Trent University

Trent University is a small liberal arts oriented institution located along the Otonabee River in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Roberta Bondar is currently the chancellor of Trent, and its president is Bonnie Patterson.

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Liberal arts - Otonabee River - Peterborough, Ontario - Canada - Roberta Bondar - Bonnie Patterson

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The University has been consistenly ranked amongst the top 3 primarily undergraduate institutions in Canada and 1st in Ontario for the catergory. Trent is considered an excellent school by many academics in the way the school promotes open and active dialogue which is sometimes hidden at larger or more politically conservative schools. The school has a long-standing reputation of being a wonderful stepping stone for many in their development as humans, corporate players, academics and informed Canadians and global citizens.

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Trent has long been characterized by political debate: the staff, students and faculty actively engage in ultra-political conversations and the education in every discipline is rooted within a new-age educational philosophy. At Trent, professors are as interested in writing award-winning research articles as they are in listening and hearing comments from students, and in the overall discussions which challenge the status quo.

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The Universities' students have long been admired and coveted by graduate and law schools as their acceptances to prestigious programs is impressive: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, The LSE, University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario to name a few outside of their Peterborough borders.

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The Symons campus of Trent is approximately 14.60 square kilometres, 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.

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Catharine Parr Traill - Peter Gzowski

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The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Trent Excalibur.

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