UBC graduate Tim McTiernan became the third president and vice-chancellor of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Oshawa, ON. McTiernan was appointed in February 2011 and took office on July 1. His installation ceremony took place on Nov. 14, 2011.
McTiernan earned his master’s degree in psychology (1977) and PhD in psychology (1982) at UBC. He was awarded UBC’s Morris Belkin Prize in Psychology in 1977 and was a part-time sessional instructor with UBC in the early 1980s for the university’s programs at Yukon College in Whitehorse.
UOIT has a full-time enrolment (undergraduate and graduate) of about 8,400 students.
For more, visit http://news.uoit.ca/archives/2011/11/uoit-installs-dr.-tim-mctiernan-as-new-president-and-vice-chancellor.php.
