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Athabasca University was created by the Alberta government in 1970 as part of an expansion of higher education to cope with rising enrolment at the time. In the late 1960s, the University of Alberta (U of A) had long been established, the University of Calgary was created through new legislation, and an Order in Council had created the University of Lethbridge. [7]
This is a list of people associated with Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. This includes faculty , notable alumni , staff , and former university Presidents . Athabasca University is a distance education university with open enrollment year round, accredited by the province and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools .
Tim Clarke Byrne (1907 [1] –1997; also known as T. C. Byrne) was the first President of Athabasca University.He grew up in Warspite, Alberta. [2] He was author of the book Athabasca University: The Evolution of Distance Education and was a former Deputy Minister of Education for Alberta from 1966 to 1971. [3]
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Athabasca University in Athabasca, Alberta. The 1970s witnessed new institutional developments, the most important being the creation of the fourth Alberta university, Athabasca University, in 1970 by an order in council of the Government of Alberta.
Piers Nash – cancer research professor at the University of Chicago and founder of Sympatic; Jordan B. Peterson – media commentator, clinical psychologist, and former professor at the University of Toronto; Joseph Pivato – writer and researcher in ethnic minority writing in Canada; professor, Athabasca University, Edmonton
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