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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