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This article presents a profile of deans in Canadian higher education - their background, career patterns, role characteristics, and professional development needs. Data were collected by a questionnaire mailed to all deans and directors in public degree-granting institutions in Canada.…

Confronted with growing public skepticism concerning the value of higher education, the spiralling costs of educational services and an overall mood of economic retrenchment and uncertainty, academic organizations face the need to develop policies to maintain their institutional health under…

The paper examines the contribution the sociologist's status attainment model makes towards comprehending reasons for the decline, since the mid 1960's, in the economic prospects of university graduates. The assumptions of the model are compared with those underlying an economist's…

It is argued that since an institution's recurrent income is so critically dependent on its total full-time equivalent enrolment, resource allocation should be based on measures of the contributions of individual teaching units to the institution's total full-time enrolment. A…

This paper describes a programme which attempted to upgrade prospects of students entering Memorial University of Newfoundland Regional College in Corner Brook in September of 1976. The elements of the programme are described and results are presented which compare the…

L'intervention du gouvernement fe´de´ral dans le financement des universite´s que´be´coises a pris diverses formes au cours des anne´es. Ce financement a touche´ aussi bien la formation ge´ne´rale que professionnelle, laformation proprement scolaire aussi bien que les activite´s para-scolaires, la recherche…

L'Universite´ de Montre´al, a` l'instar d'autres institutions, a implante´ au de´but des anne´es '70 une politique d'ouverture disciplinaire. Elle correspondait aux yeux des responsables, a` la solution ade´quate de certains proble`mes socio-e´conomiques: ne´cessite´ de re´pondre a` des contraintes d'ordre financier,…

Purpose: Abatacept was approved in our hospital by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee for treatment of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adult patients with inadequate response or intolerance to disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), including at least one…