Category: Hello Goodbye

So, this is my last blog for the academic year.  For the next couple of months, I may blog occasionally if something interesting happens (but to be honest it would have to be exceptionally interesting to get me writing); you can expect normal service to resume a week or two before Labour Day. What to make of this past year?  At a campus level, I think the main story is about governance.  Partly it is a question of good governance

A short one today, the last of term.  Normal service will resume January 4th, 2016. It’s been an interesting semester.  Progress on some fronts, I think.  I was certainly very pleased that for the first time ever in this election, all three major national parties released platforms that included investments in students and, in one way or another, all targeted lower-income families.  That’s progress.  The incandescently idiotic Green platform suggests there’s still a market for dumb PSE ideas, but you can’t

So, it’s that time of year again, when we all quit the routine of work, and pretend to be on vacation, but are in fact secretly working our tails off on writing/research projects (I’ve got three this summer), which will make us even more burned-out and miserable come September.  Don’t you just love it?  But the arrival of something resembling summer (climate change is not doing us any favours in Toronto) does mean putting this blog on hiatus for a

Since vacation time is upon us, we thought we’d share a few higher education-themed jaunts we’ve been dreaming of: 1) Phagwara, Punjab Phagwara is home to the best-monikered university in the world: Punjab’s Lovely Professional University. Yes, really, that’s what it’s called – it was founded by India’s Lovely group, which specializes in agricultural goods. This would be worth a trip just to say you’d been. If there’s a more awesomely-named university anywhere, we have yet to hear it. 2)