Presidents... of three Canadian Universities: Carr, Gertler, and Stoicheff | The Herle Burly

Subscribe to our channel: th-cam.com/users/airquotesme...
*****
#TheHerleBurly was created by #AirQuotesMedia with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.
*****
Let’s welcome Meric Gertler, from The University of Toronto. Meric is the 16th President of the University. Prior to that, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, where he championed important innovations in undergraduate teaching and learning. He’s authored or edited 9 book and advised governments in Canada, the U.S., Singapore and Europe as well as the OECD and European Union.
Peter Stoicheff is here, President and Vice-Chancellor of my alma mater, The University of Saskatchewan. After serving as Dean of Arts and Science, Peter was appointed the 11th President of the University in 2015. He’s led it to become one of Canada’s top research intensive medical-doctoral universities, with global impact in water and food security, synchrotron science, medical imaging and agricultural technology.
And Graham Carr, President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University joins us. Graham’s previous leadership positions at Concordia include Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs; Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies; and Dean of Graduate Studies. He’s a member of the Research Committee of Universities Canada and sits on the Steering Committee of Montreal Climate Partnership.
Join us. Class is in session.
*****
Air Quotes Media: www.airquotesmedia.com/​

[@karinturkington2455]

That was a fascinating conversation. Thanks for this.

[@forklaundry]

Gosh I love hearing wealthy old men talk about how it "isn't important to be able to earn a living" with the expensive educations they provide. Say, these three don't earn any money from the prestige and good regard of their institutions, do they?

[@rometimed1382]

Best thing you can do is borrow a mint to go back to university to get some further social skills, such as how to weave like first nations persons in the 1700s.

[@LindaD-kp4br]

David, you asked a question about whether your 80% would get you into the same university nowadays. I just retired recently after teaching for 30 years. You can't compare grades now to past grades. I see incredible mark inflation due to outside pressure. It's really a terrible situation that's gotten worse since covid. And so much cheating with online courses. The majority of students are graduating with an 80% average nowadays. That was not the case 30 years ago. So you can't compare an 80% then to an 80% now. If you got 80% then you would likely get a much higher mark now.

[@kqh123]

So are people who go to university likely to earn more and have better health outcomes because they went to university, or because ambitious/smart/hard working people tend to go to university??

[@user-fp8dn8br6k]

Government is not the only source of funding.

[@itcu185]

I am a big USask fan as a learning institution and centre for research , not a big Stoichief fan ...until now!!! I give him points for not doing the ZOOM in front of a bunch of books the other 2 , they came off as phoney.

[@maple.everything]

Sure, it's possible that humanities students make more money in life than people that don't go to universities because they better grapple with the complexities of life and society. But, isn't it also possible that that:
1. They were always going to make more money because of their socioeconomic backgrounds; or
2. Without regard to employable skills, employers like the letterhead their degree is printed on, so these students are more attractive

[@itcamefromthedeep]

The costs of tuition is driven by bureaucrats and buildings. If they made a budget that looked like it did in the 80s, you'd have costs comparable to inflation-adjusted tuition from the 80s.
I suspect that there's some regulatory compliance issues behind the administrator bloat, and, I suspect it comes nowhere close to explaining the issue.

[@allan6021]

I wish the universities well with their goal to increase government funding for research. I have a son who could benefit from that. I’m concerned though that Reform/Alliance styled Conservative federal government would further cut funding to universities. I just hope that at least they would better fund colleges and trade schools because our society needs a lot more tradespeople. Boomers and older Gen Xers are retiring from all occupations and need to be replaced.

[@itcamefromthedeep]

World population won't grow by 2 billion between now and 2050. It never broke 8 billion and it never will.
China overcounted by more than 100 million. The UN estimates that Brazil has 213 million but the 2022 census found only 203 million, with the missing 10 million driven almost entirely by underestimating fertility collapse.

[@markrussell3428]

Canada needs to look closely at how we fund research chairs across this country and how the research enterprise is formed. First - get some credibility and stop racially profiling candidates and selecting your hires based on immutable characteristic. We need to get out of the garbage social science research which is labelled "low quality" and produces meaningless outcomes. When your research lakes a scientific method and simply gathers data to substantiate conclusions we are on the wrong track.

[@markrussell3428]

Universities are in a race to the bottom. I saw nothing here that is correcting the trajectory.

[@rometimed1382]

I thought the purpose of a University now was to give an expensive avenue for immigrants to come into Canada?

[@allan6021]

They somehow had to replace the 50% of their budget that governments used to fund. Unfortunately, immigration policy hasn’t been coordinated in any practical way with affordable housing supply. (There’s lots of unaffordable housing on the market.) That lack of coordination may be because the provinces and the feds have gotten used to just blaming each other in public media rather than talking. While the constitution dictates federal and provincial jurisdictions, we need a lot more national discussion and cooperation on all sorts of policy that impacts daily life and GDP.

[@rometimed1382]

@@allan6021Even down at the municipal level there is basically zero thought given to expanding communities. I cannot tell if it is simply because of poor Baby Boomer, NIMBY, management but that is the key issue I see.

[@allan6021]

@@rometimed1382 The universities should be guaranteeing a space for all first year students and they should be building the dorms to house them if they don’t have enough beds. But students in all years after that are on their own to find accommodation so they rely on the private sector for affordable housing.
I’ve definitely seen the NIMBY effect when municipalities try to build even short term accommodation for the homeless.

[@stuckinlodi100]

This is a somewhat slanted perspective on restrictive values many students adhere to.Such old boys are pleasant listening but have little to offer in an increasingly divisive 21st century. "Ive heard some of those things as a perception of a reality"..etc
Gandalf must be fed up searching for an honest liberal. Bring back Omar!