Blog posts
Congress 2015: “Athens to the new Romes”
Yesterday, the Governor General of Canada, David Johnston gave a lecture as part of Congress 2015‘s Big Ideas lecture series. The topic […]
READ MORECongress 2015: The one-sided higher ed conversation
There are missing voices in the public conversation around higher education, and it is hurting our ability to articulate alternative visions for […]
READ MORERegister now for the first annual Worldviews Lecture on Media and Higher Education
Registration is now open for the first annual Worldviews Lecture on Media and Higher Education. The lecture, a spinoff of the popular […]
READ MOREAlex Usher Needs to Consider Taxation
In my previous Academic Matters blog post, I argued that there are five advantages to universal access to financial assistance for post-secondary […]
READ MOREResponding to Nick Falvo on tuition fees
Recently, on my daily blog, I wrote an analysis (link to: http://higheredstrategy.com/whos-progressive/) of distributional effects of tuition reductions versus those of targeted […]
READ MOREAlex Usher is Wrong on Tuition Fees
One of Canada’s best-known post-secondary education pundits, Alex Usher, recently wrote a blog post suggesting that Canada’s status quo system of high […]
READ MOREHEQCO distorts faculty teaching loads: News media play along
In March, 2014, the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), published a study purporting to show that Ontario professors only teach […]
READ MORELiberal arts lead to good employment outcomes…just don’t tell the policymakers
Last week, the AAC&U released the report How Liberal Arts and Science Majors Fare in Employment (for coverage, check out Inside Higher […]
READ MOREInto the program prioritization debate
Last week, we published an article by Leo Groarke and Beverley Hamilton on program prioritization. For the uninitiated, program prioritization is a […]
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