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Nova Scotia Manifesto Analysis (Summer Edition)

Morning all.  Hope you are having a good summer.  Just returning briefly to the blog because Nova Scotia goes to the polls today, and in the ancient, decade-long tradition of this blog (ten years ago last week, the blog debuted with this piece to a beta audience of about 100) I gotta do a manifesto analysis.  So, here goes. The NDP manifesto commitments on PSE are disappointingly thin.  The entirety of their platform is i) “(work) towards eliminating tuition fees, beginning with tuition fees

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August 17, 2021 No Comments

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

To 2038

Universities – and to a lesser extent colleges – are dependent for their livelihood on a steady supply of young people coming through their doors.  For the past decade or so, most of the young Canadian population has been on a downswing, with some parts of the country seeing their youth populations drop by as much as 20%.  The result has been a slight drop in total domestic enrolment nationally, and some significant drops locally.  At many institutions, this fall

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June 8, 2021 7 Comments

Campuses and Univer-Cities

For the last couple of weeks, I have been plowing through three books on universities and their built environments: Paul Venable Turner’s classic tome Campus: An American Planning Tradition, two recent works on universities and cities: Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century by LaDale C. Winling, and In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering our Cities by Davarian L. Baldwin, both dealing primarily with urban universities in the United States (though the latter has some

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May 27, 2021 1 Comment
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