In my opinion

Reforms probably won’t be as sweeping as the coalition conservative government would like.

Grad-student parents need better institutional support.

The referee system needs to be changed, and the solution is simple.

The city-university link is critical to the restructuring of higher education institutions.

How the ‘audit culture’ is ruining the academy and harming society in the process.

A former coach pleads for Canadian universities to retain their much better model of inter-collegiate sport.

Publish in Nature or perish.

Athletics connect universities with their communities and fosters healthier, better educated citizens.

“This enrolment boom is now over. We knew this would happen.”

Their grades are mediocre, so it’s tough to promote themselves to employers and grad schools.

Time is up for varsity sports.

An excerpt from Making Policy in Turbulent Times: Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education.

Be prepared to take some flak.

It’s difficult to say with any certainty what’s happening on campuses in terms of sexual assault.

CAUT’s censure will harm the reputation and academic freedom of the very faculty CAUT purports to defend.

Debates on reform of postsecondary education require full participation of francophones and Aboriginal Peoples.

Breaking the impasse.

Try again, try harder and try often.

This is a matter of reconciling competing rights.

For many sectors of academe, ‘paying to publish’ is ethically suspicious.