Good morning, all. This is the final blog for the year apart from tomorrow’s podcast. I am probably going to do one or two blogs if and when big news comes up during the summer (and we at HESA will have some big event-related news fairly shortly, so stay tuned). As usual, all feedback and suggestions for the blog are welcome—just drop me a note at president at higher ed strategy dot com. Regular daily service will return on Tuesday
Morning all. A few housekeeping notes: this is my last blog for 2023: normal service resumes January 8th. A bit of a change-up for the next two days: the AI blog will appear tomorrow instead of Thursday, and our last podcast of the year – with Boston College’s Phil Altbach about national academic excellence initiatives – will move to Friday. Now, on to the blog: 2023 was in many ways not a good year for higher education in Canada. The
Morning all. It’s summertime and it’s time to wrap things up. Tomorrow, you will be getting our final podcast for the season – an interview with Yale Professor Zachary Bleemer on the upcoming US Supreme Course decision on university admissions (it’s a good one!). But today is the last post of year 12 (time flies!) of the blog, and tradition demands I give a summing up and a look forward. The summing up is pretty simple. When people look back
Morning all. This is the final blog of 2022: service resumes January 9th. When I do a send-off blog, it’s worth thinking about the year past and asking: what should we remember about this year and what do we expect from the year ahead? To my mind, there are really two big stories from 2022. The first has to do with Laurentian University, which was still the scene of considerable intrigue as evidence gradually mounted that its then-President, Robert Haché,
So, this is the final entry for Year XI of the One Thought Blog. I hope you have enjoyed another year of my semi-structured scribblings. Regular service will resume sometime around Labour Day (not quite sure about the exact date yet). I usually end my writing years broadly assessing where we are as a sector and overall, I tend to the positive, if for no other reason than to throw my usual curmudgeon persona into sharp relief. But this year, I
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