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The Federal Government and Higher Education in Canada*

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Last December the chairman of the Programme Committee for the 1950 Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association asked me if I would prepare a paper on aspects of the relations between governments and the universities. I agreed to do so, on the understanding that a good deal of the work would have to be done by others of my colleagues in consultation with myself. For that reason the present paper falls into two parts: the introductory section and the second and principal section prepared by Mr. D. C. Rowat.

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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1950

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This paper was read at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association at Kingston, Ontario, June 9, 1950.

References

1 Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Canada Year Book, 1948-49 (Ottawa, 1949), p. 1187.Google Scholar

2 Harvard Committee, Report: General Education in a Free Society (Cambridge, Mass., 1948), pp. 267.Google Scholar

3 Terman, The Measurement of Intelligence, cited in Harris, S. R., How Shall We Pay for Education? (New York, 1948), p. 3.Google Scholar

4 University population estimated as 60,000; see footnote 12.

5 In this paper, the year given always refers to the one in which the academic year ends (that is, 1920-1).

6 Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Higher Education in Canada, 1944-46 (Ottawa, 1949), p. 12.Google Scholar

7 Figures prepared by the Finance Committee of the National Conference of Canadian Universities and contained in its submission to the Canadian government, Feb., 1950. See Table II, Appendix.

8 Higher Education in Canada, p. 13. Whiie the trend since 1946, owing to the supplementary payment to the universities of $150 per veteran and to the recent drop in veteran enrolment, has been for the better, it has not been very much so. The N.C.C.U. figures for the largest universities indicate that while expenditure per student was $515 in 1944 and reached its low point at S395 in 1946, it then climbed slowly to only $433 in 1949. See Table I, Appendix.

9 Ibid., pp. 12, 13.

10 Canada Year Book, 1948-49, p. 954.

11 Higher Education in Canada, p. 7.

12 This estimate is derived by adjusting the figure used by the Advisory Committee on University Training for Veterans for 1950 (66,743) by subtracting the estimated difference in veteran enrolment for 1951 (5,734).

13 Higher Education in Canada, p. 7.

14 Based on population estimate for 1951 of 13,900,000 (including Newfoundland, estimated 14,250,000).

15 Total enrolment in Britain was 76,764 (see Facts,” Universities Quarterly, 08, 1948, p. 380)Google Scholar; total enrolment in the United States was 2,338,226 (see Editorial Notes,” Universities Quarterly, 02, 1949, p. 535).Google Scholar Populations of these countries in 1947 were 50,015,000 and 143,414,000 respectively.

16 Based on a population estimate of 13,500,000 for 1950 (13,850,000 including Newfoundland).

17 SirSimon, Ernest, “The Universities and the Government” (Universities Quarterly, 11, 1946, p. 80).Google Scholar

18 Russell, , “Basic Conclusions and Recommendations of the President's Commission on Higher Education” (Journal of Educational Sociology, 04, 1949, p. 496).Google Scholar

19 Ibid., p. 507.

20 Figures for total university expenditures are estimated from the income figures of institutions representing 80 per cent of total enrolment (as given in Canada Year Book, 1948-49, p. 319) by calculating the total expenditures of these institutions and then adding 10 per cent only, since the institutions omitted are mainly those conducted by religious orders where teachers receive little or no salary; figures for gross national product are from Canada Year Book, 1948-49, p. 1089.

21 Higher Education for American Democracy (Washingston, 19471948), V, 26–8Google Scholar; see Russell, , “Basic Conclusions and Recommendations of the President's Commission on Higher Education,” p. 507.Google Scholar

22 Based on figures given in Bank of Canada, Statistical Summary, 1949, pp. 45, 46, 175, 218 Google Scholar; and 1946 Supplement, p. 44; to avoid double counting, grants made to a lower level of government for general purposes, including the tax agreement transfers, have been subtracted from the revenues of the higher level; federal figures also exclude special and non-recurring revenue.

23 Fry, Margery, “The University Grants Committee” (Universities Quarterly, 05, 1948, p. 229).Google Scholar

24 Editorial Notes” (Universities Quarterly, 05, 1947, p. 924).Google Scholar

25 Russell, , “Basic Conclusions and Recommendations of the President's Commission on Higher Education,” p. 505.Google Scholar

26 Editorial Notes” (Universities Quarterly, 08, 1948, p. 327).Google Scholar See also Medley, J.D.G., “The Universities of Australia” (Universities Quarterly, 02, 1948, p. 157).Google Scholar

27 National Conference of Canadian Universities, Report on Post-War Problems (1944), Appendix I, p. 33.Google Scholar

28 National Conference of Canadian Universities, Brief Submitted to the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 07, 1949, p. 32.Google Scholar

29 Russell, , “Basic Conclusions and Recommendations of the President's Commission on Higher Education,” p. 499.Google Scholar

30 See Universities Quarterly, Aug., 1948, “Editorial Notes,” p. 323, and “Facts,” p. 380.

31 Editorial Notes” (Universities Quarterly, 05, 1949, pp. 637–8).Google Scholar

32 The President's Commission in the United States has gone as far as to recommend that in publicly supported institutions fees beyond the sophomore year should be rolled back to their 1939 level and that fees below the junior year should be abolished entirely. See Russell, “Basic Conclusions and Recommendations of the President's Commission on Higher Education,” p. 499. However, if enough able students were aided by a generous scholarship scheme this expedient would not be necessary.

33 National Conference of Canadian Universities, Finance Committee's Submission to the Government of Canada, 02, 1950.Google Scholar

34 Addison, R. E., “The Economic Significance of Scientific Research” (Public Affairs, 04, 1948, p. 74).Google Scholar

35 See Fry, , “The University Grants Committee,” pp. 221–30Google Scholar; Simon, , “The Universities and the Government,” pp. 7995.Google Scholar

36 University Grants Committee, University Development, 1935-47 (1948).Google Scholar