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Data from two independent research studies are used to assess student outcomes resulting from formal university instruction. University education is found to produce added value on a number of important dimensions of student development. However, on a number of other…

The creation of the new university-colleges in British Columbia provides an opportunity for a reassessment of the professor's workload. How relevant are research and publication to the quality of undergraduate instruction? Universities have traditionally maintained that such research and publication…

Unlike the United States, the Canadian provinces have established public monopolies of degree-granting institutions to which there are few private exceptions. This paper offers a case-study of challenges to the public monopoly in university education in one province—Ontario. Recently, the…

Within the framework of contingency theory, the impact of environmental and organizational variables on professors' perspectives on the future of the university is analyzed. The sample consists of 1 225 university professors of all Québec universities who answered a survey…

La gestion des ressources humaines dans les départements universitaires est devenue un thème central dans le contexte des contraintes financières auxquelles sont confrontées les universités canadiennes à l'heure actuelle. Au Québec, la modulation des tâches représente un sujet de plus…

Monte Carlo simulations of the randomly frustrated three-dimensional Heisenberg model with a moderate fraction (20%) of antiferromagnetic bonds show evidence of two distinct ordering events. Below Tc the spins align collinearly and exhibit ferromagnetic order, while below Txy the transverse…