Dr. David Leadbeater was an Associate Professor of Economics before being one of about 200 employees terminated by Laurentian University. He and Caitlin K. Kiernan are authors of the study “Decline and Protracted Crisis in Ontario’s Northern Universities and Arts Education” (2020).
June 10, 2021
Ontario governments have reduced their public grants for university operating revenues from a level at about 80% in 1980 to around 50% in 2004, and to only 38% in 2017.
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