post-secondary

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    The institution’s soul

    ByDerek Schuurman

    This summer I will take on the responsibility of chair of the Department of Computer Science at Calvin University. This part-time administrative role comes with many responsibilities: guiding the hiring and reappointment of faculty, scheduling classes, ensuring academic quality, managing budgets and generally keeping the “trains running on time” in the department. To be sure,…

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    Tuition justice

    ByBob Bruinsma

    Recently, the National Post and Canadian Press reported that since 2021, 70 percent of all tuition paid to Ontario’s post-secondary schools comes from international students. The federal government is planning to reduce the number of foreign students because too many are being used as cash cows for our own domestic educational programs. In addition, housing…