Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Packham, James L.
Parallel form(s) of name
- Jim Packham
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Jim Packham is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. He holds a BASc from the University of Toronto, and an MBA in Public Administration from York University. Jim joined Ryerson in 1968 after 20 years of engineering and managerial experience in the electrical equipment industry. He first joined the Electrical Department as a lecturer, becoming Chair of that Department in 1970. In 1973, he was appointed Vice-President Academic and served in that role for seven years. Starting in 1980, he was associated with the office of the President and undertook a series of special projects for Ryerson. Concurrently in 1980, he was associated with the Department of Politics and Public Administration as a Professor of Public Administration for both full-time and part-time students. Jim retired in 1990 and, in 1992, was designated a Fellow of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.