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‘til September
So, it’s that time of year when I say farewell to faithful readers for a few months. This is the last blog of the academic year. Normal service will resume August 30th. Today also marks the end of this blog’s tenth year. Which, you know, is a bit terrifying. Because that means this blog is probably over a million words old. I’m sure my mother would have preferred I spent all that time on a doctorate. (You should think about … [ Read More ]
A Reading List
It’s the next-to-last blog of the academic year and that means it’s time for a quick review of books to read over the summer. It’s a bit shorter than usual because I’ve been writing a fair bit about books these last few months, but we’ll give it a whirl. One book all higher education afficionados should read is The Low-Density University byEdward Maloney and Joshua Kim. Not because it is particularly good or relevant, but because it perfectly captures the Spring of 2020 and … [ Read More ]
Missions and Moonshots
There is a crowd of policy entrepreneurs in Canada – mostly but not entirely Liberal, mostly but not entirely based in Ottawa – who have really cottoned on to the whole notion of innovation. Like many of us who have despaired over successive governments’ lack of cluefulness on this issue, they are dissatisfied with the status quo. Unfortunately, these people are currently marching with wholly unjustified confidence towards policies that are largely buzzword-driven. It’s not just this ludicrous notion of … [ Read More ]
