Higher Education in Canada

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This website is designed to share information on the activites and publications associated with Professor Glen Jones and his research teams. On this site you will find information on current research projects, publications on higher education policy, governance and other topics, as well as upcoming events and presentations.

Glen A. Jones is the Ontario Research Chair in Postsecondary Education Policy and Measurement and Professor of Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Read more...

What's New

Picture of Queens Park Building On Thurs May 16 the MTCU and HECQO joined with the Higher Education Group at OISE, to host a free, one-day symposium. Speakers discussed key policy issues facing Ontario's post-secondary system including student transfer, institutional differentiation and learning outcomes. Click here to visit the legacy page, watch video and view powerpoint presentations.

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Glen is organizing a panel session on higher education governance for the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education meeting at the University of Victoria, June 3-5, 2013. Join us Wednesday, June 5, 1:15. Additional information on the conference (and the panel sessions) can be found here.

A new e-book on university governance has just been released by the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia. The book includes a paper on "Trends in Academic Governance in Canada" that Glen presented at a CUFA-BC conference in March of 2012. The book can be downloaded for free from here.

The Asia Pacific Education Review has just published Glen's paper entitled "The Horizontal and Vertical Fragmentation of Academic Work and the Challenges for Academic Governance and Leadership." The paper can be found here (subscription). An earlier conference version of the paper can be found on the research section of this website.

International Higher Education published a paper by Roopa Desai Trilokekar and Glen Jones entitled "Finally, An Internationalization Policy for Canada" in the Spring 2013 issue.

University and Regions cover Glen's newest book, Universities and Regional Development: A Critical Analysis of Tensions and Contradictions, co-edited with Romulo Pinheiro and Paul Benneworth, was published by Routledge (June, 2012). While universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in local communities, this book discusses the tremendous complexities associated with the relationship between universities and regions that makes regional development extremely challenging. Romulo, who was the lead editor on the project, discussed the book in a blog on the HEDDA site.

Coming Up

Glen is one of the organizers of Worldviews 2013: Media, Higher Education and Internationalization, a conference sponsored by OCUFA, Inside Higher Education, University World News and OISE. This international conference will take place June 19-21 in Toronto. The conference website can be found here.

Glen is presenting a paper on the academic profession in Canada as part of an international panel at the World Congress on Comparative Education. The Congress is taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina from June 23-28. Information on the conference program can be found here.

Glen will be the keynote speaker at the "International Conference on Higher Education Student Learning and Development in a Globalizing Time" organized by the Institute of Educational Research at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October 27-28. He will also be presenting a paper at the "International Higher Education Research and Policy Roundtable" hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, November 2-3.