The enrolment and related funding conditions facing Northern universities and Faculties of Arts raise fundamental questions about Ontario’s market-oriented, tuition-fee dependent provision system for university education in hinterland-colonial conditions such of those of Northern Ontario.
The report examines the changes in the government funding model for such post-secondary institutions and their gradual decline over time.
Note: This study was completed in December 2020, before the February 2021 CCAA process initiated by Laurentian University. That process is addressed in an article published in the Monitor [5] in June 2021.