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The Future of Internationalization

Last week, I was part of a very interesting webinar put on by ICEF involving myself, Allan Goodman of the Institute of International Education (IIE), and the ex-head of Universities UK, Vivienne Stern. The webinar covered the future of higher education internationalization.  I am not quite sure when it will be posted, but prepping for it made me think about a few of the big new directions in which internationalization is heading. I spoke to three specific trends that may dominate

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December 7, 2020 No Comments

2018/19 Enrolment Data

Last Thursday was that frabjous day which every higher education nerd has pencilled into their calendar: where Statscan publishes post-secondary enrolment data and for one brief moment we go from having enrolment data which is 37 months out of date to a mere 25 months out of date.  Now, the big picture will be familiar to everyone who read The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, because I already went and got most of this data from institutional websites, but the

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December 1, 2020 1 Comment

Assessment and Accountability in the Network Era

Just a brief thought today on how the increasing interconnectedness of research efforts is making evaluation of institutional outputs harder. One of the things about academia that governments have a hard time conceptualizing is that “universities,” as a singular entity, are to some extent a fiction.  Governments treat them as discrete entities that have some agency of their own.  What is never very well understood is the extent to which university agency is restricted by the professional norms of its

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November 25, 2020 1 Comment

The University of Calgary’s New Strategic Plan

Back to Alberta.  I know, some of you may be sick of me talking about Alberta, but a) it’s the most interesting policy scene in Canada right now and b) this is how the rest of the country feels when I talk about Ontario, so fair’s fair.  Back, specifically, to the University of Calgary, which has – in response to significant government cutbacks and government complaints about the province’s universities being unresponsive to changing economic priorities, more or less decided

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November 24, 2020 2 Comments

Disciplines vs. Domains

One of my current projects has me thinking a lot about the university of the year 2040.  And my conclusion right now is that universities, as institutions, may be up for as big a re-think as anything they’ve faced in the last hundred years.  Specifically, there is probably going to be a need to re-think the role of disciplines in organizing higher learning. Disciplines and institutions sit uneasily against one another.  The original universities might have had individuals who might

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November 23, 2020 6 Comments
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