Trent University is a liberal arts and science-oriented institution located along the Otonabee River in Peterborough and theRegional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
The enabling legislation is the Trent University Act, 1962-63.[2] The university was founded through the efforts of a citizens' committee interested in creating a university to serve the Trent valley.[3] The chancellor of Trent University is Don Tapscott, and Leo Groarke is the president and vice-chancellor.
The Symons campus of Trent is approximately 5.6 km2 (2.2 sq mi), over half of which is a part of Trent's Nature Areas, an ecologically diverse wild-life preserve. It is divided into a series of colleges: Champlain, Lady Eaton, Catharine Parr Traill, Otonabee, Peter Gzowski, and Julian Blackburn. Each college has its own residence hall, dining room, and student government, other than Julian Blackburn which is a non-residential college and home to Trent's 1,700 part-time students. The campus plan and the original college buildings were designed by the Canadian architect Ron Thom. A large portion of the main campus consists of land that was donated by General Electric Canada.
Location & Facilities
Trent University is located on a 580 hectare campus on the northern boundary of the City of Peterborough on the Otonabee River and the Trent Severn Waterway, Ontario, Canada. It is close to numerous lakes, streams, forests and marshes, which constitute an ideal field laboratory and an important natural resource. It is also within easy reach of the cities of Toronto and Ottawa. The program has use of the facilities at the James McLean Oliver Ecological Centre on Pigeon Lake, the Water Quality Centre, the Natural Resources DNA Profiling & Forensic Centre (NRDPFC), the Canadian Environmental Modelling Centre, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, which provide a unique learning environment for students of this program.