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Motto
  
Surge illuminare

Type
  
Public

Vice-Chancellor
  
Raymond Theberge

Mascot
  
Super Blue

Motto in English
  
Arise, Shine

Chancellor
  
Jean-Claude Savoie

Phone
  
+1 800-363-8336

Université de Moncton

Established
  
1963 (Merger of Collège Saint-Joseph, Collège du Sacré-Cœur and Collège Saint-Louis)

Address
  
18 Antonine-Maillet Ave, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9, Canada

Notable alumni
  
Michel Bastarache, Bernard Lord, Antonine Maillet, Alain Haché, Roger Lord

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Universit de moncton


The Université de Moncton (abbr. U de M, transl. University of Moncton) is a French-language university located in Edmundston, Moncton and Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada serving the Acadian community of Atlantic Canada. It is the only francophone university in New Brunswick and is one of only two such universities in the Maritimes, the other being the Université Sainte-Anne in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is also the largest French-language university in Canada outside Québec.

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History

Founded on 19 June 1963, the modern Université de Moncton is the result of the merger of three colleges: Collège Saint-Joseph (Memramcook, 1864), Collège du Sacré-Cœur (Caraquet, 1899 then Bathurst, 1915), and Collège Saint-Louis (Edmundston, 1946). In 1989, the Université of Moncton founded undergraduate degrees in adult education. Alan Beddoe designed the university coats of arms.

The National Film Board of Canada documentary Acadia Acadia ?!? (1971), co-directed by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, documents how student protests at the university in 1968-69 sparked an awakening of Acadian nationalism.

Campuses

The university is divided into three campuses

  • Campus Universitaire de Moncton, in Moncton (main campus)
  • Campus Universitaire d'Edmundston, in Edmundston
  • Campus Universitaire de Shippagan, in Shippagan
  • Buildings

  • The Léopold-Taillon Building was built between 1945 and 1948, is on the Registry of Historic Places of Canada.
  • Moncton Stadium
  • Musée Acadien
  • Maison Lafrance
  • Centre de Formation Médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick
  • Faculté d'ingénierie
  • CEPS
  • Partnerships

    The university is a member of L'Association des collèges et des universités de la francophonie canadienne, formerly L'Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne (en: Association of Colleges and Universities of the Canadian Francophonie, formerly Association of Universities of the Canadian Francophonie), a network of academic institutions of the Canadian Francophonie.

    Faculties

    The main campus at Moncton has eight faculties:

  • Administration
  • Arts and Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Engineering students can choose to specialize in the following disciplines: Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
  • Graduate Studies
  • Health Sciences and Community Services
  • Sciences
  • Law
  • Faculty of Law

    The University of Moncton's Faculty of Law is one of only two French-language common law schools in the world. (The University of Ottawa also offers a common law education in French.) The school was founded in 1978 in order to respond to the needs of francophone communities outside of Quebec. As Quebec practices civil law, there was a need to instruct francophone lawyers in common law to practice in other parts of Canada. The University of Ottawa law school teaches both common and civil law, as does McGill; thus the University of Moncton's Faculty of Law is the only exclusively French, exclusively common law school in Canada.

    U de M offers both the JD and the graduate LLM. The school also offers joint degrees: the JD-MBA (Masters of Business) and JD-MEE (Masters of Environmental Studies). As well, students who already possess a civil law degree (an LL.L or a BCL) from a Canadian school can enroll at the University of Moncton for two semesters to complete an LLB.

    Faculty of Medicine

    The University of Moncton's Faculty of Medicine is the first such francophone school in the Maritimes, outside the province of Quebec. It is a joint medical programme, offered with the Université de Sherbrooke.

    Health Sciences and Community Services

    L'École de nutrition et d'études familiales has an accredited dietetic program. The university is accredited by a professional organization such as the Dietitians of Canada and the university's graduates may subsequently become registered dietitians. List of universities with accredited dietetic programs

    Faculty of Sciences

    The faculty of Sciences is located in the Rémi-Rossignol building and covers all cores science subjects, such as: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, as well as Computer Science.

    Libraries

    There are six libraries and resource centres across the three campuses: Bibliothèque Champlain (Moncton), Bibliothèque Michel-Bastarache (Moncton), Centre d'études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson (Moncton), Centre de ressources pédagogiques (Moncton), Bibliothèque Rhéa-Larose (Edmundston) and Bibliothèque Shippagan. All records from these libraries are gathered into one catalogue: Catalogue Éloïze.

    Two of these libraries, Michel-Bastarache and Centre de ressources pédagogiques, are special libraries, catering to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Education, respectively. The Centre d'études acadiennes, found on the lower level of Bibliothèque Champlain, is a world-renowned and primary resource and archive centre for Acadian studies.

    Athletics

    The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (Atlantic University Sport conference) by the Moncton Aigles Bleu. The Aigles Bleus have a male and female hockey team, a male and female soccer team, a male and female athletics team, a male and female cross country running team and a female volleyball team.

    Noted faculty and alumni

  • Michel Bastarache, Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Joël Bourgeois, 3000m steeplechase runner, 2-time competitor at the Olympic Games and gold medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games.
  • Herménégilde Chiasson, Professor, poet and playwright, and former Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
  • Stéphane Dion, Professor, academic, Cabinet Minister, and Former Liberal Party Leader
  • Brian Gallant, Premier of New Brunswick
  • Alain Haché, Professor of physics, demonstrated superluminal electric pulse propagation
  • Roméo LeBlanc, Former Governor General of Canada, graduated from Collège St-Joseph
  • James E. Lockyer, Professor of law
  • Bernard Lord, former Premier of New Brunswick, brother of Roger Lord
  • Roger Lord, internationally acclaimed concert pianist and Professor of Piano at U de M, brother of Bernard Lord
  • Antonine Maillet, Acadian author and winner of the Prix Goncourt
  • Percy Mockler, Canadian senator.
  • Jean-Guy Poitras, member of the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame.
  • Claude Roussel, sculptor, former head of art department
  • Donald Savoie, professor of public administration and author
  • Christine St-Pierre, former Radio-Canada reporter and Quebec Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women
  • Camille Thériault, former Premier of New Brunswick
  • References

    Université de Moncton Wikipedia