Wayne Caldwell, Director of the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, has been named as Interim Dean of the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) effective November 1, 2015.
 

The announcement was made October 2nd by Charlotte Yates, Provost and Vice-President (Academic).  “Professor Caldwell brings valuable leadership experience to this new role, which will be important as OAC enters into a period of leadership transition,” Yates says.  A UofG professor since 2000, Caldwell studies farmland preservation, rural conflict resolution, local governance, and community-based approaches to economic and environmental issues.  He headed a federally funded project to help municipalities cope with economic decline and wrote a handbook on landowners’ responsibilities for water quality preservation. Caldwell served as president of the Association of Canadian University Planning Programs and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute.  Dr. Rob Gordon is leaving the University of Guelph to become Vice-President (Research) at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.