“We do not accede to thuggish tactics by mobs”
U of T president responds to campus protest; says charges may be laid
View ArticleWho is Canada’s most highly paid academic?
Surprise: Ontario's salary leader isn't a university president.
View ArticleUpdate: Maybe David Naylor is a (relative) bargain
U of T says president's house is included in compensation. That means the head of the largest university in Canada is paid less than several of his colleagues
View ArticleU of T wants fewer students
President says education will be improved by reducing undergrad enrolment on downtown campus
View ArticleCollege presidents: gaining on their more highly paid university peers
The pay of college executives still trails that of universities, but they're catching up
View ArticleWhere you need to go in Ottawa for a good idea
How to attract human capital and find a place for science students in industry
View ArticleLawyering up impedes progress
There are better ways to deal with an unresponsive administration than sit-ins, violence and lawsuits
View ArticleGreyson & Loubani were lucky. David Gilmour was not.
Barbara Amiel on the campus zeitgeist
View ArticleNaylor on the knowledge economy
David Naylor, the University of Toronto’s president, delivers a speech on research, innovation, and Canada’s business culture that’s eerily similar to a column I published last week. Drawing from some...
View ArticleA columnist writes about education and the knowledge economy
And it isn’t me! Or Jeff Simpson! No, it’s colleague John Ivison, who does a bang-up job of summarizing the conversation that ensued when UofT president David Naylor came to Ottawa last week, where he...
View ArticleMetablog: Adding to Wells on Ivison on Naylor
Colleague Wells points us to what I agree is a very good piece by Ivison on David Naylor’s visit to Ottawa. Toward the end of his column, Ivison references a piece on the recession and higher...
View ArticleWhere you need to go in this town for a good idea
Science and technology minister Gary Goodyear was at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto to fulfill a commitment the feds made in their most recent budget: he launched a review of Canada’s policies...
View Article[UPDATED] Black History Month, and the Canadian at Lincoln’s deathbed
A few years back I came upon one of those historical footnotes that gets you thinking: after Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, as he lay dying in a boarding house across the street from the...
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