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A Matrix for the Comparative Study of Student Movements: Twentieth Century Latin American, U.S. and Indian Student Movements
Higher Education Perspectives, Vol 2, No 2 (2006)
University student movements are diverse socio-cultural entities. Depending on the cultural and economic moment, university student movements have beenintensely political entities that participate in steering the aims of government and nation. However at other moments, student movements have been less concerned with wider socio-political issues, and have worked mainly within the realm of student issues and university administration. This paper applies a matrix to analyze the commonalities and differences between various student movements and to understand more about their relationships to their immediate and broader environments. This article examines three student movements, and some of the factors leading to their evolution in India, Argentina and the United States by building on concepts first introduced by Philip Altbach in 1968.
A View from Inside the Hogwarts School of Graduate Study at Oxford
Published in 'Academic Matters' (online feature), Feb 2009, and reprinted by 'University World News' (issue 0062, Feb 8 2009)
Graduate student life can be a surreal experience. The experience becomes hyper-surreal when that graduate student life is at the oldest university in the English-speaking world. The author considers some of his early experiences as a doctoral student at the University of Oxford.
Making College-University Cooperation Work: Ontario in a national and international context
Co-authored with Dr. David T. Trick, published by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, February 13, 2009
Making College-University Cooperation Work: Ontario in a National and International Context
seeks to answer three primary questions:
• Under what conditions does institutional cooperation blossom?
• How successful have college-university partnerships in Ontario been to date?
• How do the results of Ontario’s approach to college-university relationships differ from those
of jurisdictions with a system-wide approach to promoting student transfer?
Making College-University Cooperation Work finds that there are many examples of successful
and innovative institutional collaborations in Ontario. There are some trends that can be
discerned from existing arrangements. Much of the success of these partnerships has
depended on the partners’ ability to overcome significant hurdles and to develop and execute
an agreed plan. Government capital funding has provided an essential incentive in some cases.
Collaborations have several purposes: some are primarily intended to offer opportunities for
college students to complete a university degree, while the primary purpose of others is to offer
innovative programming or to improve geographic access to university degrees.
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The Validity of Student Course Evaluations: An Eternal Debate?
Co authored with Pamela Gravestock & Emily Greenleaf, published in CELT vol 2 (2009), Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Student evaluation of courses and teaching at universities remains a highly contentious and divisive topic. Emotions and anecdotal evidence can overrule conclusions drawn from research on the validity and design of course evaluations. However, even amongst researchers, there is significant disagreement on the efficacy of course and teaching evaluations. This paper explores this ongoing dialogue through the medium of a parliamentary debate drawing from the breadth of current research on course evaluations.
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Ontario's University Tuition Framework: A History and Current Policy Issues
Published in 'The Canadian Journal of Higher Education' (2009) 39 (1), 73-87
Policy-makers and institutional administrators have long struggled with the question of college and university student tuition fees. In many ways this struggle may be characterized as a negotiation between two distinct policy goals: providing revenue to adequately finance higher education and ensuring student accessibility to higher education. The Government of Ontario has wrestled with these competing questions, resulting in major changes to tuition policy over the last 10 years. This article discusses the history of tuition policy in Ontario, recent developments, and outstanding policy challenges relating to institutional behaviour toward the current policy, set to expire in 2009-10.
Why PhD candidates should re-evaluate their career expectations
Published in 'University Affairs', January 25, 2010.
As the academic marketplace is increasingly saturated with PhD graduates, universities need to consider new ways of exposing doctoral candidates to the world outside academe. But this is not as simple as offering resume-writing classes. A meaningful shift in attitude needs to take place within universities or doctoral programs, which public policy now suggests are the key to a nation's economic future, will do a great disservice to their students.
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