Alan Wildeman

Windsor Family Credit Union will operate a retail location in the University of Windsor’s Innovation Centre, to open in the winter of 2014.

The new branch, the credit union’s eighth, will offer support for the financial needs of the University of Windsor community and the residents, organizations and businesses of west Windsor.

University of Windsor contributions to the United Way have topped $100,000 for the seventh straight year, campaign volunteers learned Friday at a luncheon celebrating the 2012 fundraising results for the charity.

Staff, faculty and students donated a total of $106,530 through pledges, payroll deduction, and special projects like casual dress days and benefit barbecues.

Lorraine Goddard, director of community impact and development for the local United Way, said the organization is grateful for the support of the campus.

In a community address Tuesday, UWindsor president Alan Wildeman looked to the institution’s past and its future.

He noted that this year will mark the 50^th anniversary of the University of Windsor and the 233^rd anniversary of the transfer from the Wyandot nation to the Jesuit priests of the land on which the campus now stands.

“Every one of us is on the same path that the Wyandot chiefs and the Jesuits laid down 233 years ago,” Dr. Wildeman said. “And now, as it did then, that same path still stretches before us.”

Students, faculty, staff and the broader community are invited to “The Future is Never What it Used to Be,” an address by UWindsor president Alan Wildeman, Tuesday, February 5, in the Centre for Engineering Innovation.

The one-hour event will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the BMO Collaborative Learning Forum, room 1100. Attendees will have an opportunity to experience the newest building on campus, as well as hear Dr. Wildeman discuss the future of universities in Canada—with a particular focus on the University of Windsor.