University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Ivory Tower Blues
A University System in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2007
The present state of the university is a difficult issue to comprehend for anyone outside of the education system. If we are to believe common government reports that changes in policy are somehow making life easier for university graduates, we cannot help but believe that things are going right and...
by Bryce Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders. Effective Medical Leadership describes the unusual position of...
Making a Difference in Urban Schools
Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the...
The Enduring Word
A Centennial History of Wycliffe College
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Since Wycliffe College was founded 100 years ago as an Anglican theological college in Toronto, it has had six principals. To celebrate the influence they and the college have had on the religious life of Canada and other countries, six writers have collaborated to produce The Enduring Word.
The...
Celebrating Urban Community Life
Fairs, Festivals, Parades, and Community Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Communal celebrations bring out the best in us, offering a place for people to come together and take a break from the routines of daily life. They are a vital aspect of city life and are increasingly popular as an urban development strategy.
Celebrating Urban Community Life is a comprehensive...
The University and the New World
York University Invitation Lecture Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This is the first volume in the Invitation Lecture Series of York University and it is an auspicious beginning. Three leaders in higher education in the United States here present their thoughts on challenging questions of enrolment, curriculum, and standards which today confront the ever expanding...
On Higher Education
Five Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
During the session of 1964-65, the Ontario College of Education sponsored this series of lectures on Higher Education. The first two lectures in the volume, by Robin Harris, Principal of Innis College, and Professor of Higher Education are entitled "The Establishment of a Provincial University...
Someone to Teach Them
York and the Great University Explosion, 1960 -1973
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
From the early 1960s to the 1970s, the province of Ontario witnessed an explosion in university enrolment. So dramatic was the increase that there were neither the institutions nor the faculty in place to meet the demand. In response, a dozen new universities from Trent in the southeast to Lakehead...
Innovating in Urban Economies
Economic Transformation in Canadian City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, innovation and creative capacity lead to economic prosperity. Starting in 2006, the Innovation Systems Research Network began a six year-long study on how city-regions in Canada were surviving and thriving in a globalized world. That study resulted in the...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the “Toronto 18,” Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security. As governments respond to the potential threat of homegrown radicalism, many observers have become concerned about the impact...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
This volume, the Frank Gerstein Lectures for 1963, is the second series of Invitation Lectures to be delivered at York University. The theme “Imagination and the University” was appropriate for, as President Murray Ross states in this Foreword, it is in its early years that a university is sufficiently...
Thinking Radical Democracy
The Return to Politics in Post-War France
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Jacques Rancière,...
Canada and the New International Economy
Three Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
The essays presented here arose from a strong feeling that it is very important at the present moment to stimulate thought in Canada on our position in the developing world economy. The authors have been concerned about the inward-looking emphasis in recent Canadian discussions of policy and are asking...
University Leadership and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century
A President's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Canadian universities face a complicated and uncertain future when it comes to funding, governance, and fostering innovation. Their leaders face an equally complicated future, attempting to balance the needs and desires of students, faculty, governments, and the economy. Drawing on more than a decade...