Alex Usher
Higher Education. All of it. All around the world. Also: snark, sumo, Winnipeg Jets triumphalism and bitching about Toronto FC.
I blog here: higheredstrategy.com/blog/
I podcast here: worlded.transistor.fm
- Imagine writing a piece like this and not bothering to check changes in avg household size. You'd feel silly wouldn't you? Maybe that you weren't all that good at policy analysis? www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-63...
- The cash value of MUN going from 7 VPs to 3 VPs plus 3 Assoc VPs (or whatever they are calling them), is probably $400K, +/- $100K. MUN's structural deficit is $20M. The move is a reasonable response to public concern about admin. It does not significantly address the uni's financial challenge.
- Why I think that, with the right kind of push, Canadian higher education might be on the verge of a wave of good innovations.
- There's an article like this in the SCMP every week. Every. Single. Week.
- For @evansolomon.bsky.social, who wants us all to trust AI.
- Interdisciplinarity was much more common in the 19th C.
- 1941?
- Always interesting to see what others think of us: @jimdickinson.bsky.social on why Graduate Student Unions make Canada a bit of an outlier.
- Woof.
- Just catching up on what @jimdickinson.bsky.social has been writing about Canadian student unions. He packed a ludicrous amount of work into just three days...
- And here's @jimdickinson.bsky.social's generous & very thoughtful review of the Re: University Conference @hesa-highered.bsky.social held in YOW Thursday and Friday. I agree w/him re: giving students a greater role (there was a point in the 90s where SUs *almost* went in that direction but alas)
