President

David Marshall, PhD, came to Calgary in September 2003 as Mount Royal College’s eighth president and now as Mount Royal University’s first.

Previous to his Mount Royal appointment, Dr. Marshall was president of Nipissing University from 1990 to 2003, where he led Nipissing into full undergraduate university status. Prior to that, he was the University’s Dean of Education from 1985 to 1990.

Dr. Marshall has had a long and varied career in education. He started as a high school teacher in Collingwood and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He has worked on Baffin Island and was the Director of Curriculum for the Island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. He was also a professor at the University of Manitoba. Along the way he has received numerous academic, professional and community awards including a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Citizen of the Year for North Bay, Ontario, a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of service to university education, and most recently a Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Sheffield Award for his “Differentiation by Degrees” article published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education.

Dr. Marshall, referred to by one journalist as a ‘hired gun from the East’, has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Western Ontario, two graduate degrees from the University of Alberta. He has a grandfather who homesteaded in Hanna, and his great aunt is Emily Murphy.

Dave has been married to Sheila for 38 years and has two sons and two grandchildren..

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