Andrew M. Boggs[back]

Research Director, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (2007-08) (www.hecqo.ca)

Policy and Research Analyst and Senior Policy Advisor, Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (1999-2007) (http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/)

Executive Director, Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (1998-99) (www.ousa.on.ca)

Master of Arts, higher education history and policy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (Canada, 2007) (http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/oise/)

Bachelor of Arts, English literature, Queen's University (Canada, 1996) (www.queensu.ca)

My research looks at university governance reform. I am particularly interested in how the mid to late nineteenth century helped solidify some of the basic principles and expectations of university governance and an increasing interest in university governance of the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries. I will examine the recent attempt to reform the governance structures of Oxford University with reference to the historical progression of governance reform and the role of the state in these debates. Oxford University shows a strong tendency to reject and resist change to a degree that exceeds that exhibited by other institutions. The debates around institutional governance reform at Oxford provide a useful tool by which to understand the wider changes taking place in higher education in England and the western world more broadly.

Publications

Boggs, A.M. (2009) “Ontario’s University Tuition Framework: current and anticipated policy issues.” Vancouver, BC: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 39(1), 73-87 (peer reviewed). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/csshe/cjhe/2009/00000039/00000001/art00005.

Gravestock, P., E. Gregor-Greenleaf and A.M. Boggs (2009) “The Validity of Student Course Evaluations: an eternal debate?” Windsor, Ontario: Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching. Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vol. II, 152-158 (peer reviewed). http://oxford.academia.edu/documents/0028/5275/CELT26_-_course_evaluations__2009_.pdf. 

Boggs, A. and D. Trick. “Making College-University Cooperation Work: Ontario in a national and international context”, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, February 13, 2009. http://www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/Making%20College-University%20Cooperation%20Work.pdf.

Boggs, A.M. “A View from Inside the Hogwarts School of Graduate Study at Oxford,” Academic Matters: the Journal of Higher Education, on-line edition (February 2009). Toronto: Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations. http://www.academicmatters.ca/current_issue.article.gk?catalog_item_id=1870&category=/web_exclusive/articles. [Reprinted by University World News, Issue 0062, February 8, 2009. http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20090205201340404].

Boggs, A.M. “A Matrix for the Comparative Study of Student Movements: Twentieth Century Latin American, U.S. and Indian Student Movements”, Higher Education Perspectives Vol. 2, No. 3 (2006). OISE, Toronto. http://hep.oise.utoronto.ca//viewissue.php?id=7 (peer-reviewed).

Presentations

Boggs, A.M. “Goldwin Smith, Cornell University & the American Origins of Canadian University Autonomy and Public Funding”, presentation to Linacre College (Oxford) Seminars, April 28, 2009.

Boggs, A.M. and D. Trick. “College & University collaboration: Ontario case studies”, presentation to the 2008 meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (peer-reviewed).

Boggs, A.M., P. Gravestock and E. Gregor-Greenleaf. “The Validity of Student Course Evaluations: an eternal debate?” presentation to the 2008 conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Windsor, Windsor (peer-reviewed).

Boggs, A.M. “Origins of Canadian University Autonomy and Public Funding: The forces that acted upon the 1905-06 Flavelle Commission”, MA thesis presentation to the 2007 Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (peer-reviewed).

Boggs, A.M. and S. Young. “The Access Problematic in a Pluralistic Society: Ontario’s Access Strategies in Comparative Perspective”, presentation to the 2006 Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto (peer-reviewed).