Canada is a vast and largely self-satisfied land.  And when it comes to higher education, we do pretty well.  Depending … Continued

Whatever happened to good old-fashioned fads?  Great big, often stupid, enthusiasms about things that were going to change higher education … Continued

Following up on yesterday’s discussion on the long-term rise of administration: it occurred to me after hitting send that there’s … Continued

Higher education is a hard thing to generalize about. Superficially, universities look the same the world over, but scratch beneath the … Continued

Earlier this week, I was in Moscow at a session talking about (among other things) national excellence programs, making the … Continued