Bishop's University
English-language university in Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bishop's University (French: Université Bishop's) is a small English-language liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.[3] The founder of the institution was the Anglican Bishop of Quebec, George Mountain, who also served as the first principal of McGill University. It is one of three universities in the province of Quebec that teach primarily in English (the others being McGill University and Concordia University, both in Montreal). It began its foundation by absorbing the Lennoxville Classical School as Bishop's College School in the 1840s. The college was formally founded in 1843 and received a royal charter from Queen Victoria in 1853.
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Former name | The University of Bishop's College |
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| Motto | Recti cultus pectora roborant (Latin) |
Motto in English | Righteous ways makes strong the heart |
| Type | Liberal arts college |
| Established | 1843; 181 years ago (1843)[1] |
Academic affiliations | AUCC, IAU, QSSF, CBIE, CUP, Maple League of Universities |
| Endowment | C$ 32.5 million[2] |
| Chancellor | Daniel Fournier |
| Vice-Chancellor | Sébastien Lebel-Grenier |
| Principal | Sébastien Lebel-Grenier |
Academic staff | 115 |
| Students | 2,867[1] |
| Undergraduates | 2,340 full-time students 219 part-time students[1] |
| Location | , , Canada 45°22′0.16″N 71°50′43.67″W |
| Campus | Rural, 220 ha (550 acres)[1], 550 |
| Colours | Purple and silver |
| Nickname | Bishop's Gaiters |
| Mascot | Alligator |
| Website | www |
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It remains one of Canada's few primarily undergraduate universities, functioning in the way of an American liberal arts college, and is linked with three others in the Maple League. Established in 1843 as Bishop's College, the school used to be affiliated with the University of Oxford in 1853, where many professors at BU were appointed from. The school remained under the Anglican church's direction from its founding until 1947. Since that time, the university has been a non-denominational institution.[4] Bishop's University has graduated fifteen Rhodes Scholars.
The university shares a campus with its neighbor, Champlain College Lennoxville, an English-language public college.