“This is a very significant and important event for the university where the president is formally endowed with the powers and responsibilities of office,” read a statement by Ryerson University released Friday.
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“It’s an honour to serve Ryerson University as president,” Lachemi said at the ceremony, according to a student reporter.
Lachemi started at Ryerson as a civil engineering professor back in 1998, and later joined the university’s administration. When his appointment was announced, Lachemi was serving as Ryerson’s vice-president academic.
The university said Friday that he’d announced a plan at the ceremony to “work with Ryerson’s partners in order to ensure access to education for those in greatest need.”
Ryerson Students’ Union vice-president of education Victoria Morton also took to the stage, praising Lachemi for his past work with students.
““In my many meetings with President Lachemi, he made one thing clear: students always come first!” Morton said.
Lachemi replaced former president Sheldon Levy, who left Ryerson in Dec. 2015 to become the deputy minister of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
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