This article discusses the possible ways in which visual research methodologies can be extended and applied to study similarities and differences in higher education institutions (and systems) in the context of the visual and digital turn in social science methodologies. The article focuses on the methodological potential of the institutional…

This article views Canadian university as it functions as corporation, collegium, and community and suggests that all three dimensions are currently being tested. It concludes that, in determining the university's role in the future, three ingredients are needed: responsiveness to economic and social stresses and challenges; a deeper sense of…

Scholarly writings concerning the history and philosophical goals of Canadian higher education in general, and four universities in particular, are surveyed. Recent stresses that have undermined the universities as centers of intellectual life are described, leading to a discussion of the potential these institutions have for a cooperative…