Local business, community leader appointed University of Calgary chancellor - BERITAJA

The University of Calgary has announced the assignment of John S. Osler arsenic the school’s caller chancellor.

Described by the assemblage arsenic a distinguished lawyer and philanthropic leader, the Calgary-born Osler spent 36 years arsenic a firm lawyer astatine the rule patient McCarthy Tetrault LLP and has served connected the committee of Calgary Economic Development.

He is besides the erstwhile run chair of OWN.CANCER, a $250 cardinal fundraising run successful support of the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre successful Calgary, presently serves connected the committee of the Canadian Cancer Society and is co-chair of “The Next Chapter” run for the Bethany Care Foundation.

“We person to time off our communities amended than we recovered them,” said Osler, who grew up successful the northwest Calgary organization of University Heights wherever galore of his neighbours taught aliases worked astatine the university.

“I’ve had a life of organization work on pinch my moving life, and it was different opportunity to springiness backmost to my community, and really the eventual opportunity to springiness that backmost to the community. Our assemblage is specified an important institution successful our city, and the opportunity to show its communicative to the communities is conscionable excessively compelling.”

While the position of chancellor is simply a unpaid domiciled pinch the university, Osler claims it’s his occupation to stock the university’s story.

(It) “stands astatine the apex, successful the centre of the narration the assemblage has pinch its stakeholders, outer stakeholders, the community, besides its soul stakeholders, and that includes the students,” Osler said.

“I want to return the communicative of the university, the awesome institution that they are attending, show them about it, and empower them arsenic good to return communicative of their awesome assemblage wherever they go.”

Osler, who will go the university’s 16th chancellor, will officially statesman his four-year word connected July 1, 2026.

He will win outgoing chancellor Jon Cornish, a legendary personnel of the Calgary Stampeders shot squad who became a well-known finance advisor and leader pinch various non-profit organizations and charities pursuing his shot career.

Cornish was appointed arsenic the university’s 15th chancellor connected July 1, 2022.