Private pretensions: the battle for Canada's universities.(Focus)

Canadian Dimension, September, 2005 by Noble, David

In our day, all that seems to remain of the historical struggle between the competing visions of socialism and capitalism, between the collective interest and the individual interest, is the euphemistic "public sector" versus the "private sector." But while most of the vitality has been drained from this revolutionary residue, some meaning yet remains unspoken, suggesting rival conceptions of society. So, locating our institutions in one or the other of these categories, public or private, carries a larger significance and merits our close attention.

In recent years, the executives of Canada's universities have been reimagining and representing themselves as private actors, while repositioning the institutions they run from the public to the private sector....

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