UW Senate

President’s Report

May 16, 2011

Federal Election – May 2, 2011•Conservative majority government•Throne speech expected/Budget to be brought forward in June

Waterloo Professors receive honours

Mark Zanna – 2011 Killam Prize•$100,000 annual award given by the Canada Council for the Arts•Given for career achievements in health sciences, engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences•Dr. Zanna is the second UW professor in a row to be awarded the prize – computer science professor Ming Li won in 2010•He is one of the world’s most-cited social psychologists

Michele Mosca – Top 40 Under 40•Established in 1995 to celebrate early-career success •Dr. Mosca is a founding leader of the Institute for Quantum Computing and founding researcher at the Perimeter Institute•Selected from more than 1,000 nominees

Northern Digital Incorporated (NDI) to be sold to Roper Industries

Source: The Waterloo Region Record, May 10, 2011

Tim Jackson named Interim Vice-President, External

Waterloo Global Science Initiative – Equinox Summit June 5-9

Waterloo Region – Second highest employment rate in Canada

•68.9 per cent •Only Calgary is higher

Waterloo Region – Second highest employment rate in Canada

•68.9 per cent in April 2011, up from 68.0 in March 2011•Only Calgary is higher at 69.9 per cent

•Ontario added 55,000 new jobs in April, mostly part-time positions (46,000)•Employment rate for youths aged 15-24 holding steady•Unemployment rate is 7.6 per cent

Source: Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey - April 2011, May 6, 2011

Canada, Germany, France: New destinations for Indian students

•The number of Indian students studying in Canada jumped 280 per cent from 2008 to 2010•France and Singapore have reported enrolment increases of 20 per cent a year since 2009•There were 15 per cent more Indian students studying in Germany in 2010-2011 than in 2009-2010

•The number of Indian students in Australia dropped 77 per cent in 2010 from 2009•The United Kingdom had 57,000 Indian students studying in 2009 – in 2010 that number had fallen to 41,350•The number of Indian students studying in the United States dropped by 32 per cent from 2009 to 2010

•Canada issued 3,152 student visas to Indian students in 2008 – 12,000 in 2010•Australia issued 47,638 student visas to Indian students in 2008 – 12,483 in 2010

Source: The Economic Times, May 1, 2011

Record number of Chinese students studying overseas

•1.27M studied abroad at the end of 2010

•More than 90 percent of students studied in 10 countries:

• The United States;• Australia;• Japan;• The United Kingdom;• South Korea;• Canada;• Singapore;• France;• Germany;• Russia

Source: China Daily, April 18, 2011

Source: Institutional Analysis and Planning

Term Total New UG New from India New from China

Undergraduate

Fall 2008 316 22 107

Fall 2009 424 33 168

Fall 2010 453 37 139

Graduate

Fall 2008 484 26 134

Fall 2009 531 30 116

Fall 2010 598 58 155

Source: Maclean’s Magazine