Robin Hugh Farquhar

Background

Farquhar, Robin Hugh was born on December 1, 1938 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Son of Hugh Ernest and Jean (MacIntosh) Farquhar.

Education

Bachelor with honors, University British Columbia, 1960. Master of Arts, University British Columbia, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1967.

Honorary Diploma in Adult Education, Red River Community College, 1989.

Career

He was President of The University of Winnipeg from 1981 to 1989 (where he is now President Emeritus) and President of Carleton University from 1989 to 1996 (where he is now Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Administration). Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Farquhar received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and an Master of Arts He chaired the Canadian Bureau for International Education and served as President of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, and he has been a Director of the Canadian Education Association, the Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Foundation, the Inter-American Society for Educational Administration, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Corporate - Higher Education Forum in Canada, and the National Academy for School Executives in the United States. He also served as Campaign Chair for the United Way of Winnipeg and he has been elected to the Board of Academics Without Borders. Since the mid-90"s Farquhar has served as a special advisor to the heads of higher education institutions in more than 20 countries throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union.

He also managed it through an extremely challenging financial period during the first half of the 1990s, and he was accorded the title of Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Administration there in 2004.

His father (Hugh) was President of the University of Victoria during the early 1970s.

Achievements

• Robin Hugh Farquhar has been listed as a noteworthy educational consultant, university president by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Humanities in Preparing Educational Administrators (State of the Knowledge Series Number 7)

    (59 pages, 5.5x8.5 inches. Dr. Farquhar reviews the litera...)

  • Preparing Educational Leaders: Review of Recent Literature
  • The Canadian School Superintendent (The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Symposium 19)

Membership

Campaign chair United Way Winnipeg, corporation secretary Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, honorary board Opera Lyra Ottawa, board memb Ottawa-Carleton Economic Dvpmt. Corporation, Prairie Theatre Exchange Foundation, Cdn. Company Auditing Foundation Served with Canada Navy Reserve, 1956-1964.

Fellow Commonwealth Council Educational Administration (former president). Member Canada Bureau International Education (former chairman), Canada Society Study Education (former president), Canada Education Association (former director), Inter-American Society for Educational Administration (former director), Ottawa-Carleton Economic Development Corporation (former director), Ottawa-Carleton Research Institute (former director), Corporation Higher Education Forum (former director), National Academy of School Executives (former director), University Madeira General Council(external representative).

Interests

• Music, jogging, reading.

Connections

Married Frances Harriet Caswell, July 6, 1963. Children: Francine Jean Glandt, Katherine Lynn Buchanan, Susan Ann Storey.

Father:

Hugh Ernest Farquhar

Mother:

Jean (MacIntosh) Farquhar

Spouse:

Frances Harriet Caswell

child:

Francine Jean Glandt Farquhar

child:

Susan Ann Storey Farquhar

child:

Katherine Lynn Buchanan Farquhar