Michael Kelway Oliver OC (February 2, 1925 – September 29, 2004) was a Canadian academic, political organizer and the sixth president of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
[1] He stayed at McGill to teach economics and political science, eventually founding the school's French Canada Studies program.
He then began a six-year stint as research director of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, a body co-chaired by then Carleton University president Davidson Dunton — the man Oliver would eventually replace in 1972.
[4] Oliver's tenure as Carleton's president was a period of serious financial hardship for the university owing to dwindling provincial funding and a post-baby-boom decline in enrolment growth.
Oliver married Joan Nelson in 1948 and had five children: David, James, Victoria, Geoffrey and Cynthia.