Publications

Academic Transformation: The Forces Reshaping Higher Education in Ontario. Co-authors Ian D. Clark, Greg Moran, and Michael Skolnik. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.

Academic Transformation examines the developments that are re-shaping Ontario’s postsecondary system, including higher enrollment, further development of a knowledge-based economy, increased demands for research focused on competitiveness and productivity, and Ontario’s transition to a multicultural, internationally connected, urban, and aged society.

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Academic Reform: Policy Options for Improving the Quality and Cost-effectiveness of Undergraduate Education in Ontario.  Co-authors Ian D. Clark and Richard Van Loon.

McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011.

Academic Reform provides realistic policy options for improving the quality and the cost-effectiveness of undergraduate education in Ontario.  The authors show that options are available for providing high-quality education to an ever-expanding number of students at a more affordable cost to both students and governments.

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The Cost of Recruiting and Admitting Transfer Students: Results of a Survey of Ontario Colleges and Universities.  Toronto: Ontario Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2016.

Affiliated and Federated Universities as Sources of University Differentiation.  Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2015.

The Role of Intermediary Bodies in Enhancing Quality and Sustainability in Higher Education.  Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2015.

How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature.  Co-author Thomas Carey.  Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2013.

College-to-University Transfer Arrangements and Undergraduate Education: Ontario in a National and International Context. Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2013.  Video interview. Reply to Alex Usher.

College-to-University Transfer Arrangements and Undergraduate Education: Ontario in a National and International Context: Research Notes. Co-author Jill Lawrance.  Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2013.

Making College-University Collaboration Work: Ontario in a National and International Context. Co-author Andrew Boggs.  Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2009.

“Advising for impact: Lessons from the Rae review on the use of special-purpose advisory commissions” Co-author Ian D. Clark. Canadian Public Administration 49:2 (Summer 2006): 180-195

Capital costs of Selected Postsecondary Campuses.  Prepared for the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, 2012.

Quality: Shifting the Focus: A Report from the Expert Panel to Assess the Strategic Mandate Agreement Submissions.  Report to the Ontario Minister of Training Colleges and Universities, 2013.  [David Trick was one of 10 panel members.]

“Finding precedents for the unprecedented (part 1): A new double cohort?” Itsnotacademic (blog).  Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, April 17, 2020.

“Creating pathways, removing roadblocks.”  Co-author Jackie Pichette.  Itsnotacademic (blog).  Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, January 24, 2020.

“Strengthening numeracy skills in university and college students: What’s the best way forward?” Co-author Jackie Pichette.  Itsnotacademic (blog).  Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, January 17, 2020.

“Taking Apprenticeship Seriously.”  Itsnotacademic (blog).  Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario,  November 20, 2014.

“A happy 50th birthday to Ontario’s MTCU.” Itsnotacademic (blog).  Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario,  May 8, 2014.

“Robarts Plan for Higher Education Goes Golden.” Itsnotacademic (blog).  Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario,  March 20, 2013.  [The Robarts statement appears in the Legislature of Ontario Debates, March 21, 1963, pages 2001-2012.]

“Universities: Bang for Our Buck?”  The Agenda with Steve Paikin.  With Alicia Ali, David Naylor and Harvey Weingarten.  TVO, April 25, 2012.

“University class sizes.”  The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright.  With Ian D. Clark.  CBC Radio One, February 19, 2012.

“Expanding graduate programs and renewing the professoriate: What’s the connection?”  Co-authors Ian D. Clark and Richard Van Loon.  Academic Matters, February 2012.

“Book excerpt: Time to consider a new type of university.”  Co-authors Ian D. Clark and Richard Van Loon. University Affairs, November 7, 2011.  [Excerpt from chapter 5 of Academic Reform]

“Funding Ontario universities: What role should students play?” Co-authors Ian D. Clark and Richard Van Loon.  The Blue and White, November 1, 2011.

“New universities for Ontario.”  Toronto Star, October 14, 2011.

“Ontario’s reticence in higher education: Is it time to contemplate major system reform?”  Co-authors Ian D. Clark and Richard Van Loon.  The Blue and White, February 9, 2011.

“Bringing teaching-oriented faculty into the mainstream”  Co-authors Ian D. Clark, Greg Moran and Michael L. Skolnik. Educated Solutions, Fall 2010.  10-11.

Review of Assessing Quality in Postsecondary Education: International Perspectives, ed. by Harvey P. Weingarten, Martin Hicks and Amy Kaufman (Montreal and Kingston: McGill University Press, 2018): pp. 197.  Higher Education Research and Development (17 May 2018). 

“Disentangling university research policies.”  Review of G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney (editors), Research and Innovation Policy: Changing Federal Government – University Relations. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), and David D. Dill and Frans A. Van Vught (editors), National Innovation and the Academic Research Enterprise: Public Policy in Global Perspective. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).  Academic Matters, September 2010. 

“Definitely not for loss.”  Review of Mission and Money: Understanding the University, by Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, and Evelyn D. Asch (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).  Academic Matters, March 2010. 

“Making Decisions That Endure for Decades.”  Review of Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society, Paulo Santiago, Karine Tremblay, Ester Basri and Elena Arnal (Paris: OECD, 2008).  Academic Matters, May 2009.

“Continuity, Retrenchment and Renewal: The Politics of Government-University Relations in Ontario, 1985-2002.”  Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 2005.

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