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(SASKATOON) — Former Saskatchewan Attorney Ge- neral Roy Romanow has called on federal and pro- vincial governments to co- operate more closely with arriving at policy decisions on the future development of Canadian universities. Romanow said that “in-
stead of reaching inter- governmental agreements be- hind closed doors, without involving and without an- swering to the Canadian public, intergovernmental re- lations must become more open and more account— able”. He suggested that the Council of Ministers of
Education, Canada (CMEC) — the group of provincial ministers responsible for university education — should invite representatives from the federal government and the university community to sit in on their discussions.
He said the CMEC should encourage greater public
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participation in developing higher education policies by holding public hearings and by becoming more account- able to provincial legislatures and Parliament.
Romanow made "the re- marks at a public forum on university accessibility held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. The association represents 71 universities and degree-granting colleges. It was meeting at the University of Saskatchewan to mark the university’s 75th anniversary celebrations.
Romanow told his au- dience, including university executive heads from across Canada that “universitites must provide accessibility. to higher education to all pers- sons who desire higher learn- ing and whose contribution to Canadian life can be signi- ficantly enhanced by that education”.
Said Romanow, “Society should do all that it reason— ably can to ensure that acces- sibility to university is
widened and guaranteed.”
Shelley Munro, Former President of the University of Winnkipeg Students’ Asso- ciation, told the gathering that “no person should be denied access to postsecond- ary studies for financial rea- sons” and that “our intellec-
tual heritage not be the exclu? sive birthright of the socially and economically fortunate”.
Munro called on univer- sities to adopt uniform ad- mission standards based on
argued against differntial fee for foreign students saying “the intellectual communit. must promote harmony an fellowship” and that “th disadvantage ofthese fees fa
mandatory literacy exams outweighs the financi . r and to institute a core cur- savings” they might bring I riculum of studies. She ‘
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little extra to offer. It is worth noting these programs spran to life as a reaction to eons of WASP male dominated cours by snobbish scholars —— like‘these three — who do not consid them “intellectually worthy.”
And it’s a pity — not to mention unprofessional — th professors Granatstein,’ Bothwell and Bercuson did not tre their chosen topic as they do their individual pieces I historical scholarship. 7
The Great Brain Robbery consists mainly of three parago . of academic virtue fantasizing about a past that never was an sloughing off the real reasons Canadian universities are on th road to ruin — underfunding, cutbacks, and federal provincial disputes — and substituting them with un'su stantiated accusations that students and faculty are to blam for governments’ flawed policies.
As CAUT’s Savage sums up: “Their charges that student and faculty have gone to hell in a handcart in the past l5 year are simply not true. "
We can only hope the historians’ shrill, breathless rhetori has not added too much fuel to the cutbacks fire that ' stroked by the likes of Pat McGeer in British Columbia an Bette Stephension in Ontario. And we see a glimmer of good i The Great.Brain Robbery is alarmist enough to get a wi variety of people thinking about the issue and contributing i a more scholarly way to the much needed debate on accc sibility and funding. .
Besides, after 35 years in the classroom, these 'three me still have a lot to learn about Canada’s university system. A. that’s another reason why.university doors should remain wid open —— so all, rich or poor, polemical or revolutionary c keep on learing.
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