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What Could Still Derail Fall 2021

Some of you doubted me – a few of you quite vocally –  when I suggested campuses would be able to open in-person for Fall 2021.  Now, it should be clear that with more vaccines being approved, accelerated deliveries of already-approved vaccines and the decision to permit up to four months between jabs, that pretty much anyone in the country who wants one will receive the first dose of the vaccine by June and most will have a second before

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March 9, 2021 1 Comment

Fall 2021

I see some institutions are starting to make decisions about the Fall 2021 term.  Warning: my take is probably going to upset some people.  But for reasons I will describe below, I believe very strongly that Canadian PSE institutions will likely look ridiculous if they do anything other than a near-complete return to in-person teaching for the fall. I know, I know, I was one of the voices pushing ultra-caution last year.  And I know, people feel like it’s still

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February 17, 2021 5 Comments

Examining Learning Experiences During COVID

Written in collaboration with Michael Sullivan Good morning, all.  Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.  It’s an interesting half-full half-empty story, but with some very important future implications. Figure 1

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January 28, 2021 1 Comment

The Term Ahead

Welcome back.  Refreshed?  Me neither.  But the show must go on. I want to start the year by sketching out the key landmarks and themes of the next year, and by extension, what smart universities and colleges need to prepare for. Let’s start with vaccine rollout, because pretty much everything depends on that.  Things are mostly a mess at the moment: we have doses and they are not getting into arms as quickly as they should.  This makes little sense

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January 4, 2021 No Comments

Performance and Accountability in a Pandemic

It is a disappointing time for those of us who value accountability.  Governments across the country (outside the Atlantic, anyway) are failing us – badly – in their pandemic responses.  And yet, apparently there are no political consequences for their shameful performance and the accompanying body count.  The Ford and Legault governments, with close to 10,000 deaths between them, are rising high in the polls.  Because everyone (again, if you ignore the Atlantic provinces) is making similar pig-headed mistakes, everyone

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November 9, 2020 No Comments

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