When a student protest against rising tuition fees disrupted his classes at the University of Calgary, Jonathan Barazzutti had questions. He didn’t have to look far for the answer. While it has become popular to blame government for the financial crisis on Canadian campuses, Barazzutti uncovered that the real reason lies much closer to home. Metastasizing school bureaucracies are not only pushing tuition fees higher but also shifting the focus of universities away from the pursuit of academic excellence towards woke-minded empire-building. If students want to see their school costs come down, Barazzutti concludes, they ought to be targeting the administrative Leviathan on campus.
Christina Park: The Problematic Push to Eliminate Letter Grades
B.C.’s decision to abandon letter grades in favour of four vague “proficiency” categories is the latest example of the move to do away with objective