Dalhousie University. Faculty of Graduate Studies

Corporate body (Dalhousie University)

Dalhousie University. Faculty of Graduate Studies

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1949-

Dalhousie Faculty of Graduate Studies was established in 1949 in response to pressures from science faculty members in particular; physics professor J.H.L. Johnstone was appointed as the first dean. Between 1930–1950 the university had granted over three hundred masters degrees, and in 1949 alone the new faculty registered eighty students in graduate programs. MA degrees were offered in classics, economics, English language and literature, history, mathematics, modern languages, public administration, philosophy and political science, while MSc programs included biochemistry, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics and physiology. After an infusion of federal funding, graduate programs were expanded in 1956 to include a PhD program in biological sciences and in 1960 a PhD program in chemistry. In 1967 the Master of Business Administration program was created; in 1972 the psychology department began offering a PhD program; and the Master of Nursing program was established in 1975. Graduate students are represented by a separate student union, known as the Dalhousie Association for Graduate Students, and graduate residences are available on both Halifax and Truro campuses.

The Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies is located in the Henry Hicks Administration Building on Dalhousie's Studley Campus.

The Faculty of Graduate Studies is primarily an administrative unit, which facilitates and provide assistances with admissions; program changes; scholarships and bursaries; research and travel grants; thesis submissions and PhD defences; convocation; Killam programs; postdoctoral fellowships; professional development; and orientation. The faculty also oversees and administers Dalhousie's Interdisciplinary PhD Program (IDPhD).

The basic statute relating to Dalhousie University is Chapter 24 of the Acts of 1863. This statute replaced earlier statutes, and the 1863 statute itself has been amended and supplemented several times over the years. The provisions of these various statutes provide for the establishment and regulation of the university, the membership of the Board of Governors and its rights and powers, the authority of senate for the internal regulation of the university (subject to the approval of the board), and various other matters.

The Faculty of Graduate Studies is administered by a dean and two associate deans, who oversee admissions officers, program managers and administrators and their support staff.

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Leonard, Marty

Marche, Sunny (1948-2012)

Boudreau, Bernard Paul (1953-)

Watters, Carolyn

Kwak, Jan (1942-)

Ricketts, Peter J.

Fingard, Judith (1943 -)

Leffek, Kenneth Thomas

Langstroth, George Forbes Otty

Maclean, Guy (1939-)

Sprott, Samuel Ernest

Trost, Walter

Johnstone, John Hamilton Lane ([ca. 1890-1973])

Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students (1965 -)

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