Meeting Invitation
Dear Chairs and Heads:
It is my pleasure to invite you to the 55th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs (CCUBC) to be held in Inn At The Forks, Winnipeg, MB on November 12 to 14, 2026.
Building on the success of the 54th Annual Meeting that was held in Montreal, it was decided to host the 55th Annual Meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This central location should provide easy access to all wishing to attend. Please stay tuned for further details.
I would like to encourage you to come and join us in Winnipeg where you will be met with friendly faces who understand the many challenges that we all experience as leaders in our respective academic units. The CCUBC should provide an excellent forum to learn from and make connections with peers who experience similar challenges of the many facets of academic leadership, including institutional challenges and pressures, and provincial and federal hurdles. This peer community is extremely supportive, and I promise that you will encounter many with whom you can network, and more importantly can learn from as they offer sage advice from their own learned experience.
For those of you who are new to their role and to the CCUBC, we are an organization that was established in 1971 that is comprised of the Heads and Chairs of the Biology (and biology-related) departments from Canadian Universities, coast to coast. We have a long history of connecting with each other about issues, processes, and the many challenges that we all face in our academic units.
Please join the CCUBC as a member and meet with us in November! I look forward to seeing you there!
If you are not yet a member and have questions, I encourage you to reach out to me for more information and I would be happy to have a conversation about the benefits that CCUBC provides. Thank you.
With warm regards,
W. Gary Anderson
CCUBC President,
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Manitoba