Universities should maximize their role as city-builders

By Jean-Paul Addie and Roger Keil. The city-university link is critical to the restructuring of higher education institutions. Universities and cities are often perceived to be in a close family relationship but, as in all good families, that can be complicated. In the past, these relations were captured in the benign-sounding term “town and gown.” In recent years, though, the connections of cities and universities have started to shift as higher education’s orientation towards global markets has left its imprint on Canada’s university system. More...