Sagas and Plots
Late last year I wrote about Burton Clark and the notion of “organizational sagas”; that is, the stories people in organizations…
September 20, 2019
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Late last year I wrote about Burton Clark and the notion of “organizational sagas”; that is, the stories people in organizations…
Good morning all. Today, the CD Howe Institute is releasing a paper I wrote on Performance-Based Financing (PBF) called Funding for Results in Higher Education. It’s a quick tour through the various ways that performance-based financing works around the world—in France, Germany, Scandinavia, as well as the United States—as well as some analysis of what we know of the PBF scheme that Ontario is theoretically implementing over the next couple of years. (NB: The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
It’s election season, and so everyone is trotting out promises and coming up with manifestos. These manifestos are lists of specific promised policy initiatives, but they are also – implicitly – a description of how a political party sees the world – how it conceives of a better society and what steps it thinks are needed to get there. Universities are not political parties, of course, but if we look at what they and their representative bodies in Ottawa (Universities
Good morning. Yesterday, I examined recent trends in income at Canadian universities; today I want to take a look at what is happening on the expenditures side. Let’s start by looking at expenditures by type. Universities are labour-intensive places, with 58% of total expenditures devoted to labour of one sort or another (if we were to look just at operating expenditures, it would be higher). About 12% goes into new buildings, building renovations, utilities and general upkeep. Nine percent is
I read a few books over the summer. Below, a few quick summaries: University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education by Melville House. Every year, there’s a new book about how college sports corrupt American universities. They are all true. As a genre, however, they get old fast. This book does the usual, looking at the relationship between the University of Oregon and the sportswear company Nike. It’s not a bad book concerning the University of Oregon,
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