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The institution was reorganized into a full-fledged university in 1993 and renamed Ryerson Polytechnic University. In 2002, several years after the university's school of graduate studies was established, the university adopted the name Ryerson University. In 2022, the university was renamed Toronto Metropolitan University, in response to ...
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. An advocate against Christian sectarianism and ...
Year of Change. Adams State University. Adams State College. 2012 [1] University of Advancing Technology. CAD Institute; University of Advancing Computer Technology. 1996, 2002. Adventist University of Health Sciences. Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences.
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 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 ...
Heather Reisman. Heather Maxine Reisman OC (born August 28, 1948) is a Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist. Reisman is the founder and chief executive of the Canadian retail chain Indigo Books and Music. She is the co-founder and past Chair of Kobo, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.
When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.
The school is named for the late G. Raymond Chang, third Chancellor of Toronto Metropolitan University (known at the time as Ryerson University) and Director of CI Financial. The Chang School's offices are located in Heaslip House on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus. In 2003, Open College was merged into the Chang School.