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trevor.kenney — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:06:36 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge has reappointed Dr. Robert Boudreau to a second five-year term as the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ's Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President (Academic). The Board of Governors, as well as the review committee struck to make a recommendation to the Board, unanimously supported Boudreau's reappointment.

"Dr. Boudreau has been instrumental in ensuring the success of several initiatives over the past five years," says ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Provost Dr. Andrew Hakin. "For example, Bob was instrumental in ensuring a smooth transition for our academic programmes as we relocated our Calgary Campus to the Bow Valley College site and our Edmonton Campus to Concordia ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ College of Alberta.

In addition to overseeing the transition of the northern campuses, Boudreau also plays a leadership role at the U of L by leading in key strategic areas including academic quality assurance and Campus Alberta partnerships. As well, he successfully advocated to the Alberta government the need to invest in mental health supports for students on campus.

Over the last 30 years, Boudreau has held a variety of academic positions including Professor, Assistant Dean, Director, Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Acting Dean of Graduate Studies, Assistant Vice-President (Academic), and Vice Provost & Associate Vice-President (Academic).

Specializing his research in occupational burnout, his current resume lists 137 presentations, articles, books, book chapters and interviews that he has produced over the last three decades plus. He has personally collected burnout survey data from workers in Belarus, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

Boudreau role realigned

trevor.kenney — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:35:17 +0000

Dr. Robert (Bob) Boudreau has been named the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic) in a realignment of duties and responsibilities.

The office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) has undergone a restructuring with the recent addition of the Associate Vice-President (Students), Dr. Judith Lapadat.

The realignment of the duties and responsibilities of Associate Vice-President (Academic) Bob Boudreau to those of Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic) is another aspect of this shift.

Boudreau is a veteran Faculty of Management member with nearly 30 years of teaching and administrative experience at the U of L to his credit.

He has served as the Acting Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, the Assistant Vice-President (Academic), and Associate Vice-President (Academic).

His research experience is extensive, and focuses on finding out how burnout and stress affect various populations.

He has developed a widely used questionnaire that has successfully confirmed alarming levels of burnout in medical professionals, among other job sectors.

In his role, Boudreau continues to report to the Provost and Vice-President (Academic). Working with the senior management team, he is responsible for providing leadership in academic program development, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring; academic program and unit quality assurance review, reporting, and monitoring; institutional planning and administration in all aspects of the academic operations, and relationship building within the institution, with government ministries, and across to other academic institutions.

U of L pegged as Water Hub

trevor.kenney — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:10:28 +0000

World Water Day (Mar. 22) served as the perfect occasion for Assistant Vice-President (Research) Dr. Lesley Brown to make a major announcement. Sharing a stage with federal environment minister Jim Prentice, they announced the creation of the Water and Environmental Science's Water Hub at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge.

The Hub, which will be developed over the next two years, will serve as a data repository and will be an authoritative public source of information, providing tools to analyze water and environmental data. This data will be used by governments, industry, academia and the public to make more-informed decisions regarding water, and will create a better understanding of this resource by these stakeholders.

Prentice, who announced $1.5 million in funding to support the project, explains that the government needs reliable water data to make better decisions concerning water.

"To make good decisions, governments in Canada need good information – and it's not as though you can just turn on a tap to get it. We need knowledge generated by scientists and researchers who can provide the evidence for informed decisions about freshwater use," says Prentice.

In addition to announcing the investment at the U of L, Prentice also announced $750,000 for the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Saskatchewan to develop software that can be used as a tool to help energy developers make environmentally responsible decisions on power plant locations by determining impact on water quantity and quality in the area.

The funding announced for the Universities of Lethbridge and Saskatchewan was made in tandem with the Government of Canada's $2.5 million investment in the Global GEMS/Water – the Global Environment Monitoring System Water Program run through the United Nations Environment Programme.

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Water Hub will increase the impact of Canada's contribution to the UN's Global Environmental Monitoring System by hosting large data sets supporting the international exchange of information. Further, the web-based tools developed in the Hub will allow for more informed decisions to be made internationally.

Brown points out that this announcement affirms the international impact of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge's renowned water program.

"While the unique issues in southern Alberta influenced the genesis of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge's water research focus, we are poised to make a difference internationally. This announcement is an example of this fact," she says.

Richard Westlund is the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ's director of government relations

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