Walter Gordon Sympsium Series: Canada’s universities need to connect themselves to their students and the world
March 19, 2015 | By Public Policy Admin |
Antonia Maioni argues that we need a broader view of the role of universities to deal with complexity.
Antonia Maioni, a professor of political science at McGill University, is president of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
This article is part of a Globe and Mail series on the role of Canadian institutions in partnership with The Walter Gordon Symposium – a two-day public policy conference co-hosted by the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance and Massey College.
This year’s symposium, titled Confronting Complexity: Better Ways Of Addressing Our Toughest Policy Problems, will explore how the media, private sector, governments, and supranational organizations factor into the policymaking process in our increasingly complex and changing society.
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