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Looking at the big picture: A breakdown of university funding in Ontario through the decades

University revenues by student and government funding sources Ontario student fees have accounted for a greater share of current university revenues (primarily […]

Funding, Research and innovation

The public value of public funding for research

Jeff Noonan

Basic, curiosity-driven research continues to take a backseat to privately and publicly funded research linked to short-term commercial profit. We must push […]

Politics, Teaching and learning

What happened to the issue of postsecondary education?

André Turcotte and Heather Scott-Marshall

Postsecondary education is an issue that affects a majority of Ontarians, but it does not often feature prominently in provincial elections. How […]

Faculty associations, Students

Building solidarity on Ontario’s university campuses

Nour Alideeb

University administrations often seek to advance unpopular agendas by attempting to pit students and faculty against each other. Through campus alliances, we […]

Free speech and expression rights, Worldviews

2018 Worldviews Lecture: The challenges of free speech on campus

The Worldviews Lecture is a lively forum to advance mutual understanding of the relationships, challenges, and potential of the academy and media. […]

Humour

Humour Matters: It’s time to make meaningless words great again

Steve Penfold

When it comes to humour about public funding, there really is no way to compete with reality. The last time the basic […]

Funding

Unintended consequences: The use of metrics in higher education

Gavin Moodie

Metrics are used throughout Ontario’s postsecondary education system—for determining university funding, judging institutional performance, and gauging student perceptions. But metrics are not […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure

Is there a metric to evaluate tenure?

Tim Sibbald and Victoria Handford

How much can data meaningfully inform decisions about tenure? If data only tell part of the story, perhaps faculty should be evaluated […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Journals and publishing, Performance assessment, Research and innovation

The abuses and perverse effects of quantitative evaluation in the academy

Yves Gingras

The world of academic research is scored according to so-called “objective” measures, with an emphasis on publications and citations. But the very […]