University of Toronto Mississauga
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The University of Toronto Mississauga (also known as U of T Mississauga or UTM) is a satellite campus
Satellite campus
A satellite campus or branch campus is a campus of a college or university that is physically detached from the main university or college area, and is often smaller than the main campus of an institution....

 of the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

, located in Mississauga, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada
Canada
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. The university is set upon a park-like campus on the valley of the Credit River
Credit River
The Credit River is a river in southern Ontario which flows from headwaters above the Niagara Escarpment to empty into Lake Ontario at Port Credit, Mississauga. It drains an area of approximately 1,000 km²...

, approximately 33 kilometres west of Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don River to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west...

. It is the second-largest campus of the university in terms of enrollment. It was formerly known as Erindale College and later the University of Toronto at Mississauga.

History

UTM was built on the former estate of Reginald Watkins, which was acquired by the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

 in 1965. Founded as Erindale College in 1965, construction on the university's main building began in 1966. Although originally expected to be temporary, the building still exists today as part of the North Building. In 1998, Erindale assumed the dual name of University of Toronto Mississauga, although Erindale College still remains an official alternate name

Recently UTM celebrated its 40th anniversary, a milestone which was capped off with the grand opening of the Hazel McCallion
Hazel McCallion
Hazel McCallion, née Joueneaux, CM is the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario. McCallion has been Mississauga's mayor for years, holding office since 1978...

 Academic Learning Center on June 2, 2007.

Campus

The campus consists of a number of buildings arranged across a large, treed lot. The surrounding suburban neighbourhood (the Mississauga Road area and the Credit Woodlands) is a fairly affluent section of the city of Mississauga. The largest building was built as a megalith
Megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. Megalithic describes structures made of such large stones, utilizing an interlocking system without the use of mortar or cement.The word 'megalith' comes from the Ancient...

ic structure, predominantly out of concrete, as was typical of the brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement.-The term "brutalism":...

 style of the late 1960s. It was one of architect Raymond Moriyama
Raymond Moriyama
Raymond Moriyama, CC, O.Ont is a Japanese-Canadian architect. He has designed several buildings at Brock University from the 1970s through the latest campus expansion and is the University's former chancellor....

's first major commissions. Other buildings were added over the decades, but, with the enlarged enrollment at the beginning of the new millennium, the pace of construction increased.

A new CCT (formerly CCIT) building, designed by Saucier + Perrot, was opened in September 2004. It is characterized by a poorly finished black and glass exterior. The interior is finished in concrete and gray paint, with black plastic melamine on many surfaces. The new library
University of Toronto Mississauga Library
The University of Toronto Mississauga Library is the humanities, sciences and social sciences library of the University of Toronto Mississauga, one of three campuses of the University of Toronto located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada....

 and academic learning centre, designed by Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners
Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners
Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners , now Shore Tilbe Perkins+Will, is an architecture firm based in Toronto, Ontario. Since its founding as Shore and Moffat in 1945, STI&P completed numerous buildings, complexes, and master plans across Canada, as well as in locations in the United States and Bermuda...

 and named after Mississauga's mayor, Hazel McCallion
Hazel McCallion
Hazel McCallion, née Joueneaux, CM is the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario. McCallion has been Mississauga's mayor for years, holding office since 1978...

, opened October 8, 2006, and the new Wellness, Recreation and Athletics Centre, also by Shore Tilbe, opened less than a month previous to that. The new library consists of four floors with a mixture of group study tables and individual silent study space.

Mississauga campus became home to a first in Canadian education. Canada's first Forensic Science Institute was created at the U of T Mississauga, opening for the 2007 - 2008 school year. The new institute for postgraduate students forges close ties with the Centre of Forensic Sciences. Plans have also been finalized for the establishment of an Academy of Medicine at the Mississauga campus, in partnership with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
The Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto is the medical school of the University of Toronto. The faculty is based in the Discovery District of Downtown Toronto along with most of its teaching hospitals and research institutes. Founded in 1843, it is one of Canada's oldest institutions of...

. It will provide a community oriented program to increase the number of primary care physicians and general practitioners. The first students are slated for enrollment in 2011. U of T Mississauga is in the midst of an expansion, with student enrollment being projected to reach 12,000 by the end of the decade.

Academics

U of T Mississauga offers 148 programs among 89 areas of study. The University's most popular programs include anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

, biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

, commerce
Commerce
While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...

, management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

, CCIT (Communications, Culture and Information technology), computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

, crime and deviance, English, environmental studies
Environmental studies
Environmental studies is the academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad interdisciplinary field of study that includes the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them...

, history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

, philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

, psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

, and sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

.

U of T Mississauga students can apply for joint-degree programs in CCIT, art and art history
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

 or theatre and drama
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 through an arrangement with Sheridan College
Sheridan College
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a diploma and degree granting Canadian polytechnic institute with approximately 15,000 full time students and 35,000 continuing education students...

, allowing students to obtain both a university degree from U of T and a college diploma from Sheridan. The CCIT program is a recent creation and partnership between U of T Mississauga and Sheridan College. These programs allow students to benefit from the practical experience of a college.

Other undergraduate programs offered at U of T Mississauga include, but are not limited to professional writing and communication, economics, mathematics, chemistry, languages, physics, environmental sciences, geography, and earth sciences (e.x. geology).

U of T Mississauga also hosts one of the few palaeomagnetism laboratories in Canada. Currently run by Dr. Henry Halls, this lab investigated the palaeomagnetic properties of rocks collected from the Apollo missions in the 1970s. U of T Mississauga's most famous president was Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson, a geologist and pioneer in plate tectonics. A research wing in the William G. Davis building of U of T Mississauga is named after him.

Graduate degrees offered include the Master of Management and Professional Accounting, Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting, Master of Biotechnology, Master of Management of Innovation and the Master of Biomedical Communications.

Student life

The campus is home to CFRE-FM
CFRE-FM
CFRE is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 91.9 FM in Mississauga, Ontario. The campus radio station of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, the station first broadcast in 1970.CNN's J.D. Roberts began his career at CFRE...

, broadcasting twenty-four hours a day at 91.9FM out of the Student Centre. With a focus on Canadian and independent music, students and community members are encouraged to apply for a show, as no experience is required. The main practice facility of the Toronto Argonauts
Toronto Argonauts
The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...

 football club is also located on campus. The Multimedia Studio Theatre at UTM is often used as a venue for visiting professors and performances by artists as well as for student performances. Theatre Erindale presents a regular 5 show season every year as well as sponsoring Independent Student Productions. Both theatres also host UTM's Drama club performances.

The UTM Students' Union represents undergraduate students at UTM.

Theatre Erindale is a theatre production company at UTM. It is part of the Theatre and Drama Studies
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 program. The company presents a season of 5 plays in the Erindale Studio Theatre. These plays include classics, modern pieces and a yearly collective developed by the third year class. Several shows have been included in the Ontario Arts Review Top 10 List since 2005.

The season's shows are also supported by the students of the Theatre Arts-Technical Production Program of Sheridan College
Sheridan College
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a diploma and degree granting Canadian polytechnic institute with approximately 15,000 full time students and 35,000 continuing education students...

 who work in positions such as Stage management
Stage management
Stage management is the practice of organizing and coordinating a theatrical production. It encompasses a variety of activities, including organizing the production and coordinating communications between various personnel...

, Lighting operation
Stage lighting
Modern stage lighting is a flexible tool in the production of theatre, dance, opera and other performance arts. Several different types of stage lighting instruments are used in the pursuit of the various principles or goals of lighting. Stage lighting has grown considerably in recent years...

, and Sound operation
Sound operator
The sound operator is the person responsible for the overall and total execution of all sound-related aspects of a theatrical performance...

.

In addition to the regular season, Theatre Erindale sponsors one or more Independent Student Productions during the school year. The Department of English & Drama at UTM also runs an active drama club that performs both at the Mississauga campus and also at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

 Drama festival at Hart House Theatre
Hart House Theatre
Hart House Theatre is a 454-seat theatre in Toronto, Ontario located on the campus of the University of Toronto in the Hart House Student Centre. Hart House Theatre has been the University of Toronto Performing Arts Leader Since 1919....

. Many of these events that are outside of the regular season plays are presented in the MiST Theatre.

MiST was designed as a modern, flexible theatre space
Theater (structure)
A theater or theatre is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed or other performances such as musical concerts may be produced. While a theater is not required for performance , a theater serves to define the performance and audience spaces...

. The theatre is contained in the CCT building designed by Saucier + Perrotte Architectes. Although MiST is an English & Drama departmental space, it is used by many different members of the UTM community. It can also be rented by non-university groups.

The MiST Theatre is affiliated with the Theatre & Drama Studies Program and their performance company Theatre Erindale. The TDS program also uses the other University of Toronto Mississauga performance space, Erindale Studio Theatre.

Everything inside of MiST is modular, or on wheels. There are drapery tracks that encircle the room allowing the various drapes to be moved to any location. The theatre also has 6 moving lights that allow quick and easy placement of lighting specials. The theatre is often used for everything from modern multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

 performances to traditional dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....

.
MiST has also often been used as a venue for visiting professors and artists. The Blackwood Gallery on campus has used MiST on several occasions for receptions, conferences, and art exhibits.

Erindale Studio Theatre is a Black Box
Black box theater
The black box theater is a relatively recent innovation, consisting of a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor.-History:...

 type space that has an audience capacity of up to 85, depending on the stage configuration. The building itself was formerly a bus garage and science lab, but was converted into a theatre in 1993.

The stage space can be set up as proscenium style, thrust, theatre-in-the-round, alley, or corner-to-corner. In its various configurations it has played host of a wide range of performances:
As well as being used by the UTM Theatre and Drama Studies program
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

, Erindale Studio Theatre is often used by rental groups. It has a modern lighting and audio system, as well as a full carpentry shop, costume shop, Box office
Box office
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 and painting facilities.

Students who contribute much to student life are recognized through various awards including the Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award and the UTM Principal's Student Involvement Award.

Noted people

  • Roberta Bondar
    Roberta Bondar
    Roberta Bondar,is OC, O.Ont, FRCP, FRSC is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific and medical communities.-Education:Roberta Bondar had...

     - Astronaut
  • Dionne Brand
    Dionne Brand
    Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...

     - Poet, Novelist and Community Activist
  • Vikas Kohli
    Vikas Kohli
    Vikas Kohli is an Indian musician and producer best known for founding Fatlabs.-Fatlabs:Fatlabs is home recording studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, founded in 2003. Kohli is best known for his ability to work with multiple genres. Vikas has produced punk, jazz, hip-hop, soul, country, pop,...

     - Producer and Founder of Fatlabs
    Fatlabs
    FatLabs, is a Canadian home recording studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 2003 by Vikas Kohli. The studio is known for its ability to work with an assortment of genres.- Mission Istaanbul :...

  • Richie Mehta
    Richie Mehta
    Richie Mehta is a Canadian film director. His first feature film, Amal, was released in 2008, and has been nominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Director at the 29th Genie Awards....

     - Art and Art History alumni and Movie Director of "Amal," recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival
  • John Roberts (J.D. Roberts) - CNN
    CNN
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     Senior National Correspondent (former CBS News
    CBS News
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     White House
    White House
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     reporter and fill-in national news anchor for Dan Rather
    Dan Rather
    Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...

    ).
  • Zaib Shaikh
    Zaib Shaikh
    Zaib Shaikh is a Canadian actor, writer and director. He is best known for his current roles as Amaar Rashid, an imam in the CBC Television sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Jayesh in Metropia, an evening soap opera broadcast on Omni Television....

     - Lead Actor on Little Mosque on the Prairie
    Little Mosque on the Prairie
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See also

  • University of Toronto
    University of Toronto
    The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

  • University of Toronto Scarborough
    University of Toronto Scarborough
    The University of Toronto Scarborough is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto. Based in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the campus is set upon suburban parkland in the residential neighbourhood of Highland Creek...

  • CFRE-FM
    CFRE-FM
    CFRE is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 91.9 FM in Mississauga, Ontario. The campus radio station of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, the station first broadcast in 1970.CNN's J.D. Roberts began his career at CFRE...

  • Mississauga, Ontario
    Mississauga, Ontario
    Mississauga is a city in Southern Ontario located in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and in the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. With an estimated population of 734,000, it is Canada's sixth-most populous municipality, and has almost doubled in population in each of the last two decades...


Further reading

Percy, John, and Sabeen Abbas (eds.). Celebrating 40 Years of History at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Toronto: University of Toronto Mississauga, 2007.

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