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Joseph Ryerson (father) Sarah Stickney (mother) Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 – 19 February 1882) [1] was a Canadian educator, author, editor, and Methodist minister who was a prominent contributor to the design of the Canadian public school system. [2] [3] Ryerson is considered to be the founder of the Ontario public school system.
In 2022, the university was renamed Toronto Metropolitan University, in response to concerns about Egerton Ryerson's influence on the Canadian Indian residential school system. The university is a co-educational institution, with approximately 44,400 undergraduates and 2,950 graduate students enrolled there during the 2019–20 academic year.
On May 29, 2007, Rogers and his wife made a gift of CA$15 million to Ryerson University. The donation was directed towards the Faculty of Business, which was renamed the Ted Rogers School of Management at the donors' request. The majority of the gift will be used to establish 52 new undergraduate and graduate student awards and scholarships.
The statue in 1890, as photographed by Josiah Bruce. The novelist Graeme Gibson draped the flag of the United States around the statue in a 1970 protest against the sale of Ryerson Press to the American publishers McGraw Hill Education for $2 million (equivalent to $15,071,123 in 2022). [5] Gibson led protesters in a rendition of "I'm a Yankee ...
After a weeklong whirlwind controversy sparked by philanthropist Suzanne Rogers posting personal photos with former President Donald Trump, Ryerson University and its School of Fashion have ...
The North Bay Normal School, a teacher training school, was established in 1909 in North Bay Ontario to meet the needs of teacher education in Ontario's North. The school was renamed North Bay Teachers' College in 1953, and became Nipissing University College's faculty of education in August 1973.
Ryerson University's G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education is named after him as benefactor. Chang also donated tens of millions of dollars to various institutions including Ryerson University, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of the West Indies.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3902 (CUPE 3902) is a Canadian labour union local representing sessional lecturers, postdoctoral researchers and teaching assistants (TAs) at the University of Toronto, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, the University of St. Michael's College and New College in the University of Toronto.