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8 Mar 2004

Mary Thompson (COU ability of graduate students to conduct research and to establish research programs at levels necessary for the Academic Colleague, Department of Statistics and Actuarial advancement of their own fledgling careers, in spite of Science, University of Waterloo)* the system’s need to respond to intense undergraduate teaching needs for the greater part of this decade. [...] But it is worrying that, although 8. Make Use of Internet Capabilities the number of students capable of developing research skills will increase, the number of faculty to guide their ❑ Students will be looking more and more to the web for research will not keep pace, nor will the funding avail- information, and it will be natural to try to use it to able for student research. [...] Evaluation, Admissions, and the Quality of Ontario Universities—Page 3 COU Colleagues Working Paper Volume 2, Number 3 (February 2004) Reflections on Defining Universities By Shelagh Towson (COU Academic Colleague, Department The definition of a university and the adequate com- of Psychology,University of Windsor) and Alan Sparkes munication of that definition to members of the general public beco [...] Academic free- persons who could possibly benefit from it and the removal dom means the collective right of the academic staff to decide of participation barriers to increase the participation of who is to be admitted to programs of study, what the standards underrepresented groups. [...] In its DEFINITIONS ideal form it is characterized by the practice of civility among A 1999 draft definition of a university proposed by the its members and by responsiveness to the needs of the people COU Standing Committee on Policy and Planning echoes and the society it seeks to serve.
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ISBN
0887993893
Pages
20
Published in
Canada

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