van gogh. the museum also boasts the most comprehensive collection of german expressionist and weimar period prints in canada. housing and student facilities as of august 2022, mcmaster has thirteen smoke-free student residences: bates residence, brandon hall, edwards hall, hedden hall, les prince hall, mary e. keyes residence, matthews hall, mckay hall, moulton hall, peter george centre for living and learning, wallingford hall, whidden hall, and woodstock hall. mcmaster's student residences can accommodate 4,186 students. the latest residence to be built was peter george centre for living and learning (pgcll), which was completed in fall 2019. pgcll can house 500 students and also contains lecture halls, tutorial rooms, and eateries. les prince hall, the second-latest residence to be completed and a large co-ed building, opened in 2006. it was named for a long-time hall master in the residence system who lived with his family on campus until after his retirement in 1980. in september 2010, 50.19 per cent of first-year students lived on campus, with 15.54 per cent of the overall undergraduate population living on campus. edwards hall is one of twelve student residences on the main campus residences provide traditional room and board style, furnished apartment style, and suite-style accommodation. brandon hall houses the university's substance-free lifestyle living spaces. the residence system is supervised by residence life staff, who provide guidance and help the transition to university life for many first-year students. residence students are represented by the inter-residence council (irc), which aims to build a sense of community among the residents through programming. additionally, the irc seeks to advocate for residence students on issues they may face, such as facilities, dining, environment, and more, and provide opportunities for residence students to gain valuable leadership opportunities. they are an integral part of the mcmaster residence community. the mcmaster university student centre (musc) is the centre of student life and programming. it has a café, study space, common areas, and several administrative departments, including the cibc conference hall. the musc contains the offices of a number of student organizations, including the mcmaster students union and the silhouette weekly newspaper as well as other services such as the campus health centre and the campus dentist. the university has over twenty dining outlets throughout the campus, including two major residence dining facilities. the university has several vegetarian establishments, such as a completely vegetarian cafe known as bridges café and a farmers market stand. the university was voted as the country's most vegan-friendly university through people for the ethical treatment of animals (peta) for a number of years. several other dining outlets at mcmaster have garnered awards throughout the years for food services. off-campus facilities the former bank of montreal pavilion in downtown hamilton is home to the centre for continuing education. as of 2010 mcmaster university's degroote school of business operates a 1.82-hectare (4.5-acre) site in the neighbouring city of burlington. consideration for the new building began in 2004, when mcmaster university had announced its initial intent to construct a new arts- and technology-intensive campus in partnership with the city of burlington. in 2009, the city of burlington, halton region, and mcmaster university signed an official agreement laying out the timelines and next steps for the university's expansion into burlington. construction began on 17 june 2009, and the official opening was on 7 october 2010. the four-story, 8,400-square-metre (90,000 sq ft) building is called the ron joyce centre. the ron joyce centre is home to degroote's mba program and its business management program (both degree and non-degree programs). mcmaster has several administrative offices at its downtown centre. the mcmaster centre for continuing education, which offers certificate and diploma programs as well as personal and professional development programs, is within the former bank of montreal pavilion at lloyd d. jackson square. mcmaster had also announced construction of the mcmaster downtown health campus in downtown hamilton had begun in december 2012. the health campus is expected to provide teaching spaces, exam rooms and clinical spaces for local residents. the david braley health sciences centre at the mcmaster health campus in downtown hamilton the michael g. degroote school of medicine is on the main campus as well as in two regional campuses at st. catharines and kitchener. the waterloo regional campus is in downtown kitchener, where it shares facilities with the health sciences campus of the university of waterloo. the campus in st. catharines is at brock university's niagara health and bioscience research complex. approximately 30 medical students in each year of the program attend each campus. those who apply to mcmaster's school of medicine are asked to rank their site choice (hamilton, niagara region, waterloo region) from first to third, or no preference. offers of admission to the medical school are made from a rank list irrespective of geographical preference. subsequent to an applicant's acceptance, registrants to the class are placed based on their preference and geographical background. the offers given out by mcmaster are bound to the assigned site. mcmaster purchased a large industrial park three kilometres east of its main hamilton campus in 2005 with the intention of creating an array of research facilities for the development of advanced manufacturing and materials, biotechnology, automotive, and nanotechnology. in july 2005 the federal government announced it would relocate canmet, a federal government materials research laboratory, from its ottawa centre to hamilton. this decision helped spearhead the development of the mcmaster innovation park. the united nations university-international network on water, environment and health (unu-inweh) is headquartered within the park. unu-inweh is the only united nations agency headquartered in ontario and the only north american host site for a united nations university, after moving to mcmaster innovation park on 23 april 2008. sustainability the office of sustainability, created as the all-modes commuting & transportation office in 2002, is charged with promoting sustainable operations and growth at the university. the office of sustainability, headed by the manager of university sustainability, works with various members of the university population, external community groups, and the government. along with the other members of the council of ontario universities, mcmaster signed a pledge in 2009 known as ontario universities committed to a greener world, with the objective of transforming its campus into a model of environmental responsibility. on 21 october 2010, the university signed two accords addressing the issue of climate change: the talloires declaration and the university and college presidents' climate change statement of action for canada. the university campus received a b grade from the sustainable endowments institute on its college sustainability report card for 2011. administration the governance of the university is conducted through the board of governors and the senate, both of which were established in the act to unite toronto baptist college and woodstock college in 1887. the board is responsible for the university's conduct, management, and control of the university and of its property, revenues, business, and affairs. ex officio governors of the board include the university's chancellor, president, and the chairman of the board-senate committee on long-range planning. the board also consists of 34 other governors, either appointed or elected by the various members of the university's community, including elected representatives from the student body. while the mcmaster university act, 1976 outlines that the board be only composed of 37 members, the board also includes 12 honorary members, bringing the total number of governors to 51. the senate is responsible for the university's academics, including standards for admission into the university and qualifications for degrees, diplomas, and certificates. the senate consists of 15 ex officio positions granted to the chancellor, the president, the vice-presidents of the university, the senior dean of each faculty, the dean of graduate studies, the dean of adult education, the principal of mcmaster divinity college, and the chairman of the undergraduate council. the senate also consists of 51 other members, appointed or elected by the various communities of the university, including elected representatives of the student body. meetings of the board of governors and the senate are open to the public. the president acts as the chief executive officer of the university under the authority of the board and the senate, and supervises and directs the academic and administrative work of the university and of its teaching and non-teaching staff. the office was created in 1949, with george gilmour serving as the university's first president. the office of the vice-chancellor, created at the same time as the office of president, has always been held by the incumbent president of the university. the university president, david h. farrar, has served the post on an interim basis since 1 july 2019, although his tenure as the official university president did not begin until the following year. affiliated institution mcmaster university is affiliated with one post-secondary institution, mcmaster divinity college. the seminary is within the campus of the university. as an affiliated institution, two members of the divinity college sit on the university's senate, as well as appoint one representative to sit in the university's board of governors. however, the divinity college operates with its own senate and board of trustees. although divinity college has the authority to confer their own degrees, students taking the college's master of divinity and master of theological studies are awarded degrees by mcmaster university. students of divinity college have access to the catalogue of mcmaster university library, while students of the university similarly have access to the canadian baptist archives, managed by the university's library system. the university and the divinity college were incorporated as the same institution in 1887, a result of a merger between two baptist institutions, the canadian literary institute in woodstock, ontario, and toronto baptist college. mcmaster university continued to operate as a baptist-run institution until 1957, when provincial legislation allowed for the governance of the university to pass from the baptist convention of ontario and quebec, to a privately chartered, publicly funded arrangement. mcmaster's faculty of theology was spun-off into mcmaster divinity college, a separately-chartered affiliated college of the university. from 1911 to 1938, brandon college (reincorporated as brandon university in 1967) was an affiliated institution of mcmaster. located in brandon, manitoba, the affiliated institution was funded by the baptist union of western canada. the college ended its affiliation with mcmaster in 1938, after brandon college became a non-denominational institution. finances the net assets owned by the university as of 30 april 2018 stands at c$1,209.1 million. the university had completed the 2017–2018 year with revenues of c$1,109.5 million, expenses of $985.7 million, for an excess of revenues over expenses of $123.8 million. mcmaster's revenue comes from endowment income, gifts, fees, and annual grants from the city of hamilton, the province of ontario, and the government of canada. in the 2017–2018 academic year, the largest source of revenue for the university was tuition fees, followed by operating grants provided by the government. as of 30 april 2017, mcmaster's financial endowment was valued at c$727.4 million. the financing of mcmaster's scholarships and bursaries takes up 40 per cent of the endowments received. financial services comprises the following areas: student accounts & cashiers, financial accounting and reporting, and budgeting services. the university has been registered as an educational charitable organization in canada since 1 january 1967. as of 2011, the university is registered primarily as a post-secondary institution, with 70 per cent of the charity dedicated to the management and maintenance of the university. the remaining 30 per cent has been dedicated under research. academics current faculties of mcmaster university facultiesestablished degroote school of business1952 faculty of engineering1958 faculty of health sciences1974 faculty of humanities1887 faculty of science1887 faculty of social sciences1887 the john hodgins building houses several facilities for the university's faculty of engineering. mcmaster is a publicly funded research university, and a member of the universities canada. mcmaster functions on a semester system, operating year-round on academic semesters, fall/winter and spring/summer. in the 2016–2017 academic year, the university had an enrolment of 31,265 students; 26,780 undergraduate students, 4,485 graduate students. programs, departments, and schools at mcmaster are divided among six faculties, the degroote school of business, the faculty of health sciences, the faculty of humanities, the faculty of engineering, the faculty of science, and the faculty of social sciences. by enrolment, mcmaster's largest faculty in september 2016 was the faculty of science, with 7,004 full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate