Inside Laurentian University’s Demise: The Institution Was Restructured to Align the Curriculum with Market Demands—an Administrative Task, Not an Intellectual One

What happened to Laurentian University? How did a publicly funded Ontario university go to the edge of bankruptcy without anyone intervening before the crisis became inescapable? And if it was a crisis, why didn’t the provincial government intervene? What are we to think of a “restructuring” that eliminates the disciplines that define the institution it claims to be saving?