The University of Windsor had been moving up steadily in the North America wide Putnam undergraduate mathematics competition. We reached a high of 62nd out of 500 in North America in 1995. Since 1996, however, the final exam schedule began to conflict withe Putnam exams so that we have only had a few students writing the contest each year. Dr. Selby has been running the Canada wide Mathematics League Competiton for several decades. We definitely want more students who have participated in the high school mathematics competitions.
Undergraduate students get a chance to be on Departmental committees and their views are respected.
This is NOT true at most universities. Windsor is a mathematical hotbed of talent. One Windsor high school, Vincent Massey, under the talented coaching of teacher Bruce White, has been winning Canadian honours for years. I have been contacted by on of our graduates who is working for an energy company in Detroit who is interested in hiring a math graduate.