November 29, 2016

ACCUO List of Past Conferences Highlights Ombuds History

The Association of Canadian College and University Ombudspersons has started work on a list of past conferences.  The list is still being updated (the period 2000-2009 is incomplete), but entries already cover a couple dozen conferences from 1979 to 2010.  The annotations provide some rare historical details not collected anywhere else.



The following entries are illustrative:


November 4 - 6, 1979
Montreal, Quebec
[Billed as First Canadian Conference.  Proceedings were published.]
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
150 Participants
April 1 - 4, 1992
Columbus, Ohio
[Billed as the First Joint Conference of ACCUO and UCOA]
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
89 Participants
Elected as President/Présidente:
Liz Hoffman, Ombudsperson University of Toronto
May 15 - 18, 1996
St. Louis, Missouri
[Billed as the First North American Conference: Association of Canadian College and University Ombudspersons (ACCUO); California Caucus of College and University Ombudsmen (CCCUO); Canadian Public Sector Ombudsmen (CPS); The Ombudsman Association (TOA); United States Ombudsman Association (USOA); University and College Ombuds Association (UCOA)]
318 Participants.
Elected as President/Président:
Jean-Claude Filteau, Protecteur universitaire Université Laval
May 19-21, 2010
Vienna, Austria
2010 Joint ENOHE/ACCUO Conference
"Common objectives, different pathways: Embedding Ombudsman principles and practices into Higher Education institutions"
(ACCUO Past Conferences.)

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