Topic: Governance

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Governance, Intellectual property, Research and innovation, Tuition and student fees

As public postsecondary funding stagnates, the University of Toronto explores “alternative funding sources”

Mariana Valverde

Universities increasingly rely on student fees and other alternative funding sources to make up for falling levels of government support, but perhaps […]

Editorials, Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Governance, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

Editorial Matters: A time for action

Ben Lewis

Ontario’s universities are built on models of scholarship developed in the United Kingdom and western Europe. Founded by and for European settlers, […]

Free speech and expression rights, Governance, Politics, Universities and the academic mission

Against endorsing the Chicago Principles

Sigal Ben-Porath, University of Pennsylvania

In response to rising tensions around free speech, many colleges and universities have endorsed the Chicago principles, which express a commitment to […]

Equity and social justice, Governance, Politics, Public policy

The more women in government, the healthier a population

Edwin Ng, University of Waterloo and Carles Muntaner, University of Toronto

Canada’s Minister of the Status of Women Maryam Monsef is pictured in the Library of Parliament on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on […]

Equity and social justice, Faculty associations, Free speech and expression rights, Governance, Politics, Public policy

Free speech and the battle for the university

Shannon Dea

At the University of Waterloo, a controversial talk had the faculty association looking for creative ways to respond. How did the faculty […]

Academic freedom, Governance

Divisions in the university commons yield dividends: A partial review of Peter MacKinnon’s University Commons Divided

Root Gorelick

In University Commons Divided, Peter MacKinnon, the long-serving president of the University of Saskatchewan, has written an interesting introduction to some of […]

Collective bargaining, Governance

Can Collegiality Be Negotiated? University Governance and Collective Bargaining

Mark Crane, Ph.D.

After a marathon bargaining session that stretched into the pre-dawn hours of November 26, 2015 the Nipissing University Faculty Association (NUFA) reached […]

Governance, Health and safety

A galvanizing process: Unpacking Ontario’s new postsecondary sexual violence policies

Dawn Moore

How is Ontario’s new action plan on sexual violence playing out on Ontario campuses?

Governance, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Congress 2016 Day 2: Governance controversies and reconciliation in the university

It was another interesting day here at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Calgary. Two sessions […]

Funding, Governance

Questioning the quality of the quality assurance process in Ontario’s Universities

Donald Wiebe

The case of the Toronto School of Theology raises serious questions about the misuse of quality assurance processes in the province.