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Category: Universities

The EDI Hiring Bulge

A couple of days ago on the website Minding the Campus, a product of the National Association of Scholars (one of those Alan Bloom-loving revere-the-classics, free-exchange-of-ideas, but no-not-those-kinds-of-idea outfits) a research associate named John Sailer posted a list of academic jobs that were being advertised at The Ohio State University (you have to include the “the”. It’s a rule.) as an example of “political activism.”  Here’s the meat of the post: [OSU’s] RAISE initiative (extends to fields that have little

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February 6, 2023 2 Comments

Three Takes on the Latest Ontario Universities Applications Data

The Ontario High School Application numbers dropped last week, and I thought it would be worth a quick tour of the data.  Two things first: First: I know folks from outside Ontario get cheesed off about the way I keep banging on about Ontario numbers, but here’s the thing: the rest of y’all don’t publish your data.  I cannot write about hidden data: sorry. Second: speaking of hidden data, the Ontario Universities Application Centre, for extremely flimsy reasons, has stopped

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January 26, 2023 No Comments

Serving the Community

A few thoughts on serving the community, prompted by the book What’s Public About Public Higher Education by Stephen Gavazzi and Gordon Gee (which is not as good as their 2018 work Land-Grant Universities of the Future but it still contains interesting material). The notion of having a “community” mission is not entirely accepted within higher education.  Certainly, the “land-grant” institutions, which trace their histories back to a moment in time when the American government decided to throw science and

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November 23, 2022 1 Comment

University Finances 2021-22

Nearly all universities have posted their financial statements for 2021-22, so that means it’s time to look at how year two of COVID went for Canadian universities. Let’s define who is included in the sample.   Not all institutions have put out their 2021-22 financials including: Algoma University, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Concordia University, Université Laval, Polytechnique, and the Université du Québec system, so these cannot be included.  I have also left out Mount Royal University and

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November 22, 2022 1 Comment

Study Gods and Leading Universities

Morning all.  There are two recent books of note I want to highlight: Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition by Yi-Lin Chiang, and Empire of Ideas: Creating the Modern University System from Germany to American to China by William C. Kirby. Study Gods is basically an ethnography of students at a couple of “top” high schools in the Beijing area.  It follows a number of students – both successful and unsuccessful – from early in

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November 17, 2022 1 Comment

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