Dr. Jim Zimmer
Dr. Jim Zimmer is the Associate Vice-President (AVP), Teaching and Learning, at Mount Royal University. Prior to his appointment as AVP, Jim served as Dean of the Faculty of Teaching and Learning at MRU (2007-2015) and Director of the Academic Development Centre (1998-2007). Jim's disciplinary background is in nursing. Between 1981 and 1995, he held clinical positions in critical care and taught undergraduate nursing at Fanshawe College, Foothills Hospital School of Nursing and Mount Royal. Jim has been substantially involved in the design, implementation, administration and review of General Education at MRU over the past 10 years. Alongside colleagues at MRU, he has accrued through lived experience "a general education about general education" in the Canadian, undergraduate context. On a personal note, Jim lives in Calgary with his wife Becky, their three grown children, and three grandchildren.
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