Taking Public Universities Seriously

Introduction
Frank Iacobucci and Carolyn Tuohy

Part 1
The Challenges Confronting Public Universities

The Role of Public Universities in the Move to Mass Higher Education: Some Reflections on the Experience of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China
Ruth Hayhoe and Qiang Zha

Australian Higher Education: Crossroads or Crisis?
Stephen Parker

Diverse Challenges, Diverse Solutions
Bahram Bekhradnia

The Principal Challenges to Public Higher Education in the United States
Andrew A. Sorenson

What Is a 'Public' University?
Donald N. Langenberg

Challenges Facing Higher Education in America: Lessons and Opportunities
Steven J. Rosenstone

Towards a New Compact in University Education in Ontario
Ronald J. Daniels and Michael J. Trebilcock

Part 2
Rationales for and Modes of Public Intervention

Public Funding of Teaching and Research in Universities: A View from the South
Peter Dawkins and Ross Williams

The Social Benefits of Education: New Evidence on an Old Question
W. Craig Riddell

The Case for Public Investment in the Humanities
David Dyzenhaus

On Complex Intersections: Ontario Universities and Governments
Glen A. Jones

Equality of Opportunity and University Education
Andrew Green

Part 3
Responding to the Challenges: Performance-Based Government Operating and Capital Support

The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Universities as Performers
Janice Gross Stein

The Political Economy of Performance Funding
Dan Lang

Public Funding, Markets, and Quality: Assessing the Role of Market-Based Performance Funding for Universities
Andrew Green and Frank Iacobucci

Part 4
Building Excellence: Graduate and Research Support

Post-secondary Education and Research: Whither Canadian Federalism?
David M. Cameron

Anchors of Creativity: How Do Public Universities Create Competitive and Cohesive Communities?
Meric S. Gertler and Tara Vinodrai

Innovation and Research Funding: The Role of Government Support
David A. Wolfe

Post-secondary Education and Ontario's Prosperity
James Milway

The University Research Environment
John R.G. Challis, José Sigouin, Judith Chadwick, and Michelle Broderick

Part 5
Governing the System: New Modes for Promoting Accountability, Transparency, and Responsiveness

The Governance of Public Universities in Australia: Trends and Contemporary Issues
V. Lynn Meek and Martin Hayden

Deliberative Democracy: The Role of Educational Research in Educational Policy
Jane Gaskell

Public Universities and the Public Interest: The Compelling Case for a Buffer between Universities and Government
Lorne Sossin

Part 6
Enhancing Accessibility: Normative Foundations for Income-Contingent Grant and Loan Programs

Higher Education Funding
Nicholas Barr

Student Financial Aid: The Role of Loans and Grants
Ross Finnie

Public and Private Benefits in Higher Education
Arthur Ripstein

Access to Public Universities: Addressing Systemic Inequalities
Melissa S. Williams

Education, Equity, Economics: Can These Words Be in the Same Title?
Arthur Sweetman

An Income-Contingent Financing Program for Ontario
Benjamin Alarie and David Duff

Timing the Payment of Tuition to Enhance Accessibility: a Graduate Tax?
H. Lorne Carmichael