Mount Allison University
Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839.
"Mount A" redirects here. For the Hildur Guðnadóttir album, see Mount A (album).Motto
Litterae, Religio, Scientia
Writing, Divinity, Knowledge
June 1839
Maple League of Universities, Universities Canada, IAU, ACU, CIS, CBIE, AUS, CUP
$233 million (2023)[1]
Lynn Loewen
Robert MacKinnon (Interim)
129
2,412[2]
2,396
16
College Town, 72 acres (29 ha)
Garnet & gold
Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccalaureate to a woman (Grace Annie Lockhart, B.Sc., 1875). It was also the first university in Canada to grant a bachelor of arts to a woman (Harriet Starr Stewart in 1882). Graduates of Mount Allison have been awarded a total of 56 Rhodes Scholarships, the highest per capita of any university in the Commonwealth of Nations.[4]
University rankings
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Mount Allison University 107726820RR0001 was registered as a charitable organization in Canada on January 1, 1967. The primary areas in which the charity is now carrying on programs to achieve its charitable purposes, ranked according to the percentage of time and resources devoted to each program area follow:
The charity carried on charitable programs to further its charitable purpose(s) (as defined in its governing documents) this fiscal period:
Labour relations[edit]
Mount Allison faculty are represented by the Mount Allison Faculty Association,[32] and the staff by CUPE 3433 and CUPE 2338.[33] Mount Allison had a three-week long faculty strike in early 2014.[34] Students sought a refund for tuition following the strike, a request that was denied by the Board of Regents.[35] Mount Allison had another week long faculty strike in early 2020, lasting from 03/02/2020 until 08/02/2020.
