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Cult Militias in the Quad

For those student affairs professionals among you who think you have it bad, consider the state of universities in Nigeria. Prior to independence, future Nobel prize-winner Wole Soyinka and some friends started an anti-colonial political confraternity known as the “Pyrates” at University College, Ibadan. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, confraternities began to spread rapidly, adopting names like the “Black Axes,” the “Supreme Vikings” and (I’m not making this up) the “Klansmen Konfraternity.” Female counterparts also emerged, like the

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January 24, 2012 1 Comment

Even More Salary Comparisons

– Updated: 8:50 a.m. Anybody want to keep going on this comparison business? It gets tougher as you move further away from Canada and the North American systems of Academic rank, but why not? Let’s start with the U.K. Data on salaries is published annually in the Times Higher Education Supplement, which divides the data into two categories: “professors” and “not professors.” The first term is basically analogous to our “full professors” (though we bestow that rank on a third

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January 12, 2012 4 Comments

Comparative Salary Data – Canada vs. U.S.

Yesterday, we looked at trends in Canadian faculty salary data. But how does our compensation stack up again the United States? Here, I take 2009-10 U.S. salary data for professors at four-year institutions from the AAUP’s Report on the Status of the Academic Profession. For Canada, I use the same data as yesterday but add professors in medical fields. I do not adjust for currency since the dollar is roughly at par. The comparison looks like this: Canada vs. U.S.

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January 11, 2012 1 Comment

Turning Japanese? (We Really Think So)

Sometimes it seems as though Canadian higher education can only ever have one good idea at a time and everyone has to join the scrum around that idea. For the last couple of years in international education that idea has been grabbing international students from India, an idea which seems to have pushed out expansion pretty much everywhere else. (Ok, before anyone says it – yes, we at HESA are a bit guilty with that too, with our India Survey,

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December 8, 2011 No Comments

Liberal Arts: A Global Trend?

One of the really interesting mini-trends in global higher education these days is the recent spread of Liberal Arts colleges into parts of the world where there is no tradition of such institutions. Singapore has invited Yale to set up a Liberal Arts college at National University Singapore, with the stated aim of creating an Asian model of Liberal Arts. In Europe, the newly-created Amsterdam University College has brought a new and very structured approach to Liberal Arts. And, as

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December 5, 2011 1 Comment

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