Selected Research

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Social Policy Concerning Bill 144 – Labor Relations Statute Law Amendment Act, 2004

  • Ensuring Quality and Affordability in Ontario Universities: The Path Best Taken

  • Mandatory Retirement Discussion Paper

  • Response to Report: Sustaining Quality in Changing Times

  • Sustaining Scholarship: A Submission to the Ontario Council on University Affairs

  • Under OCUFA Scrutiny: The PC Position on Higher Education

  • Who has the Right Prescription for a Healthy University?

  • University Education in Ontario

  • A Brief to the Rowat-Hurtubise Commission on Relations Between Universities and Governments (1969)

  • The Next Steps in Higher Education: May 1971, Brief to the Commission on Post-Secondary Education

  • Joint COU–OCUFA study of faculty retirement/pensions

  • The Ivory Tower and the Crystal Ball

  • The Ontario University System: A Statement of Issues (white paper)

  • OCUFA Redundancy and Stringency Progress Report, OCUFA Board Dec. 7, 1979

  • Brief to the Ontario Council on University Affairs, 1979

  • OCUFA Forum

  • Briefing Book for Ontario Provincial Election March 19, 1981

  • Reduced-Appointment Policies

  • Transfer Policies

  • Brief to the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada

  • Response to the Final Report of the Committee on the Future Role of Universities in Ontario (1984)

  • The Evolution of University Access Policies in Ontario: Access to a Higher Education Institution of the Government’s Choice?

  • Submission to the Committee on Social Development

  • Governance Reform: A Response to the Draft Guidelines for the Appointment of Members of University Governing Boards

  • OCUFA Response to the Task Force on University Accountability’s Progress Report and Issues Paper

  • Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Preserving Education: A Submission to the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development in Response to “Improving Social Security in Canada”

  • OCUFA Response to the Future Goals for Ontario Colleges and Universities Discussion Paper

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, 1998 Pre-Budget Consultations

  • 1998 Ontario Budget Summary and Analysis

  • Memo from Deborah Flynn, President, re: UNESCO Recommendation

  • OCUFA Brief re Bill 132 (Private Universities Legislation), 2000

  • Less Isn't More: Ontario Faculty Shortage Crisis

  • Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Building Ontario Universities with the Wrong Blueprint

  • Private Universities in Ontario: Decoys Instead of Dollars for Postsecondary Education

  • Between the Numbers: Government Funding Support for Ontario Universities Fails to Redress Education Deficit

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on General Government

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Surplus Distribution from Defined Benefit Pension Plan

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Ontario's Northern Universities: A Comparative Study of Enrolment and Revenue

  • OCUFA Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Benchmarks: A Prescription for a Healthy University System

  • Higher Education in Ontario: Charting a Path Forward, 2004

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Ontario Universities, the Double Cohort and the Maclean's Rankings: The Legacy of the Harris/Eves Years, 1995–2003

  • Choose Change or Loose Change: User Fees are so 20th Century

  • Reaching for the Top: What Results Could Well-Funded Ontario Universities Achieve?

  • Restricted Entry: Access to Information at Ontario Universities

  • OCUFA Response to the Ontario Ministry of Labour Consultations on the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement

  • Overdue for Renewal: Pulling Ontario's Universities Together by Bringing an Improved Council on University Affairs Back to Life

  • Higher Education in Ontario: Charting a Path Forward

  • Funding Postsecondary Education in Ontario: Beyond the Path of Least Resistance

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Closing the Quality Gap: The Case for Hiring 11,000 Faculty by 2010

  • Submission to the Ontario Human Rights Commission Consultation on Human Rights and the Family in Ontario

  • The Tuition Trap

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy

  • Academic Matters magazine

  • The Maclean's Rankings and Ontario’s Universities: A Comparison of the 2003, 2004, and 2005 Results

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • The Measured Academic: Quality Controls in Ontario Universities

  • Performance Indicator Use in Canada, the US and Abroad

  • Ontario University Interim Accountability Agreements: Where did the money go?

  • Addressing the Quality Gap in Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education: Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Quality at Risk: An Assessment of the Ontario Government’s Plans for Graduate Education

  • Budget 2007 Backgrounder: Ontario’s Post-Secondary Spending Plans

  • Quality in the Balance: Undergraduate Education in Ontario at Risk

  • The Quality of University Research: Innovation Policy and Funding

  • A Tale of Two Expansions: Intergenerational Equity, Quality, and Funding Fairness for Today’s University Students

  • Leading Higher: Funding for Ontario Universities

  • A response to the Expert Commission on Pensions’ Reviewing Ontario’s Pension System: What Are the Issues?

  • A Failing Grade: Ontario’s treatment of post secondary education is falling behind its global competitors

  • Opportunity for Ontario Through Quality Post-Secondary Education: Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • Envelope Funding for Ontario Universities: Policy Discussion Backgrounder

  • Consultation Paper on Workplace Violence Prevention: Submission to the Ministry of Labour

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • A Fine Balance: Response to the Report of the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions

  • Ontario university faculty sound warning over declining quality

  • OCUFA 2009 Budget Backgrounder: Ontario’s Post-Secondary Spending Plans

  • Comparative Students Tuition and Fee Revenue

  • Postsecondary education in Ontario and the recession: A report commissioned by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA)

  • Faculty Hiring at Ontario Universities

  • The Business of Higher Education

  • The Public Wisdom of Public Funding: Ontario Universities and the Recession

  • Investing in Students, Ensuring Success: Recommendations for a Meaningful Successor to Reaching Higher: Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • The Decline of Quality at Ontario Universities: Shortchanging a Generation

  • OCUFA 2010 Budget Backgrounder: Ontario’s Postsecondary Spending Plans

  • Better, affordable, sustainable: A university funding plan for success: OCUFA's 2011 Budget Brief

  • OCUFA Analysis of the Drummond Report: Long on Cuts, Short on Insight

  • OCUFA Analysis of the 2012 Ontario Budget

  • Investing in Ontario’s Future: OCUFA’s 2012 Ontario Budget Brief

  • OCUFA Statement on Allegations of Research Misconduct at Queen’s University and HEQCO

  • 2012 OCUFA Faculty Survey: Part 1 – Views on university quality and faculty priorities

  • 2012 OCUFA Faculty Survey: Part 2 – Views on Government Proposals

  • OCUFA Submission: Bill 77, An Act to amend the Labour Relations Act, 1995 with respect to enhancing fairness for employees

  • Submission on Bill 55, Strong Measures for Ontario Act (Budget Measures)

  • Government of Ontario Consultation Regarding the Creation of a Single Asset Manager for Pension Plans in the University and Broader Public Sector: OCUFA’s Submission to Mr. Bill Morneau

  • Growing Ontario’s Universities for the Future: OCUFA’s Response to Strengthening Ontario’s Centres of Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge

  • Echoes of the Past, Visions of the Future: Transforming social cultures and structures for Ontario’s women faculty and academic librarians

  • Post-Secondary Education in Ontario: Managing Challenges in an Age of Austerity

  • Post-Secondary Education in Ontario: Managing Challenges in an Age of Austerity – Northern Ontario Results

  • The University Productivity We Need: The Ontario Faculty Perspective

  • Protecting the Gains We’ve Made: OCUFA’s 2013 Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • OCUFA Analysis of the 2013 Ontario Budget

  • OCUFA’s response to the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities’ discussion guide

  • Investing for the Future: OCUFA’s 2014 Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

  • University Differentiation Policy in Ontario: A Discussion Paper

  • Brief on Bill C-525 Employees’ Voting Rights Act

  • OCUFA Policy Statement on Differentiation in Ontario

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