U4 League Executive Director
 

U4 League Executive Director

The Presidents of Acadia, Bishop’s, Mount Allison, and St. Francis Xavier Universities are pleased to announce the appointment of Katie Edwards as Executive Director for the U4 League.

Dr. Edwards is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts (Department of English) at St. Francis Xavier University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh after graduating from Queen’s University. Over the past three years, in addition to her academic work, she has created a world-class rowing facility that was the recent host of the Canadian University Rowing Championships.

She will be responsible for ensuring the long-term success of the U4, an initiative that promotes and enhances the unique educational environment offered at our universities. The U4 presents a great opportunity for our students and faculty, and is poised to unveil a series of new endeavours in the 2016-2017 academic year.

We have laid a solid foundation of collaboration between our four universities and engaging Dr. Edwards as our first Executive Director will allow the U4 to broaden and intensify its activities.

I am confident that her experiences within academia and with large-scale project management will enable us to develop an organization that will be a model of collaboration and innovation.

Michael Goldbloom, C.M.
Principal and Vice-Chancellor