Meetings vs. Management
It’s always difficult to make accurate observations about differences in national higher education cultures. But one thing I can tell you that is absolutely not true is the perception that Canadian universities are suffering under some kind of unprecedented managerialist regime. If anything, Canadian academics are among the least managed employees in the entire world; When academics complain of over-management, they aren’t using that term in a way that workers in other fields would recognize. They are not, for instance,