Campus, community and progress

By Mike Savage. Proud to be mayor of an education hub. This essay is adapted from an address that Halifax Mayor Mike Savage gave in February to a meeting of university government relations officers and communications directors, convened in Ottawa by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.
As a member of parliament for seven years and, until 2011, chair of the Liberal Post-secondary Education and Research Caucus, I had the privilege of traveling around Canada and learning about our universities and colleges through meeting presidents, other leaders, students, professors and researchers. I was very lucky to have learned about, and worked with, universities and colleges as an MP, and am indebted to many for their patience and time. But as I considered running for mayor of Halifax, I began to see postsecondary institutions through a somewhat different lens, a wider lens. Read more...