Kelley Main
BA(Hons.)(University of Winnipeg); MA (University of Manitoba); PhD (University of British Columbia)

As the recipient of the seven-year F. Ross Johnson Fellowship, Dr. Kelley Main engages in trailblazing marketing research. She began this fellowship in 2007, the same year she began teaching in the I.H. Asper School of Business; prior to this she was teaching at York University’s Schulich School of Business. Dr. Main has lectured in both social psychology at the University of Winnipeg and in consumer behavior at the University of British Columbia. Now she is an associate professor at the Asper School, and a visiting professor at HEC Montreal. Her students appreciate her complementary styles: she is a warm and approachable teacher who delivers stimulating lectures in the classroom, but come exam time, reputedly creates some of the Asper School’s most challenging tests. She is, some may say, the professorial incarnation of tough love. For her dedication to quality, for demanding excellence and helping students achieve it, she is awarded the Graduate Students’ Association Teaching Award.

Thursday, October 18 at 3:30 pm

For her outstanding contributions to the development and governance of the University of Manitoba, Dr. Juliette (Archie) Cooper is awarded the Peter D. Curry Chancellor’s Award.

Dr. Cooper has been devoted to the betterment of the University of Manitoba since 1973, when she began her academic career as a part-time lecturer in the division of occupational therapy in the School of Medical Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine. Her exceptional record of governance is too lengthy to fully chronicle here but, in short, since 1976 she has served as a member or chair of an astounding 61 committees in the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Medical Rehabilitation; and from 1999 to 2004 she was the director of the School of Medical Rehabilitation.

Dr. Cooper’s administrative work has not been limited to the Faculty of Medicine. From 2005 to 2007 the university tapped into her impressive administrative capabilities by asking her to serve as interim dean of the Faculty of Music.

Dr. Cooper began contributing to the governance of the university as a whole in 1988 by becoming a member of the curriculum and course change committee of Senate. She became a member of Senate in 1991 and served continuously for 16 years. She has sat on numerous Senate committees including the Senate executive committee; she also chaired the Senate planning committee and priorities committee. She was elected by Senate to the board of governors in 1995 and again in 2004. She served on eight committees of the board of governors, including the university planning committee and the academic affairs committee, which she later chaired. In 2002 she offered her expertise to the president’s committee on strategic planning.

Dr. Cooper has also helped raise funds for the university. In 2002 she was co-chair of the university staff campaign Building on Strengths and from 2006 until 2010 she was chair of the Health Information Place campaign to raise funds for the expansion of the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library.

Dr. Cooper has mentored new deans over the years, and, most recently, she was chair of the ad hoc committee of senate executive to review policies and practices related to accommodation of students with disabilities and governance procedures related to academic requirements. This small page cannot justly report all the extraordinary contributions Dr. Cooper has made to the University of Manitoba. She is endowed with an indefatigable spirit and selflessness; she provides a splendid example of a gifted teacher, collaborative researcher, and visionary administrator.