{"id":1932,"date":"2010-03-17T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:51:08","slug":"canada-needs-all-universities-to-do-research-brocks-president-weighs-in-on-the-debate-over-whether-the-big-5-should-get-the-lions-share-of-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/canada-needs-all-universities-to-do-research-brocks-president-weighs-in-on-the-debate-over-whether-the-big-5-should-get-the-lions-share-of-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada needs all universities to do research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jack Lightstone wrote the opinion piece &#8220;Canada needs all universities to do research; Brock&#8217;s president weighs in on the debate over whether the &#8216;Big 5&#8217; should get the lion&#8217;s share of research funding&#8221; that appeared in the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> on March 8. The article argues against research dollars being spent only at Canada&#8217;s largest research institutions. Accompanying the article was a photo of a former Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Research Institute researcher.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada needs all of its universities to contribute to post-graduate education. Four or five, even 10 or 13 institutions, could not possibly produce the numbers without becoming mass-education, graduate student factories \u2014 precisely the wrong model for post-graduate education.<\/p>\n<p>We would be turning back the clock more than 50 years, when only a limited number of Canadian universities offered graduate programs in a wide array of fields. At that time, many of Canada&#8217;s best undergraduates went elsewhere for post-graduate education, and many did not return.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globecampus.ca\/in-the-news\/globecampusreport\/comment-canada-needs-all-universities-to-do-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">globecampus.ca ~ GlobeCampus Report \u2014 Comment: Canada needs all universities to do research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jack Lightstone wrote the opinion piece &#8220;Canada needs all universities to do research&#8221; that appeared in the Globe and Mail on March 8. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}