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Tag: Dalhousie University

Nova Scotia and the Politics of Listening

I know, I know, you all want more on the ongoing omnishambles that is Ontario. You’re going to have to wait. What’s happening in Nova Scotia is probably more important in the long term (yes, really) and institutions across the country need to pay attention. Normally, Nova Scotia universities are funded through a series of Memorandums of Understanding signed every three or four years or so. Objectives are agreed, and the universities get some planning certainty. This year, very suddenly

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March 4, 2024 6 Comments

History of Canadian PSE Part I (to 1900)

I decided over the summer to try to write an outline sketch of Canadian Higher Education for y’all.  Expect installments periodically. SNAPSHOT: In 1900, Canadian universities together enrolled 6,641 students.  89% were male, 11% female.  44% of students were in the Arts and Science, while 27% were in medicine, and 11% were in Engineering. *** The key to understanding Canada’s somewhat chaotic higher education system lies in understanding two key phenomena: sectarianism and federalism.  The former issue historically dominated Canadian higher education and gave

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September 7, 2018 1 Comment

The Listening Tour

There’s a little management technique gaining some traction called the “Listening Tour”.  In the US, over the past eighteen months, new Presidents at Carnegie Mellon and James Madison have used this to inaugurate their terms.  At Princeton, new President (and erstwhile Provost) Chris Eisgruber decided to embark on an entire “Year of Listening”, though why he needs a whole year when he’s been provost for the past nine is unclear.  Here at home, the pioneer of this is new Dalhousie

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January 15, 2014 8 Comments

The Presidential Merry-Go-Round

It was noted recently that there are some big presidential vacancies looming, most notably at Toronto, McGill, Victoria, and Dalhousie.  So who’s going to get these plum jobs? At Dalhousie, of course, we already know the answer: It’s Richard Florizone – formerly the VP Finance and Administration at the University of Saskatchewan, who also had stints at the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank), Bombardier, and the Boston Consulting Group. This wasn’t Florizone’s first attempt at becoming a

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December 13, 2012 1 Comment

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