 36 members with 18 members derived from the students staff and administration of Carleton These include four students two faculty members two members of the University Senate two alumni two staff as well as the President and Chancellor who are ex officio members of the Board 49 The remainder of the representatives are selected from the local community at large To support its mandate and oversight function the Board has six standing committees with each Governor holding membership in one or two of these committees over the course of a year These standing committees include Executive Audit amp Risk Building Program Advancement and University Relations Governance and Finance 50 The Board is led by the board chair who presides over meetings evaluates executive performance advises senior administration and represents the university s interests to government The current board chair is Dan Fortin former President of IBM Canada and Carleton alumnus Senate Edit The Senate is the Carleton s highest academic body and is responsible for university s academic governance The Senate s duties include conferring degrees approving recipients of honorary degrees developing scholarships and selecting recipients thereof approving new programs and curricular changes in addition to overseeing academic regulations The Senate comprises 86 members including 40 faculty members two contract instructors 10 undergraduate students three graduate students 23 ex officio members four members of the Board of Governors and up to four special appointments 51 Finances Edit For the 2020 21 academic year Carleton reported an estimated annual operating budget of 502 million with the largest expenditures for the institution being employee salaries campus infrastructure and student support services 52 The largest annual sources of revenue for Carleton are tuition fees which generate 50 of the university s income representing 336 million in earnings and provincial government funding representing 26 of the university s income or 174 million 53 In 2019 2020 Carleton received 86 5 million in sponsored research funding 6 Carleton has an endowment fund of 353 million as of April 2021 with an increase of 54 4 million over the previous year 54 Academics EditCarleton is a mid sized comprehensive and research intensive public university and is part of several pan institutional bodies including Universities Canada and the Association of Commonwealth Universities As of the 2020 21 academic year Carleton received 23 544 applications producing a first year cohort of 6 227 55 In 2021 the school reported an enrolment of 32 116 students comprising 27 829 undergraduate and 4 287 graduate students supported by 969 full time faculty members and 835 contract instructors 6 Carleton s graduation rate within seven years is approximately 70 4 as of the 2017 18 academic year with a graduate employment rate of 92 7 within two years of graduation 56 Faculties of Carleton University Faculties 57 EstablishedFaculty of Arts amp Social Science 1997 58 Faculty of Engineering amp Design 1963 59 Faculty of Graduate amp Postdoctoral Affairs 1974 60 Faculty of Public Affairs 1997Faculty of Science 1963Sprott School of Business 2006 61 Academic units Edit Arts and Social Sciences Edit The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences FASS offers a variety of programs 27 majors and 19 minors leading to the Bachelor of Arts BA Bachelor of Arts Honours Bachelor of Arts Combined Honours Bachelor of Cognitive Science B Cog Sci Bachelor of Global and International Studies B GINS degrees and Bachelor of Humanities B Hum degrees The faculty oversees a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social science fields including African studies anthropology English French geography history music psychology and sociology The Faculty also houses the College of the Humanities one of Canada s few Great Books programs which leads to a B Hum Bachelor of Humanities degree 62 and Carleton s Institute of Cognitive Science which offers the only fully structured PhD program in Cognitive Science in the country as well as undergraduate and masters programs There is also a collaborative M A in Digital humanities one of the first in Canada The Public History Program is known nationally for its innovative teaching and research 63 having recently won national prizes 64 65 FASS offers in total 14 master s and nine doctoral programs Engineering and Design Edit Carleton s engineering program is known for its leather jackets pictured above Minto Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering CASE one of several buildings housing departments in the Faculty of Engineering and Design The Faculty of Engineering and Design is among the oldest within the university with the first engineering courses offered in 1945 and four year engineering degrees being offered by the school beginning in 1956 66 The Faculty of Engineering and Design has since developed a broad range of coursework in the fields of engineering architecture industrial design and information technology housing 20 distinct undergraduate programs 67 under the Bachelor of Engineering BEng Bachelor of Architectural Studies BAS Bachelor of Industrial Design BID Bachelor of Information Technology BIT and Bachelor of Media Production and Design BMPD along with 37 graduate programs at the master s and PhD level 68 As of the fall 2019 semester more than 5 800 undergraduate and 1 200 graduate students are enrolled in the Faculty 69 The Faculty offers a renowned Bachelor in Industrial Design representing one of the oldest degrees of its kind in Canada 70 immersing students in an interdisciplinary approach toward industrial design combining the disciplines of psychology physics economics and marketing 71 The Faculty also houses one of Canada s first undergraduate programs focusing on aerospace engineering and is considered to be one of the flagship offerings of the Faculty and the university at large The program itself divides students into four streams enabling students to specialize in a particular field within the broader spectrum of aerospace engineering This includes Stream A aerodynamics propulsion and vehicle performance Stream B aerospace structures systems and vehicle design Stream C aerospace electronics and systems and Stream D space systems design 72 The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism embodies another highly reputable institution within the Faculty of Engineering Design housing undergraduate and graduate programs in its field Students in the Bachelor of Architectural Studies can specialize one of three areas Design Urbanism and Conversation and Sustainability 73 The program is also unique within its discipline as it offers a Directed Study Abroad DSA option annually enabling a select group of students to venture to a particular location to explore its architectural history in greater depth Recent visit locations include Istanbul and Northern Europe 74 Carleton s Bachelor of Information Technology programs are offered jointly with Algonquin College while the university s Bachelor of Media Production and Design is offered jointly between the School of Information Technology and the Faculty of Public Affairs School of Journalism and Communication Public Affairs Edit The Faculty of Public Affairs FPA houses the university s academic disciplines that deal directly with government civil society and the relationship between them comprising twelve academic units offering 12 undergraduate programs and 21 graduate programs in criminology economics European studies legal studies journalism political science and public policy Many of Carleton s flagship offerings are housed in the Faculty of Public Affairs FPA This includes the School of Journalism and Communication which offers the university s Bachelor of Journalism and Master of Journalism programs 75 and has educated many leading personalities in the field 76 and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs NPSIA which houses Canada s oldest foreign affairs graduate program NPSIA founded in 1965 is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs APSIA 77 The School of Public Policy and Administration is the oldest such academic division in Canada and one of the most respected with the university s first graduate degree in the discipline being granted in 1946 Carleton s Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs offers two unique honours degrees the Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management BPAPM and the multidisciplinary Bachelor of Global and International Studies BGInS The college is also home to the Clayton H Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management 78 In September 2006 Carleton was designated a European Union Centre of Excellence by the European Commission in Brussels and was the first university to offer a BA Honours in European and Russian Studies and MA in European Russian and Eurasian Studies Its Department of Law amp Legal Studies offers a BA Honours in Law and M A and Ph D programs in Legal Studies and is Canada s oldest legal department to take an epistemic rather than professional approach to studying the influence of law within civil society The faculty also features the Institute of Political Economy the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice and African Studies and is home to the School of Social Work and Department of Economics In 2019 Carleton ranked 101 150 in the world for politics and international studies placing it within the top one percent of global universities in this field 79 Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Edit Richcraft Hall home Carleton s Faculty of Public Affairs and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs is a professional school of international affairs at Carleton University Founded in 1965 the school has distinguished itself as Canada s leading school in the field of international affairs producing graduates that have progressed onward into key leadership positions within the federal government think tanks and academia Established during a golden age of Canadian diplomacy the school adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of global issues divided into seven clusters organized according to different areas of study under the umbrella of international affairs NPSIA is the only full Canadian member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs a group of the world s top schools in international affairs NPSIA is well regarded among the scholarly community in international affairs with admission to the school is highly selective In 2007 a poll of Canadian academics intended to determine the best professional masters programs in international affairs ranked NPSIA at No 2 tied with Georgetown University and ahead of programs at universities like Harvard and Columbia 80 81 Science Edit Carleton University s Institute for Advanced Research and Innovation in Smart Environments ARISE The Faculty of Science offers 86 undergraduate and 39 graduate programs across various fields including biology chemistry physics health sciences mathematics computer science neuroscience and earth sciences with over 6 500 students enrolled served by 177 faculty members 82 Initial coursework on biology chemistry geology and mathematics was first introduced in 1942 as night classes In 1947 the school introduced its first undergraduate degrees in science graduating its first cohort of honours degrees by 1950 83 The Faculty of Science is divided into eleven departments each with distinct teaching and research focuses Departments are housed in several buildings across campus including Herzberg Laboratories Steacie Building Tory Building the Nesbitt Biology Building and the Health Sciences Building 84 Each of these buildings house laboratories and other facilities for faculty and students alike to conduct research The Nesbitt Biology Building contains several climate controlled greenhouses that are host to an annual Butterfly Show in late September to early October attracting visitors throughout the National Capital Region 85 The National Wildlife Research Centre a research facility of Environment and Climate Change Canada is also located on campus and is home to the National Wildlife Specimen Bank a repository of over 12 000 specimens of wildlife native to Canada The centre conducts important research on the effects of toxic substances on wildlife international migratory bird patterns and the effects of human activities on wildlife 86 Sprott School of Business Edit Nicol Building the home of the Sprott School of Business Carleton first began offering a Bachelor of Commerce B Com degree beginning in 1949 and functioned as a department level academic unit under the Faculty of Arts amp Sciences the Faculty of Social Sciences and lastly the Faculty of Public Affairs and Management before its establishment as a separate faculty in 2006 87 The School currently offers two undergraduate programs the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of International Business in addition to five graduate level programs and several certificate programs for professionals As of the 2018 2019 academic year Sprott programs are attended by 2 668 undergraduate students served by a full time faculty of 61 88 Sprott is accredited internationally by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and by the Network of International Business Schools The school has been at the forefront of educating business students through a global lens having been the first in Canada to offer a Bachelor of International Business BIB 89 Its principal undergraduate offering however is the four year Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree and at the postgraduate level MBA and PhD programs are offered 90 The Sprott School has won the Overall Institution Performance Award for its research contribution at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada ASAC in 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 and 2012 91 among business schools at Canadian comprehensive universities Admissions Edit For the 2018 2019 academic year Carleton admitted 5 988 first year undergraduate students 92 with a median admission average of 83 9 for students applying from Canadian high schools 93 Undergraduate admission averages and requirements vary by academic program with some specialized and limited enrolment offerings e g B Sc Bachelor of Journalism B Hum B P A P M and Aerospace Engineering requiring admissions averages markedly higher i e in the A A range compared to their counterparts in other faculties generally in the B A range 94 Scholarships and bursaries Edit During the 2020 21 academic year Carleton awarded 14 709 scholarships and bursaries totaling 28 6 million awarded to undergraduate students 6 Students admitted from high school with an academic average above 80 qualify for an entrance scholarship starting at 4 000 over four years with 1 000 disbursed annually The amount students receive increases incrementally with their admission average with students entering with an average above 95 receiving 16 000 over four years 95 Nevertheless students must maintain a minimum 10 0 CGPA A year to year in order to retain their scholarship 96 Beyond automatic entrance scholarships the university also awards 25 Prestige Scholarships which represent the highest institutional scholarships awarded by the university Incoming students must submit a supplementary application in addition to an admission average above 90 in order to qualify and demonstration of extracurricular involvement during their secondary school years to qualify 97 Prestige Scholarships vary in value from 20 000 to full tuition and generally do not have additional qualification criteria beyond the supplementary application with the exception of the Carleton Shad Valley Scholarship of Excellence which requires recipients to have been alumni of the Shad Valley program Additional scholarships such as the Arthur Kroeger National Scholars Program are awarded to students entering a specific program based on their academic merit upon entering their undergraduate programs Reputation Edit University rankingsGlobal rankingsARWU World 98 501 600QS World 99 601 650Times World 100 601 800U S News amp World Report Global 101 526Canadian rankingsARWU National 98 20 22QS National 99 21Times National 100 20 27U S News amp World Report National 101 20Maclean s Comprehensive 102 5Carleton has been included in several Canadian and international college and university rankings The 2022 international Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the university in the 501 600 range 98 In the 2023 international QS World University Rankings Carleton ranked in the 601 650 range and 21st in Canada 99 According to the international 2023 listings for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings Carleton ranks in the 601 800 range 100 In the 2022 23 U S News amp World Report Best Global University Ranking the university was ranked 526th in the world and 20th in Canada 101 In terms of specific program rankings Carleton has fared quite well in many of its flagship programs In a 2009 worldwide survey of academics which sought to determine the best professional Master s programs in International Affairs Carleton s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs NPSIA was the only Canadian school to rank and ranked 14th in the world 103 This was followed by a more recent domestic survey of International Relations academics which in 2015 recommended Carleton as the best choice for students seeking a career in policy 104 Maclean s is a Canadian magazine that publishes an annual ranking of Canadian universities which is intended to measure a university s overall undergraduate experience 105 In its 2023 edition Carleton ranked fifth in the comprehensive category tied with York University 102 In 2015 Maclean s began publishing program rankings for biology business computer science education engineering mathematics medicine nursing and psychology 106 As of 2019 Carleton is ranked 7th in Canada for engineering 107 10th in computer science 108 10th in mathematics 109 and 14th in psychology 110 Notably Carleton does not have ratings in nursing medicine or education programs specifically however it does have a Health Sciences faculty which includes a biomedicine program and a disability and chronic illness program and does have in its Arts faculty a Childhood and Youth Studies program originally rooted in Early Childhood Education ECE Affiliated institutions Edit Dominican University College An independent bilingual Roman Catholic institution issuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy and theology located in the Centretown West neighbourhood of Ottawa The school has been affiliated with Carleton since 2012 111 Campus EditCarleton University campus Parking garage near Bronson Avenue entrance Architecture Building housing the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urban Design Richcraft Hall formerly known as River Building home of Carleton s journalism public policy and international affairs programs University Centre containing various student service centres and classrooms Southam Hall and Loeb Building View of the main academic quadrangle facing MacOdrum Library Dunton Tower viewed from Hartwells Locks Carleton University campus as seen from the south Carleton s campus is situated on 153 acres 62 ha bounded to the west by Colonel By Drive and the Rideau Canal to the east by Bronson Avenue and the south by the Rideau River The campus is situated adjacent to the Dominion Arboretum and the Central Experimental Farm During its initial construction in 1959 the campus consisted of three buildings the MacOdrum Library the Tory Building and Paterson Hall forming a quadrangle situated at the heart of the university s academic buildings Since then the university has expanded to forty eight buildings the newest addition being the Nicol Building which was inaugurated in 2021 The campus is accessible to road traffic through two entrances respectively located at Bronson Avenue and Colonel By Drive Carleton s campus contains a series of surface roads to facilitate traffic in and out of the university the most heavily used of them being Campus Avenue which was converted to a single direction road in 2019 to ease congestion Several OC Transpo bus lines including the 7 10 and 111 serve the campus directly in addition to the O Train s Carleton station located at the centre of campus The campus is bisected by the O Train Trillium Line with several pedestrian and vehicular bridges and tunnels facilitating access between either side The majority of the university s academic and residential buildings are situated on the western side of campus while the eastern side contains the university s athletics facilities and administrative offices Architecture Edit The prevalence of modernist and brutalist architecture in the design of the earliest academic buildings on the Carleton campus represented a stylistic departure from traditional collegiate architecture in North America which historically emulated the Gothic style dominant in many European universities The decision to incorporate modernism into the campus design was intentional presenting Carleton as an egalitarian progressive and forward thinking institution 112 Architectural critics have looked to Carleton as a leading example of modernist collegiate architecture in Canada The campus became the subject of Modern U an exhibition by local artist Adrian Grollner that sought to highlight the late modernist architecture embodied by many of Carleton s early buildings 113 Tunnel system Edit Junction between tunnels near the Health Sciences Building Note the alphabetic wayfinding signage distinguishing tunnel routes Buildings on campus with a few exceptions are connected by a five kilometre long system of underground pedestrian tunnels The Carleton University tunnel system is the most extensive network of tunnels at a Canadian university or college campus The tunnels were initially built as part of the second phase of initial construction on campus in the 1960s Originally conceived as a maintenance crawl space connecting heating and ventilation between campus buildings a suggestion by a staff member transformed them into accessible pedestrian tunnels 5 for students and faculty to use when travelling between different buildings on campus The tunnels receive heightened usage during the winter months due to the severity of winters in Ottawa Maintenance staff use modified golf carts in the tunnels to transport personnel supplies and mail to different locations on campus In 2019 Carleton introduced a new wayfinding system to assist students faculty and visitors in navigating the tunnel networking using a metro style map to display the network Student housing Edit Residence houses at Carleton University Traditional residences Dundas House 1991 Glengarry House 1969 Grenville House 1965 Lanark House 1962 Lennox and Addington House 2011 Renfrew House 1962 Russell House 1965 Stormont House 1991 Suite style residences Frontenac House 2008 Leeds House 2001 Prescott House 2003 Residence Commons Glengarry House and Frontenac House viewed from the Residence Quad Lennox amp Addington House the newest residence house at Carleton at dusk Carleton has eleven student residence buildings clustered together in the northwest section of campus and are connected to the university s tunnel system The first residence buildings constructed on campus were the Renfrew and Lanark Houses which began accommodating students in 1962 In 1969 the university introduced the first co educational dormitories in North America 5 Since then the university has gradually expanded the number of dormitories as enrolment has risen On campus housing at Carleton is configured in traditional and suite style residences with the latter offering students a kitchenette shared between four students Unlike most collegiate dormitories bathroom facilities are usually shared between two rooms in contrast to the typical communal bathrooms Residence floors are staffed by dedicated Residence Fellows upper year students hired by the university s Department of Housing and Residence Life Services to provide personal and academic support to students Although the majority of students housed on campus are first year students Frontenac House is reserved for returning second year students while Leeds House is reserved for upper year and graduate students Residence Commons serves as a hub for students living in residences as it houses The Caf the university s main dining hall the Residence Reception Desk a Starbucks location and Abstentions a convenience store operated by the Rideau River Residence Association RRRA which functions as the student government for residence students During the summer months some residence halls are turned over to Conference Services for use as hotels for visiting school and tourist groups to Ottawa The Canadian Armed Forces uses some facilities notably Glengarry House and Residence Commons to house and feed the Ceremonial Guard which conducts the renowned Changing of the Guard ceremony on Parliament Hill and posts sentries at Rideau Hall It is possible to see practice marches and drills occurring on campus during this season Library and collections Edit Main facade of MacOdrum Library renovated in 2013 View of study carrels on the second floor of MacOdrum Library MacOdrum Library Edit One of the three original buildings on the Carleton campus the MacOdrum Library has served as Carleton s central library and archives The library is named for former Carleton President and Vice Chancellor Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum As of 2017 the Library maintains a collection of approximately 1 8 million print items 161 396 cartographic materials and 876 396 e books 114 Since 1959 the library has undergone expansion and renovations on several occasions the most recent of which was completed in late 2013 The facility contains computer labs study carrels and meeting rooms for students to complete assignments and conduct academic research During midterm and final examination periods the Library extends its operating hours to twenty four hours to accommodate students preparing for their examinations or completing assignments On an annual basis the library receives upwards of 1 6 million visits from students faculty and researchers 115 In 2013 the Library inaugurated the Discovery Centre for Undergraduate Research a multi purpose space containing meeting tables multimedia collaborative spaces video game laboratories as well as 3D printers 116 The Library occasionally hosts special artistic and historical exhibitions on the first floor covering a broad spectrum of topics and academic disciplines Archives and Special Collections Edit The MacOdrum Library maintains extensive archives and research collections of documents artifacts and other materials related to specific academic disciplines as well as the personal effects of various persons of historical significance Notable collections include the W McAllister Johnson Collection containing artwork and other documents pertaining to French art history in the 17th and 18th centuries 117 The Uganda Collection which houses newspaper clippings documents and artifacts related to the expulsion of Uganda s South Asian minority under the rule of Idi Amin 118 as well as Carleton University heritage material storing yearbooks student newspapers photographs and ephemera significant to the history of the university itself Carleton University Art Gallery Edit Carleton University Art Gallery second floor exhibitions Since 1992 the Carleton University Art Gallery CUAG located in a 9 255 sq ft 859 8 m2 facility in the St Patrick s Building at the north end of campus has served as a community hub for the visual arts at Carleton CUAG contains three distinctive galleries on two floors offices collection storage vaults and exhibition preparation room Admission to the gallery is free and is open from Tuesday to Sunday weekly with the exception of statutory holidays In addition to its main exhibitions the CUAG has a Curatorial Laboratory dedicated to installations curated by members of the Carleton community 119 Past notable exhibitions include The Other NFB which featured photography taken by the now defunct Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada during World War II and through the post war years 120 Here Be Dragons which sought to display new experimental forms of protest art 121 and Dorset Seen showcasing Inuit printmaking and its relation to the Inuit experience with the Canadian identity 122 CUAG also oversees the university s art collection which focuses on twentieth century Canadian art after 1950 European prints and drawings from the 16th to 19th centuries as well as Inuit and First Nations art 123 Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre Edit Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre In 2018 Carleton purchased Dominion Chalmers United Church securing a future rehearsal and performance space for its Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Renamed the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre CDCC it is now Carleton s Carleton s arts performance and learning centre 124 The CDCC is the Carleton s first downtown Ottawa building and is managed by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The centre is about 37 000 square feet with a seating capacity of approximately 1 000 It continues to host religious services for the church s congregation as well as serve a variety of user groups from the community at large in addition to providing programing and experiential learning opportunities in arts and performance Student Life EditDemographics of student body 2015 16 125 Undergraduate GraduateMale 52 7 51 5 Female 47 3 48 5 Canadian student 88 6 78 8 International student 11 4 21 2 Dunton Tower the tallest building in the world Student union and services Edit Carleton University Students Association Edit All undergraduate students are members of the Carleton University Students Association CUSA Canadian Federation of Students Local 1 126 The organization was established in 1942 and has a long history of being a nucleus of political activity on campus 127 The organization advocates for the interests of undergraduate students to the university s administration organizes and delivers the annual Orientation Week in conjunction with the university certifies and financially supports student run clubs and societies and provides a variety of services to students CUSA is led by a six member executive body comprising the President and Vice Presidents of Finance Internal Student Issues Student Services and Student Life who are elected annually by the undergraduate student body 128 Undergraduate students also elect twenty eight Councillors allocated proportionately to each faculty with 2 seats to Business 4 to Engineering amp Design 4 to Arts and Social Sciences 8 to Public Affairs and 3 to Science in addition to ex officio representatives from RRRA and the GSA 129 The organization administers a number of student centres designed to cater to the safety and well being of various members of the student body these are the Mawandoseg Centre the Carleton Disability Awareness Centre Food Centre Foot Patrol Gender and Sexuality Resource Centre the Racialized and International Student Experience Centre and the Womxn s Learning Advocacy and Support Centre 127 CUSA also runs a number of businesses Oliver s Pub and Patio an undergraduate student pub located on the first floor of University Centre which in addition to serving traditional pub fare hosts a range of student events throughout the year 130 Rooster s Coffeehouse a cafe located in the University Centre that primarily serves coffee baked goods and light meals 131 Haven Books a discount bookstore and coffeehouse located off campus in the Old Ottawa South neighbourhood 132 and The Wing a pop up convenience store located in the University Centre Atrium adjacent to Rooster s Rideau River Residence Association Edit Undergraduate students living in the university s residence facilities are also members of the Rideau River Residence Association RRRA Founded in 1968 and incorporated in 1976 students elect a three member executive consisting of a President and Vice Presidents for Programming and Administration respectively in addition to floor representatives to the RRRA Council which endeavours to represent the interests of Carleton s undergraduate residents 133 RRRA hosts a variety of events for students in residence including an annual formal 134 and runs Abstentions a convenience store located in Residence Commons 135 Graduate Students Association Edit All of the university s graduate students are members of the Carleton University Graduate Students Association GSA Canadian Federation of Students Local 78 126 Graduate students elect an executive and council members to represent their respective interests within the organization which in turn advocates on their behalf and provides a variety of services that cater to postgraduates which include the operation of a Grad Lounge and Mike s Place a student pub located in University Centre specializing in Anglo Indian cuisine namesake of late Prime Minister and former Chancellor Lester B Pearson The GSA is also responsible for the provision of access to a variety of office services for graduate students 136 Fraternities and sororities Edit Greek organizations at Carleton University Fraternities Acacia Alpha Epsilon Pi Beta Theta Pi Kappa Sigma Sigma Pi Phi Delta Theta Tau Kappa Epsilon Omega Psi Phi Sororities Alpha Omicron Pi Delta Phi Epsilon Delta Psi Delta Sigma Gamma Rho Alpha Pi Phi Tau Sigma Phi Sigma Beta Phi Phi Sigma Sigma Co educational Order of OmegaGreek letter organizations are an active part of student life at Carleton affiliated with both local and international organizations From an administrative perspective Carleton does not formally recognize fraternities and sororities and has prohibited them from tabling in the University Centre Atrium and Residence Commons while wearing their letters 137 Since 2007 most Greek activities at Carleton are overseen by the Carleton University Greek Council CUGC a student led organization which plans and coordinates social philanthropic and academic events throughout the school year between fraternities and sororities 138 Three international sororities Phi Sigma Sigma Alpha Omicron Phi and Delta Phi Epsilon are governed separately by the Carleton Panhellenic Council which fulfills a mandate parallel to that of the CUGC 139 In early 2016 a Carleton sorority became the locus of controversy after an incident in which several chapter members decided to pop 80 balloons simultaneously during a meeting in the Tory Building followed by celebratory screaming which falsely triggered an active shooter lockdown on campus This led to some students advocating for an outright ban of the sorority responsible for the false alarm 140 Arts and media Edit Student newspapers Edit Carleton s primary undergraduate student newspaper is The Charlatan which was founded in 1945 and known as The Carleton until 1971 Until 2019 the newspaper published print editions on a bi weekly basis when budgetary restraints forced the paper to reduce its frequency to once monthly The Charlatan s operations are overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors composed of representatives from the newspaper s staff students faculty and the community at large 141 Carleton is also served by The Leveller a monthly newspaper established in 2009 representing student voice throughout the National Capital Region The publication is characterized by its radical left editorial stance toward social issues 142 The Resin was a newspaper for students living in residence which was published in 2014 when the Rideau River Residence Association decided to discontinue it During the school year the School of Journalism publishes a community newspaper Centretown News which reports on the Centretown neighbourhood of Ottawa and an online newspaper Capital News Online The Department of English Language and Literature supports the student run writers zine In Words featuring creative writing and short stories from Carleton students Engineering students are similarly are served by The Iron Times which is published by the Carleton Student Engineering Society Broadcasting Edit Carleton is home to a community radio station CKCU FM Since its first broadcast in November 1975 CKCU FM was the first licensed community based campus radio station in Canada 143 CKCU FM broadcasts a broad range of student and multicultural programming featuring genres such as world music avant garde music indie pop and blues In addition to an optional student levy CKCU FM relies largely relies on donations from the local community and program sponsorships for financial support 144 Theatre Edit The Sock n Buskin Theatre Company 145 which was founded in 1943 is Carleton s amateur theatre company having distinguished itself as one of Carleton s most important cultural fixtures The Company puts on diverse showcase of theatrical productions each year with recent productions including The Crucible As You Like It Twelfth Night and Angels in America Sock n Buskin is entirely run and governed by student volunteers who also comprise the actors and stage managers involved in each production 146 Athletics EditMain article Carleton Ravens Basketball game between the Carleton Ravens and Ottawa Gee Gees 2005 Varsity athletic teams at Carleton University Men s Basketball Football Fencing Golf Hockey Soccer Water polo Nordic skiing Rowing Women s Basketball Rugby union Fencing Golf Hockey Soccer Nordic skiing RowingCarleton competes as the Carleton Ravens participating in intercollegiate competitions at both the national and provincial levels Carleton is a member of both U Sports and Ontario University Athletics with some teams competing in the RSEQ encompassing 13 varsity sports Men s basketball Edit Carleton is recognized for the strength of its men s basketball team which has accumulated the highest number of national titles of any collegiate basketball team in Canadian history Between 1999 and 2019 Dave Smart served as the head men s basketball coach at Carleton and is credited for building the team s capacity to its current reputation of repeated success Smart resigned from his position in 2019 to serve as Carleton s director of basketball operations 147 The Ravens men s basketball team has won the national championship fifteen times 148 with five consecutive titles between 2002 03 and 2006 07 and seven consecutive titles between 2010 2011 and 2016 2017 surpassing the University of Victoria at the top of the all time list 149 The Vikes had seven consecutive wins in the 1980s With its 12th crown in 2016 the Ravens eclipsed the UCLA Bruins men s basketball team as the college with the most national basketball titles a feat accomplished in 14 years compared with UCLA s 11 titles in 32 seasons Outside of its typical season games the men s basketball team plays exhibition games with NCAA teams from the United States during the summer months billed as the Can Am Shootout During these games Carleton has garnered significant wins over reputable Division I teams such as the University of Mississippi University of Cincinnati and South Dakota State University 150 As part of its athletic rivalry with the University of Ottawa the team has participated in Capital Hoops Classic since its inception in 2007 which typically takes place in late January and early February at the arena at TD Place In fourteen years of the event Carleton has won on eleven occasions Women s basketball Edit The Ravens basketball strength continues to the women s side with Carleton being home to the 2018 U SPORTS National Championship 151 The team previously coached by now men s coach Taffe Charles is coached by Dani Sinclair The Ravens women s team has helped to develop a number of professional players including Marlee Ball Nicole Gilmore Alyssa Cerino and Catherine Traer Football Edit Main article Carleton Ravens football Carleton established a football team during the 1945 46 academic year losing 15 0 to Macdonald College during its debut match 152 In tandem with basketball and hockey Carleton s football matches transformed into a staple of student life at Carleton during the early years of the school securing funding for sports equipment early in the school s history 153 In 1959 Carleton s move to the Rideau campus provided the team with updated facilities including a field training room and equipment room 154 In 1955 the football team began competing in the much celebrated annual Panda Game against their rivals the Ottawa Gee Gees The game evolved into an iconic highlight within student life at Carleton gaining a sordid reputation for heavy drinking and outlandish parties 155 In 1999 the cancellation of Carleton s football program placed the game on indefinite hiatus though was eventually revived in 2013 Since 2014 the game has taken place at TD Place in Lansdowne Park While Ottawa holds a historical advantage over Carleton in terms of Panda Game victories the current iteration of the Panda Game saw four consecutive victories for Carleton between 2014 and 2017 From 1999 to 2013 Carleton suspending its football program citing a lack of success and the ensuing financial burden then revived for the 2013 season 156 In the intervening years several proposals to revive the football program were brought forward by the Carleton community and alumni notably in 2000 with advocacy efforts by the Old Crow Society which represents Carleton Football s alumni but it was deemed premature at the time 156 Subsequently a 2008 survey indicated 86 of students were in favour of resuscitating the university s football program 156 The team planned to form an independent corporate entity with its own revenue stream a model that has proven successful at other schools notably Laval University 156 Other sports Edit The Carleton Ravens men s ice hockey team plays within the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports 157 Carleton also maintains a rivalry with the University of Ottawa in this field having competed in the annual Colonel By Classic at TD Place Arena since the tradition began during the 2016 17 academic year for the men s team and during the 2018 19 academic year for women The Ravens women s hockey team plays within the RSEQ Carleton is also home to a highly successful soccer program Having recently won silver at the 2021 U SPORTS Men s Soccer Championship 158 The men s soccer team has won silver three times 2021 2002 and 1984 Recent success has seen the team reach the final eight tournament in four consecutive tournaments from 2017 to 2021 citation needed The men s and women s soccer programs both compete in the OUA playing their home games on the Ravens Perch Like women s hockey Carleton women s rugby compete in the RSEQ The program which recently celebrated its tenth season finished 2021 with a program best 3rd place finish securing the RSEQ Bronze Medal in overtime citation needed Notable alumni and faculty EditMain article List of Carleton University people Lester B Pearson 14th Prime Minister of Canada John Manley former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Omar Sharmarke former Prime Minister of Somalia Gerhard Herzberg Nobel laureate in chemistry Lawrence Krauss theoretical physicist and New York Times bestselling author Peter Jennings former anchor of ABC World News Tonight Paul Okalik first Premier of Nunavut Linda Thom Olympic gold medalist Dan Aykroyd Academy Award nominated actor Jim Watson Ottawa s longest serving mayor Peter Grunberg Nobel laureate in physics Shane Smith Executive Chairman of Vice Media David Azrieli Canadian real estate tycoonNotable faculty Edit Past faculty include three Nobel laureates pioneering scientists in physics and chemistry Gerhard Herzberg and Peter Grunberg and the former Prime Minister of Canada Lester B Pearson as well as six Order of Canada recipients The Right Honourable Herb Gray Canada s longest serving continuous Member of Parliament former Cabinet minister in the Trudeau Turner and Chretien governments former Deputy Prime Minister and acting Leader of the Opposition was the 10th Chancellor of the university 159 Gray was succeeded as Chancellor by Charles Chi BEng 88 a venture capitalist and executive chairman of Lytro His company has designed a revolutionary new camera that uses light field technology 160 Yaprak Baltacioglu former Secretary of Treasury Board Secretariat was named the university s 12th Chancellor in December 2018 161 In 2022 Chancellor Professor Lenore Fahrig was awarded the prestigious Herzberg Prize for outstanding contributions in the field of conservation biology She is the first Carleton faculty member to win the award 162 Notable alumni Edit Carleton has produced notable graduates across numerous disciplines including politicians journalists lawyers entrepreneurs architects and entertainers Journalism being one of Carleton s traditional fortes many of its alumni have gone on to leading positions in Canadian and international media outlets These include Rosemary Barton and Andrew Chang co anchors of The National Paul Watson Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Greg Ip chief economics commentator for The Wall Street Journal Trina McQueen founding president of the Discovery Channel media mogul Conrad Black Robert MacNeil news anchor and journalist Peter Worthington Canadian News Hall of Fame inductee Arthur Kent Emmy Award winning war correspondent Nahlah Ayed Middle East correspondent for the CBC and Edward Greenspon former Editor in Chief of The Globe and Mail 163 Moreover Chairman of Vice Media Shane Smith founded the media company alongside alumnus Gavin McInnes 164 Carleton alumni have served at all levels of government These include John Manley former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Paul Okalik former Premier of Nunavut Peter MacKay former Minister of National Defence Rob Ford former Mayor of Toronto and Jim Watson former Mayor of Ottawa and former MPP for Ottawa West Nepean In architecture Gregory Henriquez of Vancouver is well known for his inclusive mixed use rezonings and UNHCR social justice work Another notable alumnus Israeli Canadian real estate billionaire and architect David Azrieli is the donor of the Azrieli Pavilion and the Azrieli Theater on campus 165 Dan Aykroyd attended Carleton but did not graduate In 1994 Aykroyd was conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the university Comedian Norm Macdonald and journalist Peter Jennings also attended the university Jennings was bestowed with an honorary doctorate in 1997 166 167 Other alumni in entertainment include the Canadian rapper k os Eisner Award winning comics author Ryan North YouTube personality Cristine Rotenberg pop singer Mia Martina actress Melody Anderson and Grammy award winning setar player Kayhan Kalhor While in the legal field Louise Charron a Puisine Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada is also a Carleton alumnus Arms EditCoat of arms of Carleton University Notes Granted 5 November 1992 Crest A phoenix Gules quilled and beaked Or issuing from flames Proper Escutcheon Sable a maple leaf Gules irradiated and charged with an open book Argent Supporters On a grassy mount on either side a raven Sable beaked and membered Or armed Gules Motto Ours The Task EternalSee also Edit Ontario portalCanadian government scientific research organizations Canadian industrial research and development organizations Canadian university scientific research organizations Carleton Ravens Carleton School of Journalism Carleton O Train Station Carleton University Students Association The Charlatan student newspaper CKCU FM Radio Carleton Dominion Chalmers United Church Higher education in Ontario List of Carleton University people List of colleges and universities named after people List of Ontario Universities Ontario Student Assistance Program Rideau River Residence Association U SportsReferences Edit Financial Report to the Board of Governors 2020 2021 PDF 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