Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Wilfrid Laurier University (commonly referred to as Laurier or WLU), is a Canadian public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Laurier has several other campuses, such as in Toronto, Ontario (Canada's largest city), Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and in Chongqing, China. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada. The University offers a full range of undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of fields.Laurier claims to be one of Canada's best and fastest-growing smaller universities (\"enrollment has doubled in five years\"). Laurier currently has more than 16,000 full-time undergraduate students, 720 part-time undergraduate students, 860 full-time graduate students and 590 part-time. The full-time staff and faculty number 540 and 970, respectively, according to an undated report on a WLU web page.Despite the stated growth, Laurier announced a reduction in staff by 22 on March 9, 2015, to battle a projected $25-million deficit in the 2015-2016 fiscal year. Three additional management jobs that were vacant at the time were also eliminated and the University planned to reduce (an unstated number of) faculty positions through voluntary retirement, not renewing some limited-term academic appointments and reducing teaching assignments for contract academic staff. Laurier president and vice-chancellor Max Blouw explained that the university had been experiencing a decline in revenues (government funding and tuition constraints) with a fairly quick growth in expenditures (pension costs and aging infrastructure). \"Because salaries and benefits make up about 80 per cent of our operating budget, we really couldn't avoid finding some of the savings except through workforce reductions,\" Blouw said.The main campus in Waterloo sits in the heart of Canada's Technology Triangle while the area along Highway 401 from Toronto to Waterloo is sometimes called the \"Silicon Valley of the North\" because it is said to be second only to Silicon Valley, California as the world’s second largest innovation corridor.More specifically, the twin cities of Kitchener, Ontario and Waterloo, Ontario (\"KW\") have the largest concentration of tech companies in North America apart from California."@en }
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- Wilfrid_Laurier_University abstract "Wilfrid Laurier University (commonly referred to as Laurier or WLU), is a Canadian public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Laurier has several other campuses, such as in Toronto, Ontario (Canada's largest city), Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and in Chongqing, China. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada. The University offers a full range of undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of fields.Laurier claims to be one of Canada's best and fastest-growing smaller universities (\"enrollment has doubled in five years\"). Laurier currently has more than 16,000 full-time undergraduate students, 720 part-time undergraduate students, 860 full-time graduate students and 590 part-time. The full-time staff and faculty number 540 and 970, respectively, according to an undated report on a WLU web page.Despite the stated growth, Laurier announced a reduction in staff by 22 on March 9, 2015, to battle a projected $25-million deficit in the 2015-2016 fiscal year. Three additional management jobs that were vacant at the time were also eliminated and the University planned to reduce (an unstated number of) faculty positions through voluntary retirement, not renewing some limited-term academic appointments and reducing teaching assignments for contract academic staff. Laurier president and vice-chancellor Max Blouw explained that the university had been experiencing a decline in revenues (government funding and tuition constraints) with a fairly quick growth in expenditures (pension costs and aging infrastructure). \"Because salaries and benefits make up about 80 per cent of our operating budget, we really couldn't avoid finding some of the savings except through workforce reductions,\" Blouw said.The main campus in Waterloo sits in the heart of Canada's Technology Triangle while the area along Highway 401 from Toronto to Waterloo is sometimes called the \"Silicon Valley of the North\" because it is said to be second only to Silicon Valley, California as the world’s second largest innovation corridor.More specifically, the twin cities of Kitchener, Ontario and Waterloo, Ontario (\"KW\") have the largest concentration of tech companies in North America apart from California.".