When science’s “self-correction” meets power
Perhaps the most written about institution in the world thanks to its unique relationship with Silicon Valley, Stanford University has been mired in controversy since last fall. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, its president since 2016 (and originally from Trenton, Ont.), has been accused of co-authoring a string of papers that include images that allegedly may have been…
Keep readingWe need to make policy learning count
Creso’s new University Affairs column discusses how the Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System continues a ritualistic cycle of reviews and reports into Canada’s scientific support infrastructure. Read full-text.
Keep readingCongrats Dr. Klassen!
On December 1, Mike Klassen successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Curriculum Governance in the Professions: A Comparative and Sociological Analysis of Engineering Accreditation.” His thesis examines the political and organization dynamics of professional accreditation in comparative context, encompassing Australia, the UK, Singapore, and South Africa. Drawing from interviews with leaders of professional and accreditation…
Keep readingThe curious story of the Global Innovation Clusters renewal
Suppose you are in charge of a government initiative with a large budget and lots of visibility. And that in launching the initiative you make a splash around the country. You host several town halls promoting it. Read full text.
Keep readingCreso weighs in on the impacts of geopolitics on research openness
Check Karin Fisher’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the impacts of current geopolitics on open research and international collaboration. If you’re not a Chronicle subscriber, you may be able to access it through your library [if you are affiliated with U of T, click here].
Keep readingScience Diplomacy and War
If the vaunted features of science that are used rhetorically to promote and justify its status as an aid to international affairs are truly valued, it would be precisely in the most trying circumstances that science diplomacy should remain a viable alternative. Read full text.
Keep readingCongrats to Dr. Kachynska!
On February 28, Nadiia Kachynska successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Fostering Global Norms of Research Excellence: National Policies and Strategic Responses of Public Universities in Central and Eastern Europe.” Her thesis examines national policy interpretations of global research excellence norms in Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine, and how universities have responded to these…
Keep readingFocusing on effective management
In this month’s University Affairs column, Creso argues that we need to go beyond the tired old rhetoric of both critics of university conservatism and opponents to administrative rationalization to focus on effective management. Read the full text.
Keep readingCCA report Powering Discovery
In this month’s column, Creso discusses the Council of Canadian Academies’ recently released report Powering Discovery, which was commissioned by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. “This is a serviceable but, by design, unambitious report, generally speaking; it is more interesting for what it tells us about Canadian science policy than for…
Keep readingCongrats to Dr. Heslin!
On June 28, Donna Heslin successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Use of Social Media in the Promotion of University-Based Entrepreneurship Centres.” Her thesis examines how university entrepreneurship centres use Twitter to connect with internal and external stakeholders. Drawing from interviews with centre directors and an analysis of twitter feeds, the thesis identifies patterns in…
Keep readingCongrats to Dr. Sabzalieva!
Dr. Emma Sabzalieva’s thesis Responding to major institutional change: The fall of the Soviet Union and higher education in Central Asia won the 2021 Comparative & International Education Society Eurasia Special Interest Group Dissertation Award. Congratulations, Emma!
Keep readingNew Research: Gender Gaps Among Elite Scientists
New research by our team just published in PLOS One investigates gender gaps in scientific productivity and recognition among elite scientists in Canada, the US, and South Africa. Based on the analysis of a unique, hand-curated dataset including 943 researchers holding prestigious research chairs, our results show that even among elite scientists a pattern of…
Keep readingCongrats to Dr. Sabzalieva!
On Sept 1, Emma Sabzalieva successfully defended her PhD thesis “Responding to Major Institutional Change: The Fall of the Soviet Union and Higher Education in Central Asia.” Her thesis examines how the higher education systems of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan coped with a momentous disruption – the collapse of the Soviet Union. Combining in-depth accounts…
Keep readingA look at the Ontario report on research commercialization
In this month’s column, Creso takes a closer look at the four recommendations from Ontario’s expert panel on intellectual property, created to assess the commercialization activities of higher-education institutions.
Keep readingCongratulations to Emma!
Emma Sabzalieva has been awarded a newer researcher prize by the United Kingdon’s Society for Research into Higher Education. In this study, Emma will investigate how certain types of knowledge have been recognized and thus how merit has been determined and rewarded over time. This will be examined by using the University of London archives…
Keep readingResearch Policy needs to go beyond the promise of short-term innovation
Over the past month or so we have witnessed a quick response from Canadian funding agencies, universities, and researchers to the COVID-19 pandemic. New funding schemes have been set up by sponsors and universities, research labs have shifted directions to address pressing needs, experts have engaged …. [read full text]
Keep readingCOVID-19 may force a rethink about how we manage higher education and research funding
Faced with the emergency brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, political leaders in Canada have largely behaved like adults. All of a sudden, petty partisan bickering has faded to the background… [read full text].
Keep readingSpecial issue on North-South research collaboration
The February edition of the Journal of Studies in International Education features a special issue co-edited by Creso, Emma Sabzalieva, and Magdalena Martinez. Moving Beyond “North” and “South”: New Global Perspectives on International Research Collaborations includes contributions by an international team of authors based in different regions of the world, who bring a fresh new…
Keep readingFundamental research continues to be undermined
Emina Veletanlic explains how more funds for science in recent decades has meant more political pressure on research councils to showcase impact and demonstrate relevance. See full text.
Keep readingThe politics of science policy
This year comes to a close with a Liberal minority government in Ottawa, and the fault lines of the politics of science policy are firmly in place, Creso writes. See full text.
Keep readingCongratulations to Dr. Holt!
On Nov 25, Christopher Holt successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Exploring the Entrepreneurial Identity Development of University Students”. Through interviews with students at three universities, the thesis shows how students create entrepreneurial identities in response to many forces that “pull” and “push” them towards entrepreneurship. Dr. Holt is Associate Director of the Masters in Business,…
Keep readingThe precarious practice of cluster hiring
Creso discusses cluster hiring strategies, which are often described as prioritizing interdisciplinary collaboration but have their own unique set of challenges. Read full text.
Keep readingCreso gives Keynote at the E-WIL Symposium: Beyond Incubation
On September 25, Creso gave a keynote at the Impact Centre’s Beyond Incubation symposium — the first EWIL symposium in Canada. Read details here.
Keep readingCreso delivers keynote address at the Leaders for Education Summit in Bogotá
Creso was a keynote speaker at the Leaders for Education Summit on September 18-19. Canada was a participating country this year in Colombia’s largest annual event on education policy. Creso discussed key achievements and policy issues in Canada’s higher education and academic science.
Keep readingCanada doesn’t lack in terms of university-industry collaboration
Creso writes about the assumption that we need more university-industry research partnerships in Canada in his University Affairs monthly column. Read full text.
Keep readingThe uncertain shelf life of the Fundamental Science Review
The report of the Fundamental Science Review panel, chaired by former University of Toronto president David Naylor, has been a touchstone in the science policy debate over the past two years. Science advocates, researchers and academic leaders have buttressed calls for greater federal investments in research on the detailed analysis of funding gaps and needs put forward…
Keep readingThe ludicrous idea of a provincial intellectual property framework
This month Creso wrote about a new panel created in the 2019 Ontario budget to assess the commercialization activities of higher-education institutions. Read full text.
Keep readingCanadian budget offers little extra for science
Creso discusses the implications of 2019’s federal budget for Canadian science. Read full text.
Keep readingHEQCO’s skills agenda show a lack of rigour and scientific integrity
The way HEQCO chose to communicate the results of its recent Skills Assessment Pilot Studies is a perfect example of cargo cult policy research. See full text.
Keep readingA higher education wish list for the federal parties
The arrival of a new year traditionally inspires new hopes, aspirations and resolutions. With a federal election on the horizon, what can the higher education community wish for in 2019? Read full column.
Keep readingQuestioning university-industry collaboration policy
Underinvestment in R&D has long been a policy concern. Does the problem lie in the design of federal university-industry partnership programs? Emina Veletanlic and Creso discuss results of a recent study in Policy Options. Read full text.
Keep readingHow cancelling the UOF backfired on the Ford government
In this month’s column in University Affairs, Creso looks at the events following the Ontario government’s cancellation of funding for the Université de l’Ontario français, and how it galvanized the francophone community. Read the full text.
Keep readingMonica participates in panel on PhD careers
Monica Munaretto was a panelist at the PhD Career Outcomes: Research Results & Future Directions event organized by the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies and the Career Exploration & Education unit on Thursday, November 29, 2018. The event considered questions including: What is the value of a PhD? Where are PhDs employed? What does this…
Keep readingCreso speaks at International Forum on Education in Berlin
On Tuesday Nov 27, Creso participated in the panel Exploring Difference: Bachelor`s / Master`s Transitions 20 Years after Bologna at the International Dialogue on Education in Berlin. The panel considered the issues and challenges around Germany’s adoption of the Bologna-style degree structure, situating the discussion in an international/ comparative context considering the experience of Canada,…
Keep readingNadiia co-chairs session at the CBIE conference
Nadiia Kachynska co-facilitated the session “Bringing Classrooms to the World: Collaborating with Faculty on Faculty-Led Programs Abroad” at the Canadian Bureau of International Education conference on Nov 19. The conference was held in Ottawa between Nov 18-21.
Keep readingUntangling the mess of policy collaboration
In this month’s column, Creso discusses the challenge of science policy coordination in Canada’s federal system, reflecting on recent debates at the Science Policy Conference in Ottawa earlier this month. Read Full text.
Keep readingEmma leads discussion on Central Asia’s engagement with EU higher ed
Emma Sabzalieva was a discussant and co-organizer (with Aliya Akatayeva) of the roundtable Global Bolognaization: Central Asian encounters with the European Higher Education Area, at the Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference. The conference took place at the University of Pittsburgh on 25-28 October 2018.
Keep readingDonna and Cheryl present on entrepreneurship students
Donna Heslin and Cheryl Mitchell presented at the Global Center of Entrepreneurship Centers conference in Chicago on Oct-18-19, 2018. They discussed findings of the OHCRIF-supported project on the experience and expectations of entrepreneurship students participating in Ontario-funded campus accelerators and incubators. See the full conference schedule.
Keep readingDo we need chief science advisers in Canada?
Creso’s latest column in University Affairs discusses the politics surrounding the appointment of chief science advisers in Canada, and the questions that have not been asked in the debate about these positions. See full text.
Keep readingForget the competition trope
In the latest issue of International Higher Education, Creso discusses how the assumption that countries are deliberately competing for international students does not stand up to scrutiny. See full text.
Keep readingChris Holt appointed Lecturer at Waterloo’s Conrad School
Christopher Holt has been appointed Lecturer at the University of Waterloo’s Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business. His responsibilities at Conrad include teaching a practicum course to Master’s of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology students. Chris is currently carrying out his thesis research on entrepreneurial identity development among university students. Congratulations Chris!
Keep readingThe theatrics of the Ford government regarding free speech on campus
Creso’s latest column in University Affiars discusses the Ford government’s campus free speech policy. Read full text.
Keep readingCreso quoted in Inside Higher Ed on international student enrollment
Creso was quoted in the story International Students, Shifting Choices of Where to Study | With international student enrolments falling or stagnating at the top two study destinations — the U.S. and U.K. — what does the picture look like around the world?
Keep readingThe wide gap between rhetoric and reality in international education
Creso’s latest column at University Affairs argues that we need to move away from facile handwaving and towards a culture of evidence-based argumentation in debates over international education. See full text.
Keep readingWho knows what Doug Ford’s government has in store for higher-ed in Ontario?
With a controversial pick leading the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, don’t hold your breath on big ideas or transformative change for the sector. Read full text.
Keep readingCreso quoted by THE on the implications of the Ford election for Ontario’s universities
New premier bids to tie Ontario university funding to free speech. June 19, 2018, by Ellie Bothwell. “Universities in Ontario could be the next higher education institutions to face punishment if they are deemed to fail to uphold free speech, after populist businessman Doug Ford was elected as premier of the Canadian province.” Read full article…
Keep readingDoes Canada need a stand-alone “skills” champion?
In his latest column for University Affairs, Creso discusses the recent call for proposals from Employment and Social Development Canada to fund a Future Skills Centre. Read the full text.
Keep readingResearch team presenting around the world this summer
Our research team is making several research presentations through the end of the summer, from Congress 2018 in Regina to CHER in Moscow in late August. Click here for more details.
Keep readingIt’s time to ask different questions about innovation in Canada
Creso’s latest column in University Affairs: After five decades of telling ourselves the same story, can we start asking different questions about innovation? When it comes to generating reports on science and innovation policy, Canada is undoubtedly a powerhouse. Earlier this month, the Council of Canadian Academies released Competing in a Global Innovation Economy: The…
Keep readingThe hard task of addressing “hot button” issues at universities
Creso’s latest University Affairs column considers why so much symbolic management takes place when universities are faced with thorny subjects. Read full text.
Keep readingCreso quoted in Times Higher Education on Canada’s 2018 federal budget
As part of Times Higher Education’s coverage of Canada’s 2018 federal budget, Creso was quoted on the significance of the funding announcements for academic research and universities. See full text.
Keep readingTwo cheers from researchers for Canada’s budget
Funding rises for fundamental science with be welcomed even if they fall short of some scholars’ expectations, says Creso Sá. Read full text.
Keep readingThe superclusters plan promises more than it can likely deliver
Check the first post of Creso’s new Blog at University Affairs, looking at what the recent superclusters announcement means for universities and academic research.
Keep readingThere is a third way between pure and applied research
In a new op-ed for Times Higher Education, Creso discusses how the traditional division of research between “basic” and “applied” affects how we discuss current science policy in Canada. See full text
Keep readingNew essay by Creso and colleagues in The Conversation
Growing social, economic, environmental and political challenges make scientific knowledge not only a critical need, but a path to a shared and brighter future for humanity. That was the message astronaut Julie Payette delivered at her installation this week as Canada’s 29th Governor General. Read full article.
Keep readingCreso quoted in the Hill Times on the SR&ED program
Creso was quoted in the story With key tax credit under microscope, biotech firms say it should stay, be improved. The article discusses the SR&ED program from the perspective of biotech companies. Excerpt: Creso Sá, a professor with the University of Toronto’s Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education, isn’t a fan…
Keep readingEmina Veletanlic presents at CHER Conference
Emina Veletanlic presented the paper “Federal Funding Programs for University-Industry Partnerships in Canada: From Theory to Practice” at the 2017 CHER Conference. The conference was held at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, on Aug-28-30, 2017.
Keep readingWhat is driving the internationalization of Canadian higher education?
Creso wrote for University World News on his talk at the World Education Services and Boston College Center for International Higher Education Summer Seminar “International Education in a New Political Climate”, held on 22-23 June 2017 at Boston College. Many believe that this is Canada’s moment – an opportunity to increase the inflow of…
Keep readingSafe spaces could endanger funding for Canadian universities
Creso wrote an op-ed for Times Higher Education on Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer’s proposal to withold federal research funding from universities that do not support free speech on campus. Canada’s opposition Conservative Party elected a new leader at the end of May. Andrew Scheer, a young career politician, has been consistently described as a…
Keep readingEmma Sabzalieva awarded a Vanier Scholarship
Emma Sabzalieva was awarded a Vanier Scholarship for the remainder of her PhD studies. Her project is titled How does higher education respond to major institutional change? The fall of the Soviet Union and universities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. A holder of a United Kingdom’s Leverhulme Trust scholarship for the first two years of…
Keep readingEntrepreneurship Learning Panel at Congress 2017
Creso Sá organized a panel on The Ecology of Entrepreneurship Learning in Higher Education, to be held at Congress 2017. Day/time: Tuesday, 14:30 – 15:45 Place: Eric Pallin Hall (EPH) 142, Ryerson University The Symposium will comprehend four interactive sessions: 1. How do entrepreneurship programs promote themselves? Roger Millian, Marc Gurrisi | University of Toronto In…
Keep readingSuperclusters: Rhetoric and Reality
Creso wrote on the recently announced superclusters initiative in the CIHE Blog: Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains announced the federal government’s “superclusters” initiative yesterday. This had been in the works for a while. We already knew that the idea was to support a handful of projects across the country involving industry and universities…
Keep readingChris Holt presents at the CCSBE conference
Chris Holt presented the paper the “Institutionalization of Entrepreneurship Education in Ontario”, co-authored with Creso Sá, at the 2017 conference of the Canadian Council of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The conference took place at Laval University, Quebec City. The paper argues that Experiential Learning Theory provides a useful foundation to understand how different modalities of…
Keep readingLitmus test for science funding
Creso published an op-ed in the Times Higher Education on the release of the Naylor Report and what it means to science policy in Canada. When it won the Canadian general election in late 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s incoming Liberal government took on an unabashedly pro-science stance that set it apart from the previous…
Keep readingScience, technology and innovation: A new narrative is needed
Creso published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail on the need for new thinking to inform science policy in Canada. The idea that science is inextricably linked to technological progress is now taken for granted. Historical evidence is voluminous and examples abound all around us, from satellites that keep our GPS devices working to medical treatments…
Keep readingThe politics of the great brain race
New paper by Creso and Emma Sabzalieva examines the policy and politics around international student recruitment in higher education in four Anglophone countries. As the number of globally mobile students has expanded, governments are assumed to be consistently and intentionally competing for talent, in what has been called a “great brain race”. While the notion…
Keep readingCreating a world-class university in Central Asia
A new paper by Emma Sabzalieva looks at the policies of the Kazakhstani government towards a recently founded institution, Nazarbayev University. The government seeks to position Kazakhstan as a credible global knowledge economy, but also use the university as a means of fulfilling domestic nation-building objectives. The paper discusses what it means to be a world-class university in this…
Keep readingHow can open data inform public policy?
Creso and Julieta Grieco published “Open Data for Science, Policy, and the Public Good”, which examines the unlikely case of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research’s transition toward an open data model. The paper tackles this case through a political and cultural lens pertaining to Brazil’s history of science-policy dialogue and public accessibility of open data.…
Keep readingEmma Sabzalieva presents at CHER 2016
Last month, Emma Sabzalieva presented the paper The politics of the international brain race, co-authored with Creso Sá, at the annual conference of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) at the University of Cambridge. The paper draws on findings from the project Public Policy and the Attraction of International Postsecondary Students, supported by the Ontario Human…
Keep readingCanada’s R&D tax credit doesn’t pass the test for evidence-based policy – The Globe and Mail
Creso discusses the SR&ED program in the context of the current federal reviews of science and innovation. See full text.
Keep readingHow Brexit matters to Canadian Universities
Creso Sá and Emma Sabzalieva, on University World News, 08 July 2016, Issue No:421. The world watched with apprehension as the Brexit vote unfolded and, given the increasingly global nature of science and higher education, the British and international academic communities had reason to be particularly interested in the outcome. In the aftermath of the arguably unexpected…
Keep readingCreso Sá: Back scientists to tackle Brazil’s three crises | SciDev.Net
The uproar around the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff has pushed to the sidelines three major crises that Brazil faces — and the fact that the country is undermining its ability to deal with them. To fully recover that ability, the federal government must move science from a low-priority policy file in Brasilia’s realpolitik to…
Keep readingResearch team presents at Congress 2016
Creso Sá and team members presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) Conference/Congress 2016 at the University of Calgary, from May 31 to June 1. Presentations included: Gurrisi, M. The Critical-Democratic University Space: Citizenship and Student Engagement. Lemay, M. A. (2016). The role of expectations in shaping research policy: A historic case study…
Keep readingCreso quoted on trends in entrepreneurship education
See article on entrepreneurship education featuring findings of The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University and discussing recent trends in Ontario.
Keep readingThe Changing Professoriate: CIHE hosts one-day think tank
Ontario postsecondary institutions experience shifting faculty demographics, patterns of academic work, performance expectations, and policy requirements. How have colleges and universities dealt with these changes? What role can the provincial government play to induce positive institutional responses? These questions were debated on Friday April 29 at OISE in the Symposium on the Changing Professoriate in…
Keep readingNew CIHE report on public policy related to international students
CIHE Director Creso Sá and Emma Sabzalieva carried out a study funded by the MTCU on public policy and the attraction of international postsecondary students. The final report was released today. The report examines the policy framework in the Anglophone jurisdictions that are the major destinations for international students, and how and why their policy frameworks evolved over…
Keep readingOISE Launches Higher Ed Centre
While OISE has had a higher education research and education function since 1977, many new opportunities through new hires, along with recent internal alliances with other related scholarly efforts, has led to the creation of the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education (CIHE). As the largest academic research and policy…
Keep readingMerli Tamtik appointed Assistant Professor at UManitoba
Dr. Merli Tamtik, a former member of the research team, has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. She joined the Department of Educational Administration, Foundations and Psychology in January 2016. Merli was a SSHRC Post Doctoral Fellow at York University for the past 2 years.…
Keep readingCreso speaks at the Brazilian National Academy of Sciences
Creso Sá delivered an invited lecture at the International Seminar “Higher Education Policies in Developing Countries”, held at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro. The event took place in September 21-22, and brought together an international group of scholars, policy makers, and government representatives. Professor Sá’s presentation was entitled, “Science, Technology, Globalization &…
Keep readingJulieta Grieco awarded Ontario Graduate Policy Research Challenge by MTCU
Julieta Grieco has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Policy Research Challenge (OGPRC) by the MTCU for her policy brief “Fostering Ontario’s growth in international student mobility: targeting government sponsored international students”. Julieta’s brief draws from her study on Brazil’s Science Without Borders program at the University of Toronto. Julieta provided recommendations for the Ontario government on how to…
Keep readingCreso awarded research grant by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities
Earlier last week, Creso Sá was awarded a research grant under the Ontario Human Capital Research and Innovation Fund (OHCRIF) program of Ontario’s Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities. This project will investigate the current policy environment shaping international student recruitment in Ontario, including an assessment of competing jurisdictions inside and outside Canada. The OHCRIF is intended to support…
Keep readingHelen Lasthiotakis named Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships at University of Toronto VP Research Office.
Research team member Helen Lasthiotakis has accepted the position of Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships and Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation (VPRI) at the University of Toronto, effective September 8, 2015. As Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships and Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation, Helen has a leadership role in the oversight of strategic…
Keep readingCreso appointed as founding Director of new research centre
Creso Sá will serve as Director of the newly established Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education at OISE-University of Toronto. Standing on the shoulder’s of Canada’s premier graduate program in higher education, the Centre will be one of the largest academic research units in the field. Through its research and knowledge mobilization…
Keep readingCreso speaks to The Globe & Mail about the Thiel Fellowship
On June 5, 2015 an article on Canada’s Globe and Mail discussed the Thiel Fellowship, a program that offers highly talented youth $100,000 to leave higher education for a minimum of 2 years and focus on developing their dream start-up. Creso discussed findings of his recent book The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University.
Keep readingCreso speaks at the 2015 CSSHE Conference
On June 1, 2015, Creso Sá presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE). After being awarded the Research & Scholarship Award Professor Sá was invited to present on his recent work. The presentation focused on his latest book The Entrepreneurship Movement and The University. The CSSHE is Canada’s forum for…
Keep readingDaniel Hamlin presents research at the 2015 AERA Annual Meeting
Team member Daniel Hamlin presented research done in collaboration with Creso Sá at this year’s American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference that took place April 16-20 in Chicago, Illinois. The presentation entitled “Research Use in Government: The Role of Capacity, Relationships, and Leadership.” examines the use of research in the policymaking process. The AERA Annual Meeting…
Keep readingCongratulations to Andrew Kretz on successfully defending his PhD dissertation!
On Wednesday April 15, 2015 team member Andrew Kretz successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Exploring the effects of postsecondary experiences on STEM majors’ attitude towards entrepreneurship.” This thesis was supervised by Creso Sá. The team is very proud of Andrew’s achievement and wishes him the best of luck in his future endeavours!
Keep readingCreso announced as recipient of the 2015 CSSHE Research & Scholarship Award
The Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) has announced that Creso Sá will be this year’s recipient of the Research & Scholarship Award. This award recognizes a practicing scholar on achievements and contributions to the scholarship on Canadian postsecondary education. The award will be officially conferred at the 2015 CSSHE Annual Conference taking…
Keep readingNew Book Out: The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University, by Creso Sá and Andrew Kretz
In their newly released book, “The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University,” Creso Sá and Andrew Kretz examine how efforts to support entrepreneurial thinking and practice are impacting higher education in Canada and the United States. The book is the culmination of research undertaken by the research team since 2013, and has been published by Palgrave…
Keep readingTeam members present at the 2015 CIES Conference in Washington, D.C.
From March 8-13 the Comparative and International Education Society is hosting its annual conference in Washington, D.C. Together with other members of the OISE community, members of Creso Sá’s research team will be attending and presenting at the conference. Julieta Grieco will be presenting her findings on a study of the Science without Borders program,…
Keep readingAndrew Kretz presents at the RESUP Conference in Lyon, France
Andrew presented a paper on entrepreneurship education in Ontario at the 4th RESUP International Conference “University Missions: Reconfiguration, Interplay, and Contradictions.” The conference was held at the Institut Français de l’Éducation in Lyon, France, from December 11-13, 2014. The paper presented was based on the project on entrepreneurship education opportunities in the province of Ontario,…
Keep readingResearch Team Alumn Dr. Merli Tamtik winner of an Ontario Graduate Policy Research Challenge award
On Monday December 8th, 2014 Dr. Merli Tamtik received an Ontario Graduate Research Challenge Award from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. She has received the award for her research on policy learning in the European Union during her graduate work at OISE under the supervision of Creso Sá. Congratulations Dr. Tamtik on this outstanding accomplishment!…
Keep readingTeam members present at the 39th ASHE Annual Conference
Darren Deering and Dan Hamlin presented their papers at the 2014 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) conference that took place in Washington, D.C., from November 20th to 22nd. Darren presented a paper entitled “Public Policy as a Moderator of Institutional Forces: Developing a Theoretical Model for Academic Drift”, while Dan presented a…
Keep readingCreso attends the 2014 INEI International Conference
From November 4th to 7th the International Network of Educational Institutions (INEI) Conference was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Hosted by the University of São Paulo, the topic of this year’s conference was “Teacher Education in Crisis”. Faculty and administrators representing the various member institutions of the Network attended the conference, including Creso who represented the…
Keep readingCreso Sá and Andrew Kretz attend the 27th CHER Annual Conference
On September 8th, Creso Sá and Andrew Kretz attended the CHER annual conference where Andrew presented a paper entitled “Entrepreneurship, Startups, and Students: How New Forms of Entrepreneurial Learning and Practice Redraw University Boundaries” during a session on the changing functions, objectives and scope of higher education institutions. This year the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers…
Keep readingCreso Sá, Andrew Kretz and Kristjan Sigurdson examine entrepreneurship education in Ontario in a HEQCO report
This past July 22, the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) published a report written by Dr. Creso Sá, Andrew Kretz and Kristjan Sigurdson entitled The State of Entrepreneurship Education in Ontario’s Colleges and Universities. This report, which was commissioned by HEQCO, assesses the current environment of entrepreneurial education in the province by examining…
Keep readingCreso gives talk on Building Research Excellence to Chinese university leaders
On June 2nd Creso gave a talk to Chinese university leaders attending the University Leadership Program at the University of Toronto. The talk entitled “Building Research Excellence” was part of the two day program organized by OISE’s Continuing and Professional Learning unit.
Keep readingDarren Deering presents at the 2014 CSSHE Conference
Research team member Darren Deering presented two papers at the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Conference that took place May 25-27 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He presented a sole authored paper entitled Responsibility Centre Budgeting and Management: Hastening the demise of collegial governance?, and a paper written in collaboration…
Keep readingTeam members present papers at the 2014 Annual CIES Conference
In March, five of our team members presented at the 58th annual Comparative and International Education Society Conference that took place in Toronto. Andrew Kretz, Kristjan Sigurdson and Creso Sá presented findings on a study that explores how technology transfer indicators have informed science policy-making in Canada and the European Union. In another session, Darren…
Keep readingHigher Education and Innovation in the BRICS
Creso’s recent writing includes a number of papers on the link between higher education and innovation in the BRICS. This includes two invited chapters in an edited volume, Higher Education in the BRICS countries: Investigating the pact between higher education and society, edited by Simon Schwartzman and colleagues, to be published by Springer. A review essay…
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