January 22-23, 2010
OCUFA held a 1 ½ day conference on Friday, January 22 and Saturday, January 23, 2010 at the Sutton Place Hotel, Toronto, Ontario. Titled “Financing Higher Education in the Current Economic Climate” the conference brought together speakers from universities, research institutes, government and the private sector in Canada and the United States. The conference was designed to reflect on the current recession’s impact on universities, examine trends in higher education financing, and consider implications for the future.
Below you can find some of the slides that were presented at the conference. Please note that these materials are posted only under the speakers’ permission; therefore, we appologize for not having all slides posted.
| AGENDA ITEM | SPEAKERS | SLIDES/NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory keynote address: Paradigms, People, and Policy Making in Post-Secondary Education | Paul Axelrod - Professor, Faculty of Education, York University | |
| Presentation: The public funding of higher education: Is it sustainable? | Ken Snowdon - President, Snowdon and Associates | Download |
| Claire Polster - Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina | Download | |
| Erin Weir - Economist, United Steelworkers | Download | |
| Lunchtime keynote address: University budgeting: Necessity or choice in an economic crisis? | Dr. Paul Davenport - President Emeritus, University of Western Ontario | Download |
| Presentation: The private funding of higher education: Tuition and endowments | Professor Saul Schwartz - School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University | Download |
| Hugh Mackenzie - Economist, Mackenzie and Associates | Download | |
| Presentation: The private and public funding of higher education: Research | Professor Robert L. Baker - Vice-Dean Research and Graduate Programs, University of Toronto | Download |
| Professor Creso Sá - Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE/University of Toronto | Download | |
| Keynote Address: Trends in higher education finance: the international experience | Professor Donald Heller - Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University | Download |
| Presentation: Getting from here to there: Options for the university community | Dr. Bob Christie - former Ontario Deputy Minister of Finance and former Deputy Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities | |
| David Scott - Principal, David Scott Communications | Download |