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The Centre for Gifted Education was established in 1988 with a mandate and funding from the Department of Advanced Education of the Province of Alberta. The Centre is housed in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary and is one of only two such centres in Canada.

The mission of the Centre is to meet the intellectual and socio-emotional needs of gifted individuals through research, professional development, community liaison, and instructional programs.

Working towards this vision: the knowledge generated through the Centre's research is used to maximize the potential of students who are gifted and talented; educators and other professionals benefit from the development and delivery of graduate programs, preservice activites, inservice activities, and consultation provided by the Centre to enhance their professional practice; gifted students and their parents benefit from direct services offered by the Centre; and The Centre for Gifted Education plays a facilitative role in providing and sharing expertise throughout the province.

The Department of Civil Engineering was formed in 1960 in the Faculty of Engineering. A new Civil Engineering wing was opened at the University in 1982. In 2005, the Faculty of Engineering was renamed the Schulich School of Engineering.

The department approaches teaching by exposing the students to the broad base of the discipline and then allowing options for specialization. At the graduate level, degrees offered are PhD, MSc, and MEng.

Heads of the Department of Civil Engineering: R.A. Ritter, 1966-1967; R.H. Mills, 1967-1969; H.A.R. de Paiva, 1969-1972; M.A. Ward, 1972-1984; R.E. Loov, 1984-1986; M.A. Sargious, 1986-1988 (Acting); R.E. Loov, 1988-1989; N.G. Shrive, 1989-1995; J.F. Morrall, 1995-1996 (Acting); N.G. Shrive, 1996-2000; T. G. Brown, 2000-2005; R.C.K. Wong, 2005-2007; T.G. Brown, 2007-2009; R.C.K. Wong, 2009-.

Norman E. Wagner was born in Edenwold, Saskatchewan on March 29, 1935 to Robert and Gertrude Wagner. He obtained a Bachelor of Divinity from the Lutheran College and Seminary in Saskatoon and Bachelor of Arts and Master of Divinities from the University of Saskatchewan in 1958. At the University of Toronto, he obtained a Master of Arts in 1960 and a PhD in Near Eastern Studies in 1965. From 1961 to 1978, he was employed at Wilfrid Laurier University and taught Near Eastern Languages, Literature and Archaeology, performed archaeological digs in the Middle East, served as Dean of Graduate Studies and founded both the School of Religion and Culture and Wilfrid Laurier University Press. He was President of the University of Calgary from 1978-1988. While President of the UofC, he was on the board of the organizing committee for the 1988 Winter Olympics held in Calgary. After retirement from the U of C, he served on the Board of Directors of Alberta Natural Gas Co. Ltd. from 1988 to 1995 and was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from 1991 to 1994. He also held positions on the Corporate Higher Education Forum and World Foundation for Smart Communities and was a founder of University Technologies International Inc. in Calgary. Wagner established Auxano Philatelic Services to distribute and publish books about British North America philately and published a book detailing the postal history of the district of Assiniboia (Saskatchewan).

Dr Wagner was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1989, given an honorary doctor of laws degree from Wilfred Laurier University in 1984, received the Queen̐us Golden Jubilee medal in 2002, appointed President Emeritus, The University of Calgary in 1990, and named Honorary Patron, The Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise Jerusalem - The Library Project.Dr Wagner married Catherine Hack of Grenfell, Saskatchewan in 1957 and had three children; Marjorie, Richard and Janet. He died on December 10, 2004 in Calgary.

The University Budget Committee (TUBC) originally reported to the Planning and Finance Committee of the Board of Governors but as of 2015 it was a sub-committee of the Finance and Property Committee (FPC) of the Board. Members of The University Budget Committee deal with financial information that provides them with a very broad knowledge of the university, faculty, and departmental planning that extends beyond finances.

The purpose of the Committee is to annually review and recommend to FPC the guiding principles and process for the University’s operating and capital budget process and to recommend the annual operating and capital budgets to FPC. The Chairperson is the Chair or Vice-Chair of FPC. Other voting members include: the President; Provost and Vice President (Academic); Vice President (Finance and Services); Vice President (Research); Vice President (Facilities Management and Development); Board member from the General Faculties Council; Board member from the Students' Union; Board member from the Graduate Students' Association; and one Dean as a representative from the Dean's Council. Non-voting members include: a representative of AUPE Local 52; a representative of the Management and Professional Staff (MaPS); two representatives of TUCF; the University Secretary and other administrative officers as required.

The Office of Postgraduate Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine began as the Office of Continuing Medical and Graduate Clinical Education in 1981. The name changed in 1987 to the Office of Graduate Clinical and Continuing Medical Education. In 1990, the name was changed to the Office of Graduate Clinical Education and then changed again in 2000 to the Office of Postgraduate Medical Education.
In 2014, the Faculty of Medicine was renamed the Cumming School of Medicine.

The Office of Postgraduate Medical Education is responsible for overseeing the administration of all residency training programs at the University of Calgary, liaison with other internal groups and external organizations regarding potgraduate medical education, conducting internal program reviews and arranging external reviews of all residency training programs, promoting cross-disciplinary themes and programs and fostering collaboration among residency training programs, contributing to the academic base of postgraduate medical education, and screening applications from international medical graduates seeking postgraduate training at the University of Calgary.

The University of Calgary has had international services and information for students for almost as long as it has existed. International student services were established and operating by 1974, an international student advisor was designated in the late 1970s, and a study abroad information center was established in 1977. Some of the first services for international students were established in the early 1970s in the Student Services office. In 1997, the International Student Centre (ISC) was established as a separate administrative unit with reponsibility for international student programs and advising as well as housing the study abroad resource library and administering many of the university exchange programs. The ISC is administered and housed separately from the International Centre, though it cooperates fully with the Centre in fulfilling the mandate to internationalize the University of Calgary.

The International Student Centre works with international students to assist with their adjustment to university and to Canada. They also promote international understanding to Canadians by involving them in programs that develop global experience. The ISC mission is to promote and administer international programs and develop and facilitate cross cultural experiences for both Canadian and International students.

The goals and objectives of the ISC are to: provide support and services for international students relating to their adjusment to the University of Calgary and to Canada; provide Canadian students with opportunities and information for Education Abroad activities; provide programs which act as "bridges" between Canadian and international students; include students in the development and delivery of programs and services; and contribute to the field/profession of student advising as international education.

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary had its beginnings in 1964, when a royal commission on health services in Canada outlined the projected needs for family physicians required to maintain a ratio of approximately one physician per 870 people. The commission made specific recommendations for the development of new, basic science facilities to educate future physicians. It also recommended that new medical schools be established across the country, among them a medical school at the University of Alberta in Calgary. Funds were made available from the Health Facilities Development Fund to provide up to half the cost of construction of these new medical schools.

Formally created in 1967, the first students were admitted to the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine in 1970. The Faculty was originally housed on the University’s main campus; students in the class of 1975 were the first to start their program in the newly constructed Health Sciences Building built adjacent to the Foothills Hospital. The Heritage Medical Research Building was built in November of 1987 with funding made available by the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.

On June 17, 2014, the Faculty of Medicine was formally renamed the Cumming School of Medicine in recognition of Geoffrey Cumming's generous gift to the university - matched by the Province of Alberta - in support of the school's work in medical research and innovation.

Deans of the Faculty of Medicine/Cumming School of Medicine: W. Cochrane, 1967-1973; L. McLeod, 1973-1981; M. Watanabe, 1981-1992; E. Smith, 1992-1997; G. Gall, 1997-2007; T. Feasby, 2007-2012; J. Meddings, 2012-.

Robert Bertram Church was born May 7 1937 in Calgary Alberta. He received a Bachelor of Science in Animal Genetics and Physiology (1962) and a Master of Science in Animal Genetics (1963), both from the University of Alberta. His PhD on "Genetic and Biochemical Studies of Growth in Drosophila" was received from the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, Scotland in 1965.

Before accepting a position at the University of Calgary in 1967, Church worked in the Department of Microbiology, University of Washington. Church held a number of positions at the University of Calgary including founding Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Biochemistry, Associate Dean (Research) and Assistant Dean (Medical Sciences) Faculty of Medicine. Church retired as Professor Emeritus of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1992.

Church was also President of Church Livestock Consulting Ltd (1967-1992), and co-owner (with his wife) of Lochend Luing Ranch (1972-1992). He received Honorary Diplomas from Olds College (1997), Mount Royal College (1998) and a Doctor of Laws from the University of Lethbridge (1998). He served on several boards and committees and as a Past President of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. He was a Founding Member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He was a former member of the Medical Research Council of Canada and Chairman of the Alberta Science and Research Authority. Dr. Church received several awards and honours, including inducted into the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame (1991), recipient of the Alberta Order of Excellence (1993), named Chief Black Eagle of Treaty #7 Tribes (1990) and recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Medial (2002). Church published more than 200 papers in the scientific and lifestock-industry press.

Dr. Church died on September 6, 2019.

The Year 2000 Project Office existed from 1998 to 2000. It was established to coordinate the efforts of faculties and departments to address the Year 2000 issue in the major areas of information technology, embedded systems, and supply chain. Progress reports on the Year 2000 project were presented regularly to senior management, the Year 2000 Task Force, and periodically to the Board of Governors. The Project Manager was Vincent Van Hyfte.