THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY
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The University of Canterbury comprises its staff, students, graduates and alumni. The University of Canterbury Act 1961 describes the purpose of the University as existing afor the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination and maintenance thereof by teaching and research.a This is carried through to the Education Act 1989 and informs the mission of the University. Our purpose within the international community of scholars is to advance knowledge by research; to maintain and disseminate this knowledge through teaching, publications and critical debate; to confirm outcomes through the awarding and conferring of degrees, diplomas and certificates; to serve as a repository of knowledge and expertise; and to act as critic and conscience of society.
Our purpose within the New Zealand tertiary sector is to contribute to a tertiary education system that is characterised by excellence, relevance, academic freedom and improved access for all; to work with others to enrich intellectual discourse, educational quality and research activity; and to contribute to the intellectual, cultural, social and economic life and well-being of our city, region and nation. Our purpose as a university of Aotearoa New Zealand, acknow-ledging the Treaty of Waitangi in all our activities, is to respond and contribute to the educational, research and development needs and aspirations of Maori, as tangata whenua.
When established in 1873, Canterbury College, as the University was originally known, was only the second university in New Zealand. Housed in graceful stone buildings on a central city block, it was dependent for survival on rents from high country farms with which it had been endowed by the Canterbury Provincial Council. It was set up on the Oxbridge model with one major difference: women students were admitted from the start. An early graduate, Helen Connon, became the first woman in the then British Empire to win honours.
Ernest Rutherford, Canterburyas most distinguished graduate, studied at the University in the 1890s. He discovered his own scientific ability during a year of postgraduate research before taking up a scholarship to Cambridge. A contemporary of Rutherford, Apirana Ngata of Ngati Porou, was the first Maori graduate from any New Zealand university.
The portraits of these two men, respectively, grace the nationas $100 and $50 bank notes. For most of its first 100 years the University was situated in the centre of Christchurch (now the Arts Centre . By 1975 it had completed its move to a spacious purpose-built 76 hectare site in the suburb of Ilam, 7km from the old city site. It comprises a central complex of libraries, lecture theatres, laboratories and staff accommodation surrounded by playing fields, woodlands and the renowned Ilam Gardens.
Canterbury offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in some 50 disciplines, from accountancy to zoology. It has a number of specialist research centres and operates five major field stations at Kaikoura, Mt John (University Observatory), Cass, Westport and Harihari. Locally, five halls of residence provide board for up to 1000 students. Some 12,000 students are enrolled and each year about 3000 students graduate, 650 of them with higher degrees.
The University has retained links with the old town site, now home to the Christchurch Arts Centre, using it as the starting point for graduation processions each year.
Postal Address Planning and Institutional Research Unit University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand Phone and Fax Phone: 64+ 3 364 2204 Fax: 64+ 3 364 2856 Room Numbers and Extensions Dr Bob Hall, Director Room 432; Extension: 6187 Bob.Hall@canterbury.ac.nz Tracey Hood, Senior Reporting and Planning Analyst Room: 424; Extension: 7601 Tracey.Hood@canterbury.ac.nz Kerry Stewart, Project Manager Room 201 Old Maths; Extension: 8903 Kerry.Stewart@canterbury.ac.nz Jacqui Lyttle, Policy and Risk Manager Room: 423; Extension: 6831 Jacqui.Lyttle@canterbury.ac.nz Trevor Brown, Data and Systems Consultant Room: 421; Extension: 6916 Trevor.Brown@canterbury.ac.nz John Edwards, EIS Consultant Room: 421; Extension: 6919 John.Edwards@canterbury.ac.nz Marie Menzies, PA and Administrator Room: 431; Extension: 6204 Marie.Menzies@canterbury.ac.nz
Our purpose within the New Zealand tertiary sector is to contribute to a tertiary education system that is characterised by excellence, relevance, academic freedom and improved access for all; to work with others to enrich intellectual discourse, educational quality and research activity; and to contribute to the intellectual, cultural, social and economic life and well-being of our city, region and nation. Our purpose as a university of Aotearoa New Zealand, acknow-ledging the Treaty of Waitangi in all our activities, is to respond and contribute to the educational, research and development needs and aspirations of Maori, as tangata whenua.
When established in 1873, Canterbury College, as the University was originally known, was only the second university in New Zealand. Housed in graceful stone buildings on a central city block, it was dependent for survival on rents from high country farms with which it had been endowed by the Canterbury Provincial Council. It was set up on the Oxbridge model with one major difference: women students were admitted from the start. An early graduate, Helen Connon, became the first woman in the then British Empire to win honours.
Ernest Rutherford, Canterburyas most distinguished graduate, studied at the University in the 1890s. He discovered his own scientific ability during a year of postgraduate research before taking up a scholarship to Cambridge. A contemporary of Rutherford, Apirana Ngata of Ngati Porou, was the first Maori graduate from any New Zealand university.
The portraits of these two men, respectively, grace the nationas $100 and $50 bank notes. For most of its first 100 years the University was situated in the centre of Christchurch (now the Arts Centre . By 1975 it had completed its move to a spacious purpose-built 76 hectare site in the suburb of Ilam, 7km from the old city site. It comprises a central complex of libraries, lecture theatres, laboratories and staff accommodation surrounded by playing fields, woodlands and the renowned Ilam Gardens.
Canterbury offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in some 50 disciplines, from accountancy to zoology. It has a number of specialist research centres and operates five major field stations at Kaikoura, Mt John (University Observatory), Cass, Westport and Harihari. Locally, five halls of residence provide board for up to 1000 students. Some 12,000 students are enrolled and each year about 3000 students graduate, 650 of them with higher degrees.
The University has retained links with the old town site, now home to the Christchurch Arts Centre, using it as the starting point for graduation processions each year.
Postal Address Planning and Institutional Research Unit University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand Phone and Fax Phone: 64+ 3 364 2204 Fax: 64+ 3 364 2856 Room Numbers and Extensions Dr Bob Hall, Director Room 432; Extension: 6187 Bob.Hall@canterbury.ac.nz Tracey Hood, Senior Reporting and Planning Analyst Room: 424; Extension: 7601 Tracey.Hood@canterbury.ac.nz Kerry Stewart, Project Manager Room 201 Old Maths; Extension: 8903 Kerry.Stewart@canterbury.ac.nz Jacqui Lyttle, Policy and Risk Manager Room: 423; Extension: 6831 Jacqui.Lyttle@canterbury.ac.nz Trevor Brown, Data and Systems Consultant Room: 421; Extension: 6916 Trevor.Brown@canterbury.ac.nz John Edwards, EIS Consultant Room: 421; Extension: 6919 John.Edwards@canterbury.ac.nz Marie Menzies, PA and Administrator Room: 431; Extension: 6204 Marie.Menzies@canterbury.ac.nz
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