Scholars and Dollars: Politics, Economics, and the Universities of Ontario, 1945-1980

Axelrod, Paul

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“…Guelph also took to the radio airwaves, beginning in 1979, with an ad targeting teens featuring the following jingle: High school's behind me / I'm headin' on out Wanna keep on learnin' / Gonna find myself Find self a place / Gonna check out Guelph Myself and Guelph (Axelrod, 1982, p. 194) That year, Guelph also developed promotional posters and ran ads in weekly newspapers and Teen Generation, a magazine distributed free to Ontario high school students (Tausig, 1980). At the time, Paul Axelrod (1982) notes, this was viewed as an example of the "more extreme and questionable" (p. 194) recruitment tactics found in Canadian universities. In 1980, University Affairs journalist Christine Tausig wrote that "extravagant" (p. 2) marketing was viewed as undignified, even vulgar; university officials thought that students would suffer if recruitment practices went beyond a straightand-narrow informational approach.…”

Section: Historical Overviewmentioning

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“Part of the University Lexicon”: Marketing and Ontario Universities, 1990-2013

Bolan

Robinson

2013

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Section: Historical Overviewmentioning

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“Part of the University Lexicon”: Marketing and Ontario Universities, 1990-2013

Bolan

Robinson

2013

Canadian Journal of Communication

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“…Of particular note were US faculty who sought positions at Canadian universities beginning in the late 1960s (Axelrod 1982;Blumenthal et al 1996). Faculty in all subject areas was desperately needed during this time period because of the rapid expansion of higher education in Canada in the postWorld War II years.…”

Section: American Review Of Canadian Studies 121mentioning

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Academic Migration at the Canada–US Border

Tremblay

Hardwick

O'Neill

2014

American Review of Canadian Studies

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This article uses data provided by national faculty directories, individual and departmental websites, interviews, and autobiographical essays to engage the literature on academic migration at the Canada-US borderland. Our goal is to analyze the crossborder migration, spatial patterns, and motivational factors shaping the cross-border flows of academic migrants from one selected discipline. Following a foundational discussion of the related political, economic, and sociocultural push-pull factors influencing the migration of university faculty in Canada and the US during the past four decades, we focus on a case study of two comparative groups of academic migrants to compare the numbers, specializations, academic ranks, location patterns, and interrelated factors of North American academic migrants at the borderlands in recent years.

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“…Though simultaneously a means of social control, the welfare state brought a partial decommodification to numerous aspects of reproduction, as entitlements to health, education and welfare replaced market allocations (Gough and Steinberg, 1981). A raft of social interests emerged around the issue of reproduction, many of which became integrated into the hegemonic project, as in the expansion in the 1960s of state-funded post-secondary education (Axelrod, 1982). By its zenith in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the social forces organized behind the Fordist project included the productionist bloc, the social proletariat, and certain sections of the welfare state's clientele, each of whom saw their interests embodied in the demand-driven &dquo;mixed economy&dquo; and the interventionist state (cf.…”

Section: The Fordist Project: Rise and Demisementioning

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Social Democracy, Neo-Conservatism and Hegemonic Crisis in British Columbia

Carroll

Ratner

1989

Critical Sociology

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This paper adopts a Gramscian perspective in presenting a case study of hegemonic crisis and political-economic restructuring. In British Columbia, the period from 1983 through 1987 marked a decisive shift from a variant of Fordism to a neo-conservative project with strong resonances of Thatcherism. Focusing on the historical specificity of the province in the Canadian political economy and the political crises of 1983 and 1987, we explore the structural and strategic reasons for this transformation, and examine the obstacles confronting the left in its hesitant attempts to mount a successful opposition around a counter-hegemonic project. Hegemony and the Canadian StateThe 1980s have witnessed a protracted economic downturn and sharpening of class politics in British Columbia, a Canadian province long known for its militant labor movement and mass-based social-democratic party.i This paper explores the underpinnings and implications of two important episodes of collective action in this period, which took place as moments of defensive mobilization against an ascendent neo-conservatism at the provincial level of the Canadian state.In theorizing these struggles we draw on the problematic of Antonio Gramsci, within which hegemony is viewed as a strategy of &dquo;moral and intellectual&dquo; leadership hinging on (1) the capacity of a class or fraction thereof to go beyond its present material or &dquo;economic-corporative&dquo; interests to articulate &dquo;universal&dquo; interests for the whole of society, and (2) at LAURENTIAN UNIV LIBRARY on June 4, 2016 crs.sagepub.com Downloaded from 30 a class's success in securing the consent of other class fractions and social groupings, i.e., in unifying around itself a &dquo;group of allies&dquo; (Sassoon, 1982:111; Adamson, 1980:171; Bocock, 1986:45). As Jessop points out, &dquo;the key to the exercise of such leadership is the development of a specific 'hegemonic project' which can resolve the abstract problem of conflicts between particular interests and the general interest&dquo; (1983:100), thus opening up a &dquo;national perspective&dquo; to the whole of society (BuciGlucksman, 1982:120). Such projects are themselves underwritten by specific accumulation strategies which give a characteristic form to the circuit of capital and tend to create a material basis for consent among certain class fractions.In the development of Canadian capitalism we can distinguish two periods in which a national-popular will was mobilized on the basis of a successful hegemonic project. In the era of capitalist consolidation and initial monopolization, the National Policy combined an import-substitution accumulation strategy with a project of nation-building that involved a succession of compromises and alliances between capitalists, workers, and the petite bourgeoisie. The National Policy tariff, for instance, met the immediate interests that Canada's fledgling working class had in employment while protecting the emerging home market for Canadian capitalists (Craven and Traves, 1979). ...

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Scholars and Dollars: Politics, Economics, and the Universities of Ontario, 1945-1980

Cited by 15 publications

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“Part of the University Lexicon”: Marketing and Ontario Universities, 1990-2013

“Part of the University Lexicon”: Marketing and Ontario Universities, 1990-2013

Academic Migration at the Canada–US Border

Social Democracy, Neo-Conservatism and Hegemonic Crisis in British Columbia

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