Among the many, many things I never thought I would do before getting into this line of work is reading a whole ton of campus histories. Seriously, I will read almost anything like this. It’s about the first thing I do when I get to a campus: head to the bookstore and try to find an institutional history. And having thus become something of a connoisseur, I can give you an overview about the state of the art. Basically, there is a
I have been getting emails soliciting my option about the Government of Ontario’s decision to make the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) a stand-alone university. This is a big issue in Northern Ontario, with many people getting upset over what I think amounts to very little. But perhaps we should rewind to the beginning. NOSM is a fairly unique medical school. It was created in the mid-2000s to deal with a persistent shortage of doctors in Northern Ontario. In
Morning, everyone. Apologies for the pause in posting: it’s been a rough few weeks, health-wise. I am not 100% yet, and blogging might not be 4x per week for a little while, but time to get back in the saddle: there’s too much going on to sit on the sidelines. So, it’s a big day at Laurentian University. The administration – or at least the tiny portion of if that actually knows what’s going on – has called a super-duper secret
Sometimes when you pick up an old book about higher education, it’s like stepping into a weird version of the present because the issues are exactly the same, only presented in the language of a different decade. The book I picked off the shelf this week, though, is nothing like that – it’s actually a really interesting window into a totally different world of higher education. And it’s actually not a book, but a “bulletin” of the Association of American
Some of the more interesting piece on our shelves are not actually books at all, but pamphlets, short guides, conference proceedings, and other paraphernalia. One day, I will show y’all the programme from that 2006 conference on student aid sponsored by the Thai government, where we got to see the Thai civil servants in their quasi-military uniforms (this is a thing, believe it or not), and where the Deputy Minister of Finance mounted the stage beneath two crossed shooting jets
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