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May ’68 – May ’18?

It’s May First, the day when new student union executives typically take office in Canada.  But it’s also now exactly fifty years since the events of Mai ’68 in France, which was maybe the totemic moment for those who believe in a “student movement”.  In the United States, it was the year the anti-war movement really hit its stride (following the January Tet offensive), and where the image of student power hit its peak at the August 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.  In France,

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May 1, 2018 1 Comment

Student Protest Roundup

In the world of student protest, the kids from Parkland are justifiably getting all the attention, but there are other interesting manifestations of student protest that are important to note.  A quick round-up of other movements: In the United States, maybe the most interesting story of the last few weeks has been the student occupation of the Administration Building at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington DC.  The ostensible trigger was the revelation that several university employees had been

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April 13, 2018 No Comments

Enrolment Trends in Rural/Remote Community Colleges

For giggles, every once in awhile I start looking at institutional enrolment data.  This weekend, I started looking specifically at community colleges.  I noted back here that enrolment in colleges nationally has been pretty flat for the last five years, but that’s a national picture only.  Start drilling down to the level of individual institutions, and things start getting pretty interesting. For the most part, it’s not hard to find data on individual college enrolments over time, even without paying extortionate fees

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April 3, 2018 3 Comments

The STEM-Arts Reversal, Part III

So, on Monday, I showed how Ontario universities are changing their enrolment patterns in response to changing demand and what we saw was that over the period 2009-2016, enrolments in Arts stayed flat while enrolments in STEM rose by nearly 40%. But the question is: how have staff complements changed in order to deal with this?  To answer this, I tried to look at changes in staff complements at the same nine universities.  Unfortunately, Brock does not provide data on

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March 21, 2018 4 Comments

The STEM-Arts Reversal Part II

Last week I did a blog about changes in applications to Ontario universities by field of study which included this graph, which seems to have freaked a lot of people out. Figure 1: Applications to Ontario Universities by Field of Study, 2005-2018 But this is just an indication of student preferences.  So I wondered to myself: have Ontario’s universities actually adapted to this shift and changing their admissions and enrolment patterns, or do we have a lot of frustrated wannabe-

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March 19, 2018 No Comments

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