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The Hon. Lorna Marsden CM,O.Ont
Marsden in 2003
Senator fromOntario
In office 1984–1992
Appointed by	Pierre Trudeau
President ofWilfrid Laurier University
In office 1992–1997
Preceded by	John Angus Weir
Succeeded by	Robert Rosehart
President ofYork University
In office 1997–2007
Preceded by	Susan Mann
Succeeded by	Mamdouh Shoukri
Personal details
Born	(1942-03-06)March 6, 1942 (age 83) Sidney,British Columbia
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Liberal
Education	University of Toronto (B.A.)Princeton University (Ph.D.)

Lorna Marsden,CM OOnt (born March 6, 1942) is aCanadiansociologist,academic administrator, and former Senator. She is the formerPresident andVice-Chancellor of bothWilfrid Laurier University andYork University, and a former member of theSenate of Canada.

Born inSidney,British Columbia, she received aBachelor of Arts degree from theUniversity of Toronto in 1968 and aPh.D in sociology fromPrinceton University in 1972. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Doctors who teach: an influence on health delivery inOntario."^[1] In 1972, she joined theUniversity of Toronto where she was a professor of sociology. She was the Associate Dean of the Graduate School and the Vice-Provost (Arts and Sciences) at the University of Toronto.

She attended the founding meeting of theNational Action Committee on the Status of Women in April, 1972 and served as President of NAC from 1975 to 1977.She was active in the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women from 1971 and is co-author of the book about that feminist group, White Gloves Off (2018).

She joined theLiberal Party of Canada, becoming national policy chair in 1975 and vice-president in 1980. In 1984, she was appointed by Prime MinisterPierre Trudeau to the Senate representing thesenatorial division of Toronto-Taddle Creek, Ontario. While serving on the senate, she chaired theStanding Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology from 1989 to 1991 as well as being a member of committees ranging fromNational Finance to a special committee on Youth.^[2] She resigned in 1992 to become president and Vice-Chancellor ofWilfrid Laurier University. In 1997, she was appointed president and Vice-Chancellor ofYork University, serving until 2007.

Marsden was named one of "Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100", She became a Member of the Order of Canada in 2006 and a member of theOrder of Ontario in 2009. She received the Order of Merit (First Class) of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007. She holds honorary doctorates from theUniversity of New Brunswick,University of Winnipeg,Queen's University, theUniversity of Toronto,Wilfrid Laurier University and theUniversity of Victoria. She has received theQueen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, theCanada 125th Anniversary Medal, and theQueen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal. She was named a YWCA Women of Distinction in 2003 and was made an Honorary Alumnae of theUniversity of Victoria in 2003. She received the Senate Medal for Canada 150 in 2017.

As President ofYork University, Marsden founded the university's Culture and Communications program (joint withRyerson University) and she led a major building campaign. One outcome of the building campaign was the construction of the university's first green building: for computer engineering.

  White Gloves Off, The Work of the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women, Second Story Press, Feminist History Society, 2018 (with Beth Atcheson)

• Leading the Modern University, York University's Presidents on Continuity and Change, 1974-2014,(2016) University of Toronto Press,(with chapters by I Macdonald, H Arthurs, S Mann and M Shoukri)
• Canadian Women & the Struggle for Equality. (2012) Oxford University Press, Toronto.
• The Fragile Federation, Social Change in Canada,(1979) McGraw-Hll Ryerson, Toronto (with Edward Harvey)
• Canada's women university presidents: social change in Canada. (2004) Canadian High Commission, Canada House, London.
• Doctors who teach: an influence on health delivery in Ontario. (1972) Princeton University. Thesis.
• Family formation in a new land: Dutch, Portuguese, and West Indian women in Toronto. (1975) Research Branch, Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Service, Toronto.
• Population probe. (1972) Copp Clark, Toronto.
• The recession, women's work, and social welfare in Canada. (1992) University of British Columbia Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations.
• Report of the North York family formation study. (1975) Toronto.
• Social and economic debates on the impact of microelectronics in Canada: a report to the Task Force on Micro-Electronics and Employment. (1982)
• Sorokin's dilemma: sociology and public policy development. (1989) University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
• Technological change in Ontario: the questions of innovation and control in the small office. (1987) Studies in Communication and Information Technology, Queens University, Kingston.
• Timing and presence: getting women's issues on the trade agenda. (1992) Gender, Science and Development Programme, International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study, Toronto.

There are Lorna Marsdenfonds atLibrary and Archives Canada^[3] and theUniversity of Toronto.^[4]

• Lorna Marsden – Parliament of Canada biography
• Presidential statement on the autonomy of universities
• Lorna Marsden archival papers held at theUniversity of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services

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