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Trust Requires Change Requires Trust

Hi all. Tomorrow will feature my annual interview with Rob Kelchen about the year in US higher education, and Friday is the final Fifteen of the year, so that makes today the final regular blog of the year. And that means time to sum up and look forward. To sum up: the events of the past few months leave me pretty pessimistic. And looking forward: there are grounds for optimism, but they are slim.  The crux of the problem is this: people

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December 10, 2025 3 Comments

Five Rules for 2025-26

Morning all.  It’s been a busy summer at HESA Towers. We’ve been developing Boardwise, our new suite of governance products with our partners at Balsam Advisory, and exploring new ideas on data governance and analytics with our friends at Plaid Analytics. We’ve also been touring the country with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Thought Leadership Office and the Business +  Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) to talk about higher education, economic growth and productivity. The “what we heard” document from

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September 2, 2025 2 Comments

Summer 2025

So. This is the last blog of the academic year. Service resumes Tuesday, 2 September. It’s been a long year. I’m pretty tired. How about you? This was the year it all kind of came crashing down: not just here in Canda, but everywhere else too. It’s too long to go through and my more faithful readers already know the story. It’s not just in Canada. In France, Australia, and the UK, we saw institutions having similar problems: all these

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June 11, 2025 1 Comment

That Was the Quarter That Was, Spring 2025

What’s been going on around the world since the end of March, you ask?  Well, unsurprisingly, the biggest stories have come from the United States.  There are in effect four fronts to the Trump administration’s attacks on the world of higher education.  First of all, the government’s new budget is going to reduce student eligibility for student loans and grants, meaning there will be less opportunity available to American students.  Second, the budget also proposes to radically slash the budgets of the

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June 10, 2025 1 Comment

Welcome Back. Let’s Go!

Hi everyone. I missed you guys! Welcome to Season 14 of Canada’s longest-running data-informed higher education rant. Time flies, doesn’t it? Last year’s experiment of replacing one blog a week with a podcast seems to have gone pretty well so we’ll be continuing that. Our Friday blogs on Artificial Intelligence will be shifting to bi-weekly so we can deliver more detailed analysis and coverage on that subject. On alternate Fridays, we will be providing you with a new feature, The

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September 3, 2024 5 Comments

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