Wilfrid Laurier University is a public university located in

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, Ontario, Canada, and was founded in 1911 as the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada and later Waterloo Lutheran University. It was renamed Wilfrid Laurier University in 1973 by the Government of Ontario under the ''Wilfrid Laurier University Act'' in 1973. The school is one of the fastest-growing universities in Canada; its enrollment doubled from 2002 to 2007, and it has 12,000 full-time undergraduate students as of 2008. Wilfrid Laurier University also has two satellite campuses in Brantford and

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, both in Ontario. People associated with Wilfrid Laurier University include faculty, alumni, staff, honorary degree recipients, chancellors, and presidents. The university has had nine

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s, including the incumbent

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. Wilfrid Laurier University has had seven presidents, including the incumbent

Deborah MacLatchy Deborah Lynn MacLatchy (born 1964) is a Canadian ecotoxicologist and comparative endocrinologist. She is the seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University, having formally led the International Office at the University of New ...

, who has served in this position since 1 July 2017.

Alumni and faculty

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Alumni

Sam Schachter Samuel Schachter (born May 8, 1990) is a Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player. In 2010 he won the FIVB World Junior (U-21) Championship with Garrett May. At the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel, he and Team Canada won a silver medal. He and p ...

(born 1990), Olympic volleyball player

Faculty

Honorary degree recipients

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; DLitt – Doctor of Letters; LLD – Doctor of Laws'' Chrétien crop Sept 9 2002

Administration

Chancellors

Wilfrid Laurier University has had eleven

Presidents

Wilfrid Laurier University has had eight presidents.

References

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External links

Official site
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