University funding at a crossroads

Vose discusses the crisis is brewing on New Brunswick university campuses. Despite occasional increases in narrowly "targeted" funding (usually to benefit the private sector), and welcome initiatives to provide new administrative student services or improve accessibility for some low-income families, we are in increasingly serious danger of losing our actual capacity to provide students with a reliable, high-quality, comprehensive education in many disciplines. At a time when broad professional expertise is more necessary and valued than ever before, we are seeing the gradual erosion of our ability to fully train our university students. This essential work is done by university professors, and our numbers are in a worrisome state of decline at a time when we are needed most.