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Professors in Their Places: Governance in Canadian Higher Education

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Since 1960, Canadian university governance has been the subject of two waves of discussion and debate. The first ended about 1973, marked at its midpoint by publication of the Duff-Berdahl Report (Duff and Berdahl 1966). On the recommendation of that report, the upshot of a yearlong inquiry conducted by authors who represented both administrative and professorial interests, nearly all Canadian universities came to accept that their boards of governors should include professorial, staff, and student representation. In short, university governance became more “participatory” from the early 1970s.

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Bruneau, W. (2012). Professors in Their Places: Governance in Canadian Higher Education. In: Schuetze, H.G., Bruneau, W., Grosjean, G. (eds) University Governance and Reform. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137040107_4

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