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Category: Indigenous PSE

Truth and Reconciliation Updates

After writing about Ryerson the other day it occurred to me that I should take a look at what institutions have been committing to do with respect to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action. When Justice Murray Sinclair issued his 2015 report on Residential Schools and issued his calls to action, a few of these calls related to post-secondary education.  A couple were simply calls for federal funding, but four very specific ones were included with respect to post-secondary

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June 14, 2021 1 Comment

Back to 2038

Judging by the feedback on yesterday’s blog, y’all are pretty interested in demography (One Thought followers are the best followers. How great is it that my most popular blogs are about demography?).   So, I thought I would follow up on the three biggest threads of questions and commentary which have flooded my inbox and blog comments over the last 24 hours. First: where did I get the data?  Well, that one’s easy.  Statistics Canada does projections every few years,

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June 9, 2021 1 Comment

Statues and Names

Let’s talk about Ryerson and McGill. In brief: McGill University is named after James McGill, a Montreal fur-trader and farmer.  He was not a particularly notable figure in life, but after his death in 1813 he left a reasonably large bequest, including most of the land on which the downtown campus now sits, to start a college.  He also over the course of his life owned five slaves (three Black, two Indigenous). In brief: Ryerson University is named for Egerton

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June 3, 2021 4 Comments

Reasons for Hope

As you may recall, I was involved in trying to launch a pan-Canadian effort to improve digital resources at Canadian universities, especially for those courses that looked like being biggest potential pedagogical nightmares (i.e. large first-year survey classes).  I am very pleased that this effort has taken wing with some funding from the McConnell Foundation and direction from my friend David Graham. Last I checked, it had over fifteen institutions participating in some way.  The focus of the effort has changed a bit

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June 16, 2020 2 Comments

Ontario Colleges: International students up, Aboriginal students down

Lost in all the back-to-school period excitement was the release of Ontario college enrollment data for 2018-19. The recency of this Ontario data is fantastic, especially given that Statscan is two full years behind (the best data available on students nationally right now is 2016-17, because Ottawa fundamentally does not care about student data).  These are well worth a look because there are some wild things in there, especially if we look at students by “source,” which is a weird mixture

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October 3, 2019 No Comments

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