Harry Crowe Foundation 2010 Conference

A Conference on accountability and quality in higher education

January 29-31, 2010, Toronto, Ontario

Although governments have proven willing to cut back on support for universities and colleges, they have not been shy about calling for our institutions to demonstrate greater productivity and “excellence.” This enthusiasm for outcomes has promoted an ancillary industry generating "metrics" and "measurables" to meet the demand for hard evidence that our institutions are being held accountable. The price of this distrust is not insignificant.

For our third conference, the Harry Crowe Foundation will focus on outcomes-based measures of productivity and quality in the academy. We have invited an impressive group of international experts to consider assessment and its discontents, and our final plenary session will involve audience members in an extended discussion of just how an optimal system of assessment in higher education might look.

Additional information about the conference as well as registration forms are available here.

Protecting the Integrity of Academic Work

The Harry Crowe Foundation would like to thank all those who contributed to our November, 2007, conference on “Protecting the Integrity of Academic Work.” A book based on the presentations made at the conference, Universities at Risk: How Politics, Special Interest and Corporatization Threaten Academic Integrity (ISBN: 10 1-55277-040-0), is now available from Formac Distributing. Copies may be ordered by phone or fax.

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From the dust jacket: “In Universities at Risk, a group of leading scholars in fields such as education, ethics, politics, and medicine probe the forces that are threatening the integrity of post-secondary education, from both within and without. Many write from first-hand experience of resisting challenges to the independence and integrity of scholarship. . . .”

A PDF copy of the Table of Contents and introductory essay may be downloaded free of charge here.

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Free Speech in Fearful Times

Following our 2005 Conference, "Academic Freedom - Post 9/11," the Foundation invited conference participants to revise their remarks for publication. Free Speech in Fearful Times: After 9/11 in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe, the collection of essays based on those presentations, is available in paperback from Lorimer and may be ordered online.

Reviews of Free Speech in Fearful Times have appeared in Quill and Quire as well as in Peace Magazine.

For more information about the Foundation’s conferences click here.

Help Protect Academic Freedom

The Harry Crowe Foundation is a registered charity that undertakes education and research on freedom of academic expression, institutional autonomy and the independence of academic research and scholarship.

Canada's universities and colleges play a vital part in our society. By donating to the Foundation you can help defend academic freedom and scholarship in Canada.