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Category: Budgets

What Does a Poilievre Government Science Policy Look Like?

I did a tour of Ottawa the week before last, chatting with folks about what the future looks like. Here are some of the things I kept hearing. Treat absolutely nothing in here as a prediction, this is all just gossip. Now that last one I found very interesting, and I think it’s worth going back to the Harper record on Science and Universities. A lot of you got quite angry with me a few years ago when I compared

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April 1, 2024 5 Comments

A Queen’s Park (Almost) Nothingburger

Writing this blog because I suspect I am going to be inundated with press calls today and will not have time to answer them all. Journos! Take all the quotes you want from this blog—it’s fine with me. For those sick of hearing about Ontario—skip this one and we’ll see you tomorrow for the podcast with Andrew Norton. There was almost nothing new in yesterday’s budget. Virtually everything that is in the budget was already signaled about a month ago

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March 27, 2024 2 Comments

A Skills Agenda is an Infrastructure Agenda

Since it is budget season, and I am increasingly depressed about the prospects for better higher education funding, I thought I should share some musings I have had recently about how to make a better case for funding. I think there is a better story available than the one the sector has been using. And it even has the advantage of being true. Ready? Here it is. As a country, we are losing the skills race because we aren’t investing

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March 11, 2024 2 Comments

Faculty Salary Data 2022-23

Nota bene: There will be a podcast tomorrow, but the blog will be off all next week. Regular service resumes March 4. Everyone seemed to enjoy the look at Presidential salaries a few weeks ago. And, since we haven’t done faculty salaries in awhile, today seems like a good day to do that. Let’s start with average salaries by rank. Figure 1 shows current averages by rank along with (inflation-adjusted) comparisons with 5-, 10-, and 20-years previously. Current faculty salaries

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February 21, 2024 8 Comments

Lagging

I was perusing a Chronicle of Higher Education article on American state expenditures on post-secondary education when I saw a completely jaw-dropping graph. Figure 1: Jaw-Dropping Visual from The Chronicle on State Funding I mean…wow. Right? This figure actually lines up with something I had noticed a few months ago about state-level spending in the 1960s and 1970s. Though there is lots of talk about “wars on higher education” in the United States; in fact, there isn’t a very tight

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February 12, 2024 2 Comments

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