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Encore une fois

You may remember that late in 2018 the Ontario government decided to put the kibosh on funding l’Université de l’Ontario français (l’UOF).  Then last fall, the federal government – showing a key eye for supporting minority language rights in Ontario if not consistency in funding minority language rights across the country – popped up and offered to pay for half of the running costs over the next eight years.  Up front.  As in, all the running costs for the first 4-5 years,

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March 10, 2020 No Comments

Better University-Business Partnerships

I have a new client and – accidentally, I guess – a new line of business.  It’s explaining to businesses how post-secondary institutions actually work and how to navigate their internal processes to arrive at better partnerships.  If you work at a university, that probably sounds strange to you, but trust me, it’s not half as strange as you all appear to the outside world.  Put yourself in the shoes of a large-ish (but not huge) Canadian company, which is

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February 27, 2020 4 Comments

The Mediocrity of Canadian Quality Assurance

We have two more provinces looking at Performance-Based Funding (PBF): Manitoba and New Brunswick.  The former isn’t a huge surprise – it was something recommended by the Manitoba College Review (conducted in part by yours truly) and it was clear that if PBF was enacted, it would need to include colleges as well.  We can only hope that they follow the part of the recommendation which limited the performance funding to graduation outcomes, and not try to jam in every

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February 26, 2020 5 Comments

One Last Thought (Really) on Administrative Bloat, 2020

NOTE: Please see this blog for a correction to the U of T numbers. (I promise this is the last one.) Here is the graph from yesterday and last Wednesday, on academic and non-academic staff numbers, only this time with UBC included because the folks there kindly sent me their numbers. Figure 1: Percentage Growth in Academic vs. A&S Staff numbers, Self-Selected Institutions Which Publish Staffing Data, 2010 to most recent year available              Yesterday, I pointed out that this

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February 25, 2020 1 Comment

One More Thought on Administrative Bloat

One of the great things about Twitter is the quick feedback about things.  And last Wednesday, when I posted the graph below, people started banging on right away, saying “Yeah! Right on!  Administrative Bloat!” Figure 1: Percentage Growth in Academic vs. A&S Staff numbers, Self-Selected Institutions Which Actually Publish Staffing Data, 2010 to most recent year available             Nobody took me up on the offer about how to think about that graph in connection with what I had published the previous

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February 24, 2020 No Comments
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